The strategic objective of New Shepard is to practice, and a lot of the subcomponents of New Shepard actually get directly reusedon the second stage of New Glenn.

We're taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

If your payloads cost hundreds of millions of dollars, they actually cost more than the launch. It puts a lot of pressure on the launch vehicle not to change, to be very stable. Reliability becomes much more important than the cost. It's hard to get off of that equilibrium.

We need to know what the resources of the moon are. We have great evidence now because of different kinds of radar andspectroscopic analysis that people have been able to do. But we really do need to go visit there, and we can do that with a robot craft without any problem.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.