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SpaceX Launching Massive Space Station · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Today we're going to be talking about a company named Max Space
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  and the idea of building massive, massive, massive
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  inflatable space stations on Mars.
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  What is this? What is this thing?
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  I'm not 100% sure that this is even feasible, but according to
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  Max Space, within the next 10 years we're gonna have stadium
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  sized space stations in the orbit of the Earth, but also
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  space stations on the surface of Mars, possibly in Mars orbit
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  anywhere in the solar system. And most of these, every
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  component could be flown on a SpaceX Falcon 9, and in the
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  future for the stadium, the massive ones could be launched
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  on a SpaceX Starship. Now these things have been tried
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  in the past, and some of them successful and some of them not
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  so successful, but right. Now.
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  There are two that we know of. One of the Co founders of this
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  company actually has two inflatable modules in space
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  right now and they've been orbiting the Earth for a while.
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  Now I want to tell you about Maxspace.
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  They just released kind of a press release recently and I'm
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  going to talk about some of the points of this press release. 40
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  years of building successful space companies is Maxspace 2
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  entrepreneurs. Aaron Kemmer, who's the Co
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  founder of Maxspace and said that they're going to bring this
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  technology to light in the next few years.
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  I don't even understand this because it's so wild.
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  I'd love to bring you wild stuff.
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  Let's roll the clip here. You can see they're building a
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  lunar module mock up, but also they have a clip of the interior
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  of one of these modules. Absolutely massive amount of
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  space for anybody that's travelling to space.
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  So that was wild, right? You can see that there's an
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  inflatable space station ready to be built.
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  All of these modules can be connected.
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  You can get different sizes, different shapes.
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  They can do different things like medical.
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  They could be a sleeping pod. There could be something like a
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  workout pod. These things could be built into
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  anything you wanted. Or maybe, like, they want to do
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  they want to do a space hotel, They want to make it into a
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  tourism destination, Put a couple of these pods up in space
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  in orbit, fly people up there on a Falcon 9 dock with it.
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  It'll be sturdy enough to do all this stuff.
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  By the way, it's not inflatable like, you know, like a pool toy
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  or something like that. It's very structurally rigid, so
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  it can handle anything the space station can handle and then
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  some. It's actually more protected
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  from projectiles in the space station, which is incredible.
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  They want to disrupt space, the Space Flight industry.
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  They want to disrupt space tourism, because right now
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  there's only a few things you can do in space.
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  You can fly the space and orbit the Earth.
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  You go to the space station and that's about it.
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  But in the future, if Max Space is successful, they're going to
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  allow people to go to space and live in a space hotel for a
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  little while. It's like an Airbnb in space.
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  How cool is that? Or maybe, you know, maybe
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  there's a shorter duration where you do get to orbit the Earth a
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  bunch of times, then come back down, dock with the Falcon 9,
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  come back down or with the Dragon, sorry, the Crew Dragon.
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  Then come back down to Earth. You know, when your mission is
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  done, and think about the scientific benefits of having a
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  massive space station. Not only can you have space to
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  do things, room to do things, but you can bring up equipment,
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  say on a SpaceX Starship. Massive equipment that you could
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  feed into this thing in the future or masses of equipment.
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  Not massive because we don't know what the ports are going to
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  be like on this in the future. But masses of equipment, tonnage
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  of equipment that you can put into low earth orbit inside of
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  one of these modules sounds pretty impressive right?
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  And the Co owners or the Co founders and Aaron Kemmer and
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  maximum of Dejong Max is a visionary in this space
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  designer, engineer manufacturing, space deployment.
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  Everything is already been done by Max and he's built first two
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  inflatable spacecraft pressure halls, Genesis One and Genesis 2
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  which are circling the globe right now.
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  So there's a proven track record from from at least Max going
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  forward and also Aaron as sort of like a Aaron's the kind of
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  the business guy behind this as far as I know and Max is the
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  engineering brains behind it. But they do have a small team
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  that they're working with to get this done.
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  Medicine and space engineering and space space construction.
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  Think about that. This could be a way for them to
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  store like a storage modules as well in space.
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  So if you bring up pieces for, I don't know, a habitat in space,
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  some other sort of habitat in space, or some spacecraft where
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  you need, there's a bunch of small parts that you need to put
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  into one spot. This could be the way to do it.
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  And you could transport them from either a Starship or a
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  Falcon 9 and you could transport them and store them there until
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  they're needed. After you build the rest of the
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  platform, until you put all these modules together.
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  The thing is, you could build these modules according to them,
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  kind of as big as you want to. And what's really cool about
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  this is that they can build something as big as the space
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  station or a little bit bigger for a fraction of the cost.
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  The space station costs $100 billion to run over the time
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  that it's been up in space. And they think that they can get
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  it down to about $1 billion in operational cost to build this
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  thing in space, fly these and put them in space.
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  So if they could cut it down to a billion dollars, imagine the
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  cost savings for that. And also imagine what else they
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  could put into space for $100 billion, how large that space
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  station would be. So they're saying a stadium size
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  like a like a football or soccer field size to begin with.
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  Like, that's what's what they're aiming for, Bigger than the ISS.
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  They want to be bigger than the ISS and there's more room inside
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  than the ISS. And also, there's no reason why
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  they can't go bigger than that. They're in microgravity.
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  So the gravity isn't going to be yanking down on either end of
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  this thing. It's gonna float around the
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  whole orbit of the Earth. I mean the possibilities are
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  endless up here, you know, with these modules.
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  So I just want to let you know about it because I think it's a
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  really impressive idea and they have a really impressive track
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  record as well. Max, especially Aaron as well
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  Aaron is he's had a couple space programs, space companies in the
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  past, Made in Space, which is space Manufacturing Magic, which
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  is an AI assistant. He's also a former board member
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  of Red Wire Space and he exited in 2021.
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  He's a board member of Outpost Space in a prolific space Angel
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  investor. That's what Aaron is.
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  And Max is a visionary and design engineering and
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  manufacturer of space deployment architecture.
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  So. He built.
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  The first two inflatable spacecraft and they're in orbit
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  still, so that's pretty good as of right now.
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  So Aaron prestigious 30 under 30 Forbes list as well.
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  So business is in Aaron's blood. Let's see.
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  Aaron LED Made in Space to fly dozens of successful space
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  missions and over $250 million in NASA contracts.
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  Aaron holds 6 patents in space related tech with four
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  additional patents pending. So I may have gotten a little
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  bit wrong about Aaron. I thought Aaron was an Angel
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  investor to begin with here. And I know he's he's run some
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  businesses in the past and he has some patents.
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  So I didn't, I didn't say that at the beginning.
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  So I'm like coming back full circle here to let you know
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  about this. And then Red Wire Space, of
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  course, working right now with Max Space.
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  Wild, Wild, Wild, Wild. I hope we have cameras, hope
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  there's a a Dragon capsule or something up there that can film
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  this or they they pop out a little module with a with a
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  camera. That would be great.
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  But we'll see. We'll see what happens in the
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  near future. And I hope it's successful.
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  That's all I got to say. I hope it's successful.
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  It's going to be wild. All right, thanks, everybody.
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  Take care of yourselves and each other, and I will see you in the
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