This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

Hotel Mars, episode N. David Livingston, Dr. Space himself, is here as my colleague and co-host, and we're headed to moon and Mars and beyond. Once we get a booster,

we're confident with it can make money or be reusable so it has a profit motive. The way NASA

and Big Space builds boosters, they throw them away. Now with the invention of first Falcon 9,

then Falcon Heavy, now Falcon Super Heavy.

Throwing away those magnificent boosters is not only a waste of money.

It means you're not serious about repetition, about recycling, about launching again in two days or 12 hours.

We're here now to discuss two companies that have the ambition, not only to be reusable,

but to increase that cycle so you can get more and more tonnage into low Earth orbit,

into the Earth-Moon system, into the Earth-Mars system.

And we welcome someone to guide us on the news, Douglas

Messier.

He can be found at Substack, Douglas M. Messier.substack.

Doug, welcome, and a very good new year, it is positive.

We are on the eve of two tests, one for Blue Origin, Mr. Bezos's company, the test, the first test to my

knowledge of New Glenn in action, and the second, an additional test of Starship Super Heavy

from Bocahika. Let us begin with New Glenn. Good evening, and what are you watching for, Doug? What is your

expectation of this launch if it comes off in the next 24 hours? Good evening to you.

Oh, good evening. Yeah, we're looking at the first flight of the New Grenon heavy rocket.

It's going to be taking place from Florida.

It's going to launch a small satellite, and they're going to attempt for the first time to land on an offshore platform.

So we're looking for a successful flight to orbit with both stages working as advertised

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