Buy me to the moon

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🗓️ 19 January 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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NASA has long relied on private companies to build its rockets, but now it’s turning to private companies to own and operate them too. Washington Post space reporter Christian Davenport explains the new commercial space race. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Lawmakers convened on Capitol Hill this week to politely but definitively put the
0:04.8	screws to NASA.
0:07.0	Last week, NASA announced the delay of Artemis 2 to September 2025 and Artemis 3 to September 2026.
0:16.9	I look forward to hearing from NASA about the cause of these delays.
0:20.0	The Artemis missions will return man and woman this time to the moon.
0:23.6	But the US has competition from Chinese astronauts,
0:26.7	from an unmanned Japanese craft that Moon landed literally today.
0:31.0	It looks like it has reached on the moon. This modern space race is very expensive
0:36.4	so NASA is turning to the commercial space sector that's dominated by powerful CEOs,
0:41.1	you're Elon Musk's and your Jeff Bazel sees. They strike out too, in fact an
0:45.9	American company's moonlander crashed just this week, but they can afford it.
0:51.0	The race for the Moon coming up on today explained.
0:54.0	To the moon!
0:56.0	Support for this show comes from Krakhan.
1:02.0	Cripto is like the financial system. Support for this show comes from Krakhan.
1:02.8	Krypto is like the financial system, but different.
1:06.6	It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like,
1:09.3	your credit score, or your outrageous food delivery habits.
1:13.0	crypto is finance for everyone, everywhere all the time.
1:18.0	Krakhan, see what crypto can be.
1:21.0	Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.
1:24.0	This is a high-risk investment,
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