Astronaut: The space race is on

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00:00How momentous is this for Jeff Beysart and Blue Origin as a company?

00:06It's a relatively small thing in the grand scheme of things, to be honest.

00:10Yes, I'm sure Jeff is delighted to see his partner go to space and successfully come down safe.

00:16But there has been other similar missions that perhaps are less in the media, and that will continue.

00:22But Blue Origin has much bigger visions and much bigger plans, including, I mean, Jeff has a personal passion for the moon.

00:31So you will see a lot more moon focused in terms of their bigger rockets.

00:35And they have a new Glenn, which can indeed go much higher and carry a much more load.

00:42So this is a relatively small thing in the big program of the Blue Origin plans for space.

00:48And you will see a lot more orbital stuff coming eventually and hopefully one day on the moon as well.

00:56There's serious financial backing behind it and lots of talented engineers.

01:03And there is lots of other people doing it as well.

01:05So the competition is on.

01:07You know, the space race is on.

01:09You will see a lot more.

01:10This is just the beginning.