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All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure the hard way. I'm using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investments that really penciled-out for venture. That changed in 2009 when Elon Musk came to us with a big vision to explore Mars while producing rockets at a fraction of a price and making space accessible.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.