Dave Limp

You'd have to talk to World Labs about that.

I'm not going to discuss what their valuations were, but you can reach out to that team.

We're at such a pivotal moment around where space is.

And there's never been more demand.

We have years worth of demand for our launch business, as does everybody that's launching.

We're very constrained as a country in terms of the number of launch vehicles that we have right now.

And our adversaries around the world are not standing still.

They're putting hundreds of billions of dollars into launch and into space.

and especially as it relates to the moon, which we haven't been on the moon for 50 years, we think it's really important for Blue, for the country, and it just made prudent sense from our standpoint to take the brilliant people that were working on New Shepard, pause that for a while, we're planning for at least two years, and then repurpose them to even further accelerate our efforts in lunar and launch.

I think we will.

I think there's still, you know, we had multiple years of backlog and it was the easiest ticket to sell was that.

And so I think we'll likely go back into that business soon.

But again, at the moment in time right now, it just makes more sense to focus on the moon.

I'm very much pro-America and a capitalist, but I don't think we want another Sputnik moment.

And we were the first to put boots on the moon, and I really feel like we want to put boots on the moon.

And this time, the name of our group inside of Blue is Lunar Permanence.

So we're not only racing to the moon to get there back again for the first time, but we want to keep people on the moon.

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