Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Episodes (56)

Feb 26th The New Space Race
Feb 19th Welcome to the Indian Century
Feb 12th Anthropic's Chief on A.I.: ‘We Don’t Know if the Models Are Conscious’

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

Feb 26, 2026
57 minutes
52 MB

We’re going back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. That is, if Artemis II can get off the ground. I sat down with Jared Isaacman, the billionaire leading NASA, to hear his perspective on everything from extraterrestrial life to the timeline for sending humans to Mars. This interview was recorded before NASA announced the delay of Artemis II’s launch. 01:59 - Where are we? 04:00 - From entrepreneur to astronaut 09:04 - The “lunar futuristic junkyard” 15:06 - NASA’s budget 22:43 - Beyond NASA: Blue Origin, SpaceX and private industry 27:26 - The orbital economy 37...

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat

The New Space Race

New York Times Opinion

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