This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Batchel. Behind the black, Bob Zimmerman joins to look back

and is a way of anticipating forward for boosters, for rocket launches globally. Bob, a very good evening

to you. You have a very careful charting here. It looks like you're handicapping horse races.

However, it looks to be attached to private companies as well as sovereign states.

How should I read this graph?

Good evening to you, Bob.

Good evening, General.

Well, every year I keep track of the launches done by everybody during the year.

And at the end of the year, I do a global launch industry summary of the previous year.

And so this past week, I published this long breakdown of what was done.

And so it's based upon that graph you mentioned, which lists the launch rocket launch is successful in the

21st century since oh oh and of course 24 was a very very very significant year in every

way and as I say in the headline of the article it was a year of amazing highs and

depressing lows with the best yet to come.

And so you've got to go through this.

So, you know, the graph is there.

People can just look at it.

But I then spend a lot of time analyzing it, you know, breaking it down and analyzing.

So let's start with America first, John.

In the United States, this up and down aspect was most pronounced. In fact,

of any place, the U.S. had both pluses and minuses. The big plus was the number of launches.

The U.S. did 157 launches, and most of them were by SpaceX. And this was a record by far, and SpaceX set a record that was absurd.

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