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NASA Administrator @rookisaacman on why NASA can't afford to overlap with industry and has to keep doing the near-impossible: "It is not hard for us to attract talent. The NASA logo, the meatball as we call it, is pretty widely recognized around the world. The hard part is gonna be retaining it." "Right now, a substantial portion of what we do at NASA does in fact overlap with industry, and that's a dangerous place to be." "You can graduate from school, you can be really excited, I'm going…
FULL INTERVIEW: Jared Isaacman says if you don't want data centers in your backyard, put them in space. The physics isn't broken, the economics are hard, and hitting pause while rivals keep building isn't a strategy. @rookisaacman is the Administrator of @NASA. He joined @theojaffee and @schisofrenia on the new U.S. Space Academy, nuclear propulsion, and why he thinks losing the second space race would cost more than anyone expects: 00:42 the Space Academy the President just announced 01:58 why it's a four-year federal academy, not a trade school 02:52 attracting talent is easy, keeping it is the hard part 03:13 why NASA can never overlap with industry 03:53 why NASA has aura and the IRS doesn't 05:11 Elon refocusing on the moon, and why Mars is still the prize 06:34 fission, then fusion, then antimatter annihilation 07:50 what AI builders could learn from how NASA tells its story 09:09 if you don't want data centers in your backyard, put them in space 11:43 whether we should build a Dyson swarm 12:51 bring HD cameras this time, we're leaving no doubters behind 13:18 putting iPhones on Artemis II was one of his first executive orders 13:57 what the ISS is actually doing up there 15:05 the nuclear octocopter going to Titan 16:12 why NASA should exist at all when the private sector can do it 17:43 the space race nobody is talking about