Ariel Ekblaw

We want it to be an orbital biolab with shelves and shelves and shelves of experiments that are good for life on Earth.

And my mission is to design it in a way that my graduate students at MIT could go and do their own experiments.

As citizen scientists, well-trained, but not astronauts in their whole career.

And that, I think we're just at the cusp where the cost to get to space is getting low enough where that could be feasible in the next decade.

It's about $1,500.

Forgive me, I'm going to switch units on you.

It's $1,500 a kilogram.

I know, I'm a scientist.

About $1,500 a kilogram today.

With Starship coming online, and these are not Elon's numbers, this is like independent analysis, it's expected to be $200 a kilogram.

Which is like FedEx.

If you can ship something around the world, cargo.

Humans are a little more fragile, a little more expensive.

But if you can ship cargo around the world, you can ship it to space.

And that is unlocking this incredible inflection point in the space industry.

Seals.

Velcro.

Duct tape.

Made in space duct tape!

Yeah, we prefer Velcro.