At stage separation, before the second motor ignites, to me it was a huge unload. You're practically at a zero-G event at that moment. It's the same thing when you get on orbit, except that it never starts up again. It's continuous. And the best way to describe that would be hanging upside down from your bed, like your head fills with blood.Jared Isaacman
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I intend to get four people in a tent that I can attest is absolutely smaller than the Dragon spacecraft, on a mountain when it's snowing out, and introduce everybody to some really stressful situations. We are all going to know each other incredibly well long before we ever strap into Dragon.Jared Isaacman
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Obviously you're looking out the window and you're seeing Earth and that's moving and then you're in a spacecraft now that can move on all axes while you're floating inside it and I think, for some people, maybe the combination of all three is a little bit of a sensory overload.Jared Isaacman
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I think if orbital space flight is just the exclusive domain of a couple of countries and a select few, I don't know how far we're gonna get.Jared Isaacman
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SpaceX returned human spaceflight to the United States, and no one is close to doing that other than them.Jared Isaacman
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If you're at Kennedy Space Center, the closest you're going to get to a rocket going off is like three and a half miles.Jared Isaacman
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I grew up in a very middle-class background. It was a place where if you wanted something, you worked to get it.Jared Isaacman
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I did tell my kindergarten teacher I would go to space someday, and she said she'd be watching.Jared Isaacman
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We've got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it.Jared Isaacman
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Square essentially targeted consumers who were doing peer-to-peer transactions. They made it easy for personal trainers to charge their clients or for a guy to sell his golf clubs to his buddy.Jared Isaacman
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If we're going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.Jared Isaacman
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The mountain climbing, I just want to be able to have a real cardio-intense event, and the payoff is you get the top.Jared Isaacman
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I hated high school. I watched my older siblings out in the world and they seemed to be having a much better time than me. I could not wait to be an adult.Jared Isaacman
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The odds of becoming a NASA astronaut - you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning.Jared Isaacman
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I've been very lucky in life; you really don't get to a position that I'm fortunate enough to be in without the ball bouncing your way a couple times.Jared Isaacman
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If you do believe there's going to be a world like The Jetsons,' where everybody jumps in their rocket - very Star Wars' or Star Trek' - and people are exploring new planets and new worlds, then we've got to get the first one right.Jared Isaacman
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I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit.Jared Isaacman
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I think any pilot with my kind of background, flying ex-military-type aircraft and experimental aircraft, would say that the pinnacle is to be able to pilot a spacecraft - there's no question.Jared Isaacman
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One of the best times at a start-up is when you've got the eight people in the basement eating Chinese food and everybody kind of shares knowledge, and you share in your successes and failures together, and you learn together.Jared Isaacman
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The crew of Inspiration4 is eager to use our mission to help make a better future for those who will launch in the years and decades to come.Jared Isaacman
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When you're flying off soft keys on a touch screen it's a totally different feel, and a lot of muscle memory is lost. There is that delay when you look at the screen and input a command before it's executed, versus something instantaneous when you move the stick.Jared Isaacman
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I could have just invited a bunch of my pilot buddies to go, and we would have had a great time and come back and had a bunch of cocktails. Instead, we wanted to bring in everyday people and energize everyone else around the idea of opening up spaceflight to more and more of us.Jared Isaacman
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In fact, Mario Parisi and my father are probably the two most inspirational figures when it comes to my growth as a company leader.Jared Isaacman
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Square has already found that the micro-merchant market isn't a profitable business, and as a result they have been trying to shift into the more lucrative small business market.Jared Isaacman
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If you're going to accomplish all those great things out in space, all that progress, then you have an obligation to do some considerable good here on Earth, like making sure you conquer childhood cancer along the way.Jared Isaacman
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A big part of our mission here at Inspiration4 is to inspire what can be done here in space.Jared Isaacman
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You only get so many flight hours. It's not a whole lot of time, so it really just comes down to maximizing it while you can.Jared Isaacman
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Our free POS systems provide the tools that real businesses need to operate, including advanced functionality, robust back-end capabilities and cloud-based reporting.Jared Isaacman
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St. Jude's mission is not about rockets or space exploration, it's about treating some of the most heart wrenching conditions that any parent could imagine.Jared Isaacman
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We care about this not being a world where 600 people have gotten on orbit; we want it to be 600,000.Jared Isaacman
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My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.Jared Isaacman
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It sounds loud, but what you're hearing is the turbo pumps driving at max performance. Once you're going past the speed of sound it's really what is on the vehicle that you're hearing.Jared Isaacman
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There's always a risk that something goes wrong, like a structural failure. But you have confidence in the whole system and the measures that have gone into place to minimize the risk. Sometimes you land when your knees are clanking together and you say you're lucky to be alive. But you are - and you move on.Jared Isaacman
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It was a real business. And actually from a taxpayer's perspective, every taxpayer should want more Drakens. We were able to do so much more for the government for like one-tenth the price. We need more of that, and that's exactly what Elon is doing at SpaceX by the way.Jared Isaacman
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Our first two weeks at SpaceX, we've got about 3,000 pages of academic material dropped on us, and it was just kind of death by PowerPoint, over and over, until you absorb it all.Jared Isaacman
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We set out from the start to deliver a very inspiring message, certainly what can be done up in space and the possibilities there, but also what we can accomplish here on Earth.Jared Isaacman
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I drank the Kool-Aid in terms of the grand ambitions for humankind being a multiplanet species, and I think that we all want to live in a Star Wars,' Star Trek' world where people are jumping in their spacecraft.Jared Isaacman
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Our mission to space had to serve a bigger purpose, which is why St. Jude is such a big part of this. It can't simply just be about opening the door to space for everyday people.Jared Isaacman
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I've said it really from the beginning that the stars have always aligned with Inspiration4.Jared Isaacman
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The mobile solutions offered by companies such as Square, and now Amazon, may seem tempting for merchants due to the low cost, but these solutions simply do not have the functionality or reporting capabilities that real businesses need.Jared Isaacman
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Inspiration4 is the realization of a lifelong dream and a step towards a future in which anyone can venture out and explore the stars.Jared Isaacman
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I mean, watching any rocket go up is pretty incredible, but watching a Soyuz go up is something else.Jared Isaacman
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To sign up to take credit cards 21 years ago, it was the same amount of paperwork as getting a commercial mortgage. It was very intense, it was burdensome, it was entirely unnecessary.Jared Isaacman
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As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life.Jared Isaacman
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