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Richard branson. it does seem as if space is having quite the moment right now in our country. to what do you attribute that? why does it seem there are so many people in this moment who are infatuated with the idea of the other worldly? >> i think everybody is always infatuated with space. what we're doing with the media is bringing it to them and talking about a new generation. because if you think about it, right now with everything going on, with blue origin and there's a space station up in space that has people on board who are doing remarkable scientific experiments. we had three probes...

Uncontrolled descent of this space lab, which the chinese had lost contact with in 2016. it's most likely that the solar panels were the first to go. they're kind of quite vulnerable and fragile. but it's possible some other pieces did make it through. this isn't the first time that a craft like this has come down. nasa's skylab came down in 1979. it's many times larger than the tiangong-1 was. but it is a setback because rosemary, the chinese have big space ambitions. they want to have a space station up in 2023. they're also talking about putting a person on the moon. rosemary? >> could be p...