Jared Isaacman

You don't want to let everybody down who got to help you get to this moment.

But I do have a funny story about that hatch.

So when we started our journey training for Polaris Dawn, we would be suspended from these offload harnesses that would replicate microgravity, and we were doing hatch drills.

Because pretty much the most important thing was closing the hatch.

You can't close the hatch.

You can't repress the vehicle.

You probably won't survive reentry.

Because you run out of air or you burn up.

And so you're doing all these hatch drills.

It was all manual.

And then SpaceX, with all their big bright minds, were like, we just can't get this wrong.

So let's build a hatch motor.

Take the human out of the loop.

They're really big on trying to minimize the dependency on a human being.

I get it.

They're engineers and that.

But as humans, we do like to have some control.

And so they built this automated hatch motor.

It probably took like six to nine months to do it.

And then a couple of weeks before we launched on the mission, they're like, hey, we've been running some numbers.