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SpaceX Dragon XL HUMAN Upgrades, Crew 3, Starbase and more · Elon Musk Podcast

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  I'm your host will Weldon. And in this episode, we're going
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  to be talking about everything SpaceX from Starship to start
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  link to crew 3. Now, this is some things that I
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  found on the internet but I want to tell you about something cool
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  to happen to me first tonight. So if you have a clear view of
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  the sky, you can see the space station.
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  Flying overhead. It looks like a really bright
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  star. That's traveling really fast in
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  a straight line. Very cool.
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  I got to see that tonight. I was hanging out with one of my
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  friends in his backyard weirdest.
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  Stargazing looking up the Stars, talking about stuff and all of a
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  sudden find across the sky. I see the space station.
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  I go. Hey space station.
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  So we looked at that we checked it out for a couple minutes
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  we're like this is so cool man. So cool that we get to see
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  people flying in space. How cool is that?
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  That was really rad. Couple minutes later.
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  We're just hanging out looking around.
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  It's like look up at the stars and stuff.
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  My friend goes starlink points over and Eastern Direction, ish
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  Eastern, North East, I think is like starlink and I'm like,
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  what? And I'm like, what I've never
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  seen starlink a train of Sterling said lights flew across
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  the sky right in front of me, couple minutes right after the
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  space station. What a cool.
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  Experience. You can experience that to their
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  different trackers, you can check out Spot.
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  The Station is a great one for you to check out Spot.
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  The Station that nasa.gov can check that out and put in your
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  information, your location and it'll tell you when and where to
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  look for the station. Now Star Lake, find
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  starlink.com, and you put in your Your city in your, your
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  country and they'll tell you where to look for Sterling it.
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  Where and when to look for Sterling, pretty cool.
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  We didn't have any of the information tonight but I just
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  want to share that with you because a starlink train is
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  really, really cool. Now let's get into some star.
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  Yep, some Starship stuff. This is Starbase.
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  Okay, check this out. This is from Mary at Boca.
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  Chica Boca Chica Mary Boca Chica Gail at Boca Chica.
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  Gal Starbase is lit up again, look at that.
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  Starbase is a thing really cool. I'm excited about Starbase and
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  I'm excited about our new Starbase Labs, whatever it is,
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  our new base of operations, in Texas, going to happen before
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  patreon up there to help us get to Texas.
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  Thank you so much for everybody who's been supporting the show
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  and doing that. Now, another cool thing that
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  happened is that this kind of snuck under the radar cargo, the
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  dragon XL, cargo ship. Dragon XL, is back there.
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  This thing right there, Dragon Excel.
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  That's by bohemes. Oh, check out bohemes.
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  Oh, on Etsy. And I'll leave a link in the
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  description. Dragon XL is supposed to be a
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  supply ship. Just bringing stuff to the lunar
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  Gateway. Now there's some talk about it.
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  Becoming a crew module. Kinda not to launch people, to
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  the lunar Gateway. But to have a habitat for
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  people. On the lunar Gateway.
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  A contract, supplemental agreement for work within the
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  scope of the Dragon XL craft. It's pretty interesting Gateway
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  Logistics, Services space, exploration.
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  Technology SpaceX the purpose of this contract modification is to
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  order special tasks and study sx3, 07:21 private, crew
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  compartment and waste management system, feasibility study.
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  So this is going to be in the dragon Excel.
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  And do they have enough room? That's what this is.
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  What they're working on. Do they have enough room to put
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  people in this thing? Maybe move some cargo around
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  l'escargot. Couple people can sleep in there
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  and also put a potty in there but a bathroom in there they get
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  a hundred twenty one point eight thousand dollars to see if
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  there's enough room to move around and put some put a bed in
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  there. Something you know basically put
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  a place where somebody can sleep and hang out for a little bit.
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  And also go to the bathroom SpaceX uses a bathroom, their
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  own custom bathroom on the crew Dragon so they have the ability
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  to add a bathroom now. Do they have to add extra
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  Plumbing to the dragon Excel? Yes, more than likely yes.
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  So they're gonna have to work on that but going to hundred twenty
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  one point eight thousand basically 122 thousand dollars
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  to make this modification and this is a this isn't for the the
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  building, this is basically for Logistics.
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  Can they do it? You know, can they figure it out
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  basically special task in study? That's what it says so special
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  test and study means. Hey, can we do this?
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  The study this area? Let's see if this Dragon Excel
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  can hold people more than likely can hold people.
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  They just have to reconfigure some stuff.
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  Basically, put some boxes on a different shelf, less boxes on a
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  different shelf. That's how we're going to break
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  it down. Pretty simple.
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  That's what you think. But it's, it takes a lot of
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  time. A lot of engineering goes into
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  those things. So it could take, you know,
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  could takes weeks, could take months to figure this out.
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  Now, another thing, what happens to Starship when it lands from
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  the orbital launch, what happens to it when it lands near Kawaii,
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  okay? It's going to land in the ocean
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  so it's going To have a water, a soft water splash down, how are
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  they going to keep this thing afloat?
