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00:00:23October 6th, the deadline for seeing if AFD manages to
00:00:27form a local government. What repercussions
00:00:31does this have at a national level for Germany and for Europe? We are following
00:00:34it closely, in global connection for CNN Spanish.
00:00:50We are CNN, the world leader in
00:00:53news.
00:01:00Greetings, I'm Bill Nye, like everyone you've
00:01:03ever met, I'm from Earth. We'll represent
00:01:07Earth with this blue circle. Another
00:01:10familiar object is the
00:01:12Sun.
00:01:16Closer to us than the Sun is the Moon,
00:01:19right here, the
00:01:21Moon.
00:01:24Rays of sunlight filter through the darkness
00:01:27of space and every now and then. The Moon
00:01:31casts a dark shadow on Earth, therefore,
00:01:34if you're in the path of the shadow, you'll see
00:01:38an
00:01:38eclipse.
00:01:45Eclipses have piqued humanity's curiosity throughout history.
00:01:49trying to help Seeing the sky darken and
00:01:53crickets chirping in broad daylight creates
00:01:56a spectacular phenomenon here on Earth.
00:02:02journalist is always exposed to The solar eclipse that occurred in August 2026 could be seen in its
00:02:04entirety from some locations, many people traveled to those sites to be able to
00:02:08appreciate it. The truth is that the Moon has a very
00:02:11romantic and seductive quality in our
00:02:15oral tradition, and that is the Moon to which we can now
00:02:19go.
00:02:21an experience, the cradle of The space race intensifies once again, China launches its latest mission to the
00:02:25Moon.
00:02:30The Moon, the question is, should we go back first? It's
00:02:34the United States and its billionaires versus
00:02:36And it sent a message to the world about what China. For better or worse, whether
00:02:39the United States returns to the Moon depends on Elon
00:02:42Musk. He is an immensely complex,
00:02:46immensely successful, and problematic figure, and Jeff
00:02:49"Look at NASA's failure." Elon Bezos is trying to carve out a niche for himself in that
00:02:51territory.
00:02:55space With Blue Origin or SpaceX, they have put all their effort into returning to the Moon with two people, that's a big
00:02:59step. Many people are worried that
00:03:03they could increase their power by taking advantage of space
00:03:06to get more of what
00:03:08preparing the launch they want on Earth,
00:03:10power that eclipses Musk, Bezos, and the new space
00:03:14race.
00:03:17The first rocket launch I witnessed was Robert Curiosity's to
00:03:21Mars. I was sitting with the entire
00:03:24scientific team who in some cases had worked for
00:03:28decades planning, designing, and
00:03:32taking off from the launch building. It was the dreams, the effort, the
00:03:34blood, sweat, and tears of hundreds of
00:03:37people, all depending on that rocket not
00:03:40exploding. Main engine start, zero
00:03:44and Atlas 5 liftoff with
00:03:47Curiosity.
00:03:52And when you see it take off, it's brighter and louder than you can
00:03:55imagine.
00:03:59So...
00:04:03done yet, now what
00:04:30Dense is in charge of Amazon lottery into SpaceX, they have
00:04:32far exceeded all expectations.
00:04:36We did it, my God.
00:04:40Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 and it was largely a
00:04:43passion project of his.
00:04:46As a child, he read the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and
00:04:50dreamed of our country returning to space and to
00:04:54as a mascot and they have a motto in Mars. I've always been interested in space,
00:04:56but I didn't think there was anything I could do
00:05:00individually. I thought space was really the
00:05:03domain
00:05:06of the government. They were driving back from Long Island with
00:05:10some friends trying to figure out how NASA would get to
00:05:13Mars. I started to
00:05:16find out when we would go to Mars, because it seems
00:05:20obvious that it's the next step after the
00:05:22Moon.
00:05:24And I didn't find anything, so I thought, this is
00:05:28very strange. Then he says: I'm going to found a
00:05:31company. His friends think he's crazy. So
00:05:35they made a video compiling rocket
00:05:37explosions. Hoping that would
00:05:41dissuade him. And he said, that strengthened my
00:05:45resolve.
