SpaceX’s Starship project shows great promise and could become the “railway express” of the space economy, says Kevin O’Connell, Trump’s former Director of Space Commerce.
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00:00It's SpaceX's Starship project, the largest liftoff, I think, that occurred, and it's
00:07supposed to have the capability of taking up to 100 passengers into space down the road.
00:11How much has that advanced the prospect of human presence in space?
00:15Well, I think it's advanced all manner of space, I mean, the test flights have gotten
00:19more and more successful, obviously, and as I think I said earlier, this could be the
00:26railway express of the space economy.
00:29It will certainly, in the first instance, allow us to get lots of material into space
00:36in a much more significant way than we have historically.
00:39The human piece will come at some point, probably sooner rather than later.