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I like to think of it
as humanity's great taunting.
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Space taunts us because
it's always there, it's always visible,
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it's directly across the cosmic window.
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Just on the other side of the glass
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is this great expanse
that we can see, we can imagine,
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but we cannot touch.
And that lure is irresistible.
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Throughout human history,
the enormity of space,
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the great bowl of the sky
has always inspired equal parts
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reverence, awe, and mortal terror.
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Space is the place
we have been striving to go
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since we first looked up at the stars.
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And we have actually
been going since 1957.
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Today a new moon
is in the sky:
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a 23-inch metal sphere placed in orbit
by a Russian rocket.
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We choose to go to the moon
in this decade and do the other things,
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not because they are easy,
but because they are hard.
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The competition
between the US and the Soviet Union
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turbocharged the space race.
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We went from a standing start,
with no human being
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ever having been off the planet,
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to the surface of the moon in eight years.
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It's one small step
for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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The Space Race 1.0
was the US and the Soviet Union.
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Space Race 2.0 is suddenly
the private sector saying,
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"If I have the money, and I have
the know-how, and I have the will,
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I can go to space."
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On July 11, we saw Richard Branson
take his space plane 50 miles high...
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Three, two, one,
release, release, release.
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...and gave its passengers
about three and a half, four minutes
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in space.
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I'm an adult in a spaceship
with lots of other wonderful adults!
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...two, one.
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Ignition.
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Nine days later, Jeff Bezos
flew over 62 miles high.
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They flew passengers on an 11-minute
popgun suborbital space flight.
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These were not small accomplishments.
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What SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission
is about to do is vastly more ambitious
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and will change the game entirely.
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For the first time,
four civilians are going to space.
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They will orbit the Earth
for three days by themselves.
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These are four non-professional astronauts
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flying a spacecraft around
and around the Earth.
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This is a hinge point in history,
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and will kick the doors open
to space for the rest of us.
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Inspiration4 is four
people with very different backgrounds.
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Every person who's gonna join this mission
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has to be able to deliver a very powerful
and inspiring story in their own right.
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We represent inclusive,
diverse access to space.
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There have been three
Black female American astronauts.
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I will be number four.
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I'll be
the youngest American to go into orbit.
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Also the first pediatric cancer survivor
to go to space.
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When I heard that they were offering me
a seat, I had a flood of thoughts.
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There's a lot of risk.
What happens if something goes wrong?
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I have a family.
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What is that gonna do to her
or what's it gonna do to our daughters?
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It is a certainty
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that we will become
a multi-planet species.
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And this is the next significant step
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to other worlds deep beyond Earth.
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And it starts now.
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My name is Jared Isaacman,
I'm 38 years old.
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I'm commander of Inspiration4,
first all-civilian mission to space.
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♪ Life is precocious ♪
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♪ In a most peculiar way ♪
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♪ Sister psychosis
Don't got a lot to say ♪
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♪ She go let it out ♪
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♪ She go let it out ♪
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♪ She go let it out ♪
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I do believe you only get
one crack at life.
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To the extent you have the means to do so,
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you have this obligation
to live life to the fullest.
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You never know when
it's going to be your last day.
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That kind of philosophy has taken me
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from my first two flights around the world
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which were both world record attempts
in 2008 and 2009.
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It's taken me to flying airshows as part
of a seven-ship formation acrobatic team.
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It's taken me to some interesting places
in the world, like Antarctica,
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on mountain climbing expeditions.
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He's definitely adventurous.
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I think he would tell you
he's not a daredevil,
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'cause he likes to calculate his risks,
but he is like a daredevil.
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I just know how lucky I am,
and a large part of it is because
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I've had a very successful day job
running a company that's...
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that's afforded me these opportunities.
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Jared Isaacman had an idea
that is now worth
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more than $50 million.
He figured out a way for businesses
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to process credit cards more quickly.
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High school dropout
turned businessman Jared Isaacman.
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You're young, you created this
great company, you make a lot of money...
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You know, it's about opportunity.
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Jared's company grew
more than 2000%.
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CEO Jared Isaacman
is ringing the closing bell
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of the New York Stock Exchange.
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♪ Go let it out ♪
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♪ Don't let it in
Don't let it in, don't let it in ♪
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Jared always, like,
kinda keeps us on our toes.
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Like, usually my feelings are like,
"Oh, no. Here it comes."
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Like, what's next?
But, that's just...
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It's always been in him,
like, since we started dating.
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I grew up with
a pretty independent, you know, lifestyle.
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If I wanted to get something done,
I was gonna do it myself.
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It's a big part of, you know,
how my life ultimately shaped out.
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I grew up in New Jersey, and, uh,
I think I was a horrible student,
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and I wasn't, like,
happy in school, either.
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So, I made the decision
I wanted to leave school early
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uh, when I was 15.
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There's a pretty decent age gap
between myself and my, uh,
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my older siblings. They were out,
kind of enjoying their lives
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and having responsibility,
and, I'm like, I gotta raise my hand
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to ask permission
to use the restroom in high school.
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This doesn't make sense.
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So, I left high school, I took my GED.
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I started the business of what
became Shift4 when I was 16.
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It was like a, you know, you wake up,
you know, at 7:30, 8:00 a.m.,
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then you fall asleep on the keyboard
at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning.
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And you just keep doing it
over and over again.
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After a couple years of doing that,
I kinda remember telling my father,
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like, I'm getting burned out,
like, I gotta have something else
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going on in my life right now.
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From a pretty young age,
I definitely took interest in aviation.
