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SpaceX Saves Hubble Space telescope · Elon Musk Podcast

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SpaceX and NASA are working together to figure out how to
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put a crew dragon on to the Hubble Space Telescope, okay?
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So you dock with the Space Telescope and then something
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cools going to happen. Let me show you what that is
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NASA tweeted this the other day. This is from NASA Hubble an
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unfunded space act agreement to conduct a study of a commercial
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mission to boost Hubble's, orbit and extend.
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Its operation was signed by NASA and SpaceX a mission concept,
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that may be applied. Lie to be applied to other
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spacecraft and commercial vehicles.
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The crew Dragon docks with the Hubble in boost the orbit.
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So when is this going to happen? What's going to happen?
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How is this going to happen? Now, let's take a look at what
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Elon Musk said down here. He said, yay, that's it.
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No exclamation points. No, anything else.
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He just said, yay. So I feel the same way you Lon,
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but I also have a few exclamation points after that.
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So here's the Released from NASA, NASA space Texas Teddy
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Hubble Space Telescope reboost possibility and Astronaut
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aboard. The space shuttle Atlantis
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captured, this image of Hubble that's what the Hubble Space
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Telescope. Looks like it's about the size
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of a bus mind you. It's pretty big of a school bus
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and image, April 24th 2020, which is a SpaceX crew Dragon
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Endeavor and that's when its docking to the International
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Space Station. So this would be a sort of
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similar to what it may look like, if it duck.
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Us with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Now let's take a look at this agreement here and go through
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this little bit and then we'll talk about the actual Mission.
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And how cool is this thing? Going to be they signed the
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unfunded space act agreement. So basically NASA isn't paying
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SpaceX anything for this. They're not sending giving them
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billions of dollars for this SpaceX is doing this because
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they think it can well their business.
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So let's just be honest about it.
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They think you could bring them in money in the future for Is
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to, you know, the Hubble Space Telescope, if anything were to
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happen to it. If it needs to be fixed or
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boosted at any point because it needs to go to a higher orbit
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and if it can go to a higher orbit, it can stay in space for
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a very long time because it's the orbit is decreasing because
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the Earth is basically pulling it in with the gravity of the
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earth. So let's take a look at this.
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The idea to boost the agency's Hubble Space Telescope into a
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higher orbit with a dragon spacecraft and no cost to the
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government. So SpaceX like, hey we got this
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cool dragon spacecraft. Let's kind of Doc this thing
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with the Hubble because we know the space shuttle used to do it.
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And all it is is a dock, right? We already docked with the space
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station and that thing's going crazy fast so we could do that
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with the Hubble to and they said there are no plans for for NASA
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conducted or fun to servicing Mission or compete.
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This opportunity studies designed to help the agency,
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understand the commercial possibilities.
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So basically And that's a saying we're not going to give you any
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money SpaceX. We're not going to complete
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this. There's no plans of right now to
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actually push the push the Hubble up any higher, but SpaceX
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is working with the Polaris program.
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Yeah, Jared. Isaacman proposed the study to
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better understand the technical challenges associated with
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servicing missions. This study is not exclusive and
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other companies May propose similar studies with different
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Rockets are spacecraft as there. Model.
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So basically this leaves it open to everybody if Boeing wants
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Starliner to get in on the action, it can get in on the
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action. So it's saying non-exclusive
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other companies can do this, whoever you are with any rocket
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with any sort of pod on top of it.
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Any sort of architecture you want to build on it.
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Let's try to figure this out because I think this is going to
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be important for future missions.
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Not only for Hubble, but for other spacecraft in the future,
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other orbiting spacecraft teams expect to study take.
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Up to six months collecting technical data from both Hubble
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and SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. This data will help determine
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whether it would be possible to safely.
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Run de vous dock in move the telescope into a more stable.
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Urban studies, exciting example of innovation approaches a NASA
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is exploring through private Public Partnerships SpaceX NASA
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working together through Jared Isaac's mins, Isaac, men's
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program, the Polaris program right here.
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Hey, let's work together, you know, Jared and SpaceX.
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They have a pretty Good past, so inspiration for huge success for
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SpaceX and Jared and st. Jude study, you know this next
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one. Is next study is going to kind
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of put private companies forward in the future to do these things
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that only NASA and the government did in the past.
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So this I want to show you this actually, let's take a, let's
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take a little step back in time. This is from Isa from the
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European Space Agency. From the Hubble site.
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In this was the space station. This is an animation of the
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space station attached to Hubble and I'm just scrubbing through
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it real quick but that's kind of what it looked like with the
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shuttle Atlantis and the Space Telescope doc together.
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So basically this thing was like a cargo ship the space, the
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space shuttle was like a cargo ship attached to the Hubble use
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the Canada arm. Not the kind of time the shuttle
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arm to get over there and keep it in place, but then astronauts
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could go over there and service it, right?
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So that's kind of what SpaceX was thinking, hey, we don't
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really need to put people on the the Hubble right now, but we're
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gonna use our capsule to push it up, you know, push it away from
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the earth a little bit so we can have like 20 more years of
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service. Because Hubble still doing great
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work. The James Webb Space Telescope
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is out there and is doing cool stuff.
