Google X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller to host The Moonshot Podcast

The Moonshot Podcast, a ten-part podcast series hosted by Google X Captain of Moonshots, Astro Teller, launched from SXSW 2025 with a celebratory morning launch event and live panel on March 10, 2025. The event included prototypes of some of the most celebrated innovations from Google X, interview clips of the creators lauded for the innovations.

The podcast chronicles the untold stories of innovation - both highs and lows - from 15 years inside Alphabet’s Moonshot Factory. In conversation with thinkers and creators behind X, the Moonshot Factory’s most audacious projects including self driving cars, wearables, robots, computer systems that code themselves, Internet balloons, laser internet, wildfire prediction, and so much more, Astro explores huge problems, radical solutions and breakthrough technologies that have the potential to reshape our world.

Said Astro Teller, “This year we’re celebrating 15 years of moonshot taking. We saw this as a great opportunity to go back and talk to those who helped shape key moonshots over X’s history–particularly people who invented new technologies that have transformed industries or created new ones. Through our conversations, we hear their reflections on the process of experimentation, the evolution of technology, and what the future holds for critical spaces like transportation, connectivity, computing, and sustainability.”

The podcast will explore important questions like How do we achieve the clean, green energy dream? and Can technology give our planet a second chance? while diving into the history of exciting projects like Waymo, Brain, Everyday Robots and Google Glass.

The Moonshot Podcast embodies optimism, realism, inspiration and resilience in the face of the world’s most pressing social and environmental threats. This is an unprecedented opportunity to take an unfiltered look into X, the Moonshot Factory, and the people working to solve some of the world’s hardest problems. Radical innovation is never straightforward, but it holds keys to unlocking human progress, and this series will show listeners how.