Jared Isaacman
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The Dragon capsule that I flew into space, I flew on the same one twice.
And prior to me flying on it, NASA's Crew-1 flew on it.
And all of that has reduced the cost to put mass and humans into orbit
materially, but now where does it get to the point where every day anyone can go and do it and it's as affordable as maybe a really expensive vacation?
That's when you don't throw any of the rocket away and everything is reusable.
Just like you're taking your family to Disneyland, you don't throw any portion of the airplane away.
So Starship, that's that monster vehicle.
It's the size of a skyscraper and it's twice as powerful as the Saturn V rocket that took us to the moon.
That's what you saw SpaceX catch with the tower.
And that's so the top half is reusable and the bottom half is reusable.
And you can fit 100 people on it.
I mean, that's your 737 Southwest now boarding next flight to orbit type thing.
Now, because it's entirely reusable and it has to propulsively land on Earth, there's a lot of things you need to figure out and get right so it doesn't have a bad day.
But at SpaceX's pace of operations, their iterative design philosophy, the factories that are making them hardware rich,
five, ten years away, you're going to see lots and lots of spacecraft going up and down.
It's going to be a light switch moment for humankind, really.
I mean, you...
You have our generation's most accomplished entrepreneur with more resources than any human being has ever accumulated in history.
I want to say a singular focus, but the guy's trying to solve a lot of the world's greatest problems.
challenges, a lot of the world's greatest problems, but one of which is making life multi-planetary.