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The New Space Race

Reusable rockets are real, the internet is in orbit, and we’re heading to Mars. With space manufacturing, asteroid mining, and lunar bases, the new space race has just begun, transforming life on Earth forever.
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Aerospace
The billionaire building space lasers to power Earth
Space startup Aetherflux has a mission straight out of sci-fi: harvest solar power in orbit and beam it down to Earth via laser. 
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Aerospace
T-Minus: Counting down the top 10 space stories of 2024
A look back on the 10 greatest space stories of 2024, from SpaceX’s “Mechazilla” to a first-of-its-kind civilian spacewalk.
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Aerospace
T-Minus: Kessler Syndrome
Experts answer 10 big questions about the nightmare scenario that could send us back to the pre-Space Age.
Aerospace
T-Minus: 10 milestones in commercial spaceflight
T-Minus looks back at 10 major milestones in the commercial space industry — including several SpaceX triumphs.
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Outer Space
Where did the commercial space sector come from?
Private companies have worked with NASA for decades. Can the next generation of space companies get by without the…
Outer Space
Can XCOR build the world's first airline for space?
Out of a small hangar in the Mojave Desert, XCOR is developing a rocket ship designed to fly to space four times a…
Outer Space
This week in ideas: Rockets in flight, poverty in decline, and explaining the unexplainable
A step forward for space tourism, extreme poverty could be on its way out, and illustrating advanced tech. These…
Outer Space
The new space race is here
Our new show will introduce you to the people and the technology that could make humans a multi-planetary species…
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Four flights a day. five days a week.
At XCOR, the dream of taking regular commercial flights to space is alive and well.
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A delivery service for the moon
This startup wants to offer the world insanely accurate shipping to the moon.
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Meet the next generation of explorers taking us higher and farther than ever before.
Outer Space
Elon Musk explains the economics of getting to Mars
The SpaceX founder gave a rousing presentation on his company’s long-term plan for getting to Mars and establishing…
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