Low-Earth Orbit Is Where the Real Action Is in Space
Rocket Lab’s Electron launching in Mahia, New Zealand.
Hello, fellow space nerds, it’s Ashlee Vance in Silicon Valley, with a special edition of our Wednesday newsletter. Over the past six years, a team of filmmakers, including Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment and Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, joined me on a journey around the world, following rocket and satellite startups in their quest to try to commercialize space. The results were comical, harrowing, inspiring and all captured on film for the new documentary Wild Wild Space debuting July 17 on HBO and streaming on Max. But first …
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