Are you really going to be the first person to go to Mars? Sure you want to do that?

Yeah, I don't know, obviously, but I will certainly put in a good effort to do it. I think I've always had an interest in wanting to contribute to the

space industry. And really for me, I think I've done a lot to almost separate like my dreams

and ambitions from like things that I can control. And so I had this initial interest in

wanting to become an astronaut, get involved in space, locked in super quick with the idea of wanting to go to Mars, mostly because I thought that was my only option. Like when I was a kid in hearing about how, you know, we've already sent people to the moon, I was like, well, when I grew up, Mars is the only option that I can go to. Like, that's the only thing I'm going to be able to do if I want to be an astronaut. So I got super locked in on Mars. And, you know, as like I got more and more

interested, I think I started understanding of, okay, here's what I can do to work towards

becoming an astronaut. And then also at like what point is it, you know, okay, it's someone else making that decision.

You know, I can do all this work to make the best resume possible. And then at that point, I'll give it my best effort. But at the end of the day, it's someone choosing those things, right? I'd have to apply to the astronaut selection process, get selected. And then even from there, I mean, depending on which mission you get selected on. So I think really my

dreams have focused so much on the things that I can control and then we'll see.

Yeah, didn't, I saw recently that Elon actually scrapped his goal to go to Mars and now he like

dialed it back to the moon. He's like, we need to go to the moon first. Did you see that?

Yeah, he did.

What did you think about that?

You know, I think that Mars was almost like jumping the gun a little bit with a lot of

ambitions that they're were surrounding it.

I mean, Mars has been a hot topic.

I mean, for so long.

It's just been such a area of interest. Obviously, Mars is literally the most

studied planet second to Earth. So we've just sent so many rovers, satellites, things we've

learned so much about the planet. And so that's created such this interest and draw to it.

And I think that there's, even still today, I think there's still some

challenges that, especially technology challenges and just the aspect of, you know, keeping humans

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