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9-29: Starship Makes History. Space Flights For You And Me Soon? · Wicked Radio with Bill Adams

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  Speaker 1: We only have a few chances to pick our spots
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  Speaker 1: to talk about stuff that's actually hopeful and inspirational and
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  Speaker 1: all this other stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Because let's not forget, we are in silly season, right,
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  Speaker 2: with all the propaganda and the lie.
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  Speaker 1: The midterms are weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: So when this came around yesterday, I was going to
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  Speaker 2: watch the SpaceX launch, the NASA launch, and joint partnership
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  Speaker 2: anyway yesterday. It turned into something way more incredible than
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  Speaker 2: I thought. And I said, I didn't think that many
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  Speaker 2: people would even be into this or even watch it.
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  Speaker 2: As luck would have it, shortly after the live stream
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  Speaker 2: yesterday with Wicked Radio, this launch happened with the Falcon
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  Speaker 2: 9 Super Heavy Rocket Starship Flight 14. And I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at the live stream numbers on this right from their
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  Speaker 2: live stream itself. It had reached millions of people watching.
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  Speaker 2: They said, this is great. This is actually great news.
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  Speaker 2: So we can get out of the swampy news for
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  Speaker 2: a second and talk about something inspirational. More important than that, though,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about the achievements, what they did yesterday. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a space nerd. I don't know if you are or not,
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  Speaker 2: but I never thought realistically anybody would be able to
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  Speaker 2: go into normal people. You and me would be able
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  Speaker 2: to go into space, go to the moon, do this,
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  Speaker 2: do this, and actually make it into orbit someday in
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  Speaker 2: our lifetime. Maybe our kids, but our lifetime. Let's think
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  Speaker 2: selfishly about this. All of that changed for me yesterday
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  Speaker 2: with this because I think it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: I really do. Let's think selfishly. What's in it for us?
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  Speaker 2: But if you missed this whole thing because, you know,
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  Speaker 2: You were busy working or doing other stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I've got the rundown for you and what it means.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Even for non-space geeks, this is important stuff. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for finding me.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. Wicked Radio for a Tuesday. Welcome to it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make it a wicked awesome one. And X, YouTube, Facebook,
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  Speaker 1: Audio podcast, as always, right.
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  Speaker 2: There for you. They're your favorite audio podcast platforms. If
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  Speaker 2: you did happen to miss it, here's the recap. The
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  Speaker 2: super heavy rocket made it into orbit for the first
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  Speaker 2: time ever. Like I said, shortly after my live stream yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: this thing was happening just a few minutes later, within
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  Speaker 2: the hour.
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  Speaker 1: And if you missed it, this is what went down,
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  Speaker 1: or I should say up. Three, two, one.
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  Speaker 2: Roger that.
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  Speaker 1: Largest vehicle ever to go to space.
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  Speaker 2: Right there would be pretty amazing. And they've done test
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  Speaker 2: launches before, but what this thing achieved, and they had
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  Speaker 2: to overcome some obstacles. Obviously, during the launch, I guess
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  Speaker 2: one of the rocket boosters had failed, but they decided
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  Speaker 2: to go anyway into orbit. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: a second. Amazing, momentous achievement. For a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a wrap-up, this was... Brett Baer, last night on Fox,
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  Speaker 2: giving a little description, then we'll get into it a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more, what they did.
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  Speaker 3: Meantime, the largest rocket ever built has achieved orbit for
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  Speaker 3: the first time. SpaceX launched its enormous Starship on a
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  Speaker 3: crucial test flight as the company seeks to ready its
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  Speaker 3: rocket for future lunar and Mars missions. Senior correspondent Jonathan
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  Speaker 3: Serres in Atlanta tonight with that story.
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  Speaker 2: And you hear, thank you, Brett Baer, and you hear
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  Speaker 2: something like that, future Mars and moon missions and this
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  Speaker 2: and that, and it sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Like, you know, just like, you know, that's great. It's
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  Speaker 1: great for Elon.
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  Speaker 2: It's great for NASA, this public-private relationship that's reinvigorated space travel,
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  Speaker 2: and that's great. And you may be thinking, well, that's
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  Speaker 2: great for, like, the people who maybe want to get
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  Speaker 2: into aeronautics or, you know, rocketry, whatever it is. No,
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  Speaker 2: this is something, even after yesterday and the success of yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: that does apply to you and me and everybody else. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the fun question I like to ask is, are we
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  Speaker 2: ever going to be able to go to space in
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  Speaker 2: our lifetime?
