Jared Isaacman

And I'm sure maybe some of my astronaut colleagues won't appreciate some of my comments on this, but I believe this was very, very real, right?

in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, you know, I can only imagine when Yuri Gagarin went into space and what he saw, I mean, just had to have just shocked him because we had really no idea what it would look like, right?

I mean, we, you know, and same with the early Mercury and Gemini astronauts.

Look, we have high-definition video coming off the International Space Station.

I can tell you, sir, it looks just like what you imagine.

It looks like, okay.

Yeah.

Now, so does that mean you need to go to space?

to appreciate that we shouldn't, you know, fight wars over lines that were drawn on a map a century ago or not, you know, dump toxic waste in our oceans or something.

You don't need to go to space to know that.

To me, what I found most impactful was when I saw the moon unexpectedly rise from around Earth.

And it was like, how have we not gone back in so long?

Like, we took the first small step on what I think is the greatest adventure in human history, and then we stopped.

Now, thankfully, we're on the return.

President Trump created the Artemis program during his first term.

He just created an unbelievable national space policy that said, go back and build the base and stay and then press on to Mars.

So, like, we're getting in the right direction.

But when I was up there both times, I was...

I mean, I was certainly in awe of what I saw, but I mean, discouraged in a way that we began this adventure and then stopped.

So I think the first thing to emphasize right now, and not to take away from the mission that's coming up, is the president created the Artemis program.