200 years ago we were sailing around on wooden tall ships.

That's how we got across oceans.

And in those days transportation was slow, expensive and unreliable

and in many ways those are exactly the three words that describe

space transportation. You know you'd never throw away a 737 after every single

flight right that's pretty obvious and so the same thing is true with rocketry,

there's no reason you would want to throw away the vehicle

if you didn't have to.

Start asking yourself questions,

what are the important problems that need to be solved and how can I go and do this in a way that's a sustainable business?

We're in like the 1930s and 40s for space.

We have a lot of different ideas that are being tested and in my opinion,

mastering the first stage reuse and the second

stage reuse are the two ingredients that are going to lead to mega consolidation and then also

a healthy and thriving economy.

Hi everyone and welcome back to the A16Z podcast.

This is part two of our mini series

on the booming satellite economy.

In part one, we spoke with astronomers co-founder John Getmark about the opportunity to build smaller satellites in geostationary orbit,

and who's actually buying that satellite capability.

But ultimately in order to build this computation shell around Earth full of thousands of satellites,

rocket usability is an important unlock. of over a decade at Blue Origin is now on a mission to build fully and rapidly reusable rockets

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