Shane Smith Has Questions

Who will win the Space Race? w/ Ashlee Vance & Jonathan McDowell | Shane Smith Has Questions

Shane Smith Has Questions

Show Notes

Shane Smith sits down with three of the brightest minds pushing humanity’s

final frontier, space. Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, author and space

reporter and documentarian Ashlee Vance, and in-orbit manufacturing pioneer Delian Asparouhov pull back the curtain on the new era of private spaceflight, from cutting-edge rocket tech to factories floating above Earth. It’s a riveting look at how commercial actors, visionary entrepreneurs, and global superpowers are reshaping everything we know—and don’t yet know—about life beyond our planet.

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