With the monthly full money extra, I'm Chris Hill.

Christian Davenport is an award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, an author of the

best-selling book The Space Barons, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the quest to colonize

the cosmos.

This past weekend, it was Elon Musk in the spotlight, as his company SpaceX launched

NASA astronauts into orbit.

As Davenport explains, the wealthiest man in the world also has his eyes on the stars,

and he has for a long time.

To understand Jeff Bezos in particular, you have to see him not just through the lens

of Amazon, you have to see him through the lens of space.

It's occupied a huge role in his life ever since he was a kid.

He remembers being five years old and watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on

the moon.

He was a huge Star Trek fan.

When he graduated from high school, the valedictory speech that he gave to his high school class

was about space.

Actually, in many ways, he still is giving that speech about his vision for space.

It hasn't really changed since he was 17, 18 years old.

He even in college was the president of the student space club.

When Amazon gave him the resources to start his space company, he did.

That's why when you look at Jeff, he sees this as almost a way of giving back.

This really could be his legacy.

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