Jared Isaacman

I hope that we need four companies to build space stations someday.

I'd like nothing more than to see lots of space stations up there.

There's no economy for it.

There's no one that needs to have lots of people in lab coats up there figuring, you know, cancer drugs out.

I hope there is at some point in time or another.

So, look, I think the part of the problem is that there isn't a revenue model that actually underwrites a lot of these businesses.

Do I believe at some point it's inevitable we will mine asteroids?

Totally.

It's like one of the sure things that will happen.

And as the cost comes down to launch things out to mine asteroids, it will become more and more of a reality.

I can believe in that.

Will it be less expensive to capture solar power in space and beam it back to Earth versus just covering large portions of the Nevada desert with solar panels?

I think the latter is cheaper, but maybe it'll happen.

But whatever it is, we've got to figure out a way to drive revenue from space in excess of what goes into it, and it has to come from more than the government, or we're not going to have that future in space we all want.

Nope.

I mean, I was spending a lot of time.

It was my number two priority if I was confirmed at NASA.

I think it all starts with very inexpensive launch.

So Starship, New Glenn, Stoke, Firefly, Rocket Lab, make it cheap to experiment in space.

And the more we experiment, that's how you go from the 1980s car phone to the 13-year-olds with Meta and...