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Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)

Moon Hotel -> The Intergalactic Construction Company of Earth

GRU Space is building permanent lunar infrastructure to make humanity interplanetary within our lifetime, starting with the first hotel on the Moon. In just 6 weeks, we built the world's first Moon factory: patent-pending hardware that turns lunar regolith into bricks and inflates modular pressurized habitats designed to withstand lunar temperature and pressure extremes. Our first mission lands on the Moon in 2027 to demonstrate in-situ brick manufacturing and habitat deployment. A second mission lays the hotel's foundation inside a lunar cave, and a third opens the first lunar hotel, targeted for 2032. We don’t stop at Moon hotels. GRU’s long-term plan: 1. Build the first hotel on the Moon. GRU solves off‑world surface habitation. 2. Become the Moon Base Company of America: build roads, mass drivers, warehouses, and physical infrastructure. 3. Repeat on Mars and build the first cities there. 4. Own property on the Moon and Mars as these economies grow. 5. Reinvest profits into resource utilization systems on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, and beyond—reaching our final form: Galactic Resource Utilization. GRU Space is backed by investors in SpaceX and Anduril, is part of Nvidia's Inception program, and our launch generated 1B+ views across 60+ countries, earning invitations to the White House, Senate, and Pentagon.
Active Founders
Skyler Chan
Skyler Chan
Founder
Skyler (Founder & CEO) graduated early from Berkeley EECS to make humanity interplanetary in our lifetime. Previously, Skyler built vehicle software @ Tesla, built a NASA funded 3D-printer launched into space, and authored at the world’s largest space conference. Air Force-trained pilot at 16, aspiring astronaut since 3.
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GRU Space - The Moon Factory
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In just 6 weeks, GRU Space built the world’s first Moon Factory for under $5,000. GRU’s patent-pending prototype autonomously:

• mines lunar soil (regolith)

• refines it using a geopolymer process

• turns it into structural bricks to build lunar infrastructure GRU has also built a patent-pending modular inflatable habitat designed to withstand the temperature and pressure extremes on the Moon.

Combining with the Moon Factory, it forms the basis of the first lunar hotel, Moon base, and ultimately, permanent lunar infrastructure.

Before GRU, lunar habitats can only be built on Earth. At hundreds of thousands of dollars per kilogram, that makes large-scale lunar bases nearly impossible.

Humanity has not built a product on the Moon yet. At GRU, we are changing that.

As early as next year, GRU will land a small-scale version of their factory & inflatable on the Moon.

Humanity cannot become interplanetary until we solve off-world surface habitation. Once solved, it will become the Promethean moment that will enable billions of human lives to be born on the Moon and Mars.

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Jobs at Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
San Francisco, CA, US
$125 - $175
0.25% - 0.75%
1+ years
San Francisco, CA, US
$120 - $170
0.25% - 0.75%
1+ years
San Francisco, CA, US
$120 - $170
0.25% - 0.75%
1+ years
Galactic Resource Utilization Space, Inc. (GRU Space)
Founded:2025
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:1
Status:
Active
Primary Partner:Brad Flora