Retired Astronaut: Billionaires’ spaceflights boost progress

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Spaceflights by billionaires like Elon Musk push innovation, making space travel more feasible for the future, retired astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman says.  #ElonMusk

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00:00And Elon Musk has suffered another setback with his SpaceX rocket launch this week.

00:06What do you make of the race to space by the millionaires like Elon Musk,

00:11we were just talking about Jeff Bezos there, and Richard Branson?

00:16And will space travel become attainable to the masses anytime soon?

00:21Will I be able to go up there in my lifetime?

00:24Well, I would certainly sign up as soon as you get a chance, okay, on any one of them.

00:28I really would.

00:29I think that, and in fact, I know that each of these, you know,

00:33these three people with resources, and different resources, different visions,

00:37they each have their own way of paving the way to space.

00:41And I don't, when you said soon, will it happen soon that, you know,

00:45thousands and thousands of people will go?

00:48I don't think soon by anybody's definition.

00:50But it does look like life is changing.

00:53And by doing, you know, Elon's approach with the Starship is, I think, quite clever in terms of

01:02being able to build things in such a way that he can afford, and I don't just mean money,

01:06but resources to try things and see how far they get, learn something from that and try again.

01:13And it's always disappointing to see the rocket blow up at a certain stage.

01:18But you have to realize that there is a lot that they're learning

01:22for every second that those engines are firing.

01:25And so there's all these different approaches combined,

01:28hopefully, to you and I going to space together someday.

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