someone involved can they come here. they can, we have agreements with them right now they help us could they are helping bring the cost of space flight down. making it more affordable, and more access to space, means more educational institutions can get up and study. space tou tourists. companies like blue origin, and spacex that are competing to get actual everyone day americans every day americans, if have you millioning of dollars on become a space tou tourist. brian: they handle a different mission. the mission to international space station, year-earth orbit. we want our commercial partners to help take care of that while we focus on the moon and beyond, we need deep space exploration and tools to help get us there. brian: a lot of history in this
no. after that rocket ship of a elevator ride, where do have you us? 34 levels up, in bay 3, this is where we stack the next generation rocket. what a view. brian: it is is amazing. this is where paths of mobile launch platform and crawl ergo. spacex has that pad, ours is just around the corner, 39 b, look at this work done, these platforms, we decided this time to do something different. instead of may be platforms for just one rocket, we made platforms that can configure to a number of rockets, maybe they change in size, width or height ilg. they have move up and down, and move in and out. if there are changes in the rockets they can make the platforms move.
brian: amazing. darrel thank you for being the mvp for my tour. you got it. brian: we are wrapping up here, i am moving fo to swamp works. a neat place they work on next generation technology to use resources of moon so our astronauts can live and work there. brian: our theory is we went take everything they need, so they will make what they have work for them. right. brian: this is a huge door, is there anyway i can close it on the way out. their is a button. don t do, that we ll take care of that. you could get in trouble. right. then you would get in trouble. i would. brian: we would all be in trouble. yep. what magic are you working here. we re did.
is expensive. you know you heard this before, we have so many problem on this planet, why do we check out other planets? what do you say to that? you have to explore. we as a human species have a burning, yearning desire to find out what is going on, it is importance, i think, this is my opinion. i think a lot share, a desire to find out what is out there, ha is on mars, what is it made of, what happened billions of years ago, only way we can do that is go there research and find out the story. brian: i know they talk about trying to get water out of the moon, there are certain things to benefit, and an important element is amount of risk, you don t have to convince someone there are risks. when something like that happens, and knowing that those ships were made here, what was it like.
so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. brian: back to space, outer space, the space program, where it started, where it is going. all right captain, for a few times this was temporarily your house, right. absolutely. and we don t actually live here