Mark Kelly

So I've got technical concerns.

Both these companies say they can figure this out, but I'm paying close attention.

Well, let me clarify something there.

We did this commercialization thing during the Obama administration.

where instead of having, and you say NASA used to do these things in-house.

That's not exactly accurate.

We had contractors.

But we also had a lot of oversight over the contractors.

The change happened during the Obama administration, where President Obama said, hey, we have all these innovative companies out there.

Why don't we just kind of throw the money over the fence to them?

Let them do this.

Let's leave them alone.

let them do the innovation without this vast organization that's going to monitor everything they do.

So think of it this way.

We had a company, let's say it was Boeing or Lockheed Martin or Rockwell for the space shuttle, others.

And for every one of those company employees, there was like a government employee kind of watching what they're doing.

So we got away from that.

We let them not only build the rocket as like a true contractor,

sort of let them own it, like it was their thing and we're buying a service.

So that's the model we went to.