Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau, authors of Space to Grow, explain the commercial space economy and the role of NASA, Artemis, commercial space stations, space-based data centers, Starlink, GPS, China’s space program, national security, and space governance.

The conversation covers how governments, private companies, and investors build, fund, regulate, and compete in space, from microgravity research and launch markets to lunar exploration, space resources, and the economics of commercial space.We also try and re-write the Space Treaty and look at the politics of the space race.

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Chapters

(00:00) Government and Markets in Space

(03:35) Microgravity

(07:43) Economic Incentives

(12:14) Political Cycles in Space Policy