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Prize, you could go to space on a civilian-built spacecraft in twice as many weeks. here we are, suddenly it is becoming more real and it is an important milestone, i think, anderson, along the way, as we look toward broadening access to space. and that has all kinds of possibilities, not just for the exploration of space, but for -- >> and there you see -- miles, we're seeing jeff bezos and his brother mark as well as wally lamb. they are just leaving the -- oliver, the 18-year-old, oliver damon as well. it's basically corrugated sheds. this is a very desolate area, very remote area. they hav...

This way you can bootstrap your way to the moon, and then to mars, and then maybe even to the outer planets. so you have to have that communications, refueling, manufacturing. you need to be able to do manufacturing in space. you don't want to drag everything out of the gravity well. it's too expensive. so that is really why -- i don't like to think about privatization. i like to think about commerce. there's got to be jobs for people, good, well-paying jobs that people -- give people a reason to go into space, and that infrastructure is what is so essential. now, in some sense we have to reme...

And blue origin is trying to do that. >> they have -- the company has had setbacks. they had hoped to get contract from nasa for a lunar lander to get astronauts on the moon in 2024. that contract went to spacex. they are now contesting that contract with the general accounting office. we'll see what happens with that. but that was a big blow. they had certainly hoped to be the people to bring astronauts to the moon in 2024. jeff bezos has talked about having a permanent presence, human presence on the moon as one of the things he is interested, as you were saying, they talked about heavy indu...

Ja jeff bezos' brother mark, a volunteer firefighter, he is making this trip with his brother and best friend. that is what we have, kristen and rachel here as well. as you watch this, rachel, what do you think? >> i mean, i can't help but start to get a little excited here. when you cover launches, anderson, as you know, they usually don't take off on time. so you can't get really too excited until the astronauts are strapped in their seats and on board. this is obviously not an orbital mission so they don't have to do that as far in advance. we're seeing them in that holding bin up there. so...

Bigelow space which is building inflatable habitats. you have companies building entirely new kinds of propulsion systems that don't rely on rockets. so this idea of an infrastructure, you have to have that in order for -- there is a possibility children being born today who will one day work on the moon or one day be part of a space mining company getting rare earth metals that you don't want being mined from the bottom of the ocean being taken from asteroids and being brought down to earth. so that's the real importance of this. i don't think there is much science that can go on in this miss...