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PETER DIAMANDIS: A lot of people say the space shuttle program
is over, and it's the end of space in America. They're wrong.
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[TEXT: Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO Xprize Foundation]
This is the beginning of the most exciting period
of human space flight ever.
of human space flight ever.
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BOB MARKS: There's a lot imagination out there. There's a hole out there.
People are hungry for space flight.
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[TEXT: Bob Marks, Director of Supply Chain, The Spaceship Company]
And entrepreneurs are going to make this thing happen next.
01:00:19.000,01:00:23.042
[TEXT: Private Space Flight in America]
01:00:23.042,01:00:25.333
[TEXT: Kirstin Grantham, Director of Communications, SpaceX]
GRANTHAM: We build rockets that carry payloads to orbit
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[TEXT: SPACECRAFT]
and we have the spacecraft that is going to carry
and we have the spacecraft that is going to carry
astronauts and cargo.
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[TEXT: ROCKETS]
JEFF GREASON: We develop rocket engines and
JEFF GREASON: We develop rocket engines and
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[TEXT: Jeff Greason, CEO and Co-founder, Xcor Aerospace]
all of the other pieces that make a propulsion system.
01:00:34.792,01:00:38.000
[TEXT: Keith Colmer Test Pilot Virgin Galactic]
KEITH COLMER: We're really about providing
the average person
the average person
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[TEXT: FLIGHT]
the ability to go into space.
the ability to go into space.
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Five to 10 seconds, you're going to be going Mach 1 supersonic.
01:00:43.542,01:00:46.708
Thirty seconds later you're going to be going
through Mach 2 or Mach 3 —
through Mach 2 or Mach 3 —
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basically going straight uphill. It's going to be quite a ride.
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We’re really breaking new ground.
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DIAMANDIS: True innovation means an ability to take extraordinary risk.
01:00:56.208,01:00:59.667
GREASON: It depends on freedom — the freedom to fail,
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the freedom to reap the rewards of your investment if it's
successful.
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GRANTHAM: The U.S. government and private companies are working together.
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With the experience that NASA has, and this innovative business culture,
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we'll see a real advancement that we haven't seen in decades.
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DIAMANDIS: There is a culture here in the United States that says,
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"If I have a dream, I can go make it happen."
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MICHAEL MOSES: To go off and just apply technology to whatever
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[TEXT: Michael Moses V.P. of Operations Virgin Galactic]
you dream it to be — it’s a pretty cool thing to be able to do.
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GRANTHAM: People who want to participate in this industry don’t do it 'cause
it’s easy. Space is tough.
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GREASON: The reason we are in the industry is to see that the industry
happens.
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[TEXT: Aleta Jackson Manager Xcor Aerospace]
JACKSON: We cheer each other on.
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When Spaceship 1 flew, we had the world's largest tailgate party here
in the hangar.
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And it was in celebration of what they were doing.
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DIAMANDIS: Space is ultimately the future of humanity. These
entrepreneurs take huge risks.
entrepreneurs take huge risks.
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And because of that, we're really going to have a revolution in space
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and making it possible for all of us to do it repeatedly, cheaply
and safely.
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MOSES: Once those people get to go into space and see the earth from above
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their boundaries expand, their visions expand.
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It really will change your view of life here on Earth.
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MARKS: Mach 3 straight up? You know you want to do it.
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