Everything we do here is how do we affect the lives of a billion people, whether it's cancer research,

oncology, broadly, leukemia, longevity, trying to figure out the next generation breakthroughs and semiconductors even greatly

accelerate the transition to electrification.

So I think of those things and again before we go off and buy another insurance policy.

I'm convinced that we need to do more here

not to screw this place up.

I'm Mary Long and that's Tom Vice,

CEO of Sierra Space and co-author of the book,

We Have Liftoff.

The mission of Sierra Space is to build a platform in space that benefits life on Earth.

They're engineering a fleet of DreamChaser Space Plains

which can land on commercial runways.

They're building commercial space stations

to house researchers 250 miles above our heads.

And they're developing defense tech systems in addition to a whole lot more.

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Vice in person at Sierra's campus in Broomfield, Colorado, to share an optimistic vision of what space commercialization

might actually look like.

Maybe we'll get to the business E stuff.

I'm more curious about the life stuff the

possibility so I mean what is what is life in low Earth orbit gonna look like?

Yeah you know I think it's it's good maybe to take a step back and think about, you know, we're transitioning from 60 years of space exploration to a point where we're now moving into the full commercialization of low-Earth

orbit. We're transitioning from a time when just a handful of astronauts on

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