Preview: Author Eric Berger, "Reentry," explains why SpaceX leads all competition, state and private, for monetizing the Earth-Moon system. More tonight.

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

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Preview: Author Eric Berger, "Reentry," explains why SpaceX leads all competition, state and private, for monetizing the Earth-Moon system. More tonight.

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0:00.0	This is John Batchelor, conversation with the author Eric Berger for his new book, Reentry,
0:06.3	the story of SpaceX moving into lower Thorbin and commanding the attention of the commercial
0:12.2	world with its Falcon 9 rockets and then it's heavy, Falcon, and then it's super heavy. What is
0:20.1	the driver for SpaceX? It's heavy. What is the driver for SpaceX?
0:22.4	It's Mars.
0:23.6	What is important for getting to Mars?
0:26.6	The secret is not very secret anymore.
0:29.8	Reusability.
0:31.2	The ability to launch and launch and launch
0:33.4	in rapid pace, the same booster again and again and again.
0:38.0	Here, Eric Berger underlines that evidentiary genius of SpaceX.
0:44.9	Reusability.
0:46.1	Speed, speed, speed, speed.
0:47.7	More of this tonight.
0:48.8	No, it's amazing.
0:49.5	Some of the very first rockets, the demo two version rocket that we're talking about, the rocket that carried
0:55.7	Jared Isaacman and the Inspiration 4 mission, I mean, some of these rockets went on to fly 20 more
1:00.2	times before they were retired or ultimately, as I say, and it had some kind of problem.
1:07.6	So, yes, this was the reuse, the background drumbeat for reuse never stops, John.

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