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I am at the Artemis launch. And I am surrounded by people who work in the space program that actually build all of the things for the launch, for the space capsule and the rockets and everything else. And I'm fascinated by them. I start talking to some of the people. And then I notice this couple sitting right behind me, husband and wife.
And I start talking to them, and I realize they're not part of NASA. They're not part of the program. And this is a section where you have to be, you know, somebody who, you know, you have to be a journalist like me, or you have to be somebody who actually worked on the program and got an invitation to be there. And I said, so how did you get here? And they started telling me a story.
that was as impressive as the rocket going off itself. Their daughter, Liv, was 15 years old. She died of cancer just a few months ago. But I'll tell you, that 15-year-old lived more of a life than most of us could ever dream of. And that is in part... due to the new NASA administrator, Jared Isaacman, and Elon Musk.
This is a story that neither of them, this has gone on for years, neither of them would tell you. This is a story, they didn't do it for the credit, and I didn't ask for permission to tell. I asked Liv's mom to tell the story. Her mom wanted the world to know what they did and what it meant to live in her family. So I asked, I said, can we please tell this story?
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Chapter 3: Who is Rebecca Perrotto and what is her connection to the Artemis II launch?
And she said yes. And she gave us the privilege of publishing an article that she wrote telling her daughter's story. You can find it right now at glennbeck.com. You can read the whole story. You see pictures and videos. It'll just break your heart and then heal it right back up. That's what's so great. This is not a heartbreaking story. I mean, it is, but then it is a beautiful story.
Before I bring her my mom, Rebecca, let me just give you a condensed version of the story that I heard. Liv was born in 2010 in Pennsylvania, and she lived the dream of being a fighter pilot and an astronaut with SpaceX. And she was obsessed with all things space. Anime, she was obsessed with as well, and she had dogs and cats, loved it, and her sister Abby. That was her whole life.
When she was 10, her mom saw that her jaw was swollen and thought she needed some antibiotics. Well, that's when the family found out that Liv had a very rare and very aggressive cancer called undifferentiated sarcoma. The entire family's life just turned upside down. And they struggled to keep things normal for, you know, both their daughters.
And Liv had to do chemo, radiation, surgeries, clinical trials. It was a really dark time. Until she heard about a SpaceX mission, Liv did, called Inspiration4. This one was commanded by a guy that most people didn't know at the time named Jarek Isaacman. The crew of Inspiration4 heard about this little girl with cancer. And Jared Isaacman paid to bring her and her family to the launch.
Now, Jared is independently wealthy. He's worked hard. He's an entrepreneur, worked hard. He is a genius. I mean, he's one of those people, you know, like our founders had Jefferson and Ben Franklin. We have Jared and we have Elon Musk.
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Chapter 4: How did Liv's story inspire others at NASA and SpaceX?
I mean, it's the same kind of thing we haven't seen in 250 years. But he paid for her to come out. And this was the beginning of just a life changing relationship. And Jared, it wasn't just a one and done thing. He became committed to her care and to her dreams. Without anyone knowing, without anyone asking, much to the family's surprise, this guy just threw himself in.
And he asked her to design what's called a zero-G indicator for the Polaris Dawn mission. He was the commander of that. And she sketched out this little stuffed animal that looked like Elon Musk's dog and named him Asteroid. And when Polaris hit zero G, Asteroid started to float. It was a dream come true for her. She was in space.
But nobody on that mission forgot about this little girl in Pennsylvania. They sent her a birthday cake on her birthday. They sent flowers to the hospital. They all got together on a Zoom call just days before she died. Jared chartered his own plane to fly, live cross-country. So she'd get treatments. Personally called St. Jude's to review her case. He took her up in a fighter jet, which he flew.
She was able to meet Charlie Duke, one of the last astronauts to walk on the moon. She met him in Antarctica. William Shatner she met. Later she met Victor Glover. The whole space world opened its arms to this little girl, somebody you've never heard of. And they didn't do it for the press. They just did it because Her passion was contagious, so full of love.
And the space world was her world, not hospitals.
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Chapter 5: What were Liv's dreams and how did they impact her family?
She didn't let cancer stop her from looking up at the sky ever. Her biggest dream was to speak to Elon Musk. The night they found out that her cancer had come roaring back, she stood in line to ask Elon when he would send kids into space. When Elon heard her condition was worsening, he said that he would call her that night.
Out of the blue, he heard, I think on social media, I'm calling you tonight. He called. She said, can you ask him to call? Can you ask him to call tomorrow? I'm really tired. He agreed. He immediately sent flowers and a note to the hospital. Just before they arrived, she passed away. It's a remarkable story. Both the notes and the flowers... were put in this little girl's casket.
I have the notes that she had written down the questions she wanted to ask Elon. We are surrounded by so many people who are just in it for themselves. And when I heard this story and I saw that no one, no, everyone, everyone was involved. It just, just loving on this little girl. And nobody had this been going on and nobody was, nobody, the word had not gotten out. It wasn't anywhere.
