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I like to think of it as humanity's great taunting.

Space taunts us because it's always there, it's always

visible, it's directly across the cosmic window.

Just on the other side of the glass is this great expanse that we can see,

we can imagine, but we cannot touch.

And that lure is irresistible throughout human history.

The enormity of space, the great bowl of the sky, has always

inspired equal parts reverence, awe, and mortal terror.

Space is the place we have been striving to go since we first looked up at the stars.

And we have actually been going since 1957.

The moon is in the sky, a 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit by a Russian rocket.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other

thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

The competition between the US and the Soviet Union turbocharged the space race.

We went from a standing start with no human being ever having been off the

planet, to the surface of the moon in eight years.

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Space race 1.0 was the US and the Soviet Union.

Space Race 2.0 is suddenly the private sector saying if I

have the money and I have the know-how, we can go to space.

On July 11th, we are on the moon.

We saw Richard Branson take his space plane 50 miles high...

Three, two, one, release, release, release.

...and gave its passengers about three and a half, four minutes in space.

I'm an adult in a spaceship with lots of other wonderful adults.

Nine days later, Jeff Bezos flew over 62 miles high.

They flew passengers on an 11-minute pop-gun suborbital space flight.

These were not small accomplishments.

What SpaceX's Inspiration4A mission is about to do is vastly more ambitious...

and will change the game entirely.

For the first time, four civilians are going to space.

They will orbit the Earth... for three days by themselves.

These are four non-professional astronauts...

flying a spacecraft around and around the Earth.

This is a hinge point in history...

and will kick the doors open to space for the rest of us.

Inspiration4 is for people with very different backgrounds.

Every person who's going to join this mission...

has to be able to deliver a very powerful and inspiring story in their own right.

We represent... inclusive, diverse access to space.

There have been three black female American astronauts.

I will be number four.

I'll be the youngest American to go into orbit.

Also the first pediatric cancer survivor to go to space.

When I heard that they were offering me this seat...

I had a flood of thoughts through my head.

There's a lot of risk.

What happens if something goes wrong?

I have a family.

What is that going to do to her?

What's it going to do to our daughters?

What are you going to do to me?

It is a certainty that we will become a multiplanet species.

And this is the next significant step... to other worlds deep beyond Earth.

And it starts now.

My name is Jared Isaacman.

I'm 38 years old.

I'm commander of Inspiration4, the first all-civilian mission in space.

I do believe you only get one crack at life.

To the extent that you have the means to do so, you

have this obligation to live life to the fullest.

You never know when it's going to be your last day.

That kind of philosophy has taken me from my first two flights around the world,

which were both world record attempts in 2008 and 2009.

It's taken me to flying air shows, part of the 7-ship formation acrobatic team.

It's taken me to some interesting places in the world,

like Antarctica on mountain climbing expeditions.

He's definitely adventurous.

I think he would tell you he's not a daredevil

because he likes to calculate his risks, but he is.

He's like a daredevil.

I just know how lucky I am.

And a large part of it is because I've had a very successful day job running a

company that's afforded me these opportunities.

Jared Isaacman had an idea that is now worth more than $50 million.

He figured out a way for businesses to process credit cards more quickly.

High school dropout turned businessman Jared Isaacman.

You're still young.

You've created this great company.

You're making a lot of money.

You know, it's all about opportunity.

Jared's company grew more than 2,000%.

CEO Jared Isaacman.

Is ringing the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange.

Jared always, like, kind of keeps us on our toes.

Like, usually my feelings are like, oh, no.

Like, here he comes.

Like, what's next?

But that's just... It's always been in him, like, since we started dating.

I grew up with a pretty independent, you know, lifestyle.

If I wanted to get something done, I was going to do it myself.

This is a big part of, you know, how my life ultimately shaped out.

I grew up in New Jersey, and I was a horrible student.

And I wasn't, like, happy in school either.

So I made the decision I wanted to leave school early when I was 15.

There's a pretty decent age gap between myself and my older siblings.

They were out kind of enjoying their lives and having responsibility.

And I'm like, I got to raise my hand to ask

permission to use the restroom in high school.

This doesn't make sense.

