granted asook it for a kid and i take it for granted as far as what you actually learn and cosmonautg. it's very basic. it is space plumbing. how do you fix the air exchanger? what happense -- to your body? how do you keep the oxygen level appropriate? >> have you been to space? >> no. i have been weightless seven or eight times and i will probably go up sometime most likely next year. as an investor and board member, i get to do the last flight before we go commercial. >> tell us what x core is. >> it was started in a guy named jeff grayson from intel. spacevery concrete stop is actually building a spacecraft that works. competing in the suborbital spaceflight area with virgin galactic. both of us want to be first and at the same time, both of us want to make sure this thing is perfect before it goes. we are both of us trying to create a real market. virgin is more on the luxury side and we are more on the extreme sport side. >> space funding has been cut and public funding has been cut. why is it it orton to explore space? >> why was it important to discover america? don't inc. rus