Paris: There seems to be something quite distinct about this new kind of era and these companies that are defining themselves under new space. Paris: I do think a turning point in the genesis of new space and the proliferation of new space companies does come in 2011 when Barack Obama announces the cancellation of the Space Shuttle program. And then there's this massive acceleration of new space in 2015 with this stunningly bipartisan act that's passed in the US called the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act.
Paris Marx is joined by Mary-Jane Rubenstein to discuss how ideas that underpinned colonization and Manifest Destiny are now setting the foundation for the billionaire space race and the plan to colonize the cosmos.
Mary-Jane Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. She’s also a Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University.
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