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PROFESSOR 1: About yourselves, so raise your hand, I guess, if you're from Wellesley. Nobody at Wellesley wants to fly. OK. Harvard? OK. Everybody else can boo. Who has no MIT affiliation? All right. Awesome. Well, welcome. Raise your hand if you've never been in a light aircraft, if you have no experience in a little airplane. OK. PROFESSOR 2: That's good. That's a good number. For the MIT folks, how many of you are undergrads? OK. That's a good number. How many of you are graduate students? It's an even larger number, and how many of you are neither? You're just like an MIT alumni or staff. Just a few, OK, great. Well, welcome, all of you. PROFESSOR 1: And let's just go through the goals. Let's see who's in the room. Who wants to eventually fly an airplane? Whoa. How about a helicopter? Good. I'm happy to see that. What about drones? PROFESSOR 2: All right. That's a larger number than last year. That's great. PROFESSOR...

You probably noticed Professor Cohen is a little bit more formal and wears a tie. And so, when he's here, I also wear a tie. [LAUGHTER] But today we're a little bit less formal and so no ties. But I'll probably have one on, on Thursday, again. Just so that you knew what the code was. Tom Moser is coming. You know, that was the generation where everybody wore ties. So, I'll wear a tie, too. Anyway, despite the fact that we're a little bit more informal that doesn't imply any intellectual informality. We are actually, I think, very fortunate that Professor John Logsdon, who is the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University which is part of their Elliott School of International Affairs -- And we have a recent graduate of that program. He is going to talk to us today. And this is really going to be the last in the looks at kind of the policy which led to the original requirements on the Space Shuttle. And, as we've point...