
Silicon Valley Goes to Space
Season 8 Episode 806 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Discover how Silicon Valley upstarts are launching a new era of private space exploration.
From space tourism to mining the moon to companies building rocket ships to ferry NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300 billion global space industry. But are there new concerns and risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments?
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QUEST is a local public television program presented by KQED
Funding for QUEST is provided by the National Science Foundation.

Silicon Valley Goes to Space
Season 8 Episode 806 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
From space tourism to mining the moon to companies building rocket ships to ferry NASA astronauts into space, a new wave of commercialization is shaking up the $300 billion global space industry. But are there new concerns and risks when space is no longer the exclusive domain of big governments?
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