this one in the western mohave has been studied for decades. it once supported 350 tortoises per square mile. kristin berry: now we have about 30 per square mile inside the fence and much lower numbers outside the fence. jeff lovich: tortoise populations are declining for a multitude of reasons: habitat destruction, fragmentation; mortality on roads. disease is contributing to the decline of some populations. so it's really what's been described as death by a thousand cuts. and it really makes conservation efforts difficult because you have so many things to deal with. christine mullen: so you look at tortoises, and you don't think that they're--you know, that they look very vulnerable. you know, they have this hard shell, and they're kind of gnarly-looking. and you know that they're really ancient and they've been around for a long time. but, man, they're just-- they're hanging on, you know, by the skin of their teeth all the time. narrator: in the past few decades, ravens have become one of the issues affecting the tortoise. berry: this littl

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here's a couple pictures of the third and fourth spaceships being built in our factory in mohave. this is the company, the spaceship company, which builds these things. they do a great job out there and we're up to, like, 12 1,200 people now. and about 600 at virgin orbit and the rest at virgin galactic and growing like crazy and hopefully we'll be flying. 2019 will be an amazing year for us. >> eric? >> great. thanks so much, rich. [ applause ] >> i will stick with the trend of staying down and casual. i want to thank the wilson center and canadian institute for putting this together. laura and lynn for putting this together. it's a really great program. the sponsors. thank you so much, marcy and politico. you know. got my money's worth at lunch. i had originally titled my remarks "the golden age of space" and i think the play on words works well as the wilson center is celebrating their golden jubilee as the apollo program is coming up on its -- i guess it is the 50th year of apollo. next year with apollo 11 landing. that there's a lot going on. there's so much going on. this re