Space in the 2020's
summary
A rapid shift from billionaire suborbital rides to scalable orbital access is underway: SpaceshipTwo seats advertised at $250k and Axiom selling ISS trips at $55M per seat, while SpaceX drives launch costs down with reusable Falcon 9s (now logging a 13th landing of a Falcon 9 booster) and prototypes Starship aiming for full reusability with a lower stage packed with 32 Raptor engines. NASA builds lunar infrastructure (Gateway in a near‑rectilinear halo orbit) and funds 10 kW Kilopower reactors for decade‑long surface power.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction to space
- 1:06Geek outs and NASA history
- 4:45The surge in space tourism
- 10:36Crew Dragon and civilian flight
- 15:39Axiom and future tourism
- 18:00Rocketry and propulsion
- 22:59NASA's Artemis project
- 25:41SpaceX Starship innovation
- 36:08The future of space stations
- 46:21Returning to the moon
- 53:50Lunar infrastructure plans
- 1:06:25Power and closing thoughts
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