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Starship May Miss Launch Deadline · Elon Musk Podcast

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  There's a lot of testing that's going to be going on between now
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  and when Ilan said, they may be ready for launch which is in
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  August of 2020, which is next month and we're like halfway
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  through July now. So August is coming up really
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  fast and booster sevens back in the bay.
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  Getting test it out. See if they have to switched
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  from booster. 72. Booster 8, see if they just have
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  to replace a couple Raptor. See if they have to replace some
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  stuff inside a booster seven. But also we got a Ship down at
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  the launch area that needs to be tested.
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  And here we go, check this out. There's some dates that you have
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  to check out, July 18th, July 19th, July 20th, and July 21st,
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  these are all road closures for Highway 4, which is the road
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  that goes past Starbase by Starship.
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  So Highway for closed, all of these days, July 18th, 19th
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  20th. That's Monday, Tuesday,
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  Wednesday, and Thursday. Of this coming week.
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  So that means they're going to be doing some testing, but what
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  kind of testing are they going to be doing?
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  Well, there's another road closure thing coming up here.
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  There's any Trevino jr. This is the judge that kind of
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  oversees all this stuff. It's ordering a temporary
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  closure of access to Boca Chica Beach and they have to do that.
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  They have to close the beach have to close down for people
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  that want to go there and hang out, take down their coolers.
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  Take down their six packs. Of course, non-alcoholic six
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  packs and bring their Sprite. Right.
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  And bring they could bring alcohol, I don't care.
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  I really don't care or if they tried to go to the beach that I
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  can be able to because judge Eddie Trevino closes off the
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  beach for these Highway for tests SpaceX is going to be
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  testing and on this you can see. It says non flight testing
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  activities so there's not going to be a flight of any sort of
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  Starship any time soon. Not in the next week at least
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  that we know of because it's not ready to go yet that's pretty
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  much the reason it has nothing to do with added Trevino.
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  Here it has everything to do with this.
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  It isn't ready to go. So Starship, still needs some
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  testing and Elon Musk has said, hey, booster 7 might be busted,
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  we're not sure. So we'll see what happens with
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  booster 7 in the coming days, but what could they be doing for
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  the star ship? The ship itself, ship 24.
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  So there's something you can do in that.
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  So, thanks everybody. They could be doing some cryo
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  test, but probably not. I've already gone through all
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  those tests. I've already tested them out.
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  They have though put on the engine.
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  They put on the Raptors. So there's a possibility that
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  they do a load test. They could be tanking and
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  priming for static fires. That's possibly what they're
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  going to be doing. For this next week, they have a
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  whole week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, the close
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  down the beach on Friday, though, because it on Fridays,
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  people get to go to the beach. It's a thing.
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  They have with Cameron County speaks this camera County work
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  together and they say ends, let's open up.
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  The beach is to everybody because that's what people in
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  Texas want and that's kind of I think it's The in the State
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  Constitution, that these things have to be open x amount of days
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  per week. And also, in the latest FAA
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  environmental review. They said SpaceX, you have to
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  keep this stuff open for the people to use.
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  So that's why that's open Friday.
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  Saturday and Sunday, they could be doing a spin Prime test,
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  which is kind of a pre burner test without ignition.
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  They spin up the turbo pumps but they don't light anything.
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  There's no static fire with that, they could be doing that
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  as well, and that's kind of what we saw with.
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  Seven, they were doing those types of tests.
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  They're putting in there, doing a real like, a flow through the
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  booster. And when they happen, there was
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  a giant explosion. That's why booster 7 is in the
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  bay, they could do real propellants in ship 24, but no
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  thrust, no ignition. Make sure everything works
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  engines. Turbopumps, spin up to speed,
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  but they don't light it. They don't say go.
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  And then, Then if all this works out, if they get all this stuff
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  done it's possible. They're just going to do that a
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  few times this week. Unfortunately, I don't know if
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  they're going to have a static fire.
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  We haven't had an overpressure notice quite yet for a static
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  fire. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
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  Thursday of this week possible. Very small chance of a static
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  fire, but it possible. We get up.
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  We get an igniter test. So basically the things that
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  make the engine, start the igniter, the spark that Ago.
