Jared Isaacman

So yes, there is certainly an organizational objective of making life multi-planetary, and our best first stop on that journey is Mars.

But when you have a fully reusable vehicle that tops off and refills propellant in low Earth orbit, you can send it anywhere.

You can send it to the moon if you want.

You can send it past Mars.

It doesn't necessarily even have to have people on it.

You could use it to send cargo for point-to-point DOD applications.

You could put giant telescopes in them and send them to every corner of our solar system and have them be like these prefab discovery probes because you basically have factories building these prefab spaceships.

Um, the point is, even though it's like kind of a Mars focus, what they will get from this breakthrough of fully and rapid reusable vehicles has like broad utility.

Um, but man, Mars is a hell of a goal.

It is a Manhattan project.

And there is a lot of things they're going to have to get right.

And a lot of things that government is going to have to do.

It can't all be on SpaceX's shoulders.

And for that matter, all those other entrepreneurs you were talking about, they're all trying to contribute to that effort.

Lots of problems that need to be solved in order to make that dream a reality.

I mean, I would say that within

Within 10 years, we'll have astronauts on Mars.

I mean, you know, I don't want to ever, like, you know, be out of sync with some of Elon's timetables, but I think he's even recalibrated to, you know, probably 2030s are a lot more realistic than... But we're going to see some cool stuff along the way.

Like, do I think in 2026, he's going to send some starships with some Optimus robots on them and...

Maybe some will crash into Mars.