Jared Isaacman

Oh, I mean, I think a lot of things are.

How about aeronautics, like the first A in NASA?

As a pilot, I should be super charged up about what they're working on at NASA and aeronautics, and I'm not.

And I don't think the people working at NASA on aeronautics are charged up about it.

So, you know, you talk the 1960s, 70s, 80s, almost all of the most badass breakthroughs in aeronautics made their way through NASA, at least in the last, like, you know, 50 years.

That's not what's been going on in the last 25 to 30 years.

So the days of NASA with the forward-swept wings and, you know, fly-by-wire technology and thrust vectoring, which wound up going into the F-22, that was all NASA's work.

What are they doing on now?

They spend, I think, about $800 million on a boomless supersonic airplane that hasn't flown yet.

Those guys built one already and flew it multiple times and retired it.

And they're moving on to something else.

And I guarantee you they didn't spend $800 million and X number of years on it.

They committed $400 million to this.

Honestly, it's a very ugly looking, you know, modified Boeing airplane that they were going to use for high efficiency flight.

Boeing walked away from their commitment in it.

They're working on drone technology that's like decades behind other agencies in the US and certainly behind China.

So why are we working on all?

They fund fuel efficiency enhancements to like Pratt & Whitney Motors that have been around for decades to squeeze three or 4% more fuel efficiency out of it when they should be doing that themselves for competitive reasons.

Like what should NASA's aeronautics program be working on?

things that go super high, super fast, radical designs that if you figure out something pretty wild from it, has direct influence over DOD designs or commercial airliner designs.