Another Think Coming  with Mac King

7: Building Rockets


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NASA and Elon Musk want to send enough people, equipment and supplies to Mars to colonize the Red Planet. Every day more satellites join the thousands of man-made hunks of metal orbiting our planet. Dozens of private companies now specialize in spaceflight. At this juncture, the demand for launching humans and things they built and need into outer space seems only likely to grow. ABL Space Systems founder and CEO and Space X alumnus Harry O'Hanley is building rockets to help launch the hundreds of small satellites (smallsats) expected to join the other objects orbiting earth in the next few years and believes our future among the stars depends on a non-sexy, durable, workhorse, F-150 of a rocket we likely already possess the technological expertise to create.
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Another Think Coming  with Mac KingBy Fox 5 Podcast Network