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But Hubble is still doing cool stuff too, and they want to keep
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that going because there's so many scientists using the data
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know, they have Polaris Dawn which we've talked about
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numerous times on this channel playlists on, they're basically
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going to be going outside of this capsule outside of the crew
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dragon on an Eva. So they're going to be going
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outside of this. The first private Eva in the
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history of spaceflight. So Jared icing and probably
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going to be the guy that does it because Jarrod is a Thrill
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seeker, and he's a leader. So if he gets to do it, he's
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getting he's like this is like a kid in a candy shop for this
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guy, right? So, how cool is it spacewalk?
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Support scientific research. Designed to advance, both human
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during future long-duration, spaceflights, use this data, use
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the players Dawn data to support the mission to, which they
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haven't even announced yet, right?
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So, Mission 3, they say, hey, we're going to be First human
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spaceflight on the Starship which is a huge, huge deal.
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But mission to, we don't know what that is yet.
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Nobody outside of the players program knows about this and
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they probably have some stuff cooking up, but if this Hubble
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thing works out and it's a six-month turnaround for this
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thing. Polaris Dawn, first one will be
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done sometime this year and Mission to next year, mid-next
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year while they're still building.
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The Starship. So mission to could possibly be
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sending an uncrewed capsule because they don't really need
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people to go up there. They're just going to push the
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thing up. I mean it could be crude if you
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know if anything were to happen during that it could be
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autonomous but they don't really need people to do it because
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they have all the trajectories and they have all the math and I
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have all the data to get these two things that come together,
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the Hubble and the crew Dragon. So there's really no need to
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have people on it, but could mission Be the Hubble Mission
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will find out. That's that's the hard part is,
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we don't really know if that's going to be the case.
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So, Michael sheets kind of breaks down.
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This whole thing in, like, one long tweet thread are, they had
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an announcement the other day, they had a talk about it.
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What are the goal main goals of studies to take a closer look at
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docking with Hubble? These are just like real quick
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Snippets here. Applicability Beyond Hubble for
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servicing. Missions of the study takes us
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down a path. We're mission is possible.
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This is certainly fit within the parameters.
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We establish for the players program, says Jared isaacman.
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Yeah, pretty cool. No, transfer of funds for this
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feasibility. Study space X is just going
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like, well, I think we could do it and Isaac and noted that I
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think we cross the bridge of the mission specifics and who's
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ultimately flying it if this study supports the idea.
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So basically saying hey this study, if it works, we're going
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to figure this out as we go. Like we don't really have any
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concrete plans yet. We're just trying to figure it
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out. Is the data available.
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Can the crew Dragon even push this up?
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High enough? Is it even feasible to dock with
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this thing? So, going out a little bit,
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further are jeopardizing, it says this type of effort could
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be could be done with little or no potential cost of government.
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So if they're up there. Anyway.
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So say a player is Dawn is doing a mission and I say if they're
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like hey we want to do an exploratory mission And we want
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to do a really cool Eva, we want to do something out of the
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ordinary. But, hey, we just happened to be
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by the Hubble Space Telescope, you know, where, as high as the
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Hubble Space Telescope, you know, could we return it to 600
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kilometers and give it like, 20 years of service - well, we're
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here anyway. So let's just do both those
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missions with little or no potential cost to the
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government. So, basically, that's a cool
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thing. For Masa and for the people that
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are funding, all the stuff, the taxpayers because SpaceX is kind
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of like and player. Sounds kind of like it would be
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cool. You know, what do you think?
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Let me know. Let me know in the comments.
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What do you think about this? Because I think this is one of
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the coolest things to happen to space flight.
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If this actually happens, it's one of the coolest things that
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will happen in the next five or six years, you know, if they can
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actually pull this off, it might even happen in the next two
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years, but if they could pull this off, then, Five or six
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years are going to be really freaking sweet for SpaceX and
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the player Start program. One more thing, that's really
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sweet. And our our best wishes in our
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hearts. Go out to the people in Florida
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and every place else that was affected by Hurricane Ian.
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But a good thing here, Visitor complex reopens October 1st
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little bit off subject here, but the Kennedy Space Center Visitor
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complex will remain closed on Friday September 30th, but will
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reopen Saturday, October 1st. So anybody that's down there in
14:36
Florida, that wants to go see all of the history of NASA.
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Kennedy Space Center is open on Saturday, on the 1st of October.
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So head down there, if you can take a look it's an amazing
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place. It's a really cool place and it
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shows that NASA is able to do the cleanup relatively quickly,
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which means NASA can clean up for the SLS relatively quickly.
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Get it out to the pad hopefully quickly, and we get a launch
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pretty soon because the SLS is a huge, huge Mission, and we're
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expecting really cool things from it in the near future.
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So hopefully they launched by the end of this year, I think
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this players down program or this Polaris program and the
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players down program are both cool.
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What do you think? Let me know in the comments.
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