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The Real World: Space

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The Inspiration4 space mission was historic. It may have laid the groundwork for the future of commercial space travel, which offers limitless possibilities for space-themed brand deals and product placements. Axios’s Miriam Kramer (@mirikramer) and Recode’s Rebecca Heilweil (@rebheilweil) explain. References: Read Rebecca’s story here. Listen to Miriam’s podcast here. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: Host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes) Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:39.2

This summer, Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic made history by becoming the first two private

0:45.3

companies to launch tourists into space, and their owners, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson,

0:50.7

respectively, went along for the ride.

0:53.6

Now, although he stayed on Earth, Elon Musk has won up to his fellow billionaires.

0:57.8

His company SpaceX sent the first all civilian crew into orbit.

1:02.5

This crew will orbit the Earth for three days before splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean,

1:06.8

and this will mark the first ever all civilian mission, meaning that no one on board has

1:11.2

a day job as an astronaut.

1:13.4

Over the course of their three day journey, the Inspiration 4 crew will be conducting a wide

1:17.7

range of experiments to determine how regular people like you and me respond to any microgravity

1:23.2

environment.

1:26.8

We're recording this episode on Friday, and the mission is scheduled to land over the

1:30.3

weekend, but here to help explain how we got here is Miriam Kramer.

1:34.7

Miriam is the space reporter for Axios, who's been following the launch.

1:38.0

Hello.

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