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So I went to the local airport,
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and I went to the flight school there.
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We went up in a Cessna 172.
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This is 2004 or 2005, flying.
There's no Wi-Fi. It's super peaceful.
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There's no one around to bug you
and it's, I mean, it's very therapeutic.
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And when I did, I was like,
"Yeah, this is gonna be a thing now."
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Once you know how to fly
a single-engine propeller plane,
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you wanna fly a twin-engine
propeller plane, then you wanna fly jets.
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Once you started going down
that slope, it was like,
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well, what comes next?
Ex-military aircraft?
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Can you fly fighter jets?
And it turns out, you can.
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And that led to airshow teams.
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Jared and I met at an airshow
while I was flying with the Thunderbirds.
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That's my background,
20 years in the Air Force flying F16s.
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And there's a lot of consistencies
and comparisons to the space world.
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Jared knew he was going to space.
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He just didn't know who, what,
or where, when, and how.
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Start.
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T minus 15 seconds.
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2008,
based on my interest in aviation,
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I got an invitation
to watch the Soyuz go up.
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- Five, four, three, two, one.
- Prime, and lift-off.
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Lift-off of the Soyuz rocket
transporting Mike Fincke,
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Yury Lonchacov, and Richard Garriott
to their home in space.
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And it was amazing.
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Flight controller standing by
for contact and capture
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of the International Space Station.
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And it actually took
a space tourist up, Richard Garriott
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was up on that mission.
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Richard Garriott launched
to the International Space Station
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as a self-funded private astronaut.
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So that was kind of my first
exposure to the idea that maybe
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we're progressing towards
a world where it won't always
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just be NASA astronauts
and Russian cosmonauts
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that are going into space.
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Garriott waving goodbye
for the final time.
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Twelve years later,
in 2020, I was on a call,
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and I was talking to people
from SpaceX, and it was not related
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to me going to space,
or any human being going to space,
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it was a very unrelated conversation.
I did make a comment that, um,
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"Whenever you guys are ready
to really open this thing up,
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just, like, keep me in mind."
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And this was like a closing comment
on a phone call. It was like,
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"Well, actually we might be
a lot more ready than you might think,
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and if you want, you have
the opportunity to be the first."
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And I was just all over it.
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Our mission is...
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You know when Jared
wants to share something.
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The way he says something, it's like,
"Okay, he has something to share."
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We were in New York for business purposes,
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and we went for a run around Central Park,
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and usually, he's on his earpiece,
listening to some business podcast,
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um, ignores me.
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But this time he was talking.
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He started to allude to the space mission,
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and I didn't fully grasp
what he was talking about.
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He starts talking about
how he met with SpaceX,
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and this opportunity has presented itself,
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and I'm like, "Is he really
talking about going to space?"
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"Like, there's no way."
The more and more he explained,
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the more details he provided, and I'm like
"Dude, are you going to space?"
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And he's like, "Yup."
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And I'm like... "Holy shit."
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In a matter of a couple weeks,
we go from Jared telling me
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he's gonna do this space thing,
to here we are at SpaceX.
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It was like, "This is for reals.
Dude, you're going to space."
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"That's insane."
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Um, I thought what
we would do is start out here
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with this beautiful thing,
this beautiful Falcon 9 rocket.
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Um, and this rocket
is a very special rocket.
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Early on, there were talks that,
like, one day he'd go to space.
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I mean, you don't believe it when,
like, somebody's telling you,
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but I'm like, "All right, he's got dreams"
and you kinda, like, accept them.
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He broke the news.
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Yeah, I think the tears
definitely came down.
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All you think is, "My spouse,
my husband, father of my children,
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is going to space."
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We don't know the risk, right?
You just automatically think, like,
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"Wow, something can happen."
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He's always been adventurous, so...
this was just on a different level.
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Okay, now everybody knows
how to launch one, and how to land one.
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You've got all the secret sauce.
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Don't go make your own
rocket company, okay?
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If you look at SpaceX,
their vision right from the start is,
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make humankind
a multi-planetary species, because...
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we got a lot of eggs in one basket here.
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And it didn't go really well
for the dinosaurs.
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The reason I started SpaceX
was to help make life multi-planetary,
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to get humanity to Mars.
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The future is vastly
more exciting and interesting
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if we're a space-faring civilization
and a multi-planet species
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than if we are not.
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And I can't think of anything
more exciting than going out there
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and being among the stars.
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It's important for the future of
humanity to be a multi-planet species,
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so that we better understand
the nature of the universe,
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and also protects against
some calamity on Earth.
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The initial model of a rocket was
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that it would be a use once,
throw-away machine.
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Now that's a big machine to throw away.
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The Saturn V rocket cost $400 million
to build and launch,
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and that was in 1960s money.
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And it was used a single time.
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Elon saw something different.
Elon believed we can reuse these rockets.
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Five, four, three, two, one.
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Liftoff!
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SpaceX was the first company
to prove out reusability of rockets.
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Reusability is the holy grail.
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It's a profound breakthrough.
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Successful separation,
we're coming up on...
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This was something that was
not supposed to be able to be done.
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And the Falcons have landed!
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His team that he assembled,
that believe in his vision,
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have done what no one
thought was possible.
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It's been six years since they first
landed a rocket on a ship.
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No one else has done it.
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SpaceX today is responsible
for about two-thirds of...
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all of the Earth's payload to orbit
last year.
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We're the only means
by which the United States
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is able to get astronauts
to the Space Station.
