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SpaceX Starship SN15, SN16 and Starship SN20 Orbital Updates · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey everybody, Welcome to the space news pod a show about
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SpaceX NASA and space flight. I'm here with Neil Thorn again
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he's up there. Hello?
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Well hello and we'll be walking through everything that's going
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on with Starship SpaceX Starbase This Axiom space today to pretty
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cool and also some International Space Station news that just
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happened. So lots to cover today.
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Yeah, that's a lot of stuff going on.
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Space is crazy. So here, let's check this out.
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We got some, we got a tweet over here.
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By Starship gazer there welding extensions on the legs.
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Orbital Tower, beautiful. Look at that crate.
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Thanks man. Solutely.
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Yeah, the crane has since detached from here and it's
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lying down. Now they're adding an extension
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to the top of this thing is going to be even taller, not
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quite double but quite a bit taller maybe another third
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house, they can so they can put some more Towers.
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Yeah. I don't know how they works but
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it works its structural, I guess.
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Yeah, I'm not privy to that sort of information in my head, but
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look at. So, this is what I notice from
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this picture, is that their stairs, you know, and I know
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that. The reinforcing things, but
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people have to walk up and down this thing in order to do work.
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Yeah. But if you look at beer, if you
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look closely right in the middle between them, there's actually a
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structure for the elevator to. Yep.
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So, that structure. There is the elevator?
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Yeah. Yeah, this is for those of you
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that are lazy out there, I don't think anything past the third
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one, you're going to want something to get to.
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Yeah. Well, this is going to be like
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400 plus feet tall. So it's it's freaking gigantic.
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Yeah. And if you can't walk, I mean
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you can walk the whole thing if you want to I guess.
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But also nobody wants to do that.
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This third segment is probably as tall as the man lifts are
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going to take you as well. So yeah, they're building in
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this scaffolding as they go. So they can finish welding and
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attaching bolts and whatnot. It's actually interesting to see
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the scaffolding on the side of the not that not the corners,
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but the side is kind of just hanging on the side of this
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thing. Ya know.
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No no I going out there. Want to be jumping down to that?
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I don't know maybe I'm not built for this.
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Yeah it's not it's not my thing either.
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I'm afraid of heights. So that's this is not going to
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not going to be good for me to work on that thing.
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I'm not going up there. Yeah, so they're welding these
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things onto now. So these are just five meter
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tall extensions unbelievable to think that these things are five
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meters tall. They don't look it because
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everything. So massive there but this is
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what the law. Lunch table is going to sit on.
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Okay, so they've been building for months and months now, also,
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if actually got three of these on today at or as at this point,
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I'm not sure whether they putting another one on today, so
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pretty exciting. Yeah.
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They don't even look that big sir.
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I mean, compared to, you know, the Tower and the cranes and
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everything like that. So there's, you know, there was
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a guy for scale. There's a person for scale right
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here and it's fish. It also, it doesn't look that
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big of like, I could probably go up there and hang out there, but
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it's also So quite large. So as you can see by that Tower
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like this Tower is huge and it's draping down over that area,
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right over here on the right side and it's just it's big
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everything down there. Just doesn't look, everything's
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man. Real, Everything is Everything
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doesn't make sense. Yeah.
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Okay. Yeah, I'm thinking about like
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the height of everything down there and like that it's all
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flat in that region. And you're just going to be from
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like Miles and Miles Away. You'll be able to see this giant
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orbital test and yeah and it's going to it's going to be crazy.
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I hope they light it up. Something cool, you know, like
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maybe put some RGB, he's on there, you know something, some
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cool lighting would be really. I saw it.
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Unfortunately I didn't tell you to get this ready for us but saw
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a tweet from Nomad Nomads, one of the sort of holdouts in the
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Village Boca Chica Village. She's been there still and he's
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leaving, he's just sort of. Leaving now.
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So he put a picture up of the area before all this started in
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the area now and it's quite the difference.
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Oh well in just a few short for years or something.
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That's just been completely built up quite something.
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Yeah. I saw his tweet, they said he
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was leaving and I was like, hey, thanks man.
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Thanks for doing what you've done.