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  Speaker 1: Sure, that's fun to ask. More importantly, what it.
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  Speaker 2: Means and what they were able to do with these
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  Speaker 2: satellites yesterday and connectivity for the entire world was absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 2: All right, a little more details beyond what Brett Baer
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  Speaker 2: said there and what it means. First time this giant
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  Speaker 2: vehicle actually reached orbit. That and the second here. Happened
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  Speaker 2: just after about 7.48 a.m. Central Time yesterday. Super heavy
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  Speaker 2: booster Starship 41, the largest, most powerful rocket ever flown.
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  Speaker 1: Right there is pretty amazing when you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I get it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like even with the Apollo missions, by the time
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  Speaker 2: Apollo 13, 15, 17 rolled around, people were like, eh,
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  Speaker 2: it's another rocket. Do you remember the space shuttle flights,
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  Speaker 2: which still were engineering miracles? By the time, it's just,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's human nature, especially as Americans. We're kind
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  Speaker 2: of like, yeah, we did it, no big deal. This
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  Speaker 2: is why I think it's not to overlook what we
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  Speaker 2: achieved with this thing yesterday, because it was incredible. So
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  Speaker 2: once in orbit, the cargo door opens up and it,
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  Speaker 2: It dispersed these satellites almost immediately. I'm telling you, if
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  Speaker 2: you missed this live, you may have seen the clip
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  Speaker 2: of this entire thing. It was like watching a science
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  Speaker 2: fiction movie. They had the cameras, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: are incredible on these rockets, high-definition HD cameras, which means
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be amazing to watch when we do
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  Speaker 2: go back to the moon because it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: in high definition.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be incredible.
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  Speaker 2: The camera on the side of the ship had it
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  Speaker 2: on the bay doors, and it would open up a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, and ooh, Out would pop a satellite.
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  Speaker 1: And then another one. And then another one.
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  Speaker 2: And then the SpaceX live stream cameras, the director, panned
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  Speaker 2: over to what's going on inside this thing. Because I'm
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  Speaker 2: thinking like many other people were like, how are they
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  Speaker 2: stacking all.
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  Speaker 1: These in this ship? I get that it's big, but
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  Speaker 1: these are big satellites. They had them all stacked.
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  Speaker 2: And then inside, the robotic arm would launch it out
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  Speaker 2: and push it out into orbit to get these satellites.
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  Speaker 1: 26 of them.
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  Speaker 2: Not only 26, they connected on the ground satellites. and
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  Speaker 2: connected immediately. All 26 were complete and total successes. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And they fit because when they would shoot out the side,
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  Speaker 2: which you'll see here in a second, of the ship,
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  Speaker 2: they were flat. Once the solar power hit them, they
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  Speaker 2: would unfold and then they would go into their orbit
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  Speaker 2: around the Earth. I mean, this is like, this is
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  Speaker 2: incredible stuff happening. And this was probably one of the
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  Speaker 2: most watched launches ever. I mean, honestly, besides, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Apollo 11. But I don't think not even enough people
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  Speaker 2: understand how big this was.
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  Speaker 1: This was incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Here was the moment where they launched all of these
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  Speaker 2: little satellites that went out into the earth. And again,
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  Speaker 2: successfully connected with Starlink almost immediately when they went into
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  Speaker 2: the earth.
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  Speaker 4: There we go.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that.
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  Speaker 4: If you're a Starlink customer, between 32 degrees north and
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  Speaker 4: 32 degrees south, within the next few months, your Starlink
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  Speaker 4: dish could be connecting to that satellite you just saw deployed.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That really, I'm telling you, you don't even have to,
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  Speaker 2: I get, you know, I'm a space geek, self-described, not
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  Speaker 2: as much as those guys, which is actually cool.
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  Speaker 1: That these people are in charge.
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  Speaker 2: That means with these Starlink satellites, that means people in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of a desert, impoverished nations, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: change satellite technology. Starlink's been around forever, but now connected immediately.
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  Speaker 2: There were business concerns here with this whole thing, and
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  Speaker 2: there was one other thing, too, with these payloads. All
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  Speaker 2: 26 of them, by the way, successfully launched into orbit
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  Speaker 2: and connected with Earth almost immediately as soon as the
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  Speaker 2: solar power hit them.
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  Speaker 1: This was the first. Let's not forget about this.
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  Speaker 2: This was the first successful money-making launch in SpaceX's history.
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  Speaker 1: They made money.
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  Speaker 2: I hate to be an Elon Musk fanboy, and you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to be to understand this.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone told him this wouldn't work. Everyone did.
