Jared Isaacman

I mean, right now, energy is everything.

So there is absolutely economic potential out there, but certainly scientific as well.

Knowledge is absolutely power.

And then, look, I think an inherent component of everything we do at NASA is also inspiration.

I guarantee you, after this mission, there are going to be more kids dressing up as astronauts for Halloween that are going to want to grow up and contribute to this adventure and take humankind farther.

What price do you put on that?

Right.

So we are getting back to the basics, the formula we used in the 1960s that helped us achieve the near impossible then, which is we are undertaking these missions in phases, learning to inform the next one.

So right now, Artemis II is testing the spacecraft.

And just to give you an update, those four astronauts right now are getting one heck of a view in a highly elliptical orbit.

So at its peak right now, they're approximately 43,000 miles away from Earth.

Right.

And at its low point, they swing around extremely fast, very low to Earth, about 115 miles above Earth.

And they're going to stay there until about another 12 hours or so.

We're going to have a meeting and make sure all the systems are good.

And then we're going to send them on the translunar injection where they will go around the moon farther into space than any humans have ever gone before.

This is all a flight test for this vehicle and rocket.

That's Artemis 2.

Artemis 3 in 2027 is going to be very Apollo 9-esque, where we will rendezvous the spacecraft Orion with the landers, but we're going to do it in Earth orbit, where we're close to home.

And we're going to get very comfortable with the integrated operations.