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And you know, I can't wait to see what happens in the next
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five or ten years but also this place was like a peaceful like
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secluded beach. She's a retirement village
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sleepy. Retirement Village was just a
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few homes in it and just like a few people live in there.
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And now it's like this massive industrial complex and yeah,
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it's kind of crazy how it all changed.
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So quickly. Now, where was this one?
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I think this is now. That's not the right one, the
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launched actually. Yeah, this is the right one.
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There's some been some discussions about booster
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catching from or kegs or Keck Space Twitter As we are
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beginning to see rails on three Tower pillars.
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So the actual caching mechanism is still unclear.
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So again if you know from the right.
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No I just sitting there, I stood up here too.
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Yeah, look at that guy. This is the picture.
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I was thinking of when I was looking at those the Scaffolding
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in the middle there, it's just sort of it's the scaffolded
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hanging on to this thing. Yeah, it doesn't make sense and
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it's there's no refining. So let me know in the comments
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people out. If you're watching this, let me
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know in the comments if you would climb up this thing and
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hang out on these scaffolds. That would be, I want to see
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what people's reactions are because I'm like, get me off
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this. Like I'm not, I wouldn't go up
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there. It's terrifying, it's pretty
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terrifying, but this was their job.
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This is what they get paid. Yeah, they love it and they're
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used to it, I guess. Anyway, the real that we're
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looking at is on the right here. So, just above where your mouse.
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Is, yeah, a trail up there. That's what Eric's talking
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about. So that is on three of the
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pillars. Sort of three of the column.
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So weird. We're not sure exactly how the
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attachment is going to happen. His next picture is sort of a
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render of his that shows the same thing essentially, but he's
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kind of got an attachment on there as well.
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So he's just trying to figure out how it's going to work.
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So that piece below is kind of his caching mechanism a little
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bit but yeah it's funny way the speculation of yeah.
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There's speculation of how they're going to catch it.
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Like is it going to look like a? I know you'll on Like a mecha
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Godzilla here. Yeah, you know like it's going
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to be like a cloth. It's like grabs onto the thing.
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So I'll see you in the next couple years.
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I mean I'm sure we'll see you in the next six to eight months
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kind of Renditions and like renders of it.
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So many different people but Elon wants to do a Starship talk
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at some point. He said it'd be kind of a cool
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idea to have a Starship talk like an update.
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So maybe during that update, he'll have updates about the
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claw, the claw You know, the whole concept.
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Of course, we've talked about in the past is crazy, Catchings
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booster and putting it back on the launch Mount, not just crazy
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to do it, but crazy to test it, right?
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You've got to actually figure out how to do these things
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before you actually do them. Are they going to build a second
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rig to as a test rig that? They don't care if the damaged
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they're going to. Or they actually going to use
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this and try and catch it with using the actual equipment.
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I can't imagine trying to do that without, you know, testing
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first, he set himself in a recent tweet, they're gonna,
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it's gonna take a while to be able to do this.
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Yeah, it's going to take a lot of experimentation and steam is
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as with launching Starship and Landing Starship, it took a long
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time to get to 15. So, same things going to happen
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with the catch in the booster, maybe maybe even worse, you
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know, even even Landing the Falcon 9 booster.
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Isn't perfect it def. They definitely get in the
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circle every time, but it's not right in the dead center of the
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circle every time. So yeah.
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As awesome as those Landings are and we'll get to see another one
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as they launch the next mission up there, but as awesome as they
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are, they're not perfect. So they're close the really
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close but it's taken them how many years like a decade to get
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that, you know, to get them close but this is also 30 some
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odd wrap. L may be that, you know, 32 Ilan
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was to put 32 on there. Yeah.
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Actually getting all those to fire in unison and like to
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navigate that thing like it's a massive structure 9 meters
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around, you know, like it's big. So it's it's a lot different
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Yeah, and maybe maybe 10 meters either way, is what they're
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going for. Yeah.
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Maybe they're going to have a, some sort of weird.
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I don't even know at this point because I don't think they can
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get it. So precise.
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I mean I think they can eventually but getting it so
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precise that a claw. I mean I didn't know what to
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refer to it, but like, something like her scissors catching.
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It's like, you know, just goes right in there.
