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The John Batchelor Show

MARS: SPACEX and the Asteroid Belt Gateway. Brandon Weichert, author, WINNING SPACE."

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

News, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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MARS: SPACEX and the Asteroid Belt Gateway. Brandon Weichert, author, WINNING SPACE."

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This is, This is CBS, I on the World, I'm John Batchelor.

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Starship, Super Heavy. in the news these last days for a success of a test number five from Boca Tica

0:45.1

Texas by SpaceX. How does that translate into one competition with

0:51.9

Eurasia that would be Mus-Rass-Kosmoth, China's Man-Sbased Program and Unmanspaced

0:59.1

Program, and the European Space Agency as well.

1:03.0

Still available a launch site in French Guiana, but many opportunities for commercialization.

1:10.9

I welcome Brandon Weichert, the author of Winning Space, how America remains a superpower.

1:17.0

We're updating now because what I understand about SpaceX's test number five is that it performed something that was

1:26.5

only dreamed about, ever seen before by any of the large space agencies since the 20th century. And why that why it's important is, as I

1:37.9

understand again, monetization. The cost of a ton into low-Earth orbit is a way to measure the cost of space programs.

1:48.0

The cheaper that is, the more likely you're going to turn a profit and you can make this available worldwide.

1:55.2

Brandon, a very good evening to you. We begin with the demonstration of Starship and Super Heavy.

2:01.2

What did we see? what's important about that

2:03.4

excitement because there was a lot of celebration but where was the money good evening

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