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Starship Might Change the World by Great Ideas

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In the last two years, former NASA engineer Casey Handmer has written a series of articles that come to a startling conclusion: Elon Musk's "Starship" project at SpaceX has a real chance of changing everything about space travel, and with it, the world.  It could revolutionize major industries, the economy, the technology we live with in the world around us, and the future of humankind.  Sound like a stretch?  Perhaps...but if even just a bit of this revolution comes to pass, Starship could make the world of ten or twenty years from now very different.  So, today on Great Ideas, what is Starship, what does it mean, and why are the implications so profound?

Starship Might Change the World by Great Ideas Great Ideas By Matt Robison America faces challenges. But we’ve also got smart people who spend every day coming up with great ideas for how to meet those challenges. That's what this show is all about. Washington's top policy experts from across the ideological spectrum – the people that our leaders listen to – explain how an issue or a policy works, and then share their newest, most innovative ideas for making it work better. No shouting. No crossfire. Just ideas. Great ideas. Excerpts available in collaboration with PoliticusUSA.com. Listen on

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