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One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship

One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship

Update: 2024-10-14
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The fifth test flight of the absolutely enormous Starship went entirely to plan, returning everything to Earth for reuse and heralding a new era of big space missions with small price tags. Two years after Brazilians ejected Jair Bolsonaro, their inept and dangerous former president, he still shapes right-wing politics (11:30 ). And the anxiety-lined past and present of self-help books (19:22 ). 


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One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship

One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship