Ashlee Vance Shares Crazy Stories from Elon Musk to the Billionaire Space Race (#348)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Peter Beck? Who's winning the billionaire space race? And who will take care of all their space junk? Here today to answer all of these questions and more is none other than Ashlee Vance! Ashlee is a writer at Bloomberg, bestselling author, filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated host and writer of the tech series Hello World. Among his most well-known books are Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future and When The Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing To Put Space Within Reach, which was an instant bestseller, and which we will discuss in depth today. Ashlee is one of my favorite writers, and it was a huge honor for me to dive deep into the world of space exploration with him. Tune in! Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) Judging a book by its cover: When The Heavens Went on Sale (01:04) Pete Worden and his influence on commercial spaceflight (03:20) Communist vs. capitalist approach to space exploration (06:54) Will Elon Musk die on Mars? (11:09) On space junk and regulations (21:57) How to spot talent in space exploration (26:22) On space tourism (32:00) Global banking at the speed of light (34:38) Brain-computer interfaces (38:36) Pete Worden, Robert Zubrin, SpaceX and NASA (41:30) Ashlee’s HBO projects (47:41) Outro (50:20) — Additional resources: 📚 When the Heavens Went on Sale by Ashlee Vance: https://a.co/d/7JIhN4X 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months. 📝 With a MasterClass annual membership, you can take one-on-one classes from the world’s best for $10 a month with your annual membership, get unlimited access to every class — and even better, right now, as an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off when you go to MASTERCLASS.com/impossible. 🧑‍💻 Visit LinkedIn.com/IMPOSSIBLE to post your job for free! 🎤 Join me and ⁦Lawrence Krauss for an Onstage Dialogue ⁦at the San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday, Oct 17, 2023 at 7:00 PM: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/live-onstage-dialogue-brian-keating-lawrence-m-krauss-tickets-699430514497 ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Who's really leading the new space age? It's not NASA and it's not the nation states.
0:06.9	It's the Silicon Valley's daredevils. Ashley Vance is a renowned investigative reporter
0:12.4	and the man who took you inside the mind of Elon Musk.
0:16.0	His latest book is an intimate report on the wild west of aerospace engineering.
0:22.0	So join us as Vance takes us on an unprecedented journey
0:26.2	into secret space labs, private jets,
0:29.6	and even espionage. is indistinguishable from magic.
0:42.6	Open the pod bay doors, now.
0:46.6	Welcome everybody to and out of this world adventure,
0:50.2	with one of my favorite authors and Rat Contours,
0:53.0	Ashley Vance, joining us from the same golden state
0:56.2	that I'm within.
0:57.1	He's within a deep and illustrious valley.
1:00.1	How are you today, Ashley?
1:01.6	I'm good, man.
1:02.3	Thanks so much for having me. I appreciate it.
1:04.7	I love your writing you're a consummate storyteller you get access you have a congenial kind of
1:16.0	attitude that answers the questions both from experts quote unquote like me
1:26.0	all the way down to the man on the street and as I mentioned before we hit record I love to take my my readers you know, my listeners who are book aficionados on a journey into the cover and how it came to be because
1:31.0	they are the heroes of the story but you always take people on a
1:34.1	hero's journey in this particular adventure book as many adventures written into it.
1:38.9	So Ashley please if you would hold up the book explain explain the comic art, explain the title, and most importantly, the
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