SpaceX starship project looks promising

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SpaceX’s Starship project shows great promise and could become the “railway express” of the space economy, says Kevin O’Connell, Trump’s former Director of Space Commerce. #SpaceX

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00:00It's SpaceX's Starship project, the largest liftoff, I think, that occurred, and it's

00:07supposed to have the capability of taking up to 100 passengers into space down the road.

00:11How much has that advanced the prospect of human presence in space?

00:15Well, I think it's advanced all manner of space, I mean, the test flights have gotten

00:19more and more successful, obviously, and as I think I said earlier, this could be the

00:26railway express of the space economy.

00:29It will certainly, in the first instance, allow us to get lots of material into space

00:36in a much more significant way than we have historically.

00:39The human piece will come at some point, probably sooner rather than later.

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