Jared Isaacman

is 8.8 million pounds of thrust accelerating four astronauts to nearly 25,000 miles per hour, because now you have to get to near-Earth escape velocity, which is what's essential if you're going to send astronauts to the moon or past the moon, where you need to exceed Earth escape velocity to do missions in the future to Mars.

So that's what we're talking about coming up with Artemis II.

This is a whole other caliber of rocket,

It's going to have two solid rocket boosters, throwback from the shuttle era.

Even the center core, you know, looks like the shuttle main fuel tank.

It's got shuttle main engines on it.

It's liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen.

And it is going to accelerate the, you know, those brave crew, Artemis II astronauts farther into space than we ever sent anyone before.

And this is step one on a journey to put astronauts back on the moon.

So this will be the most powerful rocket that humans have ever traveled on.

So it is more powerful than the shuttle.

Than the Saturn V?

It is more powerful than the Saturn V.

It's extraordinary and it's step one.

I can't emphasize that enough.

You know, President Trump with his national space policy, he created the Artemis program during his first term.

And he said, we're not just going back to the moon to plant the flag and pick up rocks.

He wants an enduring presence.

He wants America to return to the moon and have the ability to stay.

So this might be Artemis 2 coming up, but our children someday are going to watch Artemis 100.