From First Principles
From First Principles is a documentary-style podcast that traces industries from their earliest foundations to the present day. Each season follows a single industry from the people, inventions, and ideas that started it all through the breakthroughs, failures, companies, and personalities that shaped its evolution. From Robert Goddard's first liquid-fueled rockets to SpaceX's reusable launch systems, from the invention of the shipping container to modern logistics networks, let's explore how the industries of the future were built. To understand where we're going, we start at the beginning.
Episodes
The Space Industry: New Startup Disruptors & The Future of Space (Part 4)
The fourth and final part of the series. We arrive in the present day: the startups building on top of cheaper launch — satellite servicing, in-space manufacturing, and orbital data centers — plus a look at China's space program and where the industry goes from here.Companies covered in this episode:- Quindar- Starfish Space- Array Labs- Varda Space Industries- Astranis- Loft Orbital- Impulse
The Space Industry: Founding and Success of SpaceX (Part 3)
Before SpaceX, the rocket business was shaped by governments, defense contractors, the rise of commercial satellites, and decades of attempts to make private spaceflight work.In Episode 2 of Industrial Origins, we traces the origins of the modern aerospace industry —from Arianespace and the post-Cold War consolidation of American aerospace to the entrepreneurs who tried and failed to build cheaper
The Space Industry: NASA's Shuttle Program (Part 2)
After the triumph of Apollo, NASA faced an unexpected problem: what came next?In Episode 2 of Industrial Origins, we explore the difficult years following the Moon landings as shrinking budgets, changing public priorities, and political realities forced NASA to reinvent itself. Rather than pushing onward to Mars, the agency bet its future on a revolutionary idea—a reusable Space Shuttle that promi
The Space Industry: The Early Days (Part 1)
With speculation growing around a potential SpaceX IPO, we wanted to start at the beginning.In the first episode of Industrial Origins, we trace the origins of modern rocketry from the ideas of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the experiments of Robert H. Goddard to the V-2 rocket of World War II. Along the way, we explain how rockets work, why staging was such a breakthrough, and how early enthusiasts
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