Jared Isaacman

I do think a lot of what people say is kind of,

almost like recycled talking points from the 60s and 70s.

Because if you're one of the first astronauts in the 1960s, you have not a clue what Earth looks like.

I mean, now we have high-resolution HD cameras looking down from the space station.

You can go on YouTube and your kids can look at what Earth looks like from there.

And generally speaking, it looks the same.

It radiates light a little bit more.

It's certainly impactful to be there and going through it.

But

It's like a long way of saying, I don't think you need to go to space to know to be a good person and not destroy our planet or fight wars over lines drawn on maps from long ago.

What impacted me wasn't any of those things.

I felt like I knew those things before I went there.

It was being farther away from Earth than anyone's gone in a half century, and it's no greater distance than Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

It's seeing the moon come around, you know, unexpectedly and catch me off guard and say, like, why haven't we been back?

Because that's not that far away.

I mean, we haven't even scratched the surface in our solar system, let alone the Milky Way galaxy or the trillions of other galaxies out there.

It's not... So he's saying, like, that impact from being up there, at least for me, was not looking back on Earth.

It was looking out there at what is the greatest adventure in human history and saying...

Let's get going.

Like, what is taking us so long?