Good morning and welcome to Washington Post live. I am thrilled to be joined this morning by jared isaacman, the founder and ceo who is also an astronaut and flew in the space capsule in orbit and what was the first all private nonshould not mission to space. Since then he has commissioned three more flights from spacex and is going back to what he calls the flare up program which seeks to open up a new commercial program in outer space. So good to have you here. Thanks for having become a christian. Thanks our audience for joining us. You can tweak your questions and we will try to get to is many of them as possible. Jared, i wanted to ask you, you went to space last year for the mission. We thought that was going to be a one off and how can you top that. It was a lot of news when you decided you were going to go back to school you were going to go back to space. We want to talk a little bit about this first of the Polaris Missions launched in march is different from what you did last
This. Watch. I dont want you to have to stand, but its by the way, he gave me permission to touch him. [laughter] [applause] melissa after the speech, biden telling reporters that he wouldnt be surprised if more accusers come forward, and that while he is sorry that he didnt understand more, hes not sorry for his intentions. Peter doocys live in kansas city, missouri, with more. Boy, we have learned a lot more in the last little bit here. Break it down for us, peter. Melissa, if you thought that joe biden was going to cut back on all the touching just because he said he was going to be more mindful and respectful of peoples personal space, earlier this week, think again. The former vp kicked off his first public appearance since allegations surfaced against him with a hug and a joke. I just want you to know, i had permission to hug lonnie. [laughter] [cheers and applause] a few minutes later, the former Vice President said more women might come forward with accusations against him, but
paul: time now for our hits of the year and, kim, first to you. so, paul, my hit goes to the exemplary life and reign of queen elizabeth ii. world lost her this year at age 96 after 70 amazing years on the throne. she was the embodiment of duty, she was a symbol of martial unity even national unity even when her country was going through trying times. she was beloved around the globe. and as politicians look forward to come up with some new year s resolutions, they could do worse than to simply try to mirror some of queen elizabeth s sheer class. we could all use a little bit more of that, may she rest in peace. paul: kyle. i ll give a hit to nasa s dark mission, the double it s ride redirection test, and it s asteroid pro, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator but moving at 14,000 miles an hour. and the point was to see how much the asteroid s orbit would
jeff bezos blue origin plans to continue taking passengers for quick ten-minute rides into space. but his new venture is this, a sort of floating business park that will be ready in three to five years. but the coolest mission of 2022, nasa s dart. it will purposely crash into an asteroid s moon at 115,000 miles per hour next fall. the dark mission is to basically go hit an asteroid and see if we can move it. reporter: nasa hopes to use that know-how to deflect future asteroids on a collision course with earth. we have this unique opportunity to demonstrate the method and learn exactly what happens when you crash a spacecraft at high speed into an asteroid. but the u.s. is not alone. china is going big on space.