amy: paris marx come how is the u.s. federal government enabling this?have musk's spacex, $149 million contract from the pentagon to build missile tracking systems come so private companies that are heavily relying on government funding you write "this is the real face of the private space industry, billions of dollars of contracts from nasa, military, increasingly for telecommunications that are helping companies like spacex and blue origin control the infrastructure of space." talk more about this. >> absolutely. i would start by agreeing with what peter said. i thk there is good reason to want to explore space but the way it is happening is not an we should want to see. i think what we have incommon especially in the past few years, the u.s. government has kind of embraced these visions from people like elon musk an jeff bezos. under donald trump, there was talk about going to mars, how he adopted that idea from elon musk and from the private space industry, and joe biden has said similar things about wanting to embrace the private space industry. i t