Bezos' rocket blasts Star Trek actor into space
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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William Shatner makes global headlines by becoming the oldest person to travel to space, aboard the Blue Origin craft backed by Jeff Bezos. But has Elon Musk effectively already won the billionaires’ space race? Plus the ambitious plan to carry solar and wind energy from Morocco to the UK. And we take a trip through mobile phone history with the founder of a new virtual handset museum. Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
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| 0:46.1 | I'm Rory Kethlyn Jones, and this week Star Trek's William Shatner blasts off in Jeff |
| 0:51.2 | Bezos's Blue Origin rocket, but has the Amazon founder already lost out to Elon Musk |
| 0:57.0 | in the billionaire space race? We'll discuss that with a space industry expert. With gas prices soaring |
| 1:04.0 | and the world focused increasingly on renewable energy, we hear about an ambitious plan to bring |
| 1:09.1 | wind and solar power from Morocco to the UK. And we'll have a |
| 1:14.0 | nostalgic look back at those early giant mobile phones with a man who's starting a virtual museum of |
| 1:20.4 | handsets. Joining me this week is BBC's senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. How's your week been, Jane? |
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