Noreen Malik

how much we need to be able to provide our commercial partners to be able to work in concert with the government partnerships that they are forming in the future and right now so that we can make sure that it is as successful as it can be.

Well, I think from the discussions I've had, the priority is on acquisition, letting the commercial partners develop technology, and then having the government acquire it.

I think there's still some work to be done on acquisition of programs, acquisition of technologies, and then how

the partnership actually works between them.

And then I think there's probably some financial discussions that also need to be worked out a little bit.

But yeah, you're right.

It is still in development.

So I think a lot of those things are in discussion.

And I'm very hopeful that some of the roadblocks that we've seen in the past to government acquisition will be removed going forward.

It absolutely is.

And the partnership that was formed when I started at SpaceX in 2009, it didn't start as it is right now.

There were still open questions on whether or not SpaceX was going to come to the table with real hardware, with real operational mindset.

And we did prove to NASA that we were there

to basically run a successful program.

And over the course of the number of years that we've been working with them, we've really built a level of trust with NASA such that they can move quickly,

They can make decisions quickly.

And I think part of that is the underlying software and infrastructure and decision making that has been sort of part of the program from the beginning.

And that has enabled them to move quickly and deorbit a crew in a very short period of time.

Something that is not easy.

The technology is there.