Who owns the Moon?
In June, SpaceX went public in the largest IPO in history. Three days earlier, a German historian published a book explaining why that moment had been 60 years in the making.
CapX editor Marc Sidwell sits down with Rainer Zitelmann to discuss ‘New Space Capitalism’, Zitelmann's account of how private enterprise took over the final frontier. They also discuss how SpaceX cut launch costs by 95%, why the space shuttle was a fiasco, what cost-plus contracting does to a defence budget and who will own the land beneath the first city on Mars.
Zitelmann argues that space is the one industry where…
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