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Sfwltoday. >> quickly, today. we are watching commercialization of parts of space. what is nasa's mission if private companies are now jumping into this aspect of space travel or exploration or whatever you want to call it? >> in some respects, i think it's a good for nasa that private companies are jumping into this space. nasa's budget back in the days of apollo was 4% of the total federal budget. now it's 0.4% of the total budget. it's 25 b$25 billion a year, wh is -- that's a lot of money. but we're spending $2 trillion on economic bailout packages. it's a small share of the federal budget...

Nonetheless does illustrate things a little bit. >> talk to us a little bit about safety. as much as this is exciting, there is so much risk involved in going into space always. the american space program has experienced some of these highs and some of the lows with the expl explosions. how confident are you that this is going to be a safe mission, especially for branson? the virgin galactic had a test pilot die in 2014. there is something hanging over this scenario here. >> yes. space is, by definition, a very hard place to go and it's a hard place to come back from safely. astronauts -- nasa...

He doesn't because that would be impossible. a household name that no one can spell correctly. carlie! >> [cheers and applause]. >> he goes deep undercover and not even here tonight. brian. comedian joe machi. >> [cheers and applause]. >> like apollo 13. things go wrong but nobody dies. i go to you first, joe. because you are rocking the members only. hoping to bring it back? >> it never went out of style if i am wearing it it. i keep the clothes and hopefully in a couple of decades they come back around. >> it has again.

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