In 1967, the very first Saturn V rocket was launched.

It was the largest rocket ever built.

55 years later, it's still the largest rocket ever launched.

However, it might not hold that distinction for much longer. There's a new rocket in town, and it might not hold that distinction for much longer.

There's a new rocket in town, and it might soon displace a Saturn V,

and in the process revolutionized spaceflight.

Learn more about Starship and how it might totally transform the entire space industry on this episode of

Everything Everywhere Daily. This episode is going to be a bit different.

Instead of covering a topic from history or explaining some physical phenomenon,

I wanted to do an explainer episode about a new technology that has incredible potential.

But most people might not know it exists,

or if they do, how it works.

I should also note that this is going to primarily focus on one product from a single company.

SpaceX didn't sponsor this episode and I've never even talked to anyone there.

But if Elon Musk is interested, I have an executive producer credit available over at Patreon.

That being said, ever since the Space Age began, there has been one

massive problem. Getting into space is really expensive. The standard metric for

determining the cost of spaceflight has been the price to put one kilogram of mass into orbit

That figure has traditionally been somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 dollars

Even on the low end that's an enormous amount of money to send the equivalent of

one liter of water into space. That means that any trip to space was going to be a very big deal.

The cost of putting a satellite into

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