Ashlee Vance’s Post

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5432. One go. You've heard about the billionaire space race **** This isn't that movie. We're in the midst of a revolution in space. It's like the Wild West. The era of governments controlling this stuff is over at Astra Space. I run a secret rocket company. Chris is this living embodiment of Silicon Valley. I'm a scientist and he's a capitalist. We're trying to build NASA at. 11 millionth the budget and people take this **** really seriously, right? If you're declaring to the world, do you have a product that works? A bit of bloody work now. I started Rocket lab in 2006. You could not have a more unlikely background for starting a rocket company. No university education, no IRA, space background bucket. Let's start a company. Peters rocket is a very high performance machine, but it's expensive to build. We often get accused of building Ferraris or more like a Ford, a much more high volume product. If Peter's not right, Peter loses. If I'm not right, my adapt, we hit something. **** I'm not built to build ****. I'm going to ******* crucify him. The fabric of our civilization runs on satellites. There is a lot of money to be made-up there. Spice is now open for business. Nothing's riding on this except things like our right to privacy. There are commercial companies that have nothing to do with governments snapping pictures day after day and the power of the world falling into the wrong hands. So now you have thousands of satellites, which themselves are potentially weapons, and whoever controls space may very well control the future of humanity.