going to get to look down at the earth and see all the beautiful colors. and it s it s pretty awe-inspiring moment. you know, was for me, the very first time i flew into space. those first-few moments were really special. i i can only imagine. i mean, in a in a technology sense, i mean, this is a suborbital flight. which, let s face it, alan shepherd did 60 years ago. but are there broader benefits of flights, like this? and and the technology that allows it to happen? sure. as you point out, the technology is i mean, it s a little bit different but, yeah, the event has happened before. suborbital flight is a lot easier than orbital flight. you know, orbital flight, you are going up to 17,500 miles an hour to get into orbit. and in this case, you re you know, you are going around mock three. so, you know, a lot slower, lot less energy. but you will get the experience of what it s like to be in space. and you will get the experience of weightlessness and, for a few minut
the like. what do you make of that, it is a different type of request we are getting, say, from other disaster situations? guest: well, obviously, japan is an advanced industrial economy with a technological base of its own and it can capitalize on aid we can give if a technology sense and it is capable of providing some of the other things that other countries might ask for in terms of assistance on its own. so, a disaster when it strikes an industrialized nation will occasion a different set of requests than u would have in a setting where you had disaster strike underdeveloped country. neil: good to see you. thank you. john ashcroft. it takes about 15 days for radiation from japan to hit our west coast if it were to hit the west coast making it saturday. which is why we are going to be