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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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