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I don't know. That's doesn't make any sense to
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me. It blows my mind.
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I'm thinking about it right now, in like my mind is racing, how
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this stuff is going to happen? So yeah, it's crazy crazy.
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Yeah, I remember some months ago, kind of having a panic
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attack thinking all the things they have to do to make this
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happen. Yeah, but I mean a lot of what I
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was panicking about is already happened so maybe I should be
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panicking as much and it's yeah, probably and here's a speaking
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of panic and look at how tall this thing is.
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I'd freak out on the top of this thing.
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Yeah, by U, /l Mar 92 on Reddit. This is a big, the things going
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to be a stickler for Shale like that's that's that's only seven
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of them. Yeah.
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Which is I think I made a Reddit post as well with seven on it.
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There's going to be something at the top of this to write the
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crane itself. Yes.
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Still has to be attached to the top of this and it's going to be
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large on its own right? Yeah.
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As far as I can tell, they've got a crane on site sitting in.
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A building that is ready to go on top of this already, and it's
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basically a pillar crane. So it's going to there's no
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counterweight on the other side. All the force of the the weight
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of the booster and Starship are going to be carried by this
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Tower, which is part of the reason that the towers on a 45
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degree, angle to the launch platform.
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So that it's, you know, that way is being carried on an area that
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doesn't want to bend either way, so yeah.
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So it's going to be quite something to see that up there,
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as well. This whole operational.
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Yeah, this whole thing is intense, like everything is at
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that, that's what we're talking about earlier.
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The 32 Raptors. So this is a possible, 32 Raptor
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layup by Architects space on Twitter.
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Again, this isn't, this is gonna look like.
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That. Doesn't make any sense either.
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Like most of the stuff, like, I'd look at this stuff and I'm
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just like everybody else out there were like really like, is
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this Overkill? Like this is this like this
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doesn't make any sense of something that I build in
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Kerbal, you know, just messing around and seeing how long I
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could launch this thing. Yeah, that looks like something
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is going to get 100 tons to orbit plus the weight of the
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ship. Yes, what that is.
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That's what that is. Yeah, exactly.
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This will, this will move a lot of stuff.
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So Ilan, tweeted back, pretty close.
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Inner ring is closer to Center 3 as all 12 gimbal together, which
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also is crazy boost backburn efficiency is greatly improved
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in this. Config so Or texted flamey, end.
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And then a little man, a little, a little star, man down there,
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and don't stand there, buddy. That's not a good place to stand
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up for late. Yeah, just walk away.
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Just turn around walk away, but you can see in this one.
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He's got those that inner ring is a little bit further in now,
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right around here. Yeah, so that all 12 of those
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engines will be able to Kimble, but there's another thing two
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things this year as well. You can see that the launch
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Mount has those capture lock. In clamps on it.
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So they're holding onto the booster as well as you can kind
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of see the what Eric is decided that catching arms going to look
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like. So that's pretty cool too.
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Yeah the catching. I'm looks pretty crazy.
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I think, you know, it's going to catch.
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So with this arm I notice this this from this arm, it's only
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going to catch three sides of the thing.
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Will be either side. It might not even be three.
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Might just be too. Yeah, I could be too.
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Yeah, I think that's that's definitely.
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Issue with this design, to be honest.
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Yeah, but I think it's, it's pretty cool.
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Yeah. Eric is cool, but I think they,
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I don't know how they're going to do it, but I think there's
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going to be like a, just a circle, you know, just think of
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it as a ring in that going to Landry's Rings.
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I've seen renders that are rings as well.
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Yeah, for sure. It's only SpaceX knows what this
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is going to look like and they're probably still debating
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it as well. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Until they try it. They're probably going Try
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different variations of it as well.
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So yeah you know there's its this is a test bed like
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everything's being tested right now.
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Nothing's permanent everything's in the high development right
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now so you can see that even with with the stuff that's going
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on with, you know, the the changes to the Raptors when it
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was like 20 something and I was 32, you know, they thought okay
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well we need more we need more power.
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Always need more power for this thing.
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So that is everything that Changes all the time, really
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interesting. Exciting is, if you go into that
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picture again, The Locking clamps are actually in the way
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of the outside, Raptors those Raptors.