Nobody knows this. In a time of such cynicism, I really thought her story should be shared. And her mother is with me, Rebecca Parado. Rebecca, how are you?
Good. Thanks for sharing this story, Glenn.
You're welcome. Um, what, what did I get wrong or what needs to be told?
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Chapter 6: What role did Jared Isaacman play in Liv's life?
What, what do you think needs to be said that I missed about her story?
I think you captured her pretty well. She, um, she was a fighter, but she always, um, she always loves space. And that was the one thing that kept her going. Um, Jared, the crew, you know, they always gave her something to continue to look forward to. And, you know, she actually... It took almost two and a half years for asteroids to finally make it to space.
And so during that whole period of time, they continued to keep her close and keep her connected and Zoom calls and birthday gifts. And, you know, she was sick in the hospital. They just... they kept her close and didn't forget about her and really meant a lot to her.
How surprised were you about that? I mean, these are really, really busy people. And, you know, you do things and you can absolutely mean it and touch base and be there for an occasion and do something special. But then you don't do what these two guys did. I mean, how shocking was that to you?
We're probably still shocked that you know, we're still so close to to Jared and all of the people even from inspiration for crew the Polaris crew You know to Jared's assist since they all stayed in contact and stay close and have been a huge supporter for Liv and our entire family. And we've been I've told them we're grateful times, you know, a million times.
And and I think that they just do it and don't even think about that.
I have to tell you, When I talked to you at NASA, I didn't, I didn't, I just didn't think of the three letters of your daughter's name, L-I-V. And the whole time we were talking and I'm telling her story and I'm thinking, what an appropriate name as this is, this, her story will live. It will live on beyond her. the things that she did are going to live way beyond her years.
Tell me the story about the little zero G and I'm so mad. I, I, your husband gave me one and I have it in my studio in Florida and I'm up at another studio. And so I don't have it with me, but I mean, she really wanted this to be a Macy's day thing and tell the story. How did that happen?
So, you know, we stayed close with so Kid Poteet was the mission director for Inspiration4 and then ended up ultimately going up in Polaris Dawn.
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Chapter 7: What questions did Liv want to ask Elon Musk?
So, you know, we stayed close to him too. And he had messaged me after Liv's surgery and asked me to ask Liv what she wanted to send to space. And initially we thought they were just going to send a toy or, you know, something that she wanted. And it ended up being the zero G indicator. And the couple things that she wanted to send, they couldn't get licensing to.
So they decided to have her draw something up and custom make something. And so she has always loved Shiba Inus. She found out Elon had Floki. So that was kind of like her basis. She wanted it to be a space Shiba Inu. And SpaceX kind of took it and ran with it and literally made the cutest toy dog.
In a space outfit. In a space suit, yeah. And didn't Elon pay for all of these things? Just pay for them to be made and
All of the proceeds from Asteroid, Liv got to choose where the proceeds went to, and so she chose for it to be donated to St. Jude.
So when she heard that Jared, because this happened before he was head of NASA, when she found out that he was the head of NASA, did she at some point go, that's the guy... that's the guy that I was in the fighter jet with, with, I mean, it must've been amazing to have been with that guy. Cause she just wanted to be an astronaut.
Um, and to now know, I know the head of NASA, although look at that picture.
When they showed me that picture at fighter jet weekend, I, that was the one. Okay. She adored him. She looked up to him so much. And it was almost more of an uncle she felt like he was than just, he was just Jared to her. He wasn't really the big astronaut. He wasn't the head of NASA. It was just, that's Jared to her. And he went above and beyond to make sure that she was taken care of.
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Chapter 8: How can Liv's legacy continue to inspire future generations?
So we have a list that she wrote that she wanted to ask Elon when she was, you know, when he was calling, she had a list of nine or 10 things she wanted to ask him. And they are just so, they're so nerdy. Yeah. And what I want to do is I would like to have you go through the questions and And we'll post it today on X and I will bet you that Elon Musk will answer those questions.
Tell me the story now, Rebecca, of the list that I'm about to share.
Um, so, you know, Liv's biggest dream of course was to meet Elon. And, um, when she started to get really sick, when we found out she only had about six months left, which ended up really being less than three, um, He agreed to meet her at the next Starship launch, which was at that time supposed to be roughly February, of course. And then it got pushed back.
And after her after her appointment and New Year's, we realized that she only had weeks left days and kind of communicated that back to him. And he was trying to get in contact with her. and was gonna just call her then. So Liv was working on just a list of questions and they actually ended up being in my handwriting because her entire left side ended up going paralyzed and she was a left-handed.
And when she went to try to write down the questions, she realized she couldn't write. So, So her and I sat together the one night and wrote down questions. That way we had them ready when he called.
And he did call, right?
He did not. So I got a text message.
Oh.
And the message was, I'm with Elon now. He can call her tonight.
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