Joining us now is Reiner Zidelman. He has a book that is going to be released in just a few days,

New Space Capitalism, the Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars. And I'm really fascinated to talk to him

about this because I have followed this very closely myself, just like Jeff Bezos has since he was in college.

I did a report about 10 years ago talking about the billionaire space race.

And I'm very curious as to what is really in it for them.

And I'm curious to talk to Mr. Zadlman about this.

Again, the book is New Space Capitalism.

And he understands the dollars and cents and how important they are to that.

So thank you for joining us, sir.

Thank you for inviting me.

I appreciate it.

Let's talk a little bit about the capitalism involved with all this and what do they

want out of this besides the obvious government contracts for satellites and other military

uses and things like that.

Because when we go back and we look at the settlement of America, there were a lot of

corporations that were formed.

We had corporations that were behind the settlements in Virginia, as well as in

Massachusetts Bay. Most of them went bankrupt. So even though there was a lot to be, a lot of resources

to be had, a lot of timber, a lot of tobacco and other things like that, many cases, it was

too little too late for all of them.

So what is it that they're really trying to do,

especially when we look at Musk and his plans to colonize Mars?

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