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So many Raptors on that they stick outside of the, the ship,
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a little bit. Booster a little bit.
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So they're actually in the way they have to get out of the way
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before. That Raptor fix it.
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That's yeah. Those Raptors had it.
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So everything has to happen pretty fast sequence.
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Obviously it's a rocket launch. Yeah, it's not rock.
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Get science is what everybody says when it's hard to do so
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they'll obviously get it done and don't know how to doing, but
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wow, such a yaxha t-that's. Yeah, and it's, it's to the
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second, you know, microsecond kind of thing.
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If this doesn't work out, it could ding off one of those arms
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and think it was wherever it goes, you know, probably not
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going to cause too much but it might damage one of the one of
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the Raptors, which could be different kind of traffic.
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So, This just rip it off. Now, let's check out speaking of
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SpaceX Axiom, space and SpaceX are working together to bring
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private astronauts to the International Space Station.
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And Axiom of space will be sending people there.
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Next year I believe is that the first one?
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I think it's 20. It was January.
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Yeah, something like January 2020 to.
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I think pretty white to. Yeah.
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So really 2022. And then there's another three.
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It says there another. Three through 2023.
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Yeah, okay so so basically a two year to year recycled launch
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for. That's a lot really quick.
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I mean it's not a big deal for SpaceX what they're doing now
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it's what they do down to the ISS but if they're going to be
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also taking people to the ISS they've just increased their
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launch schedule by to write w. So yeah, this is going to kind
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of play into sort of like when Bowen gets back into the thing
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with Starliner. So when Star liner is going to
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be sending Two astronauts up SpaceX isn't going to have that
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business, right? So they have to kind of like
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fill in that, that little spot. So another way to do that is to
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make money through Axiom, who's going to be sending people to
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the ISS via Falcon 9's and crew dragons, so make money, making
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that money, move forward, move spaceflight forward, move human,
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spaceflight forward, Axiom has a press release and eventually
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Axiom will have a have their own space station that It's from the
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International Space Station because I'm going to be making
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their own modules on the station and that eventually the first
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2024, correct, I believe. So yeah, I plan to and then they
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will have enough up there, by 2028 to separate from the ISS
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when they soup, that's the current schedule for
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decommissioning. The ISS right as well.
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Have Axiom, Axiom spaces, modules will disappear and
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roscosmos will disappear as well and then whatever's left of the
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International Space. Station will be Deorbit it.
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Yeah and then we'll have the China space station up there as
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well. They just send up another module
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couple days ago and we're actually tracking the booster
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that went up with that. Then we'll give you more
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information about that because it's still in orbit the booster
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cylinder but I believe it's going to be coming back.
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June 20th. So stay tuned.
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We'll have some information. Yeah, somewhere.
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We don't know where we don't know if it's going to be powered
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boost back but we don't know if it's going to be.
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Be out of control but we'll have a live stream of wherever it's
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going. So make sure to tune in.
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Make sure to subscribe to by the Kevin Howard.
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The last two. I don't know why they would
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power the state would not, they're not going to.
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So we're going to have an out-of-control Chinese booster
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coming back to Earth in June, so stay tuned.
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What I what I notice about axioms.
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Press release is they have it cool quote from Gwynne.
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Shotwell was a CEO of SpaceX. We are Beyond excited to build
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upon our relationship partnership with Axiom to help
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make Spaceflight more accessible for more people, a new era in
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human spaceflight is here. It's true.
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Yeah. Absolutely.
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And yeah, you said that once Starliner comes on board and
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Sierra Nevadas got one as well coming, there's more people go
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into space as opposed to the same amount right?
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We've got yep. In the very end, the very near
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future. There's a lot of people going to
20:55
space from a lot of different vehicles and they're all going
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to be needed. It's not, it's still
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competition. But there's gonna be a lot more
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going up there to begin with. So from a tourist standpoint,
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from a scientist and point, it's going to be busy up there.
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Yeah, there's going to be people, it's got to be pretty
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normal. You know, people go into the ISS
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three, four, five flights a year.
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Couple people each flight like two to four people per flight.
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It just regular people that have the money to go.
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Not yet, it's not astronauts or not.
