Jared Isaacman

We better get back there.

It's gone into continuously repurposing old space shuttle hardware.

So first it was the Constellation program, which repurposed shuttle rocket boosters, shuttle main engines.

And then that program was canceled and then reimagined.

as SLS, which is the current name for NASA's internal big rocket program.

And that is also repurposed shuttle hardware.

So, you know, RS-25 engines that were designed, you know, in the 1970s,

are still what's going on SLS, and that's what they want on the space shuttle.

It's actually this continuously repurposing old hardware just so you don't ruffle any feathers with any manufacturers, any congressional districts, keep jobs where they're at.

It would be the equivalency of taking the P-51 Mustang into Desert Storm because, well, we got to keep the plants open.

It's what an awesome question.

And we are so close.

I mean, uh, you know, in the, in, and what is that like relative to the 60 some odd years of, of human space exploration we're within,

five to ten years at the absolute most.

I mean, think about it.

Up until now, up until rather recently, every time we've put humans in space, we've pretty much thrown away some portion of the rocket.

So, you know, with the space shuttle, we threw away the fuel tank, and then it was an incredibly expensive multi-month overhaul of the vehicle.

In the Saturn V that took astronauts to the moon, we threw the whole thing away.

Nothing was reusable.

And now with Falcon 9, you've got rockets that land on ships, and we reuse them within a couple weeks.