The Risks Along the Way

In 1999, I was running the X-prize Foundation and co-founded a company called Space Adventures that sends people to orbit. And I got a call one day from Bill Gross who runs Idealab: "I just raised a billion dollars and I want to do a private moon company" So I literally sold my house a day and moved to Pasadena, took X-Prize and zero gene everything with me for $60 million. This is for people to have their own private moon. Yeah. I want to build a company to privately land a robot on a lunar surface. And I've been trying to work on pulling together my mini version of my own private space, performing different parts