Jared Isaacman

So it's just, it's just, they were starting in, you know, they were just beginning this great adventure and they were taking, you know, a lot of risks, but they were risks worth taking.

They're just all pioneers and I admired that.

So, I mean, just again, you know, the people in mission control, like the flight directors, like Gene Kranz, you know, I mean,

He had to write the rules for how we conduct operations in space and keep people safe.

Then when things go wrong, to bring them home safely, like on Apollo 13.

Anyway, I admire them all.

I think the Soviet cosmonauts, they took even grander risks.

We're talking over breakfast.

Yuri Gagarin.

The first two American astronauts that went into space,

Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom, they were suborbital flights.

Not too dissimilar to the Blue Origin flights now.

What goes up must come down.

They were in space for a matter of minutes.

The first person to go into space ever, a Soviet cosmonaut, it was orbital.

I mean, it was what goes up

may stay up the whole damn time.

You know, it may not come back.

So Yuri Gagarin, I mean, he went right to orbit.

It wasn't until our third astronaut mission, when John Glenn went up, that we sent someone into orbit.