What Next TBD: Space After NASA

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Space might seem to be heading from the domain of big government programs to a playground for billionaires. But just below the surface, a world of start-ups are getting ready to launch. Guest: Ashlee Vance, business columnist and author of When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers.
0:25.2	We Were Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.0	One, four, three, two. On April 20th,
0:42.9	journalist Ashley Vance was watching a SpaceX's Starship rocket
0:47.2	lifted off from its launch pad in Texas.
0:50.3	Yeah, I was streaming that sucker
0:53.1	like a lot of other people waiting to see what happened.
0:59.3	What happened depends a bit on your point of view.
1:03.7	At around three minutes and 40 seconds into the flight, the rocket seemed like it was spinning.
1:09.0	We're seeing from the ground cameras the entire starship stack
1:12.5	continuing to rotate. We should have had separation by now.
1:15.9	Obviously, this does not appear to be a nominal situation.
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