So I left high school.

I took my GED.

I started the business what became Shift Forward when I was 16.

It was like a, you know, you wake up, you know, at 7.30, 8 a.m., and then you

fall asleep on the keyboard at, like, 2 or 3 in the morning.

And you just keep doing it over and over again.

After a couple years of doing that, I kind of remember telling my father,

like, I'm getting, like, burned out.

Like, I got to have something else going on in my life right now.

From a pretty young age, I definitely took interest in aviation.

So I went to the local airport, and I went to the flight school there.

We went up in a Cessna 172.

This is 2004 or 5 flying.

There's no Wi-Fi.

It's super peaceful.

There's no one around to bug you in.

It's very therapeutic.

And when I did, I was like, yeah, this is going to be a thing now.

Once you know how to fly a single-engine propeller plane, then you want to fly a

twin-engine propeller plane, and then you want to fly jets.

Once you started going down that slope, it was like, well, what comes next?

Well, ex-military aircraft?

Can you fly fighter jets?

And it turns out you can.

That led to Airshow teams.

Jared and I met at an Airshow while I was flying with a ton of birds.

That's my background, 20 years in the Air Force, flying F-16s.

And there's a lot of consistencies and comparisons to the space world.

Jared knew he was going to space.

He just didn't know who, what, where, when, and how.

Start.

T-1 has 15 seconds.

2008.

Based on my interest in aviation, I got an invitation to watch the Soyuz go off.

Five, four, three, two, one.

Climb and liftoff.

Liftoff of the Soyuz rocket transporting Mike Fink, Yuri

Lonchikov, and Richard Garriott to their home in space.

And it was amazing.

Flight controller standing by for contact and

capture of the International Space Station.

And it actually took a space force up.

Richard Garriott was up on that mission.

Richard Garriott launched to the International

Space Station as a self-funded private pilot.

So that was kind of my first exposure to the idea that maybe we're progressing

towards a world where it won't always just be NASA

astronauts and Russian cosmonauts that are going into space.

Garriott waving goodbye for the final time.

Twelve years later, in 2020, I was on a call and I was talking to people from

SpaceX and it was not related to me going to space or any human being going to space.

It was a very unrelated conversation.

I did make a comment that whenever you guys are ready

to really open this thing up, just like keep me in mind.

And this was like a closing comment on a phone call and it was like, well,

actually, we might be a lot more ready than you might think.

And if you want, you have the opportunity to be the first.

And I was just all over it.

You know when Jared wants to share something, the way he

says something, it's like, OK, he has something to share.

And we were in New York for business purposes

and we went for a run around Central Park.

And usually he's on his earpiece listening to some business podcast and ignores me.

But this time he was talking.

He started to elude to the space mission.

And I didn't fully grasp what he was talking about.

He starts talking about how he met with

SpaceX and this opportunity to present itself.

And I'm like, is he really talking about going to space?

I'm like, there's no way.

The more and more he explained, the more details he provided.

And I'm like, dude, are you going to space?

And he's like, yep.

And I'm like, holy shit.

In a matter of a couple of weeks, we go from Jared telling me he's going to

do the space thing to here we are at space.

SpaceX.

It was like, this is for reals.

Dude, you're going to space.

That's insane.

I thought what we would do is start out here with this beautiful thing.

This beautiful Falcon 9 rocket.

And this rocket is a very special rocket.

Early on, there were talks that like one day he'd go to space.

I mean, you don't believe it when like somebody is telling you.

But I'm like, all right.

He's got dreams.

And you kind of like accept them.

He broke the news.

Yeah, I think the tears definitely came down.

All you think is my spouse, my husband, father of my children is going to space.

We don't know the risk, right?

You just automatically think like, wow, something can happen.

He's always been adventurous.

So this was just on a different level.

Okay.

Now everybody knows how to launch one and how to land one.

You've got all the secret sauce.

Don't go make your own rocket company, okay?

If you look at SpaceX, their vision right from the start is make humankind a

multi-planetary species because we got a lot of eggs in one basket here.

And it didn't go really well for the dinosaurs.

The reason I started SpaceX was to help make life multi-planetary.

To get humanity to Mars.