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  And I found it really funny. Interesting.
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  Interesting thread on SpaceX Lounge on Reddit.
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  I'm not sure if you're familiar with SpaceX Lounge, but it's
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  basically like SpaceX subreddit. That's pretty chill.
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  It's not quite SpaceX Master race because that's wild that's
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  just memes, of SpaceX. And that's the most fun one.
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  This is sort of like in between SpaceX.
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  And SpaceX Master race, like a couple memes here and there and
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  you talk about some goofy stuff sometimes.
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  So this is a thread that I found, that was pretty
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  interesting. Like how are they going to
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  retrieve the star ship when it lands in the ocean?
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  So what's going to be inside the first orbital Starship but it'd
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  be something that will make it more retrievable like oh pool
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  noodles. By 3D blender now, let me know
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  what you think of the comments, what they're going to put in the
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  Starship because I have an idea what they're going to put in
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  there. I don't want to say yet.
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  I don't want to, I don't want to reveal this but I want to know
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  what your thoughts are because I have some thoughts on and want
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  to make a video about it. So I want to know what's you
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  think they're going to put in the Starship and there are a few
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  really, really funny and interesting things that they
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  could put in a Starship. I hope it's a single rubber
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  ducky with a pilot helmet. That's a good one.
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  I think we're, we've got enough rubber ducks in the ocean.
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  LOL, they're still washing up from that.
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  One duck sealed. Container that fell off a ship
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  many years ago. I haven't heard of that but if
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  that's true, that's horrible because those rubber ducks are
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  probably polluting things but also it's kind of funny that
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  there's a bunch of rubber ducks in the Ocean.
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  AV Bowden says, I'm going with nothing there won't even be
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  payload doors or anything to access.
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  It re-entry is the main thing to study and that's supposed to be
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  without payload, mostly at first.
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  Maybe a mass simulator if they want to do it regarding weight
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  or a man system of a man system or re on re-entry but I think
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  they won't go that far yet. Okay, so this person thinks
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  Maybe like a cinder block, you know, like that's based on what
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  they do like a mass simulator is like okay so what's it going to
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  how much mass is going to be in a Starship when they actually
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  land or yeah when they land cargo when they launched cargo
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  people cargo Etc. So a mass simulator is something
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  like that. They put a Tesla in a falcon
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  heavy and that's insane. But it was a test that they need
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  to do for a massively the what to do.
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  Something cool for a Starship. I think they might do something
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  similar especially for something like this.
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  This is the first orbital Starship.
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  It's a huge huge deal things 400 ish feet tall.
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  It's a massive thing. They're launching a skyscraper
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  into orbit basically. So there are a few things, other
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  things cheese wheel some dudes car, they swiped on the parking
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  lot, that's the Tesla. It won't be expensive or
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  dangerous, but there will be some gag on board.
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  There has to be Me know what you think in the comments.
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  Popcorn. Kernels.
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  If Starship burns up on re-entry.
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  Delicious buttery snacks will rain down on the people below
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  says Mars artist. That's really good.
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  Nothing. Maybe some big items that gets
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  announced rate beforehand. I think that's going to be true
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  too. I think that's what they're
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  going to do. They're gonna do something funny
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  or they going to do something really epic.
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  So funny or epic. That's what I think they're
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  going to do something super funny or super epic.
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  Now there's one One more thing that I want to talk about and
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  that is crew three. They just announced a new
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  astronaut for crew 3 which would be going to the space station.
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  I believe in October. This is Caleb, Aaron joins,
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  NASA's SpaceX crew. Three mission to the space
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  station. Now, mind you, this is not a
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  SpaceX helmet. This is a big ol bubble, NASA
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  helmet, but Caleb. Aaron is going to be be the crew
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  3 mission as a side K. Le Baron the serve as a mission
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  specialist for the agency's SpaceX crew, three mission to
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  the ISS, which is targeted to launch as early as October 23rd
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  of this year. So be the first space flight for
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  Baron who became a NASA astronaut?
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  January 2020. How cool is that to you?
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  Become a NASA astronaut in June of twenty or January 2020?
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  And then The next year, you're going to the space station on a
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  falcon 9 with a crew dragon on top of it, that's freakin sweet.
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  That's a that's a sweet gig you got going on there she will join
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  NASA astronauts Russia Sherry and Tom marshburn as a missions
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  commander and pilot respectively and Isa space.
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  Orissa a European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Mara as who
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  also will serve as a mission specialist crew 3 or of this
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  year. So gonna be cool, man.
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  I hope you all get to see that Ali will hopefully get there to
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  see that as well. So congratulations, Kayla for
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  your selection for crew three. Now, let me know what you think
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  in the comments about the Starship, what are going to put
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  inside of it when they land it, but it's going to be, just a big
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  block, is it going to be something cool?
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  It's going to be a giant rubber duck.
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  Will seem a simulator Her we don't know.
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  So let me know in the comments also.
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