Ken Chang

So Jared Eichmann said, there's nothing to read into it.

That's the way it happened to turn out in this case.

It was very noticeable.

I went back quickly to see when's the last time this happened.

There were four men on the SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the space station.

But for all the other crew missions in recent years, there's been at least one woman.

Part of it is just national pride.

I mean, this is something that was the greatest accomplishment in technology of the 60s, right?

There's a huge space race and the United States won.

Yeah.

And the U.S.

has been working on this return to the moon program for more than two decades.

And it just sort of putters along.

And now that there's someone else catching up, all of a sudden there's this urgency that we have to be there before the Chinese.

Then there's sort of this fuzzier notion that who gets there first gets to dictate the rules of how

You do business on the moon or who sets the standards of the radio communications or how you navigate and so on.

And there's a lot of people in Congress who say we don't want China to be the people who do that.

And then there's a third notion that there's money to be made there.

And if there's money to be made, the U.S.

should be the ones being there first.