The future is vastly more exciting.

It's exciting and interesting if we're a space-faring

civilization and a multi-planetary species than if we're not.

And I can't think of anything more exciting

than going out there and being among the stars.

It's important for the future of humanity to be a multi-planetary species so that we

better understand the nature of the universe and

also protects against some calamity on Earth.

The initial model of a rocket was that it would be a use-once-throwaway machine.

Now that's a big machine to throw away.

The Saturn V rocket cost $400 million to

build and launch and that was in 1960s money.

And it was used a single time.

Elon saw something different.

Elon believed we can reuse these rockets.

Five, four, three, two, one.

SpaceX was the first company to prove out the reusability of rockets.

Reusability is the holy grail.

It's a profound breakthrough.

This was something that was not supposed to be able to be done.

I won't care about that ghost.

It's only going to be a powerful twist.

It's going to set all of us to the next level.

We're going to land it.

We're going to land it.

We're going to land it.

His team that he's assembled, that believes in his

vision, have done what no one thought was possible.

It's been six years since they first landed a rocket on a ship.

No one else has done it.

SpaceX today is responsible for about two-thirds

of all of Earth's payload to orbit last year.

The only means by which the United States is

able to get astronauts to the space station.

You start flying cargo, and then you're launching people for the first time,

and now we've done three missions with humans on board.

Welcome back to planet Earth.

Thanks for flying.

The next chapter is definitely to make it more and more accessible to regular folks.

We're going to be flying civilians for the first time.

I'm still not in my zone yet.

It's kind of hard.

There's rockets being built around me and everything.

Inspiration for it will be another change point in the history of space.

We're calling the mission Inspiration 4.

We chose this name because the principal mission objective is to inspire.

The number 4 is symbolic for several reasons.

There will be four crew members on the spacecraft, and it will also be the fourth

manned mission from the United States since the

space shuttle was retired almost a decade ago.

So, guys, from this point on, no photos will be allowed in the facility?

I look at it as, like, an immense challenge.

I'm so excited to get into the books and start getting in the simulator and playing

around with this great engineering marvel you guys have all created here.

We want to try to make the dream of space accessible to anyone.

This Inspiration 4 mission helps bring awareness of space flight to a lot of people.

It makes it more personal.

Hopefully, literally, as the name suggests, it inspires people about space flight.

You need pioneers like Jared in order to have the future mission and ultimately

making science fiction not fiction forever.

Good morning, everybody.

Good to see you.

Nice to see you as well.

How you been?

Good.

Hi, I'm Jared.

Sarah.

Hey, Sarah.

Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you as well.

Cool.

So, we're at another exciting milestone here today, Jared, with our kickoff.

As you know, I'm your mission manager.

As I mentioned, we want to talk trajectory.

For this Inspiration 4 mission, the launch will actually happen in three stages.

The Falcon rocket is called the Falcon 9 rocket for the simple reason that it has

nine powerful engines that are sufficient to accelerate a spacecraft to orbit.

The Falcon 9 has a first stage, has a second stage, and

stacked on top of that is the Crew Dragon spacecraft.

It's the place where the astronauts live.

It's the piece that will go into orbit.

When the Falcon 9 lifts off, it will get about halfway to orbital altitude,

and the first stage of the rocket will separate and fall away.

The second stage of the rocket will light and accelerate the Crew Dragon spacecraft

up to a continuous speed of about 17,500 miles an hour.

The second stage will fall away, and the Dragon

spacecraft will be the only part that goes into orbit.

That will be the home of the crew for the three days they're in orbit.

In order to orbit the Earth, you have to be going at a continuous speed.

A continuous speed of about 17,500 miles an hour.

When it's time to come home, they turn around and they begin to decelerate.

And it slows them down just a little bit.

So the spacecraft will descend into the atmosphere.

A small parachute will pop out and slow them down, sort of a braking parachute.

Then bigger parachutes will pop out, and then they will be traveling at just a

few miles an hour, and they will gently splash down in the Atlantic Ocean.

All right.

Shall we?

Nice touch to it.

Who's that?

That guy looks like he knows what he's doing.

Jared is an awesome person to be a partner on this first all-civilian flight.

