Jun 16, 2025
Astronomy Cast Ep. 759: The Commercial Space
Program
By Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay
Streamed live on Jun 9, 2025.
Humanity has turned its focus back to the Moon, sending a fleet
of spacecraft to the lunar surface. Some are run by the government,
but there’s a whole new group of commercial landers bearing
instruments to the lunar surface. Is this the future of lunar
exploration? Space used to be a place occupied by government-funded
and military missions, but today, we’re seeing the rise… and fall
(somersault, crash, and explosion) of missions with commercial
design and funding. Let’s talk about how this is good, bad, and
maybe just too soon.
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