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You start flying cargo, and then you're
launching people for the first time,
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and now we've done three missions
with humans on board.
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Welcome back to Planet Earth,
thanks for flying SpaceX.
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The next chapter's definitely
to make it more and more accessible
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to regular folks.
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We're gonna be flying
civilians for the first time.
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Not in my zone yet.
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It's hard, there's rockets
being built around me and everything.
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Inspiration4 will be another change point
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in the history of space travel.
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We're calling
the mission Inspiration4.
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We chose this name because the principal
mission objective is to inspire.
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The number four is symbolic
for several reasons.
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There will be four crew members
on this spacecraft,
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and it will also be the fourth
manned mission from the United States
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since the space shuttle
was retired almost a decade ago.
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So, guys, from this point on,
no photos will be allowed in the facility.
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I look at it
as an immense challenge.
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I'm so excited to get into the books
and start getting in the simulator
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and playing around with,
uh, this great engineering marvel
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you guys have created here.
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We're trying to make the dream
of space accessible to anyone.
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This Inspiration4 mission
helps bring awareness
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of spaceflight to a lot of people,
makes it more personal.
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Hopefully, as the name suggests,
it inspires people about spaceflight.
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You need pioneers like Jared
in order to have the future mission
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and ultimately making
science fiction not fiction forever.
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- Morning, nice to see you.
- Nice to see you.
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- Good! I'm Jared.
- Sarah.
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- Hey, Sarah.
- Nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you as well. Cool.
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So, we're at a very exciting
milestone with you here today, Jared,
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with our kickoff.
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As you know, I'm your mission manager.
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Uh, as I mentioned,
we want to talk trajectory.
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For this Inspiration4 mission,
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the launch will actually
happen in three stages.
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The Falcon rocket is called
the Falcon 9 rocket,
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for the simple reason
that it has nine powerful engines
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that are sufficient to accelerate
a spacecraft to orbit.
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The Falcon 9 has a first stage,
has a second stage,
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and stacked on top of that,
is the Crew Dragon spacecraft.
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It's the place where the astronauts live,
it's the piece that will go into orbit.
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When the Falcon 9 lifts off,
it will get about halfway
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to orbital altitude, and the first stage
of the rocket will separate and fall away.
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The second stage of the rocket
will light and accelerate
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the Crew Dragon spacecraft
up to a continuous speed of about
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17,500 miles an hour.
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The second stage will fall away,
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and the Dragon spacecraft will be
the only part that goes into orbit.
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That will be the home of the crew
for the three days they're in orbit.
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In order to orbit the Earth,
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you have to be going at a continuous speed
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of about 17,500 miles an hour.
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When it's time to come home,
they turn around
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and they begin to decelerate.
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And it slows them down just a little bit,
so the spacecraft will descend
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into the atmosphere.
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A small parachute will pop out
and slow them down,
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sort of a braking parachute,
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then bigger parachutes will pop out,
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and then they will be traveling
at just a few miles an hour,
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and they will gently splash down
in the Atlantic Ocean.
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All right.
Shall we? Nice touch to it.
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Who... Who's that?
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Looks like
he knows what he's doing.
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That guy...
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Jared is, um, an awesome person
to be a partner
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on this first all-civilian flight.
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He has a ton of experience
in flight as a pilot,
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um, and does a lot of wild piloting stuff.
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He also just has a great attitude.
He's a complete supporter
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of our mission at SpaceX
to go multi-planetary,
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and he's, uh, really
a very humble partner,
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a very knowledgeable partner, as well.
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Jared's not the guy
that's just showing up and saying,
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"Hey, launch me to space."
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He is fully committed and involved,
kind of the perfect guy for this.
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He's got a ton of flight experience.
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He has the technical ability
to understand.
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I just care that it has
that new Dragon smell.
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Yeah, it'll be...
this is, this is, yeah.
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What do they call it? Certified pre-owned.
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Jared understands that exploration
is all about pushing boundaries.
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It's about going
where you haven't been before.
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So that would be like keeping
an altitude roughly below 420 kilometers,
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and I don't think there's any particular
or any major benefit in going above ISS.
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All right, any questions?
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I think it would be interesting
to maybe further explore
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the option above ISS.
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I totally agree, and I guess,
just curious on Dragon Certification,
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since that does go a touch above that.
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Intuitively, going slightly above
would not present a problem,
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but going above will start
to stretch our margins.
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And there may be other problems
that I'm not aware of in other subsystems.
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Yeah, it's not one particular
thing, it's just opening Pandora's box.
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The question really is,
"What are you looking for?"
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"What's the driver
for that higher altitude?"
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You know, when people have asked us
about just what we're trying to accomplish
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with Inspiration4, if there is
a Jetsons' world we're all living in
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and people are hopping in
their spaceship and cruising around,
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at some point, it's gonna go a heck
of a lot farther than the Space Station.
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So, assuming that it could be mitigated,
then, I think it is symbolic in that it is
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that kind of pushing
that one step a little bit forward,
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for everything else, you know, to follow.
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Yeah.
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This is gonna send a statement,
this is the first.
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And the first comes with
a great deal of responsibility, like,
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what message do we wanna send with this?
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No, and that's a really fair point. And
that's part of the point of this mission.
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- Yeah, we'll...
- Cool.
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We'll talk more about
this one offline internally.
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- Yeah.
- We appreciate it...
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- For sure.
- It's definitely huge.
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Typically, a NASA mission
inserts into a 200-kilometer orbit,
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but now, we're gonna go
about 575 kilometers high,
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well above
the International Space Station.
