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This is John Batch, a conversation with Bob Zimmerman, my good colleague, who keeps behind

the black, about Jared Isaacman, disappointed from becoming the administrator of NASA, Mr. Isaacman making remarks

looks to the future. And one of the visions he has is that the well-to-do men and women who give

large sums of money to universities, for example, and have buildings named after them.

Those same ideas can be applied to space expeditions, planetary missions, so that NASA is not

funding everything. There's contribution from the outside, either well-to-do or a business plan

that works, teamed up with what Bob says

they're academics. In other words, you're not giving money to the university to build a building.

You're giving money along with the university's money and along with NASA's money to build a

space mission, a probe, a planetary mission, exciting for everyone.

It's an idea, it's a well-thought-through idea from a veteran space man, Jared Isaacman.

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