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Isaacman: 75% of NASA's 50,000-person launch vehicle workforce are contractors
“It's got five prime contractors, hundreds of subcontractors supported by a workforce at NASA, where we've probably over 50,000 between civil servants and contractors. 75% are contractors using different tools and systems.”
Isaacman: Orbital economy lacks proven value beyond launch, observation, and communications
“How do we get more value out than we put in outside of really launch observation communications? We have no examples yet. We need it.”
Isaacman: Spaceflight will not near airplane safety for a long time
“It's never, we're not going to be close to an airplane ride in terms of safety. For a long time.”
Isaacman: Zero roadblocks encountered two months into leading NASA
“First, I'm two months on the job yet. I haven't run into a single roadblock. Like, everybody wants to go out and achieve, you know, change the world in the air and space.”
Isaacman thinks Embry-Riddle graduates more Air Force pilots than the Air Force Academy
“Went to Emory-Riddle, because it's a, I mean, it's an aviation school I think he graduates more Air Force pilots every year than the Air Force Academy.”
Isaacman's Draken assembled the world's largest private fleet of fighter jets
“We wound up assembling the world's largest fleet of fighter jets, jets just like this behind me.”
SpaceX offered Jared Isaacman the first chance to pilot Dragon in 2008
“Back in 2008, I actually got the, ah, the first offer to pilot the first Dragon spacecraft”
Isaacman: NASA spends public funds on commercial jet engine efficiency programs
“NASA helps fund like engine efficiency programs for, you know, commercial jet engine providers.”
Isaacman: NASA's Orion spacecraft is 20 years old without crewed flight
“Orion is 20 years old, by the way, it hasn't flown humans yet.”
Isaacman planned to introduce 'time to science' as a NASA KPI
“I was going to introduce like time to science as a KPI.”
Isaacman: US spent over $100B over 35 years planning Moon return
“For 35 years, we said, we're going back and we spent over a hundred billion of taxpayer dollars saying we were going to do it.”
Isaacman: I am right-leaning and donated to Trump to support his agenda
“In, in, in terms of donations, I, I've always been, you know, somewhat of a moderate. I actually like, I am like a right leaning. I do support, you know, the president's agenda. That's why I made as big of a donation as I did to his cause.”
White House staff prepped Isaacman on his political donations before Senate hearings
“When you fill out your questionnaire for the Senate committee, which is public, it asks you to list every donation. Before you go in front of a single senator, before you do a hearing, you do these prep sessions at the White House, where people pretend to be s…”
Isaacman: 80% of Draken International Pilots Were Top Gun Graduates
“We were 80% weapons school graduates so your Top Gun graduates were our pilots.”
Isaacman: NASA's immediate lunar priority is harvesting water ice
“The immediate priority is we want the ice. That's how we can do in situ research.”
Isaacman: NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo cadence averaged 3-4 months
“You go back to the space race across Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, do you know how, what our average launch cadence was between missions? It was between three and four months.”
Jared Isaacman: Inspiration4 raised $250M for St. Jude
“Be part of mission design and select a crew of inspiring individuals and raise a quarter of a billion dollars for St. Jude.”
Isaacman: China launches second most orbital rockets annually without reusability
“They launched the second most orbital rockets every year without reusability.”