This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Baffshire. This is Hotel Mars episode N with David Livingston,

my colleague in Copilot. We're headed to Lower Earth Orbit in our imaginations in the near future.

We welcome Eric Berger of ours, Technica. And I read from a filing on our imaginary Lower Earth

Orbit Roost. The sprawling international space station is near the end of its life than at the

beginning. Time is running out to replace the station before it's gone. And therefore we turn to

an imaginary future. The imaginary future is a space station, a private space station, to be

constructed by and for the wealthiest man in the solar system, depending upon the day. That would

be Jeff Bezos of Amazon formerly, but now a blue origin. One space station passes away, built by

states, sovereign powers. Another space station rises in our imagination.

Eric, a very good evening to you. Thank you for this for picturing this as a transformation

of Lower Earth Orbit. What is it that Mr. Bezos, Blue Origin and his new colleagues are proposing

to build? How is it going to be used from what we understand of the plans? Good evening to you, Eric.

Good evening. So the International Space Station, as you said, is near the end of its lifetime. And so

NASA has decided that the way to replace this is with the commercially built space station.

So they've started the process of awarding grants to design, for design studies, and eventually for

to help construct and accrue these space stations. And it's not just Jeff Bezos and his

Orbo Reef project. There's a bunch of other entrances as well. A company called Agnes Space

is involved in their building. Their space station, or they have their design, Lockheed Martin and

Nanorax have it designed. And probably we're going to see some other competitors as well. But

certainly Bezos with Orbo Reef is proposing the largest space station. It would be 90% the size

of the International Space Station, which is this huge, well-field sized facility in Lower Earth orbit.

And this proposal right now, you say, it leads in the opinion of observers, but there are others

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