A Blue Origin rocket could take tourists to space by April 2019.
Its goal is to help coordinate space exploration and national security efforts by the public and private sectors.
Smith briefly spoke to the panel about Blue Origin's plans to take paying customers to space.
"Within the next 18 months we're going to be launching humans into space," he said.
In the grand scheme of things, SpaceX and Blue Origin have very different strategies for space tourism.
For Blue Origin, sending paying customers to space is part of the bedrock of it early business strategy.
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