Chris Hadfield

One of the first was KLM in Holland.

And they, I mean, it was crazy.

There were no regulations.

Instrument flying didn't exist yet.

Where do you get fuel?

There's not any big infrastructure of runways.

But people saw that, hey, this is important.

This is going to open up the whole world to us.

And let's be on the cutting edge of it.

Let's move out.

You can't stop people's

creativity and imagination and entrepreneurship.

And that's the phase we're just really nicely entering into in space flight right now.

I, I helped run a big international technology incubator called the creative destruction lab.

I run the space component of that.

And so I regularly see hundreds of brilliant young people from all around the world, uh,

building businesses, developing ideas so that they can take advantage of this moment in history to be some of the early developers of the technologies we're going to need.

Yeah, all new inventions are dual use.

You know, we don't really think about it much, but everything you ever come up with, any new idea, it can be used peacefully, it can be used antagonistically.

You know, metallurgy with knives and forks or anything, fire or nuclear energy or, gosh, everything.