Marshall here, welcome back to The Realignment.

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Ashley Vance is a reporter and writer at Bloomberg and he's the author of the best selling biography

of Elon Musk.

Now he's fought up with a new book out today called When the Heavens Went on Sale, The

Missfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach.

Ashley's previous book and a lot of his reporting is focused on the space billionaires, Elon,

Jeff Bezos and of course Richard Branson.

This book though is focused on what Ashley calls the Wild West of space.

We're focused on the next generation of companies driving the next iteration of the space

race.

As you all know, The Realignment is really focused on the broad ecosystem that all these

new technological and sociological developments happen in.

So the fact that these companies are private yet also separate and connected to rival nation

states is also a key part of this story.

So we're focused both on the broader geopolitical dynamics of the next space race and just the

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