#SPACEX: DOD buying a Starship? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#SPACEX: DOD buying a Starship? Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/pentagon-in-discussions-with-spacex-about-buying-a-starship-outright-for-military-missions/
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Commercial space crowded. |
| 0:26.0 | Low Earth orbit, medium Earth orbit, |
| 0:29.0 | high Earth orbit, crowded in the 21st century. Bob Zimmerman is here. He keeps the |
| 0:34.8 | website behind the black. Private Enterprise is going to fill |
| 0:38.9 | orbital space with space stations. Bob a very good even to you. |
| 0:44.0 | What is Voyager? |
| 0:45.0 | What's it up to? |
| 0:46.0 | Voyager Space is a consortium of companies that is building one of the three commercial space stations being built in partnership with |
| 0:56.1 | NASA. |
| 0:57.1 | There's also a force, by the way, that's being built independent of the government entirely. |
| 1:02.0 | But Voyager Space is building a space station called |
| 1:04.8 | Star Lab and it's designed to actually be launched on a single launch. It's going to |
| 1:09.7 | be about a third the size of the International Space Station, but it's a very big single module |
| 1:14.3 | with a service module attached. |
| 1:18.7 | This consortium voyage space includes a company in America called Nanorax, it includes North of Grumman, and it includes the European |
| 1:26.4 | Company Air Bus. |
| 1:28.1 | And this is essentially a station that the Europeans are aiming to use a lot in going into space. |
| 1:34.0 | Well, Voyager space, because of the design of Star Lab, |
| 1:37.0 | they really need a very big rocket to launch it. |
| 1:40.0 | Of course that means they're talking to SpaceX for super heavy |
| 1:43.8 | Starship and they have signed now a launch contract with Starship to use |
| 1:48.0 | super heavy Starship for launch in space station. |
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