Throwback edition! A deep dive into the space race

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

We repost a podcast from Tales of Silicon Valley, the narrative podcast that Danny did two years ago. In the week that Sir Richard Branson touched space, and just days before Jeff Bezos prepares to do so as well, we go back to this investigatio into how billionaires are racing to become the first to settle on the moon. We talk to astronauts, and the billionaires themselves, about their plans to turn humans into a multi-planetary species.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley.
0:02.3	We have a very special midweek episode for you.
0:06.8	So you may have heard, unless you reside under a very large rock,
0:12.3	that Sir Richard Branson blasted into space this past weekend,
0:15.7	which was the combination of 17 years of him trying to pull off what he just pulled off.
0:21.9	And next week, Jeff Bezos plans on doing the same.
0:26.2	Now, a couple of years ago, we did a deep dive into this whole space race,
0:31.0	which is now playing out for the world to see.
0:33.8	So we talked to several of the astronauts who were on board the Virgin Spaceplane that made history last week.
0:40.5	We also peeled back the layers on Jeff Bezos's really quite wild plans for outer space colonization.
0:49.6	And of course, you've all heard about Elon Musk's plan to create a new settlement on Mars.
0:53.7	But trust me,
0:54.9	Bezos's plans are at least as ambitious.
0:59.1	Anyhow, if you are at all curious about what is happening with this whole space race, how it came
1:03.8	about, why it is happening, the motivations behind the handful of billionaires who are driving
1:09.3	it, this is a podcast for you.
1:12.8	It's quite a fun, quick half hour through this whole history
1:17.3	and how we got to this point and why it matters for you and I and the human race.
1:24.0	Anyhow, I think you'll enjoy it.
1:26.0	So here it is.
1:26.6	Have a listen.
1:27.3	And we'll be back later this
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