He has a ton of experience in flight as a

pilot and does a lot of wild piloting stuff.

He also has just a great attitude.

He's a complete supporter of our mission at SpaceX to go multi-planetary,

and he's really a very humble partner, very knowledgeable partner as well.

Jared's not the guy that's just showing up and saying, hey, launch him into space.

He is fully committed and involved, kind of the perfect guy for this.

He's got a ton of flight experience.

He has the technical ability to understand.

I just care that it has that new dragon smell.

Yeah, he'll be... This is, yeah, what do they call it?

Certified pre-owned.

Jared understands that exploration is all about pushing boundaries.

It's about going where you haven't been before.

So that would be like keeping an altitude roughly below 420 kilometers.

And I don't think there's any particular or

any major benefit in going, like, above ISS.

All right, any questions?

I think it would be interesting to maybe further explore the option above ISS.

Yeah, I totally agree.

And I guess just curious on, like, dragon

certification, since that does go a touch above that.

Intuitively, going slightly above would not present a problem.

But going above will start to stress our margins.

And there may be other problems that I'm not aware in other subsystems.

Yeah, it's not one particular thing.

It's just opening Pandora's box.

The question really is, is what are you looking for?

What's the driver for that higher altitude?

You know, when people have asked us about, you know, just what we're trying to

accomplish with Inspiration4, if there is a Jetsons world we're all living in and

people are hopping in their spaceship and cruising around, at some point,

it's going to go a heck of a lot farther than the space station.

So assuming that it could be mitigated, then I think it is symbolic in that it is

that, kind of pushing that one step a little bit

forward for everything else, you know, to follow.

Yeah.

This is going to send a statement.

This is the first.

The first comes with a great deal of responsibility.

Like, what message do we want to send with this?

No, and that's a really fair point.

And that's part of the point of this mission.

Cool.

We'll talk more a bit about this one offline internally.

Yeah.

We appreciate it.

For sure.

That was huge.

Typically, a NASA mission inserts into a 200-kilometer orbit.

But now we're going to go about 575 kilometers.

High.

Well above the International Space Station.

If we are going to go to Mars, taking a

stride in that direction is vitally important.

I think it speaks to really the intent of the mission, which is, hey, to now

inspire, you know, and you inspire by doing things that haven't been done before.

Hey, cool, man.

We'll see you next week.

Yeah, see you.

All right.

See you, brother.

What impressed me about Jared was that it is a

heartfelt passion of his that he needs to do this right.

That he's setting a precedent.

For all the missions to come.

There has been a good amount of backlash to the so-called billionaires in space.

Sure.

The criticism is we have enough problems on Earth.

Why are we spending time, energy, and money... Sure.

...getting off of Earth?

What's your response to that?

Yeah, I mean, I don't think we should spend...

I think we should spend the vast majority of our resources solving problems on Earth.

Like 99% plus of our, you know, economy should

be dedicated to solving problems on Earth.

But I think maybe something like 1% or less than

1% could be applied to extending life beyond Earth.

Think about a future where we are a space-faring

civilization and a multi-planet species.

I think that's an exciting, inspiring future.

If life is just about problems, I mean, what's the point of living?

Space is not inexpensive.

Like, we all know that.

What thoughts do you think people could potentially have

on it is, you know, it's a billionaire going on a joyride.

The privileges of wealth, to be able to go and disregard

all that, you know, that could be done here on Earth.

For me, like, any time I've undertaken any of these

adventures in life, there has to be some offset.

We are not going to do this if we can't make a huge

difference for the problems the world's faced with today.

Or we don't earn the right to go up into space.

We gravitated right to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Isaacman says this mission is much more than fulfilling a childhood dream.

It's also a massive fundraising effort to raise an astonishing $200 million for

cancer research at St. Jude Children's Hospital.

And he's writing the first personal check for $100 million.

You definitely don't get into my position in life unless

a couple of things went your way at the right time.

And then you think about, well, the extreme other end of

the spectrum is the families where nothing went right.

They got dealt a horrible hand in life.

And a lot of these kids and, you know, don't even grow up and have a chance to

experience even, you know, one one-hundredth

of what I've had the opportunity to experience.

