Jared Isaacman

And then a couple weeks later, I got invited to go to Starbase, Texas.

This is right near Brownsville.

And Elon was there, and I got a tour of Starbase.

And it was a religious experience, I'm telling you.

I have to imagine that's what it was like when people first set foot on the grounds of Los Alamos.

I mean, not to...

using a Manhattan Project analogy here, but when you're talking about making life multi-planetary and going to Mars, it's a Manhattan Project.

And that's where it was all beginning, building this city out of the dirt and there's nothing around and they're building massive launch pads and factories for vehicles, interplanetary spaceships, wild stuff, going to a planet other than our own for the first time.

And I was just totally, totally hooked at that point.

And basically the message was, is okay, we showed we could do it.

Now let's actually build the damn thing.

And he's like, what are we gonna need?

We're gonna need to go farther into space than we've gone in a while because it's harder.

Farther you go out there, the harder it is to come home and the more hazards there are.

There's debris that are, I mean, there's a billion bullets flying around in orbit right now.

And even a one millimeter piece of aluminum at orbital velocities will shred a spaceship.

No kidding.

A hundred percent.

We put the space station at 400 kilometers approximately for a reason because the debris that's out there will burn up in the atmosphere very quickly.

As a result, though, we have to keep boosting the space station.