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Like super trained NASA people, you know, you don't have to go
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to flight school anymore, you don't have to go into the air.
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Horse become a test pilot anymore or become crazy
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scientist and you know that's happening this year, right?
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That's happening now. Yeah, I think you've got blue
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origin is going to be sending people up.
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You've got inspiration for is going up.
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Yep, even the Russians are setting up so use as well.
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Some people just regular folk so it's happening.
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Yeah, be a long time before we can afford it, but this one.
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So that's why you have to subscribe.
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Yeah, yeah. So it's happening really quick
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and it really is a new era in human spaceflight.
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And we're happy to be here to be part of it.
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So yeah. So stay tuned for that to more
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Boca Chica news, okay? We got you know, quick
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professional I am RGV, aerial Boca, Chica Starbase labels by
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Bingo Baco, Boca, Bingo, buck. Go Boca May 31st of 2021 the max
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Q nose cone. We we were just laughing before
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we spread a recording this that May 31st my goodness, that's
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ages ago. Yeah.
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So long ago we're like we can't report on this is so long ago,
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but then we're doing it anyway because it's pretty cool.
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Bingo Boca. So this is this is B into which
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is turned into a booster number two which is turned into a test
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tank. Now it's not Actually going to
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be built out to a full booster. The First full Boost will be
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booster three or I think Ilan called it.
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Booster. One or two screws are too thick.
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It is called a booster. It's booster may be made.
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Anyway, it's sitting on that sort of last week's video.
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We talked about a mystery structure that they built a
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black structure, that's what this is sitting on.
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Now it turns out that that black structure is a Thrust Puck is
23:29
test and set it essentially. So it's it's basically
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simulating the thrust of all the engines underneath it to to make
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sure that the welds are holding and everything stable with
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whatnot. They do this with a Starship as
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well. They have a raptor thrust book
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as well. That's rest pack.
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Sorry, wrong words but for us, it's simulator is the same old.
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Same old, the same stuff. Yeah, pretty pretty interesting,
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High base over here in nose cone, the max-q, nose cones up
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here, and yeah, once once the booster just passed the tests,
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then they'll be, you know, ready to do booster.
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I think it's booster one. I don't know, booster, booster
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wonder, whatever whatever Ilan said to be able to rely on says,
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that's what that's what we go with.
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Then they'll be ready to move that out and start testing that
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as well which is going to be insane because that's an orbital
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Starship that's coming up. So also States you can see
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something you can see is that a lot of the sorry to interrupt
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you, that's all good. Just a pro bono the channel but
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you can see the lot of the a lot of the motion at the test.
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They build site has stopped. There's a lot of stuff that just
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isn't happening anymore because they're they've got so much to
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do on the launch pad and the launch tower that they just kind
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of put it into neutral on their coasting right now.
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Yeah. And SN based on the at this
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site. Yeah.
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Yeah. An S&M 15s just pushed in the
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back lot. Yeah it looks like that's a fun.
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One of the stands. They built a long time ago now.
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So it is. It is there for posterity?
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Yeah. It's It's there to to show
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people, you know, like he meant this is a real thing and we're
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working on getting people to orbit that was three weeks ago.
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Ancient. Yeah, ancient history.
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Yeah, exactly. That's, that's crazy how fast
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this is moving. Like, this doesn't happen in
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real life or this didn't happen before SpaceX.
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This is all kind of like you know it done in big Warehouse
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you're someplace mysterious like blue origin style where you
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don't know anything until they tell you and now it's just like,
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oh yeah. Could all this stuff speaking of
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stuff. This is from Starship Kaiser and
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starts with k 0. By the way, this is from RGV,
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aerial photography are RGB aerial photos on Twitter and
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this is Starship Geezer and Starship.
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Gazer by cell signal was terrible out here with my new
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phone can only send tweets and few locations.
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We're talking about this a little bit earlier, but I didn't
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really know what's going on with this.
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Do you know any more about this than nothing?
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Because I know barely any I think the general shape of it,
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indicates that it might be have something to do with the header
26:20
tank. It's probably a template to weld
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new header tanks together using sort of a vertical weld on that.
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I believe the white parts of this are is basically a heat
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sinks to take heed wave during the welding process, okay?
