Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor. conversation with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman about French

Kiana used by a European Space Agency these many years, decades now, to launch into space using the Ariana program.

Ariana Six is said to be prepared and ready.

However, French Kiana is no longer that desirable of a place to launch unless and until it's transferred

into commercial space.

France owns French Kiana. It's a colony of France. Therefore, this

spaceport in South America on the coast of the Atlantic is in a transition phase from big space when everything was paid for by the state,

NASA, Ros Cosmos, European Space Agency, into commercial space when it must make money or it goes away and somebody else

makes money. Here's Bob to explain the thinking about French Guiana and the

Space Board there of many years that was entirely a product of big space

now looking to join all of the Spaceports popping up all around the globe.

Bob and I are talking about Australia's

spaceports, Scottish spaceboards, Canada spaceports, everywhere. Everybody in the

business of spaceports, especially the USA, Boca Chico being a prime example of a commercial

spaceport looking to expand its operation to shopping malls, residents, buildings,

like living on a golf course to watch Blastoff.

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