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Building Spaceships at SpaceX With Jeff Richichi

Air Date: 01/10/2011
Run Time: 0:28:52

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Guests:

• Jeff Richichi, Director of Structural Design, SpaceX

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We return to the SpaceX plant in California for a conversation with the company's Director of Structural Engineering and a quick tour of the factory floor. Emily Lakdawalla updates a couple of deep space missions. Bill Nye hopes the United Kingdom will go forward with a very cool spacecraft called Skylon. Bruce Betts takes us to the current night sky, serves up a new Random Space Fact, and joins Mat Kaplan for a new space trivia contest.

Related Links:

• Bill Nye Congratulates SpaceX
• SpaceX
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• Marc Rayman's Dawn Journal

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