And it's just, um, it's an imbalance that's...

that sucks and it's terrible and we should do something about it.

We live?

Everyone can hear us?

Good.

Thumbs up?

All right.

I want to welcome the two most significant organizations

to this mission coming together for the first time.

SpaceX, obviously, have no means to get to outer space without all the great

innovation and capabilities you guys brought together.

And St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.

And why are we doing this?

To kick off what hopefully is the most successful

fundraising and awareness campaign in history.

If we are going to eventually live in a world where everybody is capable of going

out and journeying amongst the stars, then we

better fight childhood cancer along the way.

The other thing, too, is, like, the rest of the crew members have to

represent the good we're trying to do with the mission.

We're not gonna go up with a bunch of... bunch of fishing buddies.

Like, it's not gonna work that way.

Like, every person who's gonna join this mission has to be able to deliver a very

powerful and inspiring story in their own right.

And that's where we came up with our mission pillars.

Yeah, it might make sense just to even explain, like,

you know, that seat selection process and everything.

Yeah.

We wanted a crew member to represent hope, a crew member to

represent generosity, and a crew member to represent prosperity.

And there's my seat to represent leadership.

We are going out and identifying people to occupy

those seats that really represent the best of humanity.

So for our crew member that represented hope, we're teamed up so heavily with St.

Jude Children's Research Hospital, I can't think of anyone better to

represent the mission spirit of hope than a former cancer

survivor who grew up to become a healthcare professional.

And we went to St. Jude and said, you know, surely you

might know somebody who, you know, who fits this profile.

We've already selected one person who's a great humanitarian, a first responder,

you know, childhood cancer survivor, treated at St. Jude, grew up to become a

healthcare professional, and now is still in the fight at St.

Jude again, helping other kids beat it.

My name is Haley Arsenault.

I'm 29 years old, and I'm from Louisiana, but I live in Memphis now.

Thank you.

I grew up in a really sweet, small town called St. Francisville in Louisiana.

She was very friendly, and she loved meeting new people.

I'd always be like, don't talk to strangers, don't go home with strangers.

And I was thinking, she would think, that might be a nice adventure to go on.

And I was afraid of that.

That's how friendly she was.

And I just had this really happy childhood.

I was in dance, gymnastics, and taekwondo.

I was in taekwondo alongside my dad.

We would go to practice twice a week together.

At age 10, I just got in my black belt, and then I was having pain in my knee,

and the doctor said, you know, probably an overuse injury from taekwondo.

I took some over-the-counter meds, stayed out of taekwondo for a week, felt better.

But then the pain started getting worse.

Well, I vividly remember the day that I found the lump.

We were walking to the car from school, and she was kind of limping in the parking lot.

And I was like, what's the matter?

And she said, my knee hurts, my knee hurts.

So I said, I'll look at it when we get home.

She was making pancakes.

And she said, let me look at your knee.

You were mentioning that earlier.

She looked at it, and then she gasped.

And I remember she went over to the fire where the pancakes were and turned it off.

She kept saying, how long have you had that?

And she pointed to this knot on my knee, like right above my knee.

We went to the doctor the next morning.

I snuck out in the hall with the doctor, and I said, could this be something serious?

And the doctor just hugged me.

She gave me this big bear hug.

And at that point, I just knew.

She ended up being diagnosed with osteosarcoma, which is bone cancer.

We returned home, and my dad immediately looked at

osteosarcoma online and found the St. Jude website.

In order to go to St. Jude, they have to have a protocol

that they're studying that type of cancer, which they were.

Haley and I flew to Memphis.

I walked in, and they had the reception desk.

And I said, I'm here.

My daughter is Haley.

And I just burst into tears.

I couldn't even finish saying her name.

And I remember I just kind of stepped back and trying

to compose myself, and I feel these arms around me.

And it was the receptionist, Ms. Penny, and she whispered in my ear.

She said, it's going to be okay.

It's going to be okay.

You're part of the St. Jude family now.

We're going to take care of her.

And we're going to take care of you, too.

I underwent intensive chemotherapy for almost a year.

And I remember I asked a lot of questions about losing my hair.

