Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele

podcast check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to

Michael Steele podcast. I'm having a lot of fun with my with my buddy

astronaut Terry Verdes. he is the author of the astronaut's guy to leaving the planet

It's a great great book for for young minds to sort of begin the idea of science and the work that Terry has been engaged in for most of his adult life and it's a nice read for you to pick up.

Terry, I wanted, I wanted, before we went to break, I sort of made a side reference to the

graves, but before I get to the gray's I want to get to the gray men that are kind of the becoming the backbone of the space industry now,

particularly when you talk about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos,

you know, exploration, space exploration is for me I'm really I'm really kind of I'm trying to figure how I sum up my attitude about it

Very protective, I think.

There have been a lot of movies which I think are

precedent about what happens when private enterprise and business

take over space and the

be all and the profit motive becomes the be all in the end all because we've seen what the profit motive does here on the planet

and I'm not against the profit motive but everything has got to be put in the right context and there have to be very bright lines drawn ethically, morally, etc. And sometimes that those lines are blurred.

You've got Virgin Galactic, for example,

launching his first space tourism flight

pricing at 450,000 a ticket.

What are your thoughts on orbital space tourism and the role that the Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos will play and the impact they could have on space travel.

That's a great question. By the way, what movies are you thinking about?

I immediately thought of alien.

Oh, there's alien.

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