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Speaker 1: The rocket revolution. Hello, we've reached the halfway point of
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Speaker 1: this adventure. Today, we're talking about the key theme of
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Speaker 1: Space Week, the rocket revolution. For decades, we thought of
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Speaker 1: rockets as colossal monsters, good for only a single flight
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Speaker 1: and destined to crumble into the ocean after just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes of glory. The costs were astronomical, the labor exhausting. Then, suddenly,
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Speaker 1: things changed. Rockets learned how to reverse. You can now
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Speaker 1: see them descending vertically from the sky and landing gently
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Speaker 1: on platforms in the middle of the ocean, ready to
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Speaker 1: fly again. This has slashed costs and thrown open the do.
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Speaker 1: Oars to space, not just for professional astronauts, but for startups, universities,
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Speaker 1: and dreamers all over the world. It is a true
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Speaker 1: democratization of orbit. In the next episode, we'll leave low-Earth
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Speaker 1: orbit to set foot once again where we haven't been
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Speaker 1: for 50 years. See you there.