I was so worried about that.

I remember being so worried that my dog wouldn't recognize me.

It all started with losing little pieces on my pillowcase.

And then it started coming out in chunks.

I think we've been in this room before.

We've been in all the rooms.

Yeah, we've been in every room.

She had 12 rounds of very intensive chemotherapy.

Her counts would drop.

She wouldn't have any immunity.

And, of course, everything made her sick.

I had several infections.

I needed numerous transfusions.

Midway through, I had surgery to remove the part of my bone that had the tumor on it.

Hello?

Hello!

Hi, Kaylee.

How are you?

Here.

Start some of this.

It's numb.

Right here is numb.

But I can feel all of my foot.

Okay.

When they removed the part of my bone that was

affected by the tumor, they removed the growth plate.

And St. Jude had this cutting-edge technology where they were able to put in

a prosthetic that could be expanded without the need for additional surgery.

And they did that.

They expanded it five times.

Mom, I think I'm going to be okay.

I think I'm always going to be a centimeter longer in this life.

Well, you're only three-fourths of a centimeter longer right now.

Oh!

Yeah.

I was a tough kid.

I didn't cry much.

I tried to keep a really good attitude.

Kaylee made an unbearable situation bearable.

I'm trying to lift my leg like my right leg, but I can't do it.

I can't do that yet.

I had to give her a shot every night.

And I'd be like, I'm sorry.

She'd be like, that's okay.

Like, don't worry about it.

It's okay.

And I always wanted to be very strong for her to not

have to do that, for her not to have to carry me along.

All right.

Kaylee, from day one, wanted to make every day better for everybody.

I would go up to all the donors who were giving

blood, and I would say, thank you for donating.

If I didn't get blood and platelets, I would shrivel up.

They even made me a little St. Jude name badge that said gratitude administrator.

And I took my role really seriously.

Like, I would tell people, I am a St. Jude employee.

She would say time and time again, I cannot wait to come back here and help.

I remember thinking, she'll do it.

If she survives this, she'll do it.

Yes.

Yay!

My first reaction to when I had cancer was, I'm going to die.

And I haven't died, and I'm not going to die.

I come back every two months now for a checkup because I am in remission.

That means the cancer is gone.

Your hair looks a little different though.

I just love St. Jude.

My dream is to be a nurse there.

I applied for a job in 2019 with inpatient leukemia at St. Jude.

I just knew this was my team.

These are my people.

I'm good.

How are you?

When I got that email that I got the job, I could not stop crying.

I called my mom, and I was just bawling crying.

And she was like, Haley, you've got to stop crying.

I don't know what you're saying.

And I was like, I got a job!

That was the happiest moment of my life.

I'm Haley.

It's nice to meet you.

I heard a lot of really cool things about you.

Getting to interact with these kids and getting to show them what their life can

look like after cancer, it's introduced me to the best people.

You know, whenever I was younger, I was a patient here.

I was treated for bone cancer.

Having cancer made me who I am.

And you can totally do this.

If I can do it, you can definitely do it.

Thank you for telling me.

Aww.

It was so good to meet you.

You're awesome.

It definitely changed my life for the better.

And then in early January, St. Jude sent me an email saying

they wanted to talk to me about a unique opportunity.

And so I went into this phone call almost a little nervous.

I was just thinking, like, what are they going to ask?

There's two people on the call, and one says to

the other, all right, do you want to explain it?

Blast off?

And I remember going, blast off?

And then they start telling me about Jared and this all-civilian mission to space.

And they absolutely shocked me when they asked if I wanted to go.

And I looked down, my hands were shaking.

I just couldn't believe it.

And then I thought, you know, let me check with my mom.

Haley called me.

She said, Mom, you're never going to believe that, but it's true.

She goes, they want me to go to space.

I said, what?

And then I did ask her, like, oh, well, how many astronauts are going?

And that's when she said, none.

And I said, why don't you call Hayden?

Her brother, who's the airspace engineer.

I said, let's see what Hayden says.

And Hayden has always been the space boy.

We went to NASA several times over the years, mostly because of his love for space.

He was at work that day.

And I called him, and I was like, you've got to go outside.

