spacex can do that. female: ignition, lift-off of the falcon 9-- brad: spacex and falcon heavy and falcon exploration but space missions as well. it is literally hundreds of millions of dollars cheaper to launch it. nasa builds space telescopes, something i've worked on, and you don't launch on nasa rockets, you launch on spacex 'cause it is cheaper, and that means what used to be the cost of two missions is now four missions. and so once you can do four missions, the science and research accelerates so now then you can go do eight. but there's this multiplying factor that's happening. michael: elon musk's most ambitious rocket of all is this. it's called the starship, a cheap steel tube that can carry a huge payload. this month, it made a test flight to 150 meters before successfully coming back to earth. jonathan: starship is the next-generation rocket, and it looks just like, you know, a 1950s science fiction rocketship. if it works, it could be a further revolution in the cost of getting to orbit. rapid reuse, very huge payloads going into space, being able to carry very large numbers

have these very large structures, or very large space stations, and you were launching them on a falcon heavy, vulcan, or what have you, that is a lot of risk to have in one place. there isn't enough capital in the marketplace today to take that much risk. the market does not have the appetite. that is one of the issues that we see with risk. we are agnostic to the contract vehicle. whether it is -- or what have you. we are fairly agnostic to that. we respond to the risk we are presented. we respond to the technical and financial exposure we are presented with. i would say that commercial free flyers are probably the best current example. although, we were just talking before lunch about the commercial augmentation space reserve. there are elements of that that are public and private. there are the risks to the operators which exist for operators today who are providing commercial services to the government. they can be seen as legitimate targets i our adversaries. i think the whole concept and i look forward to working on this, is interesting because there are much broader implications. we h

for example, it could mean you're the president [ laughter ] spacex this week launched its falcon heavyh is the most powerful rocket in the world but i don't know how safe it is considering spacex is, i guess, elon musk's third priority [ laughter ] who starts a space program in their spare time nascar driver ross chastain qualified for a championship race over the weekend after performing a wall riding maneuver that he claimed to have learned from a nintendo gamecube video game as a child. even crazier, denny hamlin moved into fifth place after throwing a red shell at the driver in front of him [ laughter ] two chefs in boston recently set a guinness world record by assembling a sushi roll that was over seven feet wide now for the sad news [ laughter ] we realize the real problem of that joke is shamu died like 20 years ago, right? [ laughter ] don't eat the sushi. and finally, dunkin' donuts is now offering its holiday menu, which includes a pancake wakeup wrap that's filled with eggs, american cheese, and sausage or bacon. the part they don't tell you is where you'll wake up [ laught