Jared Isaacman on being “hardware rich”

1:19:48>> Um and he made an homage or or a reference point to uh being hardware rich, which is a quote that he kept talking >> a good one. That was a good quote, yeah. >> Um for for, you know, the private space companies like SpaceX, cuz he's like, "Look, back in the Apollo era, if we were to fabricate something and it didn't work, we would throw it out and just fab a new one uh because we, you know, we had we had whatever the percent of our GDP going towards it, so, you know, we were 2% so we were hardware rich, meaning that we just had the money to spend. >> Um and so do these private companies like SpaceX, they have the money to say, "If this doesn't work," he made a reference to a launch he was working on with SpaceX where something wasn't working and they just didn't even

1:20:29diagnose it. Yeah. They just replaced it with another thing to get the launch off in time and then afterwards when they diagnosed it it failed uh getting into orbit. Um, but his point was just like that's not where we are as an organization right now with NASA. And so and he was very just very matter-of-fact about it. But we did the work and we figured out how to make it work. But he was I think subtly effectively saying we're not being funded at a degree that we can have the necessary you know, uh, confidence to be able to do these things. We have to be clever and frugal's not the right word, but just resourceful. >> Resourceful, yeah. And I think I mean I it was it was really cool to see the um,

1:21:09transparency. >> Yeah, 100%. >> that was that was quite cool. >> It was great. Yeah, because um, I'm looking forward to the re-entry. I'm sure the engineers have done the work. Um, this new angle is going to be good and we will see them soon on Friday evening off the coast of sunny Southern California. >> Woo! >> You know? >> Yes. And I I I just, you know, one last sort of, uh, good night and good luck and God bless to the crew. >> Yeah. >> Um, I think like you mentioned earlier