This is an emergency.

I go out into this little, like, area.

It's kind of separated from everyone.

I call her up.

I FaceTime her.

I make her pause in so no one can hear, luckily.

And she was like, Hayden, I don't know how to tell you this, but I'm going to space.

And I was like, space?

Wait, wait.

You're going to space?

Aren't you a PA?

What's going on?

I was shocked.

Because I never thought in a million years that she'd

get the kind of opportunity to go to space, right?

And I said, I want to do it.

And he said, you should do it.

And I emailed St. Jude, and I said, I accept.

And I said, I do have a couple questions.

Are we going to the moon?

I was like, Hayley, did you ask any questions?

Like, how high are you going up?

Like, what's the plan?

And she was like, yeah.

I emailed them and asked them, are we going to the moon?

And I was like, Hayley, I guarantee you're not going to the moon.

And I was dying to tell people.

How are you?

Good.

How are you?

I'm good.

I have some really big news, but it's a secret.

Yeah?

You're freaking me out.

It's good news.

Do you all have any guesses?

Okay.

Will they promote it at work?

It's a lot bigger than that.

What is it?

Okay.

We're going on a trip to outer space.

Are you going?

I'm going to outer space.

No, you're not.

What?

There you go.

I'm not.

I'm going to know a freaking astronaut.

Dude, we're going to know a freaking astronaut.

And of course, I want y'all to-That is so cool.

I want y'all to be there at the launch.

Yes.

Y'all, can y'all believe I'm going to outer space?

And then a few days later, I got to Zoom with Jared for the first time.

He went through Inspiration4 and gave me all

the information, answered all my questions.

He said we were not going to the moon.

Apparently people haven't gone there in decades.

I learned that.

Yeah, so we had a great call.

I was feeling so good about it.

And then the next week, we were on our way to SpaceX.

What a difference a day made.

24 little hours.

Haley obviously represents our mission pillar of hope.

I've told them this, but I'm dying to tell my patients.

Her official role in the mission is she's our medical

officer, and who could be better qualified than that?

She's a physician assistant.

But she does bring a lot more than that, too.

She's got toughness.

She faced a circumstance that could have ended very

poorly, like none of us have experienced at 10 years old.

She overcame that.

Neela, Liv, do you guys know that Haley is going to be an astronaut?

Yes.

We're going to go to space together.

Isn't that cool?

Yeah.

I do think that in life, you should say yes to opportunities that scare you.

Welcome to the production floor.

This thing above me is the old version of the Dragon

Capsule, but this is not the version you're going to fly in.

You're getting the Ferrari.

Yeah.

At the bottom of there, there are engines that

are propelling us at, what is the speed of?

It's roughly 25 times the speed of sound, or 17 and a half thousand miles an hour.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

So, kind of crazy.

I think such a beautiful part of life is you don't know what's around the corner,

and that's why you have to hold on to hope that there's going to be better days.

What a different world.

Yeah.

That's right.

This is where we're going to live for three days.

A daily dream.

Home sweet home.

And the difference.

Yeah, this is awesome.

Is you.

A

few measurements taken, I think the most

in-depth set of measurements you got to have.

How much did that say?

5.6.

5.6.

Next.

5.6.

Until this mission, these NASA astronauts,

they've been like perfect, God-like specimens.

Physically perfect, brilliant, strong.

I'm going to space not physically perfect.

With this rod in my leg, I would have immediately been disqualified.

I'll be the first person with a prosthetic body part to go to space.

They don't know exactly how it's going to go.

Now we're going to find out.

Then you better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone.

For the times, they are a-changing.

The presumption for space travel has always been, no, you are not qualified.

It is up to you to prove to me that you're qualified to go.

John Glenn.

Jim Lovell.

Neil Armstrong.

Sally Ride.

Mae Jamison.

They were different from you and me.

But these folks, the Inspiration4 crew, these people are you and me.

I can't wait to meet number three and four.

If you think about it, there are two random people are going about their lives,

and 30 days from now, they're going to get fitted for a space suit.

The

mission in who gets to fly.

And in that sense, this is one of the most important missions ever flown.

For the times they are a-changing.

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