26:37
Through the fusion confusion to the, the friction welding that
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they're doing. So yeah, it's as simple as a
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template for welding, okay? Super basic.
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It looks cool. It doesn't look very sturdy.
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Yeah likes very sturdy looks very futuristic.
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Looks like something that you know looking at 7.2 there as
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well. Yeah, this thing's big.
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So the other thing is, like, it fits on the back of this,
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flatbed truck, puppet trucks are big.
27:06
I've been on top of those things and I've been next to them,
27:08
they're big. This thing is bigger and and
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this thing's even so everything, they're like receiver for we're
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in all of how Gigantic everything is I just want to
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walk around in this facility with permission of course and
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say what is going like just look up so late.
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Yeah, everything's associate which it's so huge.
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So big. Yeah.
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This is I was I'd be like a little kid.
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Yeah. Be like when you go to New York
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City for the first time of you just like look up you're just
27:36
like the Toronto or wherever a big city and this look up and
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see you can go up into that to you.
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Hi. Babe are.
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Oh yeah the high bar High bar. Pretty cool.
27:47
So that fear of heights thing, I think I'd be okay going up
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there. It's like is as long as I can be
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in an elevator and secure but I think.
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Yeah, I think I'd be okay. I think it would be worth it.
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Just to go hang out and have a margarita up there and, you
28:04
know, check out the whole facility, everything.
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Oh yeah. But yeah, you can see, you know,
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how big this thing is. Like, it doesn't look that big
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compared to that tank, you know. But then again, some tank is 9
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meters wide, right? Exactly.
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But the tank is massive. So here we have another methane
28:26
sub coolers Yeah, so these are there's lock sub coolers and
28:33
there's methane sub. Cool is being installed right
28:35
now. Either side of the GSE tanks.
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So these are devices that will basically recycle Recycle and
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and get it ready for putting back into these tanks.
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I think. Okay, cool, cool.
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Yeah, they are a little bit closer and of course people for
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scale and yeah, they're quite large again and they do a lot of
29:01
work. So it's something to realize
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just how much goes into the stuff, all the planning they
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have to do to organize all this stuff they have.
29:13
They're building all this in advance of making their own fuel
29:16
still. So you know, all this has to be
29:19
in place before you can make a drop of fuel otherwise, where's
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it going to go? Yeah, so hopefully, they've got
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it all set. Yeah, so this is like, so back
29:30
in the day, NASA used to do their own testing and they used
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to make Daily Beast to make, or at least hire people to make
29:35
their own launch facilities and all that stuff.
29:38
This is kind of what NASA did back in the 50s and 60s.
29:42
But now, Oh, it's just a private company going like hey man, we
29:45
want to launch these Rockets. No one's going to let us do it
29:47
or like we don't want to we want to do it our own way and you
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know, we don't want to rent out a pad.
29:54
Let's just build one, but that means we need to do everything
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ourselves, right? They need to do everything
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themselves and they have to, they could like they could buy
30:01
these fuels and just put them in the tanks.
30:03
But the cost of that and the number of trucks, they would
30:06
need to fill one of these tanks is just huge, so they're going
30:09
to make their own and that means a lot of infrastructure.
30:12
Yeah. You have to put the
30:13
infrastructure in place or it's going to be cost prohibitive to
30:17
launch one of these rockets and they want to save money and make
30:20
money from these things as opposed to, you know, like it's
30:23
not just a fun project for SpaceX like third looking it
30:27
billions and billions trillions of dollars probably in profit
30:30
eventually. So like getting this system in
30:33
place now and if you know, eventually they'll upgrade the
30:35
systems were getting these in place.
30:36
Now, this is the kind of the highway to the Future that
30:39
they're building here for sure, as far as you know.
30:42
I mean y'all. Ultimate goal is to launch when
30:44
these 42 million dollars, you know, relax now but it's like
30:49
some of the actual, you know, the actual ship to begin with,
30:54
right? They want to launch this just by
30:56
feeling it up and going. Yes, we million dollars worth of
30:58
fuel off you go. We're now competing with some of
31:01
the smallest rocks out there the Astro rocket, which will cost
31:05
even more than ends, then Starship to launch, but that'll
31:10
take 200 kilograms and Starships going to take on Chance.
