Confidence In Nonsense Is Required.

I Like To Call The Difference Between Research And Development. Some People Use That Interchangeably. They'll Say R&d. They're Two Totally Different Things.

A Nasa-funded Study Estimates That If The Price Of A Ticket To Space Approached $100,000, Close To A Million People Would Buy One. That's A $100 Billion Industry. Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Gave Me $20 Million In Startup Funding To Go After That Market.

I Spent About Seven Years During The Vietnam War Flight-testing Airplanes For The Air Force. And Then I Went In And I Had A Lot Of Fun Building Airplanes That People Could Build In Their Garages. And Some 3,000 Of Those Are Flying. Of Course, One Of Them Is Around-the-world Voyager.

America Was Good Enough To Make A Small Compact Lighter Weight Nuclear Weapon. The Russians Still Had These Big Clunky Heavy Ones, So They Had To Build The Big Boosters In The Arm's War, So Now All Of The Sudden Russia Could Take Off The Shelf And Put Into Orbit Much Heavier Things Than We Could, So That's Why They Had The Original Leadership.

Usually The Wacky People Have The Breakthroughs. The Smart People Dont.