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[Interview] Can Anybody Stop SpaceX Now? (with Eric Berger)

2024/11/19
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Will SpaceX be able to deliver Starship in time for Artemis? Will Elon and Donald cancel SLS and replace it with Falcon Heavy? Is there any chance for real competition with SpaceX? How serious is the space race with China? Finding out the answers in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Eric Berger https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/)

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📖 Eric Berger's New Book "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205309521-reentry)

  • 00:00 Intro

  • 01:12 Reentry and the rise of SpaceX

  • 10:24 What happens to SLS

  • 20:17 The state of Starship

  • 30:45 Blue Origin and other competition

  • 35:29 Space race with China

  • 42:11 Questions from the Patreon Community

  • 53:22 Current obsessions

  • 55:11 Final thoughts

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