Name: Making private space flight safe
Uploaded: 2014-12-03
Duration: 2 min 53 s
Description: Making private space flight safe

I should mention that Inusha has a, a, she's not a full- time astronaut. You have a full- time job and more, I'm sure, running a company. Yes. I need to to pay for my other, my habits. For your habit, for your space habit. but, but you, you are a, a proponent of private space exploration in general and, and that's something that has come under a bit of fire recently. You know, we saw it what was it, just a couple of months ago or so. Yes. Version Galatic Spaceship 2, which crashed in the Mohave Desert. And that, that's kind of created a lot of skeptics, there already were a lot of skeptics, But you know a lot of concern over the, the safety. What's your take on that? Do you, and do you see it as. Just an, an impediment here, or is it a big hurdle for the whole industry, what happened recently? I think we're very quick to forget that when you try things for the first time and they're new, there's a lot of, you know, perfection that has to go into it. And testing. And you know, when I look back and see, I'm, I'm in the technology business, so when I look back and see how technology changed over last 50 years. And then I compare that to the pace change in space industry. It's a staggering difference. And I believe that competition and privatization brings about innovation. And positive change so that's why when we sponsor the Ansari X Prize. We wanted to bring that type of innovation and acceleration innovation. Into the space industry. And Virgin Galactic is very close to us because SpaceShipOne the design that won the Ansari X Prize. And I remember how nervous I was watching the first flight that took place and praying that it will, you know, be fine. But it's expected. It's expected that these type of things happens. It happened when the airline industries you know, just, get, was getting started. I'm sure there were lots of car accidents. There are more incidents happening on the highways than, you know, the incident that happened with you know, the type of flights you see. And it was a test flight. It wasn't a passenger flight, so. Safety is of paramount importance for the private companies. Because they understand that accidents like this, once they are operational, could completely shut down the business. So I think, there will be a lot of caution and they will do a lot of test and make sure that they're read, really ready for. Flying commercial passengers before they make that available. But it doesn't mean we have to stop testing and doing new things. I don't when we became so risk averse to you know? We should stop because we may you know? An accident happen. So, it's you see it as more as part of the innovative It's part of the process of, you know, building this industry. It comes at a price.