00:05:48Elon Musk saw himself as someone who could invest his own money to
00:05:52revitalize these very bold and
00:05:54extravagant ambitions.
00:05:57He's a very entrepreneurial guy, he started a yellow pages company and put them
00:06:01online, and then he moved on to the payment company called
00:06:04X.com. Great exact,
00:06:07X.com. I think X.com could become a multibillion-dollar
00:06:10goldmine. He had a big rival and they ended
00:06:14up merging, leading to PayPal. When
00:06:17I met Elon Musk years ago, I was introduced to him as Elon Musk,
00:06:21founder of PayPal, and I like to joke as if it were one
00:06:24word, Elon Musk, founder of PayPal. Hey, I'd like to introduce you to Bill. Hi,
00:06:28I'm Elon Musk, founder of PayPal. He's slowly pushed
00:06:31aside because he's a difficult person to work with, but he accepts the
00:06:35PayPal payout. So he creates SpaceX and then
00:06:38Tesla and keeps inventing new things.
00:06:42It wasn't that he thought about the businesses
00:06:45that could be started and then the
00:06:49easiest way to make
00:06:51money.
00:06:54It was really about identifying the most important
00:06:57problems in the world that need solutions and then
00:07:02solve them. I remember him talking about rockets and his
00:07:05vision was compelling. SpaceX's
00:07:07goal is to revolutionize space
00:07:11transport by dramatically improving cost and
00:07:15reliability, by building rockets large
00:07:18enough and capable of reaching other
00:07:22planets, particularly Mars. Basically,
00:07:26the rockets we used to send astronauts to the Moon were disposable
00:07:29rockets.
00:07:32The whole concept of SpaceX was to develop a rocket that not only flies once,
00:07:36but can fly multiple
00:07:37times.
00:07:42They start building the hardware, they make mistakes, they blow
00:07:46things up. It's an interesting transfer from
00:07:50Silicon Valley, it's called failing fast, and in a way that could
00:07:53only happen because it wasn't a government
00:07:56agency. NASA destroys a rocket and it's in the news for a month,
00:08:02blows up a rocket and people say, "Look at him, he's really driving the discovery of
00:08:08exploration."
00:08:09espacial.
00:08:12cleaning and got very angry, even late
00:08:15at night, if there weren't enough people building something or
00:08:20pad. And you would say why are you doing this, my
00:08:24true motivation and that of the people at SpaceX and the
00:08:27reason why they work so hard is because
00:08:30we want to see an exciting future in space
00:08:33exploration. If we are not on the path to achieve it, we will never
00:08:36do it. Musk was very frank in the early days of
00:08:39SpaceX in expressing his great uncertainty about whether
00:08:42SpaceX would become a profitable or
00:08:46sustainable business. But after several attempts, they
00:08:49succeeded. In 2015, SpaceX
00:08:53recovered a booster for the first time, refurbished it and launched it
00:08:57again.
00:08:59And that's when SpaceX went from a modest company
00:09:03to a dominant space
00:09:05power.
00:09:10At first, Elon pretty much self-funded
00:09:13SpaceX, but along the way he found ideas that
00:09:17would be very commercially successful, especially
00:09:20that of putting satellites into low Earth orbit. When
00:09:23he started talking about it, I thought it was brilliant and I still think it
00:09:27is.
00:09:31A huge leap for SpaceX, the company that launched a rocket
00:09:35loaded with 60 satellites overnight. Starlink,
00:09:38which is SpaceX's main source of revenue, is a large constellation of
00:09:42satellites that basically reflect the signal and provide internet access worldwide,
00:09:46to anyone, anywhere. They have launched
00:09:50more than 10,000 satellites, that's more than any
00:09:53other company in the world and any other country in the
00:09:56world.
00:09:59Musk controls much of the access to space, therefore, the more we depend on
00:10:02space, there could be a greater
00:10:06dependence on Musk.
00:10:09NASA has chosen SpaceX. We have a
00:10:13competition with a rival who has the
00:10:15will and the means to challenge our
00:10:19exceptionalism in many areas, including the space
00:10:21sector. The Trump Administration
00:10:25has made it totally clear that its top priority in space now is to get ahead of China and
00:10:29return to the Moon.
