SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration | Jennifer Heldmann

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🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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SpaceX's Starship launch vehicle has the potential to explore the solar system in a bold, new -- and supersized -- way. Planetary scientist Jennifer Heldmann talks about how reusable, large-scale spacecraft like Starship could help humanity achieve its next galactic leaps and usher in a new era of space exploration, from investigating the solar system's many ocean worlds to launching bigger telescopes that can see deeper into the universe.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.4	Are we alone in the universe?
0:08.0	We Earthlings have been asking that question for a long time.
0:11.6	In our talk from Ted 2022, Planetary Scientist Jennifer Helden lays out the future of space
0:17.0	exploration and how much more is possible thanks to the reduction of two key constraints.
0:22.7	It's exciting stuff.
0:27.8	The portrait Ted Talks Daily comes from Airbnb.
0:31.8	When you're staying at an Airbnb, you might be like me wondering, could my place be an
0:36.4	Airbnb and if it could, what could it earn?
0:40.2	I think about this all the time.
0:41.9	Sub, whose extra room in London was storing furniture until his mom had the idea to start
0:46.7	Airbnbing it, now that extra room helps pay the mortgage.
0:52.2	And what your place could be earning at Airbnb.co.uk slash host.
1:00.0	Thank you all so much for being here today because I am super excited to tell you that
1:05.6	we are about to explore space in a big way.
1:09.9	And the future of space exploration is like nothing we've ever seen before and the
1:14.9	future is one we can hardly even imagine.
1:18.6	Well, why is that?
1:20.2	We've been exploring space since the 1950s, so what's different now?
1:25.4	Well for the first time ever, we are going to be using super sized spacecraft for our journey
1:30.7	into the solar system.
1:32.8	This vehicle will be able to launch more mass or payload, have more power, and be able
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