Jared Isaacman

We know something can be done and we resource it accordingly.

We gather up the best and brightest and we set up locations all around the country to

to contribute and bubble up to this grand endeavor, which was to build the atomic bomb.

We did the same thing during the space program.

We opened up Stennis in Mississippi to do engine work, and we set up Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama to build the actual rocket, and Kennedy Space Center, what a great location to shoot a rocket going eastbound.

You staff up all these great locations, and it all bubbles up to a singular purpose, and then you get it done, and then what?

you know, the mission kind of loses its way a little bit.

And then everybody goes into self-preservation mode and it's like, well, let's move on to other broad-based science or other things, lots of little things that we're going to entrench ourselves into.

And then what happens is when you are ready to re-rally those resources back towards their original goal, it means a lot of people changing what they've been accustomed to for some period of time.

And it gets really hard to get that machine rolling again.

And I say all this in relation to China, because they're doing the same thing now, where instead of trying to repurpose facilities and resources that have kind of lost their way to some extent over the years, they're literally doing the same thing of just setting up shop here, setting up a location here, all in optimal locations, all getting the right

people and talent and then resourcing it accordingly and willing it into existence.

It's basically doing exactly what we did during the Manhattan Project, during the Great Space Race, and doing it now having learned exactly, you know, our approach to it.

Puts us at a disadvantage.

Man, it's just...

Yeah, look, we need to get back to the moon.

Not, you know, I wouldn't have mind if 35, because some people can take the position of like, we already did it.

We did it long ago.

And I have two reasons to go.

One of them is, hey, we don't know what we may find that has economic or scientific or national security value like helium-3 that could change the balance of power here on Earth if we get it wrong, but mostly because we said we're going to do it.