Jared Isaacman

I'm one of the lucky 50% that does not get space adaptation syndrome.

So for me, it was simply you're hanging upside down from your bed.

All your fluid shifts up towards your head.

Your cheeks puff out a little bit.

You kind of have this little bit of a brain fog for a day or so because you're getting used to the increased intracranial pressure.

But yeah, that's what it feels like.

When you reach it.

Well, you feel incredibly fortunate and lucky to be there because you can't get to space without gaining a great appreciation for the thousands of people that it takes to put you there and to bring you back safely and to know the history of the tens of thousands, the hundreds of thousands that came before you over the last 60 years to figure all this out for it to even be made possible.

So I don't know anyone who doesn't get up there floating around, looking out the window and doesn't have this profound sense of gratitude for everybody that helped contribute to make it possible.

Man, that's, that's just like, were you married at the time?

My wife and I have known each other for a long time.

So we were on the same bus in middle school together.

She was like the 12th employee at my company.

We started dating in like.

20, you know, I mean, 24 years ago, I guess, like when it was still cool to date in the office, you know, and, uh, um, so she's been here for all the adventures, uh, amazingly supportive of it.

Um, she'd probably prefer I don't go back to space.

Um, but I was explaining like relative to flying air shows, 18 inches apart from other aircraft, like I think it's safer.

So I think that, I think that argument held.

Yeah.

So, um,