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#141 George Pullen on the Space Economy

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The Space Economy and National Security

Today the space industry generates about 500 billion, that's a B, 500 billion dollars worth of activity every year. Some forecasts from major banks have put it at anywhere from one to two trillion dollars over the next several decades. When you see a space economy that might be either four trillion or even 10 trillion and then put that next to a global economy of, as I mentioned today, currently 100 trillion, you can see how you'd be generating as much economic activity as we get from some continents today. So that means space, which is 100 miles up, right? Technically 60 miles up, 100 kilometers up, but there's always some debate back in forth on the carbon line.

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