Jared Isaacman

It's down, you know, kind of, it's not like you'd see like,

like pee floating around.

It was trapped underneath the vehicle in a bad spot, and it was mixing with this chemical that accelerated the corrosion on the pressure vessel of the vehicle.

And in three days, that combination of urine and that chemical actually started corroding portions of our spaceship.

Oh, wow.

They needed to figure that out immediately because NASA Crew-2 was on the space station.

They used that toilet.

And that vehicle's up there for six to nine months.

And it's like, if the same thing happened to them, we could have a serious problem with the integrity of that spaceship.

And the same thing did happen to them.

And there was a lot of corrosion.

And SpaceX had to immediately go to work and do a bunch of testing to make sure that that hull of that vehicle was capable of surviving the conditions of reentry.

So that becomes like kind of day one priority or something with like the parachutes or an avionics issue.

Like they want to get to the things immediately that affect human life.

And then some of the nice to have stuff that you don't need to figure out right away, that's like two weeks later, four weeks later, and it's kind of more technical.

I was nominated for the NASA gig two months after I got back from the mission, and it was shortly thereafter when I was at Mar-a-Lago where I saw him for the first time, and we were more talking about things like

You know, some of the things he was trying to tackle with Doge where he thought that there was, you know, inefficiency or bureaucracy that was, you know, impeding, you know, agency progress within the government.

It was kind of conversations like that.

We honestly didn't even, you know, people assume like we talked about like Mars at all costs, you know, forget the moon, everything else or conversations like that.

We never really did.