Pete Buttigieg

As long as it's justified, I think there are some benefits to that.

As long as it's justified, I think there are some benefits to that.

Let me put it this way.

Let me put it this way.

If we think the future of space is going to be more and more about commercial space, which is clearly just as a matter of numbers what's happening,

If we think the future of space is going to be more and more about commercial space, which is clearly just as a matter of numbers what's happening,

The mishmash we have now, where you've got NASA obviously leading government-driven space missions, you've got the Department of Transportation, which actually already had responsibility over some things.

The mishmash we have now, where you've got NASA obviously leading government-driven space missions, you've got the Department of Transportation, which actually already had responsibility over some things.

We did commercial space licensing.

We did commercial space licensing.

We wound up having to radically accelerate how that worked because that actually comes under the FAA.

We wound up having to radically accelerate how that worked because that actually comes under the FAA.

Largely because you have to go through the national airspace to get to space, right?

Largely because you have to go through the national airspace to get to space, right?

And there's actually parts of it that sit with commerce.

And there's actually parts of it that sit with commerce.

So it would make sense to disentangle that one way or the other, whether it's inside of DOT or whether you configure it a new way.

So it would make sense to disentangle that one way or the other, whether it's inside of DOT or whether you configure it a new way.

I mean, I do think that Washington in general, my party's definitely guilty of this, is too attached to all of the structures that we have right now and the existing work charts and existing habits.

I mean, I do think that Washington in general, my party's definitely guilty of this, is too attached to all of the structures that we have right now and the existing org charts and existing habits.