Matt Gialich

It's kind of insane to think about, right?

Things have been up there for 50 years and it's still working.

Man.

And there's two of them.

I mean, look, I grew up in Pasadena, and there's the famous Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

My first intro to space was touring in an elementary school.

I've always loved space, but I think more importantly, I've always loved technology.

It's not always refocused around space.

It's focused around the cool missions that go out there, the things that happen.

Space also can be really boring, and I think we forget about that as humans sometimes.

When we went to the moon, that was a really exciting time in space, and then we made the space shuttle.

I didn't give a shit about the space shuttle.

I don't know how many kids of my generation were just bored with NASA.

Like, oh cool, you guys built an orbiter.

Great.

It's all cool, and I'm sure there's a whole bunch of scientific rationale, but it didn't inspire you to go explore.

And in fact, NASA has still done some great planetary science missions and really has pushed the envelope on this.

And I think we'll continue to push the envelope on planetary exploration and science.

And those are inspiring missions, but they don't get a ton of press because they don't have people on them.

They're very much in the community as you look at it.