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  Speaker 2: And now you've got not only that as a successful
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  Speaker 2: company to get into space and engineering marvels and all
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  Speaker 2: this other stuff, look what it's done for NASA, our
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  Speaker 2: national space program, with this public-private relationship where they're working
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  Speaker 2: together now. This very well could have saved NASA. Trust me,
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  Speaker 2: as somebody that lives in Florida, when you went up
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  Speaker 2: to the space coast 15 years ago around Canaveral and
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  Speaker 2: Melbourne and Titusville, it was dead. After the shuttle program,
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  Speaker 2: it was dead. And there was no interest. There was
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  Speaker 2: no nothing. They had no idea. It was a bloated
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  Speaker 2: federal agency. This has reduced the cost of going into space.
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  Speaker 2: It's expanded our possibilities of what we can do there
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  Speaker 2: going forward for all of it.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: You got a guy directly involved in this with Elon
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  Speaker 2: here who's making the calls directly during launch. Remember they
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  Speaker 2: had said that there was one failed booster rocket, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: but they made the call to go into orbit anyway,
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  Speaker 2: which was historic. This was him on the scene saying,
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  Speaker 2: making the call to go.
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  Speaker 4: There's a pinner that keeps QE on from the whole
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  Speaker 4: QE on, and it turns back.
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  Speaker 3: There's a pin that locks into place. The hydraulic actuator
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  Speaker 3: is not pulling it up, it seems to be.
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  Speaker 4: NEON is actually really, really good at quickly absorbing information,
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  Speaker 4: understanding the stakes, understanding the consequences, understanding if today's our
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  Speaker 4: day or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hard to tell. This is all fogged up
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  Speaker 1: from cryo, but it's essentially right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's in real time. if you're watching the live stream
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  Speaker 2: on SpaceX's stream. This is real-time, the head of the company,
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  Speaker 2: the guy that's put the investment in to all of
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  Speaker 2: this stuff, making the call to go ahead and go
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  Speaker 2: into orbit anyway despite one mechanical failure, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine if we had that kind of real-time
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  Speaker 2: information and a camera in the face of some of
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  Speaker 2: the guys with the Apollo missions?
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  Speaker 1: Well, we did. We have the document.
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  Speaker 2: No, that was all after the fact we found out
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  Speaker 2: about this stuff. This was in real-time, a camera in
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  Speaker 2: his face, for complete transparency to make a call to
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  Speaker 2: go ahead with this thing. And I think it would
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  Speaker 2: have been the same even if this was.
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  Speaker 1: A manned mission. That's pretty damn incredible. All right. None
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  Speaker 1: of this matters unless it actually means something for all
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  Speaker 1: of us.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise, it's just a hobby. Here's what it actually means.
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  Speaker 2: Now this thing can go into orbit as they proved yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: A little shorter flight than it was than what they
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  Speaker 2: had planned because of that engine, and it landed like
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  Speaker 2: three hours later. Again, the landing, by the way, was
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  Speaker 2: another thing. The reusable booster rocket lands in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of the Pacific Ocean. where they can use it again.
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  Speaker 2: NASA wasn't doing that. They were just wasting these rockets.
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  Speaker 2: They had recycled what they could, but not like this.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely incredible. And some of the other experimental missions
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  Speaker 2: that they had gone on, where they land this booster
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  Speaker 2: rocket on a floating barge in the middle of the ocean,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to be kidding me. Again, I go back
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  Speaker 2: to the question, did any of us think this was possible?
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  Speaker 1: Well, now it is. All right, what does it mean?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to that.
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  Speaker 2: Now that it goes into orbit, it can deploy real payloads,
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  Speaker 2: come back under control. Another first.
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  Speaker 1: It can start flying for real.
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  Speaker 2: Future flights can carry up to 60 of these Starlink satellites.
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  Speaker 2: This was just 26, remember, but all successful. A necessary
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  Speaker 2: step towards, and here's where you get to the big thing,
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  Speaker 2: NASA's Artemis human landing system. And towards the high cadence,
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  Speaker 2: fully reusable system they want from Mars to and massive
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  Speaker 2: satellite deployments. There were no bigger fans of Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: yesterday and SpaceX than Jared Isaacman and everybody at NASA
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  Speaker 2: and everybody for space exploration to go to the moon.
