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An exploration of the rise of the modern commercial space industry, tracing how private ambition and public funding reshaped launch, satellite manufacturing, orbital infrastructure, lunar exploration and plans for Mars
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00:03We are going to go on out, not only to the moon, to the stars, we're going to spread.
00:10That's one small step for man.
00:15Now it may seem obvious, like wow, what a great business opportunity, but back in 2008,
00:192009, it was anything but. It was amazing. We're seeing the aftermath of this ambition
00:25that had a setback. We assumed it was governments that were
00:31going to take us to space. Now that has been completely turned on its head.
00:38The first time I went to visit SpaceX was like a religious experience. One of these things
00:44was like, do people know that this is happening?
00:49We do things fast, we do things cheap, we bring the benefits of space to people in the world.
00:53Girls just want gardens on Mars, right?
00:58We really have to ask ourselves, why are we spending $5 billion a year for 20 years with
01:02nothing to show for them?
01:04Nothing is solved. When people think that they have something solved is honestly probably
01:08when they're most wrong.
01:10Vehicle's pitching downrange.
01:12You seem like you like space.
01:17I mean, of course.
01:18There is a new space race between the US and China.
01:21These pockets of ice are the most valuable real estate in the solar system.
01:29We will plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.
01:35This is what victory feels like.
01:42It's not a question of if, it's a matter of when. And if it's not a matter of when, then
01:45it's a matter of how long does humanity have to survive.
01:48Sort of reverse back to the Apollo era, humanity's first step into the stars.
01:52Every one of their stories has a mirror for what I'm going through.
01:56Liberation confirmed.
01:57At some point, we're just going to have to terraform the planet.
01:59It is doable in the same way that building cathedrals was doable in the Middle Ages.
02:06At the end of the day, I think we're all too bored to stay here.
02:10It's going to be incredibly hard and risky. All new frontiers are.
02:14That's part of what inspires generations to do things.
02:17Why does this mission of going farther into the stars matter as much to you each personally?
02:20What do you think of this mission of going forward?
02:29What do you think of this mission of going forward?
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