Jared Isaacman

So I think it's gonna be nuclear.

And you're gonna need to make propellant to top off your Starship to launch back home.

And if you see Starships launch here on Earth,

They have this whole stage zero, which is the whole tower with 1,000 people working on it under an atmosphere in 1G, and it still doesn't go always great.

So pulling off that operation to refuel and come home is going to be hard.

I think the government can help with that by kind of working on what no one else is capable or willing to do that's hard, the near impossible, which is start building nuclear electric propulsion, nuclear spaceships.

I think it's absolutely the right mini Manhattan project for NASA.

Get America underway under nuclear power in space.

If you can do that, you take a lot of pressure off of the in-situ resource manufacturing.

Then number two is going to be the human.

People are going to have a hard time.

Nobody likes talking about this because it takes away the hero image of the astronaut, but you've had plenty of astronauts freak out in space.

Um, they've tried to kill their whole crew before.

Like, um, there is a, there was a lock put on the space shuttle door, uh, for that reason, because somebody tried to open the hatch more than once and take everybody out.

There's a lock on the dragon space capsule for that reason.

Uh, that was a carryover from that time period.

Um, it's happened to, uh, to Russian cosmonauts.

It's happened to American astronauts.

And, and this is during a time when most of the American astronauts were

The best of the best coming out of the military.