What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Space After NASA
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🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 32 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for ways to use less fuel? |
| 0:02.0 | At SO, we can help. |
| 0:03.6 | Small changes we can make today can start to help win the energy challenges we all face. |
| 0:08.4 | Like your choice of fuel, making the fuel you buy go further, |
| 0:11.8 | and even finding alternatives to using it in the first place. |
| 0:15.0 | We call this Thoughtful Driving. |
| 0:17.4 | The journey won't be easy, but we want to start it with you. |
| 0:20.8 | Not what you're expecting to hear from a fuel company. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, at SO, we think it's time that changed. |
| 0:26.4 | Search SO Thoughtful Driving for changes we can all start to make today. |
| 0:42.4 | On April 20th, Journalist Ashley Vance was watching a SpaceX's Starship rocket |
| 0:47.4 | lifted off from its launch pad in Texas. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah, I was, uh, I was streaming that sucker |
| 0:53.4 | like a lot of other people waiting to see what happened. |
| 0:59.4 | What happened depends a bit on your point of view. |
| 1:03.4 | At around three minutes and 40 seconds into the flight, |
| 1:06.4 | the rocket seemed like it was spinning. |
| 1:09.4 | We're seeing from the ground cameras the entire Starship stack continuing to rotate. |
| 1:13.4 | We should have had separation by now. |
| 1:15.4 | Obviously this does not appear to be a normal situation. |
| 1:21.4 | But Ashley has been to rocket launches all over the world as part of the research for his book |
| 1:27.4 | when the heavens went on sale. |
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