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Jared Isaacman

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And he knows the only way you can do that is with fully reusable launch vehicles.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And he's not doing it to send four people to Mars.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

He's doing it to send thousands of people, tens of thousands, literally making it the first human outpost in space.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And he can will things into existence.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

I mean, and he's got the greatest talent this country has produced in the

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

I mean, it's going to happen.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And when it does, for sure, my kids, your kids, I mean, seeing astronauts on the moon and Mars will just be the beginning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

I think there's a couple different ways to approach this, and one of which is just to simply say, I have no idea.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And the reason being is the analogy I love to use is in the 1980s, cell phones were so damn big, you had to build it into your car.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

and they were just car phones, and they were incredibly expensive, and who had them?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Like Wall Street traders, like rich guys had them, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Who could have ever imagined in the 1980s when they were setting up the first cell towers and installing cell phones in cars,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

you know, that a couple decades in the future, every 13-year-old would have it, and some of the most valuable companies in the world were not the ones that were building the towers or building the phones, but the ones that created a piece of software on your phone so you could order food at 2 in the morning.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

or connect with your friends from high school or college.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

No one could have imagined that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

No one could have imagined social networks or something in the 1980s when they created cell phones or cars.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Well, you're going to have a similar kind of light switch moment when Starship comes online and when Blue Origin, what Jeff Bezos is working on with New Glenn, and the cost to put mass in orbit is so low that we can start experimenting.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

You have no idea what's going to come of it, like what that orbital economy will be.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

I mean, maybe we're going to find cancer-treating drugs or tumor-killing drugs that are up there.