Jared Isaacman

You can't close the hatch.

You can't repress the vehicle.

You probably won't survive reentry.

Because you run out of air or you burn up.

And so you're doing all these hatch drills.

It was all manual.

And then SpaceX, with all their big bright minds, were like, we just can't get this wrong.

So let's build a hatch motor.

Take the human out of the loop.

They're really big on trying to minimize the dependency on a human being.

I get it.

They're engineers and that.

But as humans, we do like to have some control.

And so they built this automated hatch motor.

It probably took like six to nine months to do it.

And then a couple of weeks before we launched on the mission, they're like, hey, we've been running some numbers.

We don't think it's going to work.

We think there's going to be enough residual pressure coming out of your suit, venting from your suit across the surface area of the hatch that it's going to overpower the hatch motor.

So you may need to do it manually.

I was like, man, we spent so much time building on this thing for that to happen.