Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space

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

So, we're at a very exciting milestone with you here today, Jared,

with our kickoff.

As you know, I'm your mission manager.

Uh, as I mentioned, we want to talk trajectory.

I just care that it has that new Dragon smell.

What do they call it? Certified pre-owned.

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 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 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 stretch our margins.

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

Yeah, it's not one particular thing. It's just opening Pandora's box.

The question really is, "What are you looking for?

What's the driver for that higher altitude?"

You know, when people have asked us

about 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 gonna 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...

it is that kind of pushing that one step a little bit forward,

for everything else, you know, to follow.