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  We may see one of those this week, and it's a quick poof just
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  goes poof, basically you'll see a little bit of flame, but
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  that's it. So, we might see an igniter
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  test, might see a pre burner test, might see a spin test
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  spin, Prime test, sorry, and some tanking and priming for the
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  upcoming static fires. And those have to happen before
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  Backblaze.com he'll on Starships ship, 24 gets tacked, on either
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  booster 7 or booster 8. And if booster 7 is out, the
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  booster rate has to do a lot of testing actually has to do,
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  cryo, testing, it has to do pressure testing as to go
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  through everything that booster 7 went through.
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  It also has to have all the Raptors put on it 33.
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  Raptors installed on booster rate so over the weekend.
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  Up until this time and possibly all of next week while there's
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  testing ship, they could be doing internal testing of
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  booster 7 and making the call to either move to booster 8 or stay
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  with booster 7. And like I said, if booster rate
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  is the thing that they go with, if that's the booster that go
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  with, it's possible that this could be, this could be a while
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  before they before they all this stuff done and the August time
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  frame May slip a little bit. So What happened with booster 7,
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  it's an anomaly. And the FAA actually stepped up
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  and said we have no authority over this.
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  Like this is a test. This is an RD vehicle.
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  So we're not going to take this into account if we allow them to
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  launch Starship. So anything that happened was
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  there. Seven is just straight-up
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  booster 7 as a test vehicle. The FAA doesn't really care that
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  much about. I'm sure they know about it, but
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  they're not going to Hold this against SpaceX for the launch
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  license, which they need as well.
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  So Space X shows that the vehicle is ready and primed and
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  stack. They also have to do a stack
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  test, so they have to put the ship on top of the booster
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  either seven or eight and they have to make sure that it fits
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  properly and if it fits properly that's great, but they are
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  probably going to have to do cryo tests with both the vehicle
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  and the booster at the Same time.
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  So that could take some time as well.
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  Elon says, August. I think it's going to slip into
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  September. I really do.
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  I really think it's going to slip into September and I think
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  that there's going to be some time where I don't know.
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  Maybe October. And I'm just doing this because
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  I know the testing schedule from before and it's possible that we
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  see it happen in August, but that's like a real fast
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  turnaround for this kind of stuff, because stacking, you
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  know, stacking takes a couple days.
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  Anyway, stack the ship on top of the booster?
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  They're going to have to do fit tests, that takes a couple days,
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  you know? I mean, the stacking itself only
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  takes, you know, half a day, but then they have to make sure it's
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  there properly. Might spend the whole day.
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  Making sure that it's secure the next day or overnight making
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  sure that everything is good. Let it sit for a while, make
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  sure nothing gets crushed because these things are heavy
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  you know and the ship is 150 feet.
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  Tall boosters about 250 feet tall all together.
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  It's around 400 feet tall and it's a 9 meter around 30 feet
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  around tube that has to the structure of the booster has to
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  be Able to hold up the ship. So if that works, which it
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  should because we've seen them stack ships before 420 actually
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  the ship for and booster 20, that's stacked a few times and
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  that was amazing. I got to see that on the side of
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  Highway 4 but if they can get that ship stacked up and if it
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  all works they're going to have to do something similar.
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  Probably another, maybe another cryo test just to make sure
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  everything works make Nothing kind of like shakes Loose as
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  they as they do these quick tests and they could possibly
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  do, you know, another tanking and priming getting ready for
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  the launch. And then D tank, it that could
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  take a few days just to just to test it.
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  You know what I'm saying? Just to test the pressure, just
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  to test all the all the pre-burners, and this, the spin
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  Prime test stuff going on there. So that's possible.
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  So it could Possibly be could possibly be September, but I'm
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  hoping for August, but I'm guessing October is.
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  So if that makes any sense, if that makes any sense to you, let
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  me know in the comments below. When do you think it's this
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  thing's gonna launch? It is getting closer.
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  We're getting really close. So I really want this thing to
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  launch, but I'm guessing it'll be September, October, so don't
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  hurt me because I want this legal launch to.
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  I want to go back there and watch it.
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  So if you want to help Help. Make sure to leave a comment.
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  Make sure to like this video, make sure to subscribe to the
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  video. I've been down there for the
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  last nine months and it's amazing.
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  I loved it. So thanks everybody for your
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  support. Let's talk about this next time
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  on Space news, pod. I'm will Walden and I'll see you
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