Jared Isaacman
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, to be surrounded by the best and brightest that are focused on such an amazing mission.
We talked about St.
Jude's mission of no child should die in the dawn of life.
Well, how about...
The world is a more interesting place when you can journey among the stars.
That's a hell of a vision, right?
It certainly calls to me.
But yeah, you spend a lot of time.
My first mission, you had to get all the academics.
So everything about the vehicle, the Falcon 9 launch, the ground systems.
It was death by PowerPoint for a really long time.
And then you get to the fun stuff of being in the simulator, the centrifuge.
And we went out into the mountains.
I brought my crew up Mount Rainier.
And you're flying fighter jets.
You're doing all those kind of good things to get comfortable being uncomfortable and build mental toughness.
And in addition to, yeah, a lot of time in the simulator.
And then eventually you go.
But it's a great journey.
I mean, so what was the first mission about?