Jen Psaki

There was also, for me, you know, Victor, who I do know, he was sending back really great thoughts and ideas.

Christina, I was marked by, I was really touched by one thing she said at a point in time that

They were actually going to the moon, and it was built upon so many people.

And she didn't start just with the Apollo program.

She went all the way back to all the folks who have been working on space exploration in the modern era, right, including the mathematicians.

You know, including the people who were making the suits and the flight techs and all of those folks.

And I think that's one of the things that we should appreciate.

I've been warning us as we fall in love with the astronauts to understand that

that none of us go up just because we're so cool.

We go up on all the work that everyone else does.

And that includes, again, the technicians who put the vehicles together.

It includes the people who do the logistics.

All of those people are very important.

And I want to just make one other point.

This is U.S.

and other countries' tax dollars at work.

Right.

This is something that I don't think industry would ever have done by itself because it requires so much effort and so much commitment and so much integration and funding.

And so we're able to go to low Earth orbit now with commercial crews and commercial vehicles because we did the heavy lifting.

This is heavy lifting.