One giant leap for private SpaceX-ploration
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today, SpaceX’s crew of billionaire Jared Isaacman and three other private astronauts completed the world’s first-ever commercial spacewalk. We’ll get into it. And, Congress is quickly approaching yet another deadline to avoid a government shutdown. What’s holding up lawmakers from voting on a temporary spending bill? Plus, we’ll break down what’s been going on with oil prices this week and the latest in Apple’s foray into the world of artificial intelligence.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts complete 1st private spacewalk (video)” from Space
- “Speaker Johnson pulls Wednesday vote on government funding plan amid GOP divisions” from CNN Politics
- “House Speaker Johnson pulls government funding bill” from CNBC
- “Oil prices close at lowest level since December 2021 as OPEC cuts forecast” from CNBC
- “Apple Intelligence comes to iPhone, iPad, and Mac starting next month” from Apple
Join us tomorrow for Economics on Tap. The YouTube livestream starts at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
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| 0:11.0 | Yeah, it like caused a dam to form that like made the river flow the other way for a while. |
| 0:18.0 | That's a good one. Yeah, history. Yay. Yay. Yay, let's go. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey, let's go. |
| 0:24.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rizdahl. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:34.8 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:35.8 | Thank you everyone for joining us. |
| 0:37.2 | It's Thursday, September the 12th. |
| 0:39.6 | We are going to do what we do on a Thursday |
| 0:41.4 | to listen back to some of the big stories of the week. |
| 0:43.4 | We've got some audio clips lined up, which is how we listen back to the big stories of the week. |
| 0:47.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:49.1 | This is Jared now egressing through the forward hatch of Dragon Resilience the first |
| 0:54.9 | views of the first ever commercial spacewalk. I have a feeling the crowd |
| 1:01.0 | is about to go wild. |
| 1:10.0 | So really, we should have heard what's his name, Jared Isakman, who's the commander and also the bank roller of that mission because he |
| 1:14.8 | steps outside and in the in a very pre-canned line he says |
| 1:18.9 | we've got a lot of work to do on earth but it looks good from up here. It was freaking cool. So, |
| 1:25.9 | SpaceX today completed the first commercial space walk as you just heard. |
| 1:29.6 | Jared Isakman, who's a billionaire founded a, I think it's an online |
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