Jared Isaacman

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This is a really exciting mission because if everybody knows Hubble, everybody knows the James Webb Space Telescope as well, and people are about to know the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope.

And the reason why is it has nearly 100 times the field of view of Hubble and upwards of 1,000 times the scan rate.

So that's pretty exciting when you think about how much science that instrument is going to be able to do compared to the assets we already have up there.

I've been to space twice.

On a Falcon 9 Dragon spacecraft, the exact same way that NASA astronauts and our astronauts to and from space.

The first mission was in September 2021, so led the first all civilian mission to orbit.

Then also in September of 2024, my crew and I, we went farther into space than anyone's gone since the last time we walked on the moon.

We've tested out a new form of communication using satellite laser links.

We communicated over a beam of light between our spaceship and the Starlink constellations, all in the idea of trying to build towards an exciting future where lots of people are living and working in space.

We're going to the moon and Mars.

And when you get there, you're going to probably need to get outside the safety of your habitat and go explore and discover and repair and build things.

And you're going to need lots of spacesuits in order to do that.

Well, I would just say everything initially feels different.

Going into microgravity is there's no there's no roller coaster here on Earth to, you know, no, you know, chamber we can put you in to feel what it's like.

You know, there's a fluid shift in your body basically without gravity fluid in your face, you know, in your body kind of gravitate towards your head.

So at first, everybody has this chipmunk thing where your cheeks all puff out.

But that does other things to you, too, as well, where it can impact cognitive abilities, vision, something called spaceflight associated neuroocular syndrome.

It's a long way of saying everybody feels different.

And to give you the bookends, your best case scenario for your first call at three to five days in space is you feel like you're hanging upside down in your bed.