Jared Isaacman

It's very different to land on one-sixth gravity versus one-third gravity without an atmosphere versus with an atmosphere.

And then how do you bring them home?

Right.

That's the real hard part.

So our nuclear power and propulsion comes in.

Obviously, a huge proponent of it.

I've written op eds on the subject.

We will get America underway before the end of the president's term with nuclear power propulsion in space.

It'll be an extraordinary demonstration.

Kind of excited to talk about it in the months ahead.

That's a game changer for the speed of getting to Mars or our ability to get back or both.

It's a game changer, in my opinion, for our ability to come home.

It is not necessarily a faster way to get there.

So when you think of nuclear electric propulsion, I don't want you to think of airplanes.

I want you to think of trains.

Like, well, is that the way I want to go across the country?

Maybe not me personally, but if I need to move a lot of coal or steel or iron, yeah, that's the way to do it.

NEP allows us to move lots of mass really across our solar system.

And the farther you get away from the sun, the more relevant it is.

Will NEP increase reliability for moving lots of mass and potentially even people to Mars?