Is outer space for billionaires or for the rest of us? Well, the answer is complicated. Chronically underfunded NASA decided about a decade ago that, in order to carry out missions that further our scientific understanding of our universe, publicly funded science needed to develop a symbiotic relationship with private space companies, like Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic. To talk about that symbiosis, we're joined by Dr. Philip Metzger, a planetary physicist at the University of Central Florida and now-retired founder of NASA’s "Swamp Works" at Kennedy Space Center.

This segment is guest-hosted by Kerry Nolan.