I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

If you believe that the developing world deserves the same standards of living that we do in the developed world, then to achieve that, they need resources. They need the metals and the minerals to build the industries and the buildings and so forth, and the energy.

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.

You could not legally put a human and fly them into space. In fact, you couldn't bring a spaceship back. All those spaceships we were sending commercially into space were one way. You sort of like, got rid of them. And most passengers, who go up, do want to come back down.

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

When faced without a challenge, make one

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.