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Contrarian Futures

The Futurists

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The Future of the Space Station

Space is more accessible now. And that's the thing that will change. The cost to orbit, right now, I think SpaceX is running at what? $1,100, $1,200 per kilogram to orbit. Starship will get that down to around $100 kilograms to orbit. So, you know, space is a lot more accessible just because of that lowering of the cost. But as Elon will argue, it happened because of like first principles thinking and engineering.

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