Mark Kelly

So that's his motivation to get out there into the solar system.

And I think it's got, you know, I think there's a good argument to try to develop the technology to one day be able to do that.

I'll tell you what happened to Boeing.

Boeing was competing for getting crew members to the space station, and they built this Starliner spacecraft.

that couldn't bring butch and sunny home because it was kind of janky right that kind of had some problems um and that wasn't their first problem they had software problems before that and then they had reaction control system you know problems when it got on orbit and there were some serious concerns with it so it had to come home without its crew uh they just have not been able to deliver

So I would say they performed rather poorly.

I think they're trying to rebuild their space business at this point.

We're gonna see what the administrator decides to do with Boeing's Starliner that hasn't had a successful flight yet.

Well, I mean, it's typical of the US government to invest in technologies that get a return, you know, outside of what a private company would normally expect, right?

So businesses usually want to return on their investment in like, you know, five years or less.

You know, sometimes you see companies that push that out a little bit.

And it's often when you get to like basic scientific discovery and scientific research, it's the US government that invests in those projects.

where the return might not be for 10 or 20 or 30 years.

It is interesting that in Blue Origin with Jeff Bezos that he is thinking out multiple decades.

I think that's kind of unusual for a company.

But he's also a guy who's worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Um, you know, he, you know, he can write checks there and, um, you know, invest in, in his company with, with a goal that might not even be achieved in his lifetime.

Podcasts, no.

I don't always like to be a podcast.

They're, in a lot of ways, they're very different, right?