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If we are going to go to Mars,
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taking a stride in that direction,
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it is vitally important.
I think it speaks to, uh, really,
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the intent of the mission, which is,
hey, to now inspire, you know,
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and you inspire by doing things
that haven't been done before.
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- Cool, man.
- See you next week.
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- Yeah, see you in a week.
- All right. See you, brother.
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What impressed me
about Jared was
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that it is a heartfelt passion of his,
that he needs to do this right.
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That he's setting a precedent
for all the missions to come.
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There's been
a good amount of backlash
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- to the so-called billionaires in space.
- Sure.
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The criticism is
we have enough problems on Earth,
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why are we spending time, energy,
and money getting off of Earth?
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What's your response to that?
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Yeah, I mean,
I don't think we should spend...
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I think we should spend
the majority of our resources
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solving problems on Earth,
um, like 99% plus
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of our, you know, economy should be
dedicated to solving problems on Earth,
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but I think, maybe,
something like 1% or less than 1%,
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could be applied
to extending life beyond Earth.
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Think about a future where
we're a space-faring civilization,
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and a multi-planet species, that's an...
an exciting, inspiring future.
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If life is just about problems, I mean,
why... what's the point of living?
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Space is not inexpensive,
like, we all know that.
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What thoughts people
can potentially have on it
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is, you know,
it's a billionaire going on a joyride,
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the privileges of wealth,
to be able to go and...
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disregard all the, you know, uh,
that could be done here on Earth.
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For me, like, anytime I've undertaken
any of these adventures in life,
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there has to be some offset.
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We're not gonna do this
if we can't make a huge difference
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for the problems
the world's faced with today,
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or we don't earn the right
to go up into space.
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We gravitated right to St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital.
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Isaacman says
this mission is much more
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than fulfilling a childhood dream.
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It's also a massive fundraising effort
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to raise
an astonishing $200 million
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for cancer research
at St. Jude Children's Hospital.
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And he's writing the first personal check
for $100 million.
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You definitely don't get
into my position in life
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unless a couple of things
went your way at the right time.
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And then you think about, well,
the extreme other end of the spectrum
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is the families where nothing went right,
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they got dealt a horrible hand in life,
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um, and... a lot of these kids in,
you know, don't even grow up
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and have a chance
to experience even 1/100th, uh...
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of what I've had the opportunity
to experience, and it's just...
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it's an imbalance that's... that sucks.
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It's terrible.
We should do something about it.
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We live? Everyone can hear us?
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Good, thumbs up? All right.
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I wanna welcome the two most
significant organizations
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to this mission coming together
for the first time:
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SpaceX, obviously, you have no means
to get to outer space
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without all the great innovations and
capabilities you brought together,
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and St. Jude's Children's
Research Hospital.
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And why are we doing this?
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To kick off what hopefully
is the most successful fundraising
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and awareness campaign in history.
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If we are going to eventually live
in a world
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where everybody is capable of going out
and journeying amongst the stars,
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then we'd better fight
childhood cancer along the way.
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The other thing is, like,
the rest of the crew members
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have to represent the good
we're trying to do with the mission.
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We're not gonna go up
with a bunch of fishing buddies.
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It's not gonna work that way.
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Like, every person
who's gonna join this mission
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has to be able to deliver
a very powerful and inspiring story
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in their own right.
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And that's where we came up
with our mission pillars.
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Yeah, it might make sense
just to explain, like,
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that seat selection process
and everything, you know?
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We wanted a crew member to represent hope,
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a crew member to represent generosity,
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and a crew member to represent prosperity.
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And there's my seat
to represent leadership.
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We are going out and identifying
people to occupy those seats
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that really represent
the best of humanity.
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So, for our crew member
that represented hope,
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we're teamed up so heavily with St. Jude's
Children's Research Hospital,
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I can't think of anyone better
to represent the mission's spirit of hope
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than a former cancer survivor who grew up
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to become a healthcare professional.
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And we went to St. Jude and said,
"You know, surely you might know
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somebody who, you know,
who fits this profile."
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We've already selected one person,
uh, who's a great humanitarian,
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a first responder, you know,
a childhood cancer survivor,
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treated at St. Jude, grew up
to become a healthcare professional,
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and now is still in the fight at St. Jude
again helping other kids beat it.
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My name is Hayley Arceneaux,
I'm 29 years old, and I'm from Louisiana,
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but I live in Memphis.
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- Thank you.
- All right, have a great one.
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Thank you.
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I grew up in a really sweet,
small town called St. Francisville
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in Louisiana.
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She was very friendly,
and she loved meeting new people.
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I'd always be like,
"Don't talk to strangers,
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don't go home with strangers,"
I thought she would think,
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"That might be a nice adventure
to go on..." and I was afraid of that.
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That's how friendly she was.
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And I just had
this really happy childhood.
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I was in dance, gymnastics,
and tae kwon do.
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I was in tae kwon do alongside my dad.
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We would go to practice
twice a week together.
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And at age ten,
I'd just gotten my black belt,
466
00:29:03,032 --> 00:29:05,577
and then, I was having pain in my knee,
467
00:29:05,660 --> 00:29:09,581
and the doctor said, you know,
probably an overuse injury
468
00:29:09,664 --> 00:29:12,459
from tae kwon do.
I took some over-the-counter meds,
469
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:15,211
stayed out of tae kwon do for a week,
felt better, um,
470
00:29:15,295 --> 00:29:17,046
but then the pain started getting worse.
