Space Travel, Privatized

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🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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After nearly a decade on the sidelines of space travel, Cape Canaveral is again launching a shuttle into space. But this time, a private company will be sending NASA astronauts into orbit. What does this moment mean for human exploration of the solar system? Guests: Kenneth Chang, a science reporter at The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily Background reading: Here’s a look inside the vessel that is scheduled to become the first crewed spacecraft launched in the United States since the end of the shuttle program in 2011.Meet SpaceX’s first NASA astronauts: Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, who have been friends and colleagues for two decades.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.
0:32.6	This is the Daily.
0:39.6	Today.
0:42.2	For the first time in history, a private company is sending astronauts into space.
0:50.0	This reporter Kenneth Chan on the dawn of a new era in space travel.
0:57.0	It's Thursday, May 28.
1:08.8	Can how many space launches have you covered in your career?
1:13.1	I've forgotten because I started covering these at the end of the space shuttle era.
1:17.9	So there's probably five or six then, and there's a few other scattered ones.
1:23.5	And I've actually made more trips than that because especially with the space shuttle,
1:29.1	they would postpone the launch at the last second gazillion times.
1:32.2	So I would just fly in, fly out, fly out, fly out, and not even see a launch.
1:37.4	But if you had to guess how many fly ins and fly outs have you made to try to watch a
1:42.7	space launch?
1:43.7	Say 20.
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