Jared Isaacman

So Yuri Gagarin, I mean, he went right to orbit.

It wasn't until our third astronaut mission, when John Glenn went up, that we sent someone into orbit.

And then when he reentered, I mean, you know, you're just, you're a meteor, you know, crashing through the atmosphere, surrounded by a fireball.

And when he came through all that, he didn't land in a spacecraft.

He ejected.

He had to eject out of that thing.

And it wasn't just him.

It was a lot of other cosmonauts thereafter.

And they didn't tell anyone that, you know, they were, they had to land under parachute, uh, under their own parachute and the spacecraft just smashed into earth.

I mean, wild times, man.

Sure.

I mean, that was, um, I mean, they call it a Sputnik moment for a reason, right?

Um,

Eisenhower wasn't super big into space.

I think he was on the other side of a debate that still rages on now of couldn't that money be spent elsewhere?

obviously funded certain things to give us our early ballistic missile programs and such.

But I mean, at some point or another, and he, by the way, was, I don't know if dismissive is the right word.

I mean, I try and be reasonably studied on early space history, but at least publicly, he was very much downplaying Sputnik too.

It was a lot of others that were concerned and said, hey, wait a second here.

If this was a Soviet bomber that was flying over us right now, we'd all be pretty pissed off.