TBD | What Space Billionaires Cost Us
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:33.2 | You see the earth from space that changes you, changes your relationship. |
| 0:40.6 | On Monday, I watched this video on Instagram. |
| 0:43.8 | I want to go on this flight because it's the thing I've wanted to do all my life. |
| 0:49.5 | That's Jeff Bezos, and the video is from his account. |
| 0:52.9 | It's a slickly produced, lots of camera angles, shots of the atmosphere. |
| 0:58.2 | There's a picture of Bezos as a child next to a model rocket with USA painted on the |
| 1:02.4 | side. |
| 1:03.4 | And the point of this video is to announce that Bezos will be on board the first human |
| 1:08.1 | spaceflight that is rocket company Blue Origin is taking on July 20th. |
| 1:14.2 | That's the anniversary of the moon landing in case you missed that part. |
| 1:17.8 | And I was curious, when I got astronomer Lucienne Walkowicz on the line, what they |
| 1:22.8 | thought about this whole announcement. |
| 1:25.7 | I have you as a very natural outcome. |
| 1:29.6 | I think if you were going to write the headline, it would be like billionaire builds rocket |
| 1:34.8 | wishes to ride rocket. |
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