Jared Isaacman

Are you serious?

You're like 100 yards away.

The night before the launch, you can touch the rocket, whereas we were surrounded with security at KSC, and you're basically in this trench.

Now, maybe they've upgraded it since 2008, but all I was thinking at the time is, man, this thing goes even a little bit off course.

Like, it's game over for everybody.

And if you know a little bit of the history of kind of the Soviet space program, that's happened.

It's happened more than once.

But anyway, I met a bunch of the folks there and, you know, I heard about this thing, you know, Dragon, the Dragon spacecraft.

I was like, well, I'm a pilot and if the time ever comes where, you know, the goal always was from the get-go to make life multi-planetary, you know, to open up space for the many instead of the few.

And I said, I'd be interested.

And I just kind of knocked on the door periodically.

And in 2020, you know, they answered.

And they said, yeah, we're ready.

And man, in just a matter of weeks, we went from nothing to the first commercial space mission being announced, Inspiration4.

61 hours, 50 minutes.

It was – honestly, it wasn't that hard.

It's actually – it's not the piloting or the flying.

We did it because it was the first all-glass jets where –

You were starting to fuse a lot of information together in the airplane, so you didn't need to do as much flight planning on the ground.

And since these record flights, it's like NASCAR, whether you're stopped or you're driving, it all counts.