The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race w/ Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Relationship Between the Obama Administration and NASA
In 2010, 2011 when Obama is kind of canceling that program and starting to shift things into a more private orientation with NASA. Elon Musk, as you may know, spent years trying to get the US government to listen to him. So he ended up driving a multi-hundred foot rocket on a flatbed truck from Texas to Washington, D.C. And also, of course, there's the capitalist dream of turning everything over to the private industry in order to spur innovation,. There's this long standing sense that NASA hadn't done anything since the Apollo missions; it hadn't moved anywhere.
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