Spaceflights by billionaires like Elon Musk push innovation, making space travel more feasible for the future, retired astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman says.
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00:00And Elon Musk has suffered another setback with his SpaceX rocket launch this week.
00:06What do you make of the race to space by the millionaires like Elon Musk,
00:11we were just talking about Jeff Bezos there, and Richard Branson?
00:16And will space travel become attainable to the masses anytime soon?
00:21Will I be able to go up there in my lifetime?
00:24Well, I would certainly sign up as soon as you get a chance, okay, on any one of them.
00:28I really would.
00:29I think that, and in fact, I know that each of these, you know,
00:33these three people with resources, and different resources, different visions,
00:37they each have their own way of paving the way to space.
00:41And I don't, when you said soon, will it happen soon that, you know,
00:45thousands and thousands of people will go?
00:48I don't think soon by anybody's definition.
00:50But it does look like life is changing.
00:53And by doing, you know, Elon's approach with the Starship is, I think, quite clever in terms of
01:02being able to build things in such a way that he can afford, and I don't just mean money,
01:06but resources to try things and see how far they get, learn something from that and try again.
01:13And it's always disappointing to see the rocket blow up at a certain stage.
01:18But you have to realize that there is a lot that they're learning
01:22for every second that those engines are firing.
01:25And so there's all these different approaches combined,
01:28hopefully, to you and I going to space together someday.