research and outreach that they have lined up. this private astronaut crew is going to be working their butts off. they have a good ten hours of work every day lined up to make sure that they are able to reach as many people as they can with the work that they are planning to do. and they are paying $55 million for the privilege of working those ten hour days. how do you feel about this commercialisation of space travel? this is part of our plan. when nasa was set up 60 years ago it was about how you enable and use the space economy so here we are, 60 years later, embarking on our first full private astronaut mission to the international space station, flying cargo commercially, flying crew commercially, and one day we are hoping, after 2030, after we retire the space
doing. they have a tonne of experiments and different research and outreach that they have lined up. this private astronaut crew is going to be working their butts off. they have a good ten hours of work every day lined up to make sure that they are able to reach as many people as they can with the work that they are planning to do. and they are paying $55 million for the privilege of working those ten hour days. how do you feel about this commercialisation of space travel? this is part of our plan. when nasa was set up 60 years ago it was about how you enable and use the space economy so here we are, 60 years later, embarking on our first full private astronaut mission to the international space station, flying cargo commercially, flying crew commercially, and one day we are hoping, after 2030, after we retire the space
embarking on our first full private astronaut mission to the international space station, flying cargo commercially, flying crew commercially, and one day we are hoping, after 2030, after we retire the space station, that we will become passengers on a commercial lead destination. is it about the money? we were talking to one lady who was describing her space lego, micro robots that would assemble themselves in space. things like that you would have to wait a long time to get approvalfor and you might not be selected for the next mission and that sort of thing, but these opportunities that come with the money are what it is all about. it is just like you said, it is about not having one ride, but about opening up the opportunity for multiple people, and so if you just have governments do this you are kind of limiting the opportunity, so, we are trying to be an accelerator, and enable
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