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  Speaker 2: This proved so many different things. Now it's possible. This
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  Speaker 2: thing's in orbit. It was amazing to watch. It was
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  Speaker 2: a nice hobby kind of thing. If you've been into
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  Speaker 2: space launches and all that stuff, that was amazing. But again,
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  Speaker 2: I go back to it. This is what it means
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  Speaker 2: for you and me and regular people. This changed everything
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  Speaker 2: for me yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It really did.
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  Speaker 2: And I know I'm geeking out here, and I understand that.
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  Speaker 2: Possibly because my wife and I just got back from
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  Speaker 2: the Kennedy Space Center. That's neither here nor there.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of inspiring.
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  Speaker 2: But it means things like the satellite launches, connectivity for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of humanity for this thing, which was great
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  Speaker 2: news for everybody. That means free information, and people are
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  Speaker 2: free to develop on their own, even in impoverished nations.
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  Speaker 1: And that cuts down on war. That's big right there.
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  Speaker 2: And then the practical implications of what this actually means.
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  Speaker 2: Business implications, payloads, launches, things you can do.
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  Speaker 1: But how about this? Besides the fact that we like to.
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  Speaker 2: Ask a question, and I love this question because I
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  Speaker 2: didn't think it was possible before yesterday, regular people like
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  Speaker 2: you and me, we're never going to go to space.
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  Speaker 2: It never, ever, ever seemed possible to me. I always
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  Speaker 2: like to ask the question. I thought maybe my kids
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  Speaker 2: are grandkids. That was the timeline I put on it.
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  Speaker 2: With the advancement with what they've done with this partnership
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  Speaker 2: between NASA and SpaceX, oh, I think it's totally possible.
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  Speaker 2: I actually think it's not out of the realm of possibility,
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  Speaker 2: and this is great because it inspires everybody, that you
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  Speaker 2: and I, and I think it would still be expensive
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  Speaker 2: but still possible, could buy orbital trips, tourist trips, around
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  Speaker 2: Earth one or two times. I think it's totally possible now.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it be?
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  Speaker 2: They launched 26 successful satellites immediately yesterday out of this
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  Speaker 2: thing and went into orbit and came home safely.
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  Speaker 1: Would you go? Oh, I'd go in a heartbeat. I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely would.
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  Speaker 2: There's another thing about this, too, and I know this
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  Speaker 2: is kind of like this is corny as hell. The
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  Speaker 2: whole thing is corny. I get it, but it's exciting
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  Speaker 2: to think about the possibilities. You've got to think about
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  Speaker 2: what this means to inspiring young engineers and people into
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  Speaker 2: science and people who want to look forward with all this.
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  Speaker 2: Remember the AI discussion that happened last week? And I
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  Speaker 2: give President Trump credit for this. He said, we don't
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  Speaker 2: slow down. We forge ahead.
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  Speaker 4: We're Americans.
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  Speaker 1: We're Americans. We don't slow down with all this fear
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  Speaker 1: and all this other stuff. We gain control of it.
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  Speaker 2: Very similar with this, with the speech that John F.
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy made about going to the moon. Not because it's easy,
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  Speaker 2: because it's hard. We venture forward. We've always been voyagers.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing Elon has said. That's inspiring. And I do
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  Speaker 2: have to tell you on the personal side of things,
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  Speaker 2: I have seen, and I go back to that Kennedy
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  Speaker 2: Space Center trip again, I saw more kids interested in
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  Speaker 2: this kind of stuff, teenagers, even younger, science and different things,
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  Speaker 2: than ever before. All of this stuff has a trickle-down effect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for you and me, and maybe it's fun to talk
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  Speaker 2: about going to space someday. What's really important is what
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  Speaker 2: we do with it and what the younger generations see.
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  Speaker 2: It's that whole time where it was like, okay, we
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  Speaker 2: went to the moon, we haven't gone back, space shuttle's
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  Speaker 2: not going on anymore. You have some of our young
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  Speaker 2: engineering and aeronautic minds going, why do I want to
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  Speaker 2: look into that?
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  Speaker 1: Now they have a reason to. It was very quietly.
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  Speaker 2: It's better than before, but very quietly one of the
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  Speaker 2: most amazing developments we've ever witnessed yesterday, and they're only
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  Speaker 2: going to go forward from here.
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  Speaker 1: That thing was freaking awesome, so go. So here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to space, you and me? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think so. I hope they can cut the cost down, though,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't know what that's going to cost, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll find out. At least it's going to be possible,
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks for hanging out with me, and thanks
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  Speaker 2: for humoring me to get something out of the regular
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  Speaker 2: news and talk.
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  Speaker 1: About some space geek stuff, because I think it's important.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Be inspired. We're going to space if we're
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