Jared Isaacman

You were sending a message to the workforce that in this environment, failure is an option and it's not.

And that needed to be fixed.

Well, I would just say, I mean, since the 1960s, NASA doesn't undertake these kind of world-changing endeavors alone.

We always have gone after it with industry.

I think sometimes just because there's new names now, like Blue Origin and SpaceX, that there's this impression that this is like a whole new approach to going to space.

No, I mean, in the 1960s, it was Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.

And many of those names still exist today.

And then we have new names.

And some of those new names are SpaceX and Blue Origin and Stoke and Rocket Lab and all these.

Oh, for sure.

I mean, that's how I went to space twice with SpaceX.

So sure, capabilities I would expect to evolve over a half century.

We were the only game in town 60 years ago when we created this whole thing of space exploration.

And we cracked the code at NASA on the near impossible.

We hand things off to industry where there's clearly demand outside of space.

you know, one and outside of a single agency like NASA and let a market develop.

This is good for us.

It allows competitive forces to do their thing and make products capabilities better and at lower cost.

So that's fine.

I'll just tell you, this is a good thing for us.