Lane Bess is a long-time tech entrepreneur and investor.

He's the principal and founder of Best Ventures and Advisory and the former CEO of Palo Alto Networks, to name just a few accomplishments.

Bess is also an astronaut, two times over. I sat down with him ahead of his most recent space flight.

I think I'm going to spend a lot more time enjoying and taking in the view.

The first flight, the weightlessness, just the overall experience of being in space,

it's a lot to cram into what's essentially about a 16-minute experience.

This time, familiar with the weightlessness,

I'm going to probably just really enjoy the view. And they've stepped it up a little bit. Now

they allow us to bring a GoPro that they provide, and I expect to get some great video.

Best got that opportunity on Tuesday when Jeff Bezos Space Company, Blue Origin,

launched its 10th human space flight from the West Texas Desert. The roughly 10-minute

suborbital mission on the autonomous New Shepard vehicle carried six private citizens past the

Carmen line. Price tag per seat, undisclosed. For Bess, space was always a passion, but now it's becoming a business as well.

There's a lot of my investing in tech turned towards companies that were developing critical technologies for space.

In fact, one of my biggest investments is in a company that went public on January 14th called Blaze Semiconductor.

And the concept is space is the ultimate in air gap disconnected environments.

You're going to have to have autonomous vehicles in the form of space vehicles that are going

to have to make decisions, use AI to make decisions, whether it's avoiding something that might be hazardous in space or just simply the navigation systems and control systems and the robotics that are going to be in space

Bess is the chairman of newly public blaze I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space joining me now Lane B, the founder and principal of Best Ventures and advisory and a long-time tech entrepreneur,

and also an astronaut.

That's correct.

It's good to speak with you.

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