Jared Isaacman
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I mean, a story about perseverance.
She did everything she could.
Her father worked in Guam on a radio site talking to the Apollo 11 crew.
So he was a contractor for NASA.
She did everything she could to be a NASA astronaut.
I mean, she's a PhD geoscientist.
She's a pilot.
She's done analog astronauts where they lock you in, like, shipping containers.
She was runner-up in NASA selection process, just never gave up, ultimately got picked.
And then Chris Zembrowski, Air Force veteran, worked on ICBMs and wound up riding a rocket and was a space camp counselor.
So it's just a really awesome crew.
But the goal was just to show it could be done.
You know, pick these people at random, get it right.
Don't screw up.
You screw up, you set back this whole idea of commercial space for decades, but you get it right and all the fun missions will follow.
And we got it right.
We did a bunch of science.
We raised a quarter of a billion for St.
Jude.
And then now the fun missions have come.