Ashlee Vance Shares Crazy Stories from Elon Musk to the Billionaire Space Race (#348)

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Peter Beck? Who's winning the billionaire
space race? And who will take care of all their space junk? Here
today to answer all of these questions and more is none other than
Ashlee Vance! Ashlee is a writer at Bloomberg, bestselling author,
filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated host and writer of the tech series
Hello World. Among his most well-known books are Elon Musk: Tesla,
SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future and When The Heavens
Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing To Put Space Within
Reach, which was an instant bestseller, and which we will discuss
in depth today. Ashlee is one of my favorite writers, and it was a
huge honor for me to dive deep into the world of space exploration
with him.  Tune in!  Key Takeaways:  Intro (00:00)
Judging a book by its cover: When The Heavens Went on Sale (01:04)
Pete Worden and his influence on commercial spaceflight (03:20)
Communist vs. capitalist approach to space exploration (06:54) Will
Elon Musk die on Mars? (11:09) On space junk and regulations
(21:57) How to spot talent in space exploration (26:22) On space
tourism (32:00) Global banking at the speed of light (34:38)
Brain-computer interfaces (38:36) Pete Worden, Robert Zubrin,
SpaceX and NASA (41:30) Ashlee’s HBO projects (47:41) Outro (50:20)
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