Victor Vescovo

And yes, okay, I know for people out there, oh, this is a bunch of rich people spending money like Katy Perry going up and all this.

I get that.

But please humor me a little bit that in the early days of flight, people would pay a decent amount of money to go up in a thing called an airplane, daredevils, right?

The more that was done, the more common it became, right?

By going up on Blue Origin or on SpaceX or these other spacecraft, the more we do it, the more accessible it will become for everyone else.

And I believe we can do a lot of good in space.

We can do manufacturing in space.

We could hopefully mine asteroids one day.

A lot of benefits will come from accessing space in a more affordable, reliable, and safer way than we have historically.

And I feel that by having, yes, people of good means going up on rides, fine.

I don't think it's bad.

And, oh, you should be spending the money doing other things.

Well, if you use that excuse, you would never do anything other than just providing charitable resources for those that really need it.

We wouldn't be advancing ourselves as a species.

And I firmly believe...

that technological developments have solved more misery, solved more problems in human history than anything else we've ever done.

And space exploration, along with ocean exploration, along with venture capital, those are the mechanisms to improve us as a species, which allows 8 billion people to live on this planet and raises hundreds of millions of people out of poverty.

It's technology.

I've been asked, and I'm a Zen Buddhist by practice.

I was raised Episcopalian.