Ed Elson

I don't like this idea.

Why are we turning ourselves into robots?

Do you ever think about that at the same time?

I get the sense that this is something that really drives you, that we need to get out there and we need to understand what is actually happening in the universe.

It's just crazy how little we know about it.

And I...

I could also imagine that from your position, it's probably kind of frustrating.

I mean, it's certainly frustrating for me that we're moving... It feels as though we're moving...

Not slowly, but we're never going to know the answers to these questions.

Really?

You think that we'll know the answer to aliens in our lifetime?

What is the rate of progress that we're seeing right now?

Because, I mean, if it's exponential, then it seems that there's a higher and higher probability that we'll know the answers to these questions.

As someone who's sort of building on the frontier, like how fast is the pace of progress that we're seeing in the space industry right now?

And is that because of the amount of money that is being invested into the industry?

What sort of changed for the industry?

Something that also seemed like a big moment for the space industry was the Artemis II mission, which splashed down successfully April 10th.

To what extent does popular understanding of space drive progress?

To what extent did that matter for a company like yours?

The fact that everyone was seemingly watching this