Chris Hadfield

Both pieces safely made it back.

They're pushing the edges of the

uh economical savings in in complexity but it won't be very long before you see a starship launch either from texas or florida the first stage come back and get grabbed and then the orbital stage get up do what it's doing in space and then come back and get grabbed stack them up fill them up with fuel and use them again that's coming quite rapidly

That's going to drop the cost even more.

And so to me, access is everything.

As soon as we can make it safe and simple and as inexpensive as possible for things to get to space, that's when the Earth orbit and Earth moon economies will really take off.

Well, civilizations rise and fall all the time.

Some of them last a long time.

The Roman Empire.

If you look at China, they've been an anomaly in human history, although they've had all of their ebbs and flows.

They've been kind of a discrete geopolitical unit for thousands and thousands of years in that part of the world.

And

that adds a sense of urgency to what's going on.

Because you don't have to look very far back in history to whatever the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages, or Egypt had that zenith of civilization and then collapsed, or all the ones that came before that.

And so you're just sticking your head in the sand if you don't think that our current civilization is going to come apart at the seams and crumble for a while before something else emerges.

So so there's urgency to what's happening.

We're at a moment right now where we're capable of doing magnificent things.

You know, it's kind of staggering to think of the huge number of things that are happening simultaneously on Earth right now, right at the cutting edge, stuff that was impossible just five years ago.

um and so a lot of what i do is to be part of the effort to help hold it all together to keep us from falling to our our bad chimpanzee natures and to actually um make the most of of the civilization that we've been handed but i also one of the things whitney that you really internalize orbiting the world

is a sense of time.