Jared Isaacman

Look, I think Elon Musk is probably the greatest engineer and entrepreneur for the last, I don't know, half century easy.

He obviously feels pretty strongly about his views, and I want it to work.

I want it to work for SpaceX and all the other companies trying to figure out the orbital economy.

So I think, by the way, you just said a good, you know, good statement there on the scale that we all imagine.

That's so key, right?

I mean, do I think that, you know, the taxpayers, world governments will always make some investments in space for just, you know, the pursuit of breakthrough discoveries that benefit everyone?

Sure.

But is that enough to fund three or four space stations and a Mars outpost and a lunar outpost?

I don't think so.

So yeah, you're right.

We need that economic driver to

to remove or reduce the dependencies on the taxpayers to actually have the future that we all imagine in space someday.

There will be breakthroughs.

We don't know what they are yet, but we are too early on in this journey right now to think we have it all figured out.

Sure.

I don't know anything on the moon right now that's going to be easier and more affordable to mine, manufacture, and then bring back to Earth than what we could make here on Earth.

And that includes helium-3.

Now that, people believe, could be the key to a more efficient fusion reaction.

Fusion reactors are inevitable, I have no doubt.

So helium-3 will play a role in it.