Is the Space Race For Real?
6/18/202638 min
The new space race isn't between nations but rather between billionaires. With our guest Tim Higgins of the Wall Street Journal, we unpack how Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk turned a decades-old dream of private spaceflight into one of the fiercest rivalries in business, as rockets, fortunes, and outsized personalities collide.
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Elon Musk· Soundbite0:39
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Natalie Robehmed· Host0:43
[upbeat music] From Sony Music Entertainment and Campsite Media, this is Infamous. I'm Natalie Robehmed. So if you were reading the news last week, you probably heard that Elon Musk's space company, SpaceX, went public in the biggest IPO of all time. The IPO raised more than five times the amount Facebook did when it went public back in 2012, and SpaceX is now valued at more than $1.7 trillion. This all means that Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire. So he has, at least on paper, a million million dollars, which is just crazy.
Elon Musk· Soundbite1:25
SpaceX right now in terms of getting things into orbit, getting to space,