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Isaacman: NASA Should Assume Liability for Launching Space Nuclear Propulsion
“NASA can do the What probably others wouldn't want to take on the liability of launching a nuclear reactor with power and propulsion so we can get to Mars someday and actually bring our astronauts back home.”
Isaacman: NASA Duplicating Industry Efforts Harms Talent Recruitment and Retention
“So if NASA is doing the same thing that industry is doing, we're screwing up. And that's going to make it very hard for us to recruit talent. It's going to make it very hard for us to retain talent.”
Isaacman: NASA must target un-bankable tech then hand off to industry
“It's NASA's job that we should be doing near impossible where no other agency, organization, company could ever close a business case on because your demand signal is one, and there's probably no logical revenue model to underwrite it. That's where NASA should…”
Isaacman: Multi-year gaps between rocket launches destroy operational competencies
“You get no muscle memory if you're launching that during every three and a half years. People are working to launch the mission, and then they're gonna move on and go somewhere else, and you have to rebuild all those competencies again.”