Will SpaceX be able to deliver Starship in time for Artemis? Will Elon and Donald cancel SLS and replace it with Falcon Heavy? Is there any chance for real competition with SpaceX? How serious is the space race with China? Finding out the answers in this interview.

🟣 Guest: Eric Berger
https://arstechnica.com/author/ericberger/

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📖 Eric Berger's New Book "Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205309521-reentry

00:00 Intro
01:12 Reentry and the rise of SpaceX
10:24 What happens to SLS
20:17 The state of Starship
30:45 Blue Origin and other competition
35:29 Space race with China
42:11 Questions from the Patreon Community
53:22 Current obsessions
55:11 Final thoughts

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