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Welcome to Episode 21 of What about it!? In this Episode, we'll talk about NASA vs. SpaceX and who will be first to set foot on the Moon again. A recent NASA announcement of direct collaboration with SpaceX makes this a very interesting thought experiment. We will also take a look at the latest Starship Starhopper updates in BocaChica Texas!

SpaceX is sending signals back to the Trump administration and NASA in kind. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, said in an interview last week that he believes his company’s spacecraft, could return humans to the moon’s surface sooner than everyone might expect. Despite the acknowledgement of how crazy this initiative would be, he was clear that within two years the mission could be done successfully.

President Trump wants NASA to get Americans back to the moon in five years. To heighten the urgency, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine -- a Trump political appointee -- fires William Gerstenmaier, a well-respected 42-year NASA veteran in charge of human space exploration. Will this sudden move light a fire under the bureaucracy, or did we just lose four decades of institutional knowledge jeopardizing our safe return to the lunar surface? Should NASA get our of the business of human space transportation?

While NASA's moon missions were going pretty strong during the Apollo era, why don't we have a moon base yet?! In this video, we answer this often asked question by exploring the LESA (Lunar Exploration System for Apollo) moon base concepts of NASA back in the 60s and early 70s. Unfortunately, all NASA moon landing and moon colony plans back then were cancelled not least because of the Vietnam war.

NASA's Lunar Gateway space station design process is beginning to take shape: The agency has announced five new prototypes that it plans to test on the ground.

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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine addresses the agency's workforce and members of the media at Kennedy Space Center's Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building, reviewing the agency's Moon to Mars plans and President Trumps' Fiscal Year NASA 2020 budget.

Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Flight Engineers Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency landed safely near the town of Dzezkazgan Kazakhstan June 24th after bidding farewell to their colleagues on the complex and undocking their Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft  from the Poisk Module on the International Space Station.

NASA desperately needs a way to get its astronauts into space without paying for pricey seats aboard Russian rockets, but the agency's two best hopes — SpaceX and Boeing — are stumbling a bit at the finish line.

In this episode of SpaceX in the News, we look at raptor being installed on Starhopper in preparation for its upcoming launch; talk about Starship and point to point transit on Earth; see how the first Starlink satellites have been doing in orbit;  check what's up with NASA and their plans to go it alone to the moon; read some updates to the Crew Dragon explosion; look into the upcoming Falcon Heavy launch; and discuss this Summer's plans for our channel. 

Rendezvous of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station. Capture is scheduled at 7:30 a.m. 

NASA administrator talks about the challenges of using rockets other than Space Launch System (SLS) to get to bootprints back on the Moon by 2024. 

Sorry this is later than normal, but we had a lot going on and I wanted to get it in the show. This week we have NASA's plans to send humans back to the moon in 5 years. Will it be SLS or a commercial rocket.

We explain the most exciting updates on SpaceX Starhopper news, SpaceX's collaboration with other companies to colonize Mars, NASA moon plans, and many other important developments in the field of space exploration.

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We are surprised by the new ambitious goal of NASA Return to the MOON within the next 5 years. Despite our excitement, we are skeptical about whether NASA would be able to achieve this goal on schedule and on budget.

In this episode of the Case for Mars, we take a look at NASA's upcoming Mars Helicopter Scout. We examine some of the challenges of flying on Mars, NASA's design, and how it relates to helicopters and quadcopters used here on Earth.

"There has to be a better way of doing things. And I think I’ve found it."

We explain the most exciting updates on SpaceX Starhopper news, SpaceX's collaboration with other companies to colonize Mars, NASA moon plans, and many other important developments in the field of space exploration.

NASA wants to build another space station — except this one won’t live in a close orbit around Earth. Instead, it will be sent into deep space to orbit around the Moon and then someday ... Mars.

It was a dizzying day for NASA. First, NASA executives announced that the space agency will open up parts of the International Space Station to more commercial opportunities, including hosting private astronauts, allowing companies unprecedented use of the space station's facilities, including filming commercials or movies against the backdrop of space.

A bunch of smaller updates on various rocket launch news stories. SpaceX, NASA, Rocketlab, Insterstellar Technologies etc. 

NASA's next space station to replace the ISS, the DSG or Deep Space Gateway has been renamed the Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway or LOP-G. 

In this episode of SpaceX in the News, we take a look at starhopper's current status on the launch pad; starship's place in the new space race; Vice President Pence's speech to NASA, Elon Musk's tweets, and upcoming launches; RocketLabs, and the helicopter for Mars.