Jared Isaacman

And the Artemis program will live on.

It is more than any one mission or one vehicle architecture.

So you see on the pad at Launch Complex 39B, there is SLS out there.

That's our space launch system.

And when you look at it, you'll look at it and say, does that kind of look like Space Shuttle?

It's kind

China, not really.

Yes.

Why?

Because the solid rocket boosters have heritage from the space shuttle program.

The center core draws influence from the external fuel tank from the shuttle.

Heck, the engines that are on it are from the space shuttle.

So this is where we begin.

And that vehicle, for Artemis II, when it launches, it's going to accelerate those four astronauts to...

near-Earth escape velocities, 25,000 miles an hour, past the Moon, back around safely to Earth, and we're going to test out our vehicle for subsequent missions that will eventually lead to a landing.

But I'll tell you, because that program draws on such history,

has contractors, hundreds of subcontractors, tens of thousands of people.

It's expensive.

It's not the vehicle that you are going to take to and from the moon a couple times a year as you build out a moon base the way the president wants, the way the national space policy calls for it.

But it's the way you initially get back.