00:10:31China claims it wants to reach the Moon by 2030, so
00:10:35every step must fit perfectly if the United States wants to get there
00:10:39first.
00:10:42SpaceX is using its enormous and gigantic Starship rocket for
00:10:46this purpose.
00:10:49Starship is enormous, it's really big. It's
00:10:53almost like going back to cartoons.
00:11:25And the keyword is yes, late
00:11:282025, rumors started to circulate at NASA
00:11:32that it would lose the space race if
00:11:35it continued to rely on Musk. It was
00:11:39former acting NASA administrator Shandafi, who last
00:11:43year stated that if SpaceX did not have its Starship spacecraft
00:11:46ready, then they would turn to Blue
00:11:49Origin. It was a very direct way of saying that if SpaceX
00:11:53didn't focus on its goal, it would opt for the competition, thus preparing
00:11:57the ground for a multi-billion dollar space
00:11:59race.
00:12:03My name is Jimena de la Quintana, I am a CNN correspondent in Peru.
00:12:06Peru has gone through several political and social crises,
00:12:10I have had to be in the streets covering each of them in recent years
00:12:14and on several occasions people have surrounded us
00:12:17to listen to what we reported, because as they say, they want
00:12:21to make sure we report truthfully, people don't trust. Although the
00:12:27criticism, our work I think is increasingly scrutinized,
00:12:30we have a great
00:12:31responsibility.
00:13:43It was important to cover the trial of Genaro García Luna because this
00:13:47is the highest ranking public official
00:13:49from Mexico to be
00:13:52prosecuted and convicted in the United States
00:13:56for drug trafficking. It was incredible to be there,
00:13:59to hear these testimonies and to be able
00:14:02to learn exactly how
00:14:05drug cartels work and how they can
00:14:09operate with the support, many
00:14:11times, of government officials. Covering a federal
00:14:15trial in the United States is always a difficult
00:14:18task, you have to get to court very early
00:14:22to secure a seat inside the courtroom,
00:14:25but also because cameras are not allowed to record what
00:14:29is happening in the room, so you have to take notes,
00:14:33imagine 8 hours taking notes of everything that
00:14:37is said, everything that happens so that I can report it to
00:14:41you.
00:14:50It's often underestimated that Blue Origin was founded a couple of
00:14:53years before SpaceX.
00:14:56Bezos founded the company in 2000, when he became
00:14:59a billionaire with Amazon, he had the necessary funds to invest in the
00:15:03development of space exploration technology at a much more
00:15:07affordable price than we had seen before. The company operated in
00:15:10secret for a long time and that was
00:15:12intentional.
00:15:15They are famous for having a tortoise
00:15:19Latin, "gradatim ferociter", which means step
00:15:23by step, ferociously.
00:15:28SpaceX has always been about failing fast,
00:15:32Blue Origin, which has immense capital thanks to Jeff Bezos's
00:15:35Amazon money, has only launched two of its largest
00:15:39rockets into space.
00:15:47Bezos has been saying for a long time that the turtle beats the hare and that
00:15:51he will advance slowly, with a steady and cautious pace, but in the
00:15:54end he will win this battle between
00:15:56billionaires.
00:16:08construction of the New Shepard rocket, which is very
00:16:11different from the Falcon rockets that SpaceX uses because it is
00:16:14suborbital.
00:16:16Suborbital rockets require much less energy and simply
00:16:20go up and down. You might remember that he launched a
00:16:23rocket that took his then girlfriend Lauren Sanchez to Katie
00:16:27Perry, almost to
00:16:29orbit.
00:16:32I think a lot of people thought it was some cheap publicity stunt. It's a
00:16:36publicity strategy. Who cares? It draws attention to space
00:16:39travel.
00:16:42Ultimately, I think his ambitions go far beyond tourism. If
00:16:46we venture into the solar system, for all practical purposes, we will have
00:16:50unlimited resources.
00:16:52Something that Musk and Bezos have in common is that as children they
00:16:56loved science
00:16:57fiction.
