Jared Isaacman

There's multiple mission controls.

There's just lots of inefficiencies, which means we get really exciting missions less frequently.

It starts probably with flagship missions definitionally being over a billion dollars.

And if you're going to spend a billion dollars, then you have to get it right, which means you have to take a long time and you have to de-risk it a lot.

Instead, I would be trying to shift that philosophy towards launch 10 $100 million missions every year, and it's okay if three fail.

Let's just increase the rate of discovery here.

We don't need to do a single billion-dollar mission.

That inevitably becomes a $5 billion mission because of all of the fear associated with getting the billion-dollar mission correct.

I think generally, though, where we're going is all correct.

I'm nowhere near an expert on the scientific prioritization of our exploration missions to say that sending this here or there is wrong.

Everything that the science mission directorate has briefed is good.

Yeah, I want to know all those things, too.

I just want to help them know those things faster and for lower cost.

Yeah, I mean, you just had the Parker Solar Probe kind of kissed a portion of the sun.

That was an awesome breakthrough.

Yeah, it actually, I believe, I mean, it's one of the highest velocity man-made objects ever.

And it was only this, it was just over Christmas time frame.

It actually recorded the sounds of the sun and transmitted it back.

It's pretty wild.

But it definitely, it's closest approach we've ever had to the sun.