To finish, what is exciting you the most about everything you're paying attention to? This new commercial space flight era, but also just the beat, the things that you get to hear about, see, think about on a daily basis.

Well,

I'm very excited about the James Webb space telescope, which is kind of a scientific successor to the Hubble telescope. Most

people will be

familiar with and this telescope launched in 2021. And I was there at the launch. This was in French, Vienna and South America and super humid and stressful. And everyone was panicked because you've got those $10 billion telescopes sitting on top of a bunch of explosives. And you're really hoping that it makes it into orbit in one piece. And once it's there, you're hoping that it actually deploys successfully and unfurls without getting stuck on anything. But the telescope has worked beautifully and has really been churning out some wonderful images of stars and galaxies and nebulas and even planets in our solar system. One of my favorite pictures of Neptune was taken by JWST and it just looks so spooky and an ethereal. It's great. And so this is a telescope that will be in operation for the next 20 years. So I'm excited to kind of like sit back and see what it shows us in the same way that Hubble once they finally fixed the little mirror flaw that it launched with really started showing us like these beautiful wonders of the universe. So Hubble orbits close to Earth and JWST is way, way out there about a million miles from Earth and it was not designed to be serviceable. But I've talked to NASA leaders in the past and I've asked them, you know, what would you say if Elon Musk and there he is again because he is everywhere, what would you say if he offered to send some type of SpaceX capsule all the way out there and potentially refuel the observatory? Like what would you say? And we're like, well, maybe we would take him up on it, right? So, and Jared Isaacman, the billionaire that seems to be a frequent fire on SpaceX has said and SpaceX is looking into this that he wants to potentially use a SpaceX mission to lift Hubble into a higher orbit. So Hubble's orbit is decaying every year and that affects how long it might be able to keep observing. And it's just like such a strange time. Like we have these fascinating missions and space telescopes that NASA and other space agencies put up there and then commercial companies might come in later and be like, hey, you want like a lifetime extension, we can get this done. So I'm just curious to see how, yeah, there's just so many fascinating missions coming up, whether that's to Europa, which is an icy moon of Jupiter or Titan, which is a moon of Saturn with methane lakes coming up in the next couple decades. I just, I'm excited to know the solar system a little bit

better. Marina, thank you so much. This was fascinating. Of

course, anytime.

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