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This is CBS Island the World. I'm John Batchel. I welcome David Livingston, my colleague and co-host and co-pilot.

This is Hotel Mars, Episode N. And we're very pleased to welcome Doug Messier, Douglas Maciasia at Substack as how to follow his reporting,

and most recently reporting on an imminent IPO by a company that has enjoyed a great deal of attention.

Firefly, terrific name, for a low-earth orbit monetizing company.

We're going to look at Firefly as an example of everything that's going on in monetizing

low-earth orbit and eventually the Earth-Moon system and then eventually the Earth-Mars system.

However, we start with one step in orbit.

Doug, a very good evening to you. What is

Firefly? Describe it for the listeners, please. Good evening to you. Ah, good evening.

Firefly Aerospace is a company out of Cedar Park, Texas, and they do a number of different

projects, a number of different product lines. One is launch vehicles.

The second one are spacecraft, both to the moon and around the moon and in low Earth orbit.

And they have an orbital transfer vehicle. So it's a broad company focused on a number of different areas, both in low Earth orbit and at the moon.

They've recently filed for an IPO.

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