00:17:00A resident of the town donated his entire science fiction collection to the
00:17:03Katula Public Library. It was
00:17:06tiny. Probably half of the library was
00:17:10made up of science fiction books and for several
00:17:13summers I read that collection, which increased my interest in space
00:17:16travel, science and the
00:17:18future.
00:17:21Jeff Bezos loves to talk about how when he was at Princeton, he met
00:17:25Gerard O'Neill, a very famous astrophysicist who
00:17:27conceptualized the idea of O'Neill colonies, which are giant orbital
00:17:31laboratories that spin to create
00:17:34gravity.
00:17:38These are enormous structures, kilometers long and each one has
00:17:41capacity for a million people or
00:17:43more.
00:17:46We have an opportunity to preserve this unique and irreplaceable
00:17:50planet. There is no plan
00:17:53B. We must
00:17:56save it.
00:18:00He explicitly stated that his goal is to save planet Earth by moving
00:18:03industry to space.
00:18:08They gave us a gift, this nearby celestial body called the Moon.
00:18:25This is Blue Moon.
00:18:27We have worked on it for 3 years.
00:18:31He has spoken openly about becoming the Amazon of
00:18:34space. He is creating transportation services so that
00:18:38hundreds of other space companies can begin to
00:18:41conduct economic activities in
00:18:43space.
00:18:46In 1994 I founded
00:18:48Amazon.
00:18:51All the necessary infrastructure for Amazon to exist was already
00:18:55in place. We didn't have to build a transportation system
00:18:58to deliver packages, it was already
00:19:00there. The
00:19:03infrastructure
00:19:05allows entrepreneurs to do
00:19:07incredible things.
00:19:11So the young people here, your children and your grandchildren, you
00:19:14will build those O'Neill colonies. The job of this
00:19:18generation, the job of my generation is to build the infrastructure so that
00:19:22you can do it.
00:19:24Jeff Bezos is a great entrepreneur, there's no doubt, what he did at Amazon was
00:19:28amazing and many people didn't think he could
00:19:30do it.
00:19:33He wouldn't let the company make money. He would say,
00:19:37"No, we're not
00:19:40matters is scale."
00:19:44So we're going to control the internet infrastructure to
00:19:46decide who can sell on the
00:19:50internet, it's an evil, but
00:19:54brilliant idea.
00:20:00I'm going to invest the profits from the
00:20:03building reusable rockets.
00:20:08to reduce the cost of access to
00:20:11space. He has a contagious
00:20:14enthusiasm, an enthusiasm that drives things to the
00:20:18extreme, he is a visionary.
00:20:22This vision sounds very ambitious and it is, nothing here is
00:20:25easy, everything is
00:20:26difficult.
00:20:30We choose to go to the moon.
00:20:34We choose to go to the moon in this decade and
00:20:38do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are
00:20:41difficult.
00:20:45The space race between the United States and the Soviet
00:20:48Union demonstrated that our system of government
00:20:52and our economic system could surpass the Soviet
00:20:55model.
00:21:01If we managed to reach the Moon before them, it would be a
00:21:04demonstration that our system was superior to the
00:21:07Soviet one.
00:21:14October 4, 1957, an event that shook the
00:21:17world. Sputnik
00:21:20was the first spacecraft to orbit Earth, it was
00:21:23launched by the Soviet Union.
00:21:26Now imagine if we lived in a time when nothing had
00:21:30orbited Earth before, and suddenly,
00:21:34those communists from Russia, with their nuclear bombs they want
00:21:38to launch at us, were flying over our country
00:21:41in
00:21:42space.
00:21:46The ultimate dominant position, I mean
00:21:49if you could have weapons in space, with that you would
00:21:52really be in charge.
00:21:55With the two Sputniks orbiting Earth simultaneously, the whole world
00:21:59began to talk about the triumph of Soviet science.
00:22:01The Soviet Union also launched the first human
00:22:05into space, Yuri Gagarin. The space
00:22:08pilot whom the Russians have deified as the man of the
00:22:11century, arrives at the airport for his first public
00:22:14appearance. And so this intensive program emerged to
00:22:18catch up with the Soviet Union and surpass it.
00:22:39I remember perfectly watching Apollo
00:22:4111.
00:22:46I was on my knees watching black and white television.
