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Axios Re:Cap

What SpaceX’s recent successes mean for its ambitions

Axios Re:Cap

Axios

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4.5705 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Last week brought a spate of updates on SpaceX's programs. There was a major test of its Starship engines, the spacecraft that could someday be used to bring humans to the moon. SpaceX’s Crew2 mission to and from the International Space Station returned safely. And finally, Axios Space reporter Miriam Kramer caught up with SpaceX’s first all-civilian crew about life after space.  Axios Re:Cap host Felix Salmon is joined by Miriam Kramer to unpack what all of these events tell us about SpaceX’s near-term plans, future ambitions and lines of business.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Felix Salmon and welcome to Axios Recap, where we dig into one big story.

0:10.1

Today is Monday, November the 15th, and we are focused on a very big story.

0:15.0

Humans in space via SpaceX.

0:21.6

SpaceX is the Elon Musk company that isn't Tesla.

0:25.6

It has been sending civilians into space.

0:27.6

It has been sending NASA astronauts into space.

0:30.6

It has been bringing NASA astronauts down from the International Space Station.

0:36.6

It is building a spaceship to take humans to the moon.

0:40.8

All of this is what I'm going to be talking to Miriam Kramer about. She is the amazing space

0:46.9

correspondent for Axios. She also hosted the even more amazing how it happened podcast for Axios.

0:53.8

And we're going to talk about what happened

0:55.7

last week, like the test of the Starship engines by SpaceX, the return of the crew two mission

1:02.3

from the International Space Station, where they've been spending like the previous 200 days

1:07.4

floating in orbit. We're going to talk about the civilians. She's been following SpaceX and

1:13.2

its astronauts for years. I'm going to ask her what she's learned from those humans, what it might

1:18.3

tell us about future civilian missions, and what it tells us about the future of SpaceX and

1:24.1

where it's making its money. All of that coming up on Axios Recap. Miriam Kramer, welcome.

1:34.6

Thanks, Felix. Thanks for having me. You are the expert on humans going into space, and humans are

1:40.9

going into space like all the time now. It's a thing. It is a thing. There are a lot

1:46.1

of people going into space these days. And you've been talking to these people who've been going

1:49.9

on to space. A lot of them have been going into space on SpaceX rockets, which is the company

1:56.5

that is largely owned by Elon Musk. And he loves sending people into space. And is this just the

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