Damn Stephen is very well spoken. Great episode y'all!

Mars sample return should be down selected to zero. We have enough Martian meteorites on earth that billions of dollars for a few grams of rock is ridiculous. We could send orbiters to Neptune and Uranus for less.

Regarding the 30-40 launches that SpaceX is required to do to fulfill their existing Artemis contracts (about $2.6 billion of which has already been pain out to SpaceX by NASA)… I think it’s not a coincidence that Elon is actively lobbying to kill the entire Artemis program. They’ll get to keep that money that’s already been paid out while not delivering on their obligations to NASA.

"Fly the path of the Rio Grande" S-turns are back folks!

As always, you guys give us one of the most entertaining & informative weekly shows in the space community

What is the betting site they mentioned called?

DRA is a known area of debris, but it is a very unlikely area so to prevent closing airspace in the whole flight path, this is an optional air closure area. So while they did not expect debris in this area, there are plans for it and it is part of the FAA planing. This is confusing as the rules (part 450?) are new and only starship and BO are running flights under these new rules (not sure on the full scope). So it was within a zone, just not one that was a closed airspace as it was an unlikely zone.

this one was amazing, i laughed like 50% of this whole podcast

Woot! Swapna is a great guest.

SpaceX Falcon 9 & Falcon Heavy have launched 3 missions to Mars to do a fly-by for a gravity assist to the final destination: Europa Clipper mission's Mars fly-by in February 2025 was launched by Falcon Heavy in October 2024, Hera mission's Mars fly-by in March 2025 was launched by Falcon 9 in October 2024, Psyche mission's Mars fly-by in May 2026 was launched by Falcon Heavy in October 2023

I think a Rocket Lab, Neutron launch prediction would have been cool. My prediction is September. Successful landing?

They actually threw the musk's Tesla roadster with star man towards Mars on the falcon heavy and missed it so they did throw something towards mars the host is wrong and under influence here😮😮😮

Always love the Anthony & Jake episodes

Baaaaad clipping starting around 45:00 and getting worse from there. Gets impossible to hear anything by 50:00 Seems intermittent? Works on some machines and not others some times and not others

great show, folks!

I got a show idea for you guys, since we have a new NASA administrator coming in and there's a chance he listens to the show this might work. I was listening to an old episode I think number 38, sorry I got too itemized. You guys did an episode where you were the NASA administrator with complete dictatorial power. And laid out what you would do for the next several years. That would be a great show to have Casey on maybe or somebody else who likes numbers. Just a thought

“Dynamic Fire” is a good way to phrase it.

Tesla and SpaceX are amazing, and they do catch the eye. But ending the tech censorship and restoring uncensored speech is Elon's greatest accomplishment so far.

If y’all would like a copy of ULA’s Vulcan comic, I have one.

Love it! thanks for another brilliant year peops - 2025 could be interesting! 😜

Static fire launch is the obvious winner.😂

A very deserving winner!

Navajo nation should go kick sand. I can’t believe NASA gave that any time whatsoever.

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I'm not a Tim Fernholz fan and my Politics are very different than his, but this was a good show.

Inspiration4 was the first commercial crew orbital flight with all rookies on board. Proving out that fully commercial flight was possible. Polaris Program is pretty much the continuation of it. And without Jared push, I don't think something like Polaris Program would ever exist, at least, as soon as it is.

This is what Jared tweet: "I will try to help, but this is why I get frustrated at two lunar lander contracts, when will be lucky to get to the 🌖 a few times in the next decade. People falsely assume its because I want SpaceX to win it all, but budgets are not unlimited & unfortunate casualties happen." (in response to Chandra cancellation). "Spend billions on lunar lander redundancy that you don’t have with SLS at the expense of dozens of scientific programs. I don’t like it."

This has to be one of my favorite episodes of this show.

Now I wanna get into asteroid mining. Hiring?

First time I’ve heard someone discuss mining asteroids without rolling my eyes.

Such a funny episode lol

Rhymes with Blue Origin 😂

My question with all lunar/asteroid mining is at what point are resources from space just worth what they are worth, just for their material value? That is, how much lunar rock needs to come down and get auctioned off before it's just considered dirt? When will an ounce of space gold have the same value as an ounce of earth gold on the open market? I think more money will change hands on the auctions for dirt in phase 1.

Ok, Matt, you sold me on this idea. Asteroid mining, let's gooo!

did matt just leak Im-2 launch date??

Honestly the best interview you've ever done.

Great interview, hope he’s successful.

This was a great episode, very fun to watch

Should interview the solar mirror guy too. He seems like he would be a fun interview.

Should interview the solar mirror guy too. He seems like he would be a fun interview.

Wow. This is one of the best Off-Noms! (And I love me some Eric Berger) Platinum butt plugs!

Gotta have this guy back again. lol

The Starship 9 meter diameter is an under discussed topic. Once Starship development left Hawthorne that was the time they could have changed the diameter. However, maybe the first starship should have been 7 meters for development then increase to 10 or 12 meters. 9 meters is already a huge development effort and maybe too much. Increasing in size with the same materials and methods could actually be easier then some expect.

They must be saving the banana's fate for the big documentary

At least Trump got to see the launch. Apparently he threw a tantrum when he went for the Bob and Doug launch and it was scrubbed for weather safety concerns.

Still have an issue with the flap seams.

No you wouldn't change the diameter. You can watch a eager space video about perfect cylinders. The perfect mass/volume for a 9 meter cylinder is about 70 meter (what the ship will be). The perfect cylinder for a 12 meter rocket would be 200m+ tall.

First time viewing but loved the show looking forward to watching more.

"If we could add a 0 to Isp..." ...we could do a Mars mission. In a single stage. That's like 10x the deltaV for every single stage, meaning a F9 booster could launch, land 100% propulsively from orbit, no aerobraking, then do it again, carrying payload both ways, before needing to refuel. Sadly, that's also kind of physically impossible, we are already deep into the last percent of theoretical efficiency with chemical rockets.

Did you guys know you were riffing on Apollo