471
00:29:19,048 --> 00:29:24,846
Well, I vividly remember the day
that I found the lump.
472
00:29:26,306 --> 00:29:30,560
We were walking to the car
from school, and she was kind
473
00:29:30,643 --> 00:29:33,646
of limping in the parking lot,
and I was like, "What's the matter?"
474
00:29:33,730 --> 00:29:35,523
And she said,
"My knee hurts, my knee hurts."
475
00:29:35,607 --> 00:29:37,442
So I said,
"I'll look at it when we get home."
476
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:42,197
She was making pancakes. She said, "Let me
look at your knee you were mentioning."
477
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,159
She looked at it and then she gasped.
And I remember she went over
478
00:29:46,242 --> 00:29:48,495
to the fire where the pancakes were
and turned it off.
479
00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:50,455
She kept saying,
"How long have you had that?"
480
00:29:50,538 --> 00:29:53,166
And she pointed to this knot on my knee,
like right above my knee.
481
00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:57,504
We went to the doctor
the next morning.
482
00:29:57,587 --> 00:30:01,633
I snuck out in the hall
with the doctor, and I said,
483
00:30:01,716 --> 00:30:03,635
"Could this be something serious?"
484
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:09,641
And the doctor just hugged me.
She gave me this big bear hug,
485
00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:13,186
and, at that point, I just knew.
486
00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:19,651
She ended up being diagnosed
with osteosarcoma,
487
00:30:19,734 --> 00:30:21,152
which is bone cancer.
488
00:30:21,945 --> 00:30:25,073
We returned home,
and my dad immediately looked up
489
00:30:25,156 --> 00:30:28,660
osteosarcoma online
and found the St. Jude website.
490
00:30:29,619 --> 00:30:32,747
In order to go to St. Jude,
they have to have a protocol
491
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:36,709
that they're studying that type
of cancer, which they were.
492
00:30:37,377 --> 00:30:39,504
Hayley and I flew to Memphis.
493
00:30:39,587 --> 00:30:42,757
I walked in and they had
the reception desk.
494
00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:48,721
And I said, "I'm here.
My daughter is Hayl..."
495
00:30:48,805 --> 00:30:50,765
and I just burst into tears.
496
00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:53,434
I couldn't even finish saying her name.
497
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:55,603
And I remember,
I just kind of stepped back,
498
00:30:55,687 --> 00:31:00,483
and trying to compose myself,
and I feel these arms around me.
499
00:31:00,567 --> 00:31:04,487
And it was the receptionist,
Miss Penny, and she whispered in my ear,
500
00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:07,574
she said, "It's gonna be okay,
it's gonna be okay."
501
00:31:07,657 --> 00:31:13,121
"You're part of the St. Jude family now.
We're going to take care of her,
502
00:31:13,204 --> 00:31:15,373
and we're gonna take care of you too."
503
00:31:17,709 --> 00:31:21,254
I underwent
intensive chemotherapy for almost a year,
504
00:31:21,337 --> 00:31:25,216
and, I remember I asked a lot of questions
about losing my hair.
505
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:27,135
I was so worried about that.
506
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,514
And I remember being so worried
that my dog wouldn't recognize me.
507
00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:35,518
It all started with losing little pieces
on my pillowcase.
508
00:31:36,185 --> 00:31:37,665
Then it started coming out in chunks.
509
00:31:37,729 --> 00:31:41,524
- I think we've been in this room before.
- We've been in all the rooms.
510
00:31:41,608 --> 00:31:42,901
Yes, we've been in every room.
511
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:47,405
She had 12 rounds
of very intensive chemotherapy.
512
00:31:48,990 --> 00:31:53,119
Her counts would drop, she wouldn't
have any immunity, and, of course,
513
00:31:53,202 --> 00:31:54,787
everything made her sick.
514
00:31:56,581 --> 00:32:00,710
I had several infections,
I needed numerous transfusions.
515
00:32:03,004 --> 00:32:06,090
Midway through, I had surgery
to remove the part of my bone
516
00:32:06,174 --> 00:32:07,842
that had the tumor on it.
517
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:13,514
- Come in.
- Hello! Hi, Hayley, how are you?
518
00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:17,977
- Good. Here. It's numb.
- It starts to... right here is numb...
519
00:32:18,061 --> 00:32:20,355
- But I can feel all of my foot.
- Okay.
520
00:32:21,022 --> 00:32:24,067
When they removed the part of my bone
that was affected by the tumor,
521
00:32:24,150 --> 00:32:26,277
they removed the growth plate.
522
00:32:26,361 --> 00:32:29,197
And St. Jude had this cutting-edge
technology where they were able
523
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,033
to put in a prosthetic
that could be expanded
524
00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:34,118
without the need for additional surgery.
525
00:32:34,994 --> 00:32:37,705
And, they did that.
They expanded it five times.
526
00:32:39,165 --> 00:32:43,795
Mom, I think I'm always gonna be
a centimeter longer in this leg.
527
00:32:43,878 --> 00:32:47,006
Well, you're only three-fourths
of a centimeter longer right now.
528
00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:49,759
- Oh!
- Yeah.
529
00:32:49,842 --> 00:32:52,929
I was a tough kid.
I didn't cry much.
530
00:32:53,012 --> 00:32:55,473
I tried to keep a really good attitude.
531
00:32:59,477 --> 00:33:03,481
Hayley made an unbearable
situation bearable.
532
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:10,238
I'm trying to lift my leg
like my right leg, but, it's...
533
00:33:10,321 --> 00:33:11,781
I can't do that yet.
