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#Bestof2023: STRANGE COPYCATS: 1/2: #HotelMars: #PRC plans to imitate SpaceX with Long March -- a superheavy two-stage fully reusable booster combination to LEO and Lunar Orbit. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. David Livingston,

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John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Bestof2023: STRANGE COPYCATS: 1/2: #HotelMars: #PRC plans to imitate SpaceX with Long March -- a superheavy two-stage fully reusable booster combination to LEO and Lunar Orbit. Rick Fisher, International Assessment and Strategy Center. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

https://spacenews.com/china-plans-full-reusability-for-its-super-heavy-long-march-9-rocket/

1868 Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:06.6

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0:12.7

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0:15.2

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0:19.6

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0:23.0

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.7

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something

0:28.9

goes wrong.

0:35.9

This is CBS Eye on the World, here's John Bachelor.

0:41.4

The moon, the moon race, in the 21st century, Dr. Space himself is here, this is Hotel

0:47.9

Mars episode N, and we turn immediately to the moon race needing boosters, the spectacular

0:55.6

test of starship and super heavy, everybody's attention to the potential of being able

1:03.4

to lift 100 tons of cargo into low earth orbit and onto the moon.

1:09.0

Mr. Musk says he wants to die on Mars, first step is the moon, however there is competition

1:14.5

in the moon race, no longer Ross Cosmos instead is the Chinese space program, and we welcome

1:20.7

Rick Fisher, our guide on the Chinese space program.

1:24.6

He's a senior fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

1:29.5

Rick a very good evening to you, thank you for this.

1:32.0

We go immediately to the plans of the Chinese space program to build a bigger booster, here

1:38.2

to four they had a plan called Long March 9, it's been adjusted, probably since the test

1:45.7

of super heavy and starship really adjusted, what does it look like now, and what is the

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