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Well. does the move to farm out the manned part of it to entrepreneurs make any sense? >> it actually does make sense. because when you look at the whole program, nasa does a really great job, as you said, with all the unmanned stuff. and the problem with the manned part is that its extraordinarily expensive and it really takes a lot for congress to get behind such a mission, because of the great expense thats involved. at the same time, on the commercial side, there is commercial development co...

Some mining, or will he be paid $3 million for the privilege? >> i think youll have all of these things mixed in together. already, keith, you can go visit the international space station for a mere $25 million. >> yeah. >> yeah, but for all the rest of the exploration stuff, heres whats going to happen, is that it will be a mixture of the governmental stuff that will have additional support provided by the commercial space sector. so well put all of these assets together to build the explorator...

>> well, there is a work being done in the commercial sector, but first of all the capabilities arent there yet. we wont see anything from the commercial space sector until at least 2015 or 16 as far as manned space flight. and its like the difference in a commercial world, you can use the airlines, for example, you can go buy a seat on an airliner and go fly, but you dont just go off commercially and go buy yourself airplanes to serve the governments purpose like for military fighters or tanker...