534
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:15,284
I had to give her
a shot every night,
535
00:33:15,368 --> 00:33:17,078
and, I'd be like, "I'm sorry,"
536
00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:20,289
and she'd be like, "That's okay,"
like, "Don't worry about it, it's okay."
537
00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:25,044
And I always wanted to be very strong
538
00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:31,217
for her to not have to do that...
for her not to have to carry me along.
539
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:36,681
You're almost ready to run a race.
540
00:33:36,764 --> 00:33:38,766
Hayley, from day one,
541
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:44,439
wanted to make every day
better for everybody.
542
00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:49,402
I would go up to all the donors
who were giving blood, and I would say,
543
00:33:49,485 --> 00:33:52,155
"Thank you for donating.
If I didn't get blood and platelets,
544
00:33:52,238 --> 00:33:53,364
I would shrivel up."
545
00:33:53,448 --> 00:33:55,950
They even made me a little
St. Jude name badge that said
546
00:33:56,034 --> 00:33:57,074
"Gratitude Administrator."
547
00:33:57,994 --> 00:34:00,830
And I took my role really seriously,
like, I would tell people,
548
00:34:00,913 --> 00:34:02,665
"I am a St. Jude employee."
549
00:34:03,332 --> 00:34:06,711
She would say time and time again,
"I cannot wait to come back here
550
00:34:06,794 --> 00:34:07,794
and help."
551
00:34:10,089 --> 00:34:14,177
I remember thinking, "She'll do it,
if she survives this, she'll do it."
552
00:34:14,260 --> 00:34:16,554
- My scans are clean?
- Yes.
553
00:34:16,637 --> 00:34:18,848
- Yay!
- Woohoo!
554
00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:24,604
♪ Come on, yeah ♪
555
00:34:24,687 --> 00:34:28,191
♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪
556
00:34:28,274 --> 00:34:31,986
♪ Come on, yeah ♪
557
00:34:32,653 --> 00:34:35,198
♪ Everything's not lost... ♪
558
00:34:36,240 --> 00:34:40,203
My first reaction to
when I had cancer was I'm going to die.
559
00:34:40,286 --> 00:34:41,913
And I haven't died.
560
00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:44,082
And I'm not going to die.
561
00:34:45,666 --> 00:34:47,001
Spaghetti!
562
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:51,881
I come back every two months now
for a check-up because I'm in remission.
563
00:34:51,964 --> 00:34:53,758
That means the cancer is gone.
564
00:34:55,384 --> 00:34:57,095
Your hair looks a little different.
565
00:34:57,178 --> 00:34:58,888
I just love St. Jude.
566
00:34:58,971 --> 00:35:01,349
My dream is to be a nurse there.
567
00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:04,143
♪ Everything's not lost ♪
568
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,649
I applied for a job in 2019
with in-patient leukemia at St. Jude.
569
00:35:09,732 --> 00:35:12,151
I just knew that this was my team,
these were my people.
570
00:35:12,235 --> 00:35:14,779
- Hi, Hayley, how you doing?
- I'm good, how are you?
571
00:35:14,862 --> 00:35:19,033
When I got that email that I got the job,
I could not stop crying.
572
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:23,121
I called my mom, and I was
just bawling crying, and she was like,
573
00:35:23,204 --> 00:35:25,540
"Hayley, stop crying.
I don't know what you're saying."
574
00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:27,834
And I was like, "I got a job!"
575
00:35:27,917 --> 00:35:29,836
That was the happiest moment of my life.
576
00:35:29,919 --> 00:35:32,421
I'm Hayley. It's nice to meet you.
577
00:35:32,505 --> 00:35:34,799
I heard a lot of really
cool things about you.
578
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:40,429
Getting to interact with these kids
and getting to show them
579
00:35:40,513 --> 00:35:42,598
what their life can look like
after cancer,
580
00:35:42,682 --> 00:35:44,475
it's introduced me to the best people.
581
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:47,520
You know, whenever I was younger,
I was a patient here.
582
00:35:47,603 --> 00:35:49,147
I was treated for bone cancer.
583
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:51,816
Having cancer made me who I am.
584
00:35:53,985 --> 00:35:56,821
And you can totally do this.
If I can do it, you can definitely do it.
585
00:35:56,904 --> 00:35:58,614
Thank you for telling me.
586
00:35:58,698 --> 00:36:02,285
Aw. It was so good to meet you.
You're awesome.
587
00:36:02,368 --> 00:36:04,996
It definitely changed my life
for the better.
588
00:36:07,582 --> 00:36:11,961
And then, in early January,
St. Jude sent me an email
589
00:36:12,044 --> 00:36:14,964
saying they wanted to talk to me
about a unique opportunity.
590
00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:19,844
And so I went into this phone call,
almost a little nervous.
591
00:36:19,927 --> 00:36:22,013
I was just thinking,
"What are they gonna ask?"
592
00:36:23,139 --> 00:36:25,516
There's two people on the call,
and one says to the other,
593
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:28,269
"All right, do you wanna explain it?
Blast off?"
594
00:36:28,352 --> 00:36:30,062
And I remember going, "Blast off?"
595
00:36:31,314 --> 00:36:33,858
And then,
they start telling me about Jared
596
00:36:33,941 --> 00:36:39,530
and this all-civilian mission to space.
And they absolutely shocked me
597
00:36:39,614 --> 00:36:41,157
when they asked if I wanted to go.
598
00:36:41,240 --> 00:36:44,035
And I looked down, my hands were shaking,
I just couldn't believe it.
