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Is space the place for you? With a hefty amount of moolah, a trip there and back can be all yours. But when the price comes down, traffic into space may make the L.A. freeway look like a back-country lane.\nSpace is more accessible than it once was, from the development of private commercial flights \u2026 to a radical new telescope that makes everyone an astronomer \u2026 to mining asteroids for their metals and water to keep humanity humming for a long time.\nPlus, move over Russia and America: Why the next words you hear from space may be in Mandarin.\nGuests:\n\n\nLeonard David \u2013 Space journalist, writer for SPACE.com\n\n\n\nMario Juric \u2013 Astronomer working on data processing for the LSST \u2013 the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope\n\n\nJohn Lewis \u2013 Chemist, professor emeritus of planetary sciences, University of Arizona, chief scientist, Deep Space Industries\n\n\nPhilip Lubin \u2013 Professor of physics, University of California, Santa Barbara\n\n\nJames Oberg \u2013 Retired NASA rocket scientist, space historian, and a self-described space nut\n\nFirst released March 3, 2014.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices