Why Explore the Final Frontier? 🚀 | A Bit of Optimism #podcast

12 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A podcast-style discussion reflecting on long-term goals and challenges of human space exploration, especially interest in Mars and deep-space missions. The speaker frames major space projects as generational, cathedral-like undertakings that require decades of planning and construction rather than rapid iterative launches.

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The obsession with putting a person on Mars. I don't understand it. I think it's about really setting up other places for human civilization to be in the long haul. We are very interested in Mars and beyond. Right, Those deep space exploration things where it's not amenable to the Elon Musk. Launch it, blow it up. If it blows up, you'll launch it again in a few months. These big missions are the modern cathedrals, like they are generational quests that we go on. It takes sometimes 10, 20 years to get to the point of someone saying, great, let's fly that. And then it takes another five to 10 years to build it. So these are really long arc of innovation.