599
00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:46,704
And then I thought, you know,
"Let me check with my mom."
600
00:36:46,787 --> 00:36:49,749
Hayley called me, she said,
"Mom, you're never gonna believe that,
601
00:36:49,832 --> 00:36:52,376
but it's true." She said,
"They want me to go to space."
602
00:36:52,877 --> 00:36:56,172
I said, "What?"
And then I did ask her, like,
603
00:36:56,255 --> 00:36:59,050
"Oh, well...
how many astronauts are going?"
604
00:36:59,675 --> 00:37:01,844
And that's when she said, "None."
605
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:06,974
And I said, "Why don't you call Hayden?"
606
00:37:07,058 --> 00:37:08,978
Her brother,
who's the airspace engineer. I said,
607
00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:10,603
"Let's see what Hayden says."
608
00:37:10,686 --> 00:37:14,565
And Hayden has always been the space boy.
609
00:37:15,149 --> 00:37:17,401
We went to NASA several times
over the years,
610
00:37:17,485 --> 00:37:19,487
mostly because of his love for space.
611
00:37:20,988 --> 00:37:25,243
He was at work that day,
and I called him and I was like,
612
00:37:25,326 --> 00:37:27,453
"You've gotta go outside,
this is an emergency."
613
00:37:27,536 --> 00:37:29,664
I go out and sit in this little, like, uh,
614
00:37:29,747 --> 00:37:31,624
area that's separated from everyone
and call,
615
00:37:31,707 --> 00:37:35,211
I Facetime her, have my Airpods in
so no one can hear, luckily.
616
00:37:35,294 --> 00:37:37,134
She's like,
"I don't know how to tell you this,
617
00:37:37,171 --> 00:37:39,548
but I'm going to space."
And I was like, "Space?"
618
00:37:39,632 --> 00:37:43,052
"Wait, wait, you're going to space?
Aren't you a PA? What? What's going on?"
619
00:37:43,135 --> 00:37:44,971
I was... I was shocked.
620
00:37:45,054 --> 00:37:47,574
I never thought in a million years
she would get the opportunity
621
00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:48,933
to go to space, right?
622
00:37:49,016 --> 00:37:53,187
And I said, "I wanna do it,"
and he said, "You should do it."
623
00:37:53,271 --> 00:37:58,150
And, I emailed St. Jude
and I said, "I accept."
624
00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:02,280
And I said, "I do have a couple questions.
Are we going to the moon?"
625
00:38:02,363 --> 00:38:03,763
I was like, "Did you ask questions,
626
00:38:03,823 --> 00:38:06,575
like, how high are you going up,
like, what's the plan?"
627
00:38:06,659 --> 00:38:10,204
And she was like, "Yeah, I emailed them,
asked them, are we going to the moon?"
628
00:38:10,288 --> 00:38:13,791
And I was like, "Hayley, I guarantee
you're not going to the moon."
629
00:38:13,874 --> 00:38:16,502
And I was dying to tell people.
630
00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:20,840
- How are you?
- Good, how are you?
631
00:38:20,923 --> 00:38:24,260
I'm good! I have some really big news,
but it's a secret.
632
00:38:24,343 --> 00:38:28,472
- Yeah? You're freaking me out.
- It's good news!
633
00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:32,226
- Do y'all have any guesses?
- Okay, did you get promoted at work?
634
00:38:32,310 --> 00:38:34,437
It's a lot bigger than that!
635
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,105
- Um...
- What is it?
636
00:38:36,188 --> 00:38:39,275
Okay. Winning a trip to outer space.
637
00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:43,070
- Are you going?
- I'm going to outer space.
638
00:38:43,154 --> 00:38:44,530
No, you're not.
639
00:38:47,616 --> 00:38:53,539
- What? Hayley!
- I'm gonna be an astronaut.
640
00:38:53,622 --> 00:38:56,792
I'm gonna know a freaking astronaut.
Dude, we're gonna know
641
00:38:56,876 --> 00:38:59,462
- a freaking astronaut!
- And, of course, I want y'all to...
642
00:38:59,545 --> 00:39:01,422
- That is so cool!
- I want y'all to be there
643
00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:03,716
- at the launch.
- Yes! I wanna be there
644
00:39:03,799 --> 00:39:04,799
at the freaking launch!
645
00:39:06,677 --> 00:39:09,221
Y'all, can y'all believe
I'm going to f... outer space?
646
00:39:09,305 --> 00:39:13,851
No, like, our best
friend is going to space. What?
647
00:39:16,729 --> 00:39:20,274
And then a few days later, I got
to Zoom with Jared for the first time.
648
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:24,862
He went through Inspiration4,
and, um, gave me all the information,
649
00:39:24,945 --> 00:39:27,585
- answered all my questions.
- Showed you where the moon was.
650
00:39:27,656 --> 00:39:30,242
He said
we were not going to the moon.
651
00:39:31,369 --> 00:39:33,289
Apparently, people haven't
gone there in decades.
652
00:39:33,329 --> 00:39:34,580
- No...
- I learned that.
653
00:39:34,663 --> 00:39:36,290
Yeah, so we had a great call,
654
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:38,334
I was feeling so good about it.
And the next week,
655
00:39:38,417 --> 00:39:40,086
we were on our way to SpaceX.
656
00:39:48,302 --> 00:39:53,224
♪ What a difference a day made ♪
657
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,064
♪ Twenty-four little hours ♪
658
00:40:00,147 --> 00:40:03,275
Hayley obviously represents
our mission pillar of hope.
