The next golden era of space exploration

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The new space race doesn’t just pit nation-states against one another, it’s also a fight between private companies looking to cash in. Chuck talks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and professor at the City University of New York and the author of “The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.”

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:08.1	This week on Meet the Press reports, we're dealing with space, vinyl frontier and the
0:12.5	billionaires who want to take you there.
0:15.1	This new space race does not just pit nation states against one another, but also fight
0:19.1	between private companies, also looking to cash in.
0:22.3	By investing billions of dollars into new rockets, their goal is to get it much farther,
0:26.7	much faster.
0:27.7	So joining me now is Michio Kaku.
0:30.0	He's a theoretical physicist and professor at the City University of New York, his latest
0:33.3	book, The God Equation, the quest for a theory of everything.
0:36.9	He aims to break down the origin of the universe and he argues we are entering the next golden
0:41.2	era of space exploration professor Kaku.
0:44.6	Welcome to the Toddcaster.
0:46.2	Glad to be on the show.
0:47.8	All right, so we look at what's happening in the space race right now and we've got
0:55.0	more nations wanting to launch satellites.
0:57.3	We've got China wanting to go to the moon.
1:00.5	We want to go to Mars.
1:01.7	We got Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos.
1:05.2	Let me though ask, short term, why haven't we developed the moon?
1:12.4	And when you look at sort of where we were in 1969, are we actually behind where we should
1:17.9	have been?
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