Virgin Galactic’s George Whitesides: “Democratising space”

The Times Tech Podcast

• Episode: Virgin Galactic’s George Whitesides: “Democratising space”
• Website: The Times Tech Podcast
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• Duration: 00:29:08
• Published: 2020-02-07 06:04

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on George Whitesides, chief executive of Virgin Galactic, to talk about the new space race (3:00), doing more with less (4:15), rethinking space travel (6:45), moon hotels (8:15), democratising space (10:00), being an astronaut (12:15), why space travel is important (13:15), bringing the price down (17:30), avoiding disaster (18:30), governing who gets the lunar spoils (22:00), where space exploration sits in the history of humanity (25:00), and moving to the moon (27:20). 

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