00:22:51Well, we see you coming down the ladder, one in every
00:22:54five people was
00:22:55watching.
00:22:58It's one small step for
00:22:59man,
00:23:02and we see that humans had finally escaped this
00:23:05dimension.
00:23:09A giant leap for
00:23:10mankind,
00:23:14and it changed my life. I became a mechanical engineer and
00:23:17aerospace engineer thanks to Apollo. It
00:23:21influenced me immensely, greatly.
00:23:26the United States is capable of doing.
00:23:30If the almost impossible can be achieved, sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them
00:23:34back safely, I wonder what else this nation is capable of, and perhaps,
00:23:37as an adversary, you would think twice before
00:23:40invading or doing something that could be perceived as hostile. In
00:23:44a way, it was the zenith of American
00:23:46power.
00:23:50Each subsequent mission began to gain confidence and
00:23:52ambition,
00:23:54but by the time Apollo XV was launched, the program was practically
00:23:58over. It became clear that the Soviet Union was in
00:24:01decline. There was a feeling that we had had enough
00:24:05fun and did not have the means, resources, or
00:24:09money to continue. It was an accurate interpretation of public
00:24:12opinion. It no longer seemed so urgent to return to the
00:24:15moon. Power that eclipses Musk, Bezos, and the new space
00:24:19race. Every night there is the
00:24:23possibility of an unfiltered bombardment,
00:24:26they should not treat our young people this way
00:24:29anywhere. Here one asks, is there freedom of
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00:24:36"This type of phenomenon is not that they are the generators of change, they are
00:24:40the expression of a change" and it is debated, "Will their foreign policy be
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00:27:36Power that eclipses, Musk, Bezos and the new space
00:27:39race. During the 1970s, in the midst of the Apollo
00:27:43program's development, Richard Nixon made the decision to cancel the rest of the program
00:27:47due to strong political opposition, people didn't see its
00:27:50value. We also have to consider the cultural context of what was happening
00:27:54in the United States at that
00:27:55time.
00:27:58The Vietnam War was becoming an increasingly important part of the mindset.
00:28:15So people were asking why we were spending so much money on
00:28:18this when we had poverty, unrest in the United States, and
00:28:22energy problems in the Middle East. In that context, they made the
00:28:26political decision to cancel it.
00:28:29After the withdrawal of the Apollo program, NASA, the problem
00:28:33of costs. Each Apollo rocket had to be
00:28:35discarded, so they focused on developing a different
00:28:39vehicle.
00:28:43If it could be reused, costs would start to decrease and thus NASA
00:28:46could fulfill all its dreams of exploration and science without having to
00:28:50rely excessively on public funds.
00:28:53NASA has been extremely cautious to ensure that the first
00:28:56launch is perfect, and we moved past the space shuttle
00:29:00era. There's a lot at stake.
00:29:04Nixon himself decided to bet on the space shuttle program to
00:29:07win votes in Southern California. Unfortunately, the space shuttle
00:29:11never quite lived up to what NASA had envisioned. The goal was to
00:29:15launch the space shuttle dozens of times a year, but the most
00:29:19NASA achieved was, I think, about eight or nine launches per year.
00:29:22year. And then the Challenger incident occurred.
00:29:25A great catastrophe for the US
00:29:28space program. According to NASA, the Challenger exploded in
00:29:31the air just seconds after
00:29:34pad.
00:29:38For the moment, we do not have more information available to the
00:29:41public. And then the Columbia disaster in
00:29:452003. You are watching the
00:29:49final moments of the space shuttle,
00:29:52Columbia. Both disasters caused a total
00:29:56of 14 astronaut deaths. The
00:29:59tragedies were becoming very unpopular politically. And
00:30:03the space shuttle program began to decline. But this was a problem since
00:30:06the shuttle was the only US vehicle that could transport
00:30:10astronauts to and from the International Space
00:30:13Station.
00:30:17When the space shuttle came to an end, the Obama White House proposed
00:30:21a kind of drastic reconfiguration of NASA to rely on commercial
00:30:24providers to send people to the Space Station. To reach the International
00:30:28Space Station, we will collaborate with a growing number of companies.