Space Travel for Everyone. The Final Frontier?

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Recent space flights by Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson have raised the tantalizing question of whether space travel is in our near future. Space exploration has traditionally been the venture of governments, but with last November’s launch of an astronaut crew to the International Space Station by Elon Musk’s company SpaceX, commercial flights to deep space seem more tangible. But is privatized space travel by billionaires just a vanity project? Or is this a huge step towards tackling space, the final frontier? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.6	Welcome back to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:03.9	Many people know the most famous speech about outer space.
1:07.9	JFK announced a new ambition for humanity with Cold War swagger.
1:12.6	We choose to go to the moon.
1:15.6	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,
1:21.6	but because they are hard.
1:24.6	Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because
1:32.0	that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone,
1:38.4	and one we intend to win.
1:40.5	Still kind of gives you chills, but almost nobody is familiar with a statement by Richard Nixon just 10 years later that marked the last time humans left the moon, and which was the end of the Apollo program.
1:51.8	This may be the last time in this century that men will walk on the moon, Nixon said, and he was right, but space exploration will continue.
1:59.4	The benefits of space exploration will continue. The search for knowledge through the exploration of exploration will continue. The benefits of space exploration will continue.
2:01.5	The search for knowledge through the exploration of space will continue. And there will be new dreams
2:06.0	to pursue based on what we have learned. Since then, NASA, other nations, space agencies, and
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