Matt Gialich

So it'd be really cool for the first time to actually see one up close.

We've never been to one of these up close, right?

We've only been to what are called

I'm gonna use, the types get a little complicated here.

We've only been to essentially rubble piles, a bunch of rocks, or kind of small little planets that we find in space.

That's all we've really seen is asteroids or comets.

This will be the first one to go to a metal asteroid.

No kidding.

By the way, what's really cool to think about a metal asteroid, if you think about it, we think metal asteroids are the core of a dead planet.

So it's the same as the core of Earth.

It's the same makeup.

And that's why there are really high concentrations of dense material, because when you watch a planet form, all the dense material sinks to the bottom.

So what we're essentially harvesting is a planet that, for some reason, blew up hundreds of millions of years ago.

And I'm going out to mine the core of that planet.

That's what we're doing.

The James Webb went to one of the grunge points.

So James Webb went to the stable orbit on the other side of the moon.

So James Webb is pretty far away.

I actually don't know the distance, but I would assume the moon's about 240 million miles away.

Sorry, 240,000 miles away.