Jared Isaacman

So that's all generally in your high ground of space.

The step two, which is unlock the orbital economy, which is the space station has only so much life left in it.

Use every bit of it to figure out what will actually generate more value than what we put into it in space.

So, you know, have a huge outreach effort to...

Companies like Astroforge and Varda in the pharmaceutical space, everybody who's trying to figure out what can happen in space that generates value so that we don't have endless perpetual dependency on taxpayers.

Because without it, you won't have these commercial space stations.

I mean, there's like four companies right now that are building space stations.

I don't even know if there should be one.

Because you have like one customer.

It's the NASA plus ESA, the European Space Agency.

So I don't know how those companies will survive if you don't figure out an orbital economy.

So that's two and then three.

You know, a third of NASA's budget is going into science.

We need Hubble's like every year, James Webb's every year, rovers every year.

We can't be waiting five, 10 years for the next great discovery asset.

So anyway.

Well, I think the cost of being there is something we got to get our arms around.

Right now, the way we get to the moon is a $4.5 billion disposable rocket called SLS reusing 60-year-old space shuttle hardware made by thousands of people.

And it is a huge jobs program across Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

These are the SLS states.