[Podcast] Manifest Space with Morgan Brennan: Polaris Rising with Shift4 CEO Jared Isaacman 8/17/23

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Jared Isaacman made space history in 2021 with the first all-civilian mission to orbital space. Now, he’s looking to do it 3 more times through the Polaris Program. Isaacman joins Morgan from CNBC Out East to discuss preparations for the maiden mission, his company Shift4’s partnership with SpaceX, and much more.

I didn’t listen to it, so I’ll just give a couple of quotes from u/rosswi88 in The Other Place.

Isaacman: “Still hoping for the end of this year, but I expect [Polaris Dawn] will probably slip into next year. This should be expected - it’s a test and development program… brand new space suit making good progress.”

“The suit that we are testing out – the evolution of it someday could very well be worn by people that are walking on the Moon or Mars.”

“We are giving a fair amount of thought to Polaris Two… there were some discussions on space Twitter about opportunities with NASA to potentially work on giving Hubble a new lease life and there are a lot of important things being discussed at NASA, but hopefully they’ll get around to this proposal and perhaps we’ll have a pretty exciting Polaris Two to follow.”