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Jared Isaacman

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

It's just, you know, it's creating a hierarchy that serves the hierarchy instead of just like, look, we certainly need management leadership, but we need to empower the best and brightest to get the damn mission done.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So anyway, the step one is all reorganize, rebuild the culture, you know, and then you move on to the priorities.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

America leads in the high ground of space, you know, unlock the orbital economy and accelerate the rate of world changing discoveries.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Those are the three things that NASA should be thinking about every single day.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So in terms of America leading in the high ground of space, with the investments that have already been made with SLS, return to the moon.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Do it as quickly as possible and determine why we need to be here.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Is there any economic, scientific, or national security value of being here?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

If yes,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

than you rely on commercial industry, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, to get you to and from the moon at a frequency far greater than every couple of years, which is what the NASA $4.5 billion per launch disposable rocket costs.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So you use SLS to get back to the moon,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

Determine why you need to be there with any frequency.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And then from there, you rely on commercial industry.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So it's actually affordable and repeatable and not an every couple of years event.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And then you pivot those resources.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So it's about a third of NASA's budget, like call it 7 billion a year away from competing with industry on building giant rockets and start building nuclear spaceships because no one else is going to do it unless it's the Russians or the Chinese.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And China for sure is going to do it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So build nuclear electric spaceships.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

It's all dual use stuff.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

So for as much as it's good for peaceful space, believe me, it has defense implications for it as well.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#234 Jared Isaacman - Will China Trigger the Next Sputnik Moment for NASA?

And it's very important for getting to Mars.