31:15
Yeah, that's the that. Absolute like the difference is
31:21
in Mets to be a couple million bucks team changes Starship.
31:24
It it's huge game changer. Speak it again where we heading
31:28
now we're headed to space, we're heading to the ISS then they
31:33
just finished a spacewalk on the the Russian move to Russian
31:40
Crane in a disconnected appears. He's lucky, bro.
31:46
Nice. Yeah, it's pretty good.
31:48
Like, it always makes me excited when we see astronauts working
31:53
in space because it's so slow. Yeah, they get so mellow and
32:00
like, you know, it takes so long to do anything.
32:03
I'm going to rewind this a little bit, but it takes so long
32:06
to do anything in space. Sure.
32:08
And you don't realize how much time and actually takes to just,
32:12
you know, to move something or couple feet.
32:16
Yeah, and so they are preparing the Pierce.
32:20
Module to be decommissioned. So it's going to be leaving the
32:24
space station and burn up in the atmosphere along with one of
32:27
their supply ships and getting ready for the arrival of a whole
32:34
new module. Which I talked about in a video
32:36
a couple weeks ago. The module is that Noca which is
32:41
going to be a basically an all over everything you can module.
32:47
So it's going to be living quarters going to be science
32:49
births, it's going To have engines in its going to have Eva
32:54
facilities as well. It's got everything.
32:57
So it's basically replacing this and it's going to be attached to
33:00
the space station until they decommission it decommission
33:04
space station and whether the Russian space agency takes that
33:09
their chunk of the ISS and moves it somewhere else or does
33:12
something with it or whether they just decommission that as
33:16
well and do over it in favor of their own station, we're not
33:19
entirely sure. Sure yet.
33:21
But that's probably what's going to happen.
33:23
Yeah. Here's a close-up shot like a
33:25
helmet, cam shy of them, doing some work on that module.
33:30
Yeah. And there's nothing like I'm
33:34
still amazed by this to like there's nothing out here, you
33:36
know. Like the station's here and then
33:38
here nothing kind of drunk tool. Yeah.
33:41
Don't drop your tool or tools gone forever don't burn up when
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it hits the atmosphere so you lose it for good.
33:48
Yeah, and yeah. Elizabeth.
33:50
I mean they have to go get another one we laughing about if
33:53
it does but the canadarm2 with hit by a piece of debris.
33:57
Yeah last week as well put a big hole in it still working just
34:01
fine but that's that's just space junk that's flying out
34:05
there and there's a lot of it. Something we're going to have to
34:08
worry about Coming up in the future.
34:11
So how do we get rid of the satellites that aren't being
34:14
used? The pieces of junk that are up
34:17
there that are just causing potential problems?
34:20
Because we're not putting less satellites up there work every
34:23
month. We put up another 60 from
34:25
SpaceX, at least so or two weeks, even so, you know, we've
34:30
got to figure out. What's, what we're going to do
34:32
with all this space debris? Yes, there's a lot of it.
34:35
It's a ton of this, and it's going to cause problems.
34:37
Just did. Just cause the whole.
34:39
Yeah. If that would have hit and I'm
34:42
still working. Oh yeah.
34:43
The lucky that it basically the Canada are deflected it from
34:47
hitting where people were. Yeah, that too like that.
34:49
Like that's kind of like they're very, very fortunate that that
34:53
didn't just like plow through the station, you know.
34:56
Keep in mind these these pieces of debris or traveling at 17,000
34:59
miles an hour. Yeah.
35:01
And the space station is very they didn't they would deorbit
35:03
so they have to travel that fast.
35:05
At least the yeah. So yeah that's a little little
35:10
And what's going on with the space station?
35:12
Are you don't have any footage or any pictures of the Canada
35:15
arm but unfortunately is everything roscosmos.
35:18
Yeah everything it's roscosmos 360 on Twitter so yeah I think
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that's it for today let's try it let's do it let's try to do a
35:27
high-five Neil no yeah okay you gotta go down.
35:33
Oh yeah we did it clapping. Alright thanks everybody take
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Thanks so much. Well bye-bye.