Jason Kim

Hey, nice to be here, Zaid.

Appreciate you having us and recognizing Firefly.

Well, I mean, I have a background growing up in Texas, went into the military.

There's a school called the Air Force Academy that I attended and I wanted to be a fighter pilot.

And because of eyesight and such, I wasn't able to do that.

But I still learned electrical engineering and that engineering curiosity really drew me into engineering.

you know, doing, you know, technology.

And so my first job out of the Air Force Academy was running, you know, uncrewed aerial vehicle programs.

And so it was amazing because I saw how technology can really help, you know, defend our nation.

And so that was really, you know, before UAVs were popular.

And then you saw what happened during 9-11 and the UAVs just proliferated.

And so I got to see how innovation happens at a very fast pace.

And then I got transitioned to L.A., Los Angeles, and I got to go and do spacecraft programs, small sats and rockets and ground systems.

And really got to learn about that industry through that job and met with every single company out there.

and really just fell in love with space.

And after that assignment, I decided to go into industry and I worked at great places like Northrop Grumman and Boeing and Raytheon.

But one of the jobs that I had was I became CEO of a company called Millennium Space Systems and it was there

where we were building a bunch of national security satellites, that I was a customer of Firefly.

And I got to launch my satellite.

It was a national security satellite on a Firefly Alpha rocket, and it was called Victus Knox.