Jared Isaacman

Absolutely.

When you get to Mars, now you have an energy source on the surface, which you can use to make the propellant on Mars to bring your astronauts home.

It's imperative.

The alternative is you're literally setting up endless football fields of solar panels that are going to get covered in

in dust and debris.

And then you're going to have to rely on the robots to go out and clean them.

Like we're starting to ask for a lot more miracles here versus can a nuclear reactor or lots of nuclear reactors embedded in some of these landers give us the power source to make propellant on Mars and bring them back?

Yes.

Could you go do, you know, uncrewed missions in the outer solar system past the point of the sun's utility, learn something and actually come home without having to refuel?

Yes.

That's pretty exciting technology.

We are going to do a demonstration by the end of 2028.

We are going to send something under nuclear power and propulsion.

I think we would have to put a concerted effort in.

I would think in our lifetime, we're going to see it happen.

To your point, like what's the will?

How many, how many resources are we able to really focus on?

All of our best and brightest, all of our energy and resources on that important objective.

Is commercials capabilities mature enough?

Have we evolved our nuclear capabilities?