659
00:40:03,359 --> 00:40:05,820
I told them, I said,
"I'm dying to tell my patients."
660
00:40:05,903 --> 00:40:08,664
Her official role in
the mission is she's our medical officer,
661
00:40:08,739 --> 00:40:11,992
and who could be better qualified
than that? She's a physician assistant.
662
00:40:12,076 --> 00:40:14,161
But she does bring
a lot more than that too.
663
00:40:14,662 --> 00:40:15,955
She's got toughness.
664
00:40:16,038 --> 00:40:19,250
She faced a circumstance
that could have ended very poorly,
665
00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:22,211
like none of us have experienced,
you know, at ten years old.
666
00:40:22,294 --> 00:40:23,504
She overcame that.
667
00:40:24,338 --> 00:40:27,383
Mila, Liv, do you guys know
that Hayley is gonna be an astronaut?
668
00:40:27,466 --> 00:40:29,468
- Yes.
- We're gonna go to space together.
669
00:40:29,552 --> 00:40:31,512
- Isn't that cool?
- Yeah.
670
00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:36,642
I do think that in life, you should
say yes to opportunities that scare you.
671
00:40:36,725 --> 00:40:38,686
Welcome
to the production floor!
672
00:40:38,769 --> 00:40:40,271
This thing above me is...
673
00:40:40,354 --> 00:40:44,316
the old version of the Dragon Capsule,
but this is not the version
674
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,403
you're gonna fly in.
You're getting a Ferrari. Yeah.
675
00:40:51,532 --> 00:40:55,161
At the bottom, are there engines
that are propelling us at...?
676
00:40:55,244 --> 00:40:56,412
What is the speed?
677
00:40:56,495 --> 00:41:01,876
Roughly 25 times the speed of sound,
or 17,500 miles an hour.
678
00:41:02,668 --> 00:41:06,088
- Oh, wow.
- Yeah. It's, uh, kinda crazy.
679
00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:08,924
I think such a beautiful part
of life is you don't know
680
00:41:09,008 --> 00:41:11,302
what's around the corner.
That's why you hold on to hope
681
00:41:11,385 --> 00:41:12,745
that there's gonna be better days.
682
00:41:13,804 --> 00:41:16,524
This is where we're gonna...
we're gonna live for three days.
683
00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:18,309
Home sweet home!
684
00:41:20,060 --> 00:41:21,645
♪ And the difference... ♪
685
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:22,813
You know, this is awesome.
686
00:41:22,897 --> 00:41:29,862
♪ ...is you ♪
687
00:41:34,366 --> 00:41:36,327
We will head up to the training center,
688
00:41:36,410 --> 00:41:38,245
where you'll get
your suit measurements taken.
689
00:41:38,329 --> 00:41:40,929
They'll be the most in-depth
set of measurements you'll ever have.
690
00:41:45,836 --> 00:41:48,422
- 5.6.
- 5.6.
691
00:41:50,382 --> 00:41:53,177
- 5.2.
- 5.2.
692
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:56,222
Until this mission,
these NASA astronauts,
693
00:41:56,305 --> 00:41:59,725
they've been perfect, god-like specimens.
694
00:42:00,726 --> 00:42:06,315
Physically perfect, brilliant, strong...
695
00:42:08,484 --> 00:42:09,484
And knee depth.
696
00:42:12,238 --> 00:42:13,998
This'll probably be
the larger knee.
697
00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:19,495
♪ And admit that the waters
Around you have grown ♪
698
00:42:19,578 --> 00:42:24,166
I'm going to space not physically perfect.
With this rod in my leg,
699
00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:26,585
I would have immediately
been disqualified.
700
00:42:27,294 --> 00:42:30,047
I'll be the first person
with a prosthetic body part
701
00:42:30,130 --> 00:42:31,130
to go to space.
702
00:42:31,549 --> 00:42:34,510
They don't know exactly how it's gonna go.
703
00:42:35,928 --> 00:42:37,012
Now we're gonna find out.
704
00:42:37,096 --> 00:42:43,394
♪ Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone ♪
705
00:42:45,646 --> 00:42:51,443
♪ For the times they are a-changin' ♪
706
00:42:57,366 --> 00:43:00,869
The presumption for space travel
has always been,
707
00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:03,998
"No, you are not qualified."
708
00:43:05,791 --> 00:43:09,503
"It is up to you to prove to me
that you are qualified to go."
709
00:43:10,838 --> 00:43:12,006
John Glenn...
710
00:43:13,007 --> 00:43:14,592
Jim Lovell...
711
00:43:15,175 --> 00:43:16,635
Neil Armstrong...
712
00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:18,470
Sally Ride...
713
00:43:19,346 --> 00:43:20,848
Mae Jemison...
714
00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:23,684
They were different from you and me.
715
00:43:25,811 --> 00:43:29,064
But these folks, the Inspiration4 crew...
716
00:43:30,441 --> 00:43:32,443
these people are you and me.
717
00:43:32,526 --> 00:43:34,612
I can't wait to meet
numbers three and four.
718
00:43:34,695 --> 00:43:38,532
If you think about it, there are two
random people going about their lives
719
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:42,411
and 30 days from now,
they're gonna get fitted for a spacesuit.
720
00:43:53,422 --> 00:43:59,094
This mission will open
a different dimension in who gets to fly.
721
00:44:04,475 --> 00:44:09,063
And in that sense, this is one
of the most important missions ever flown.
722
00:44:19,031 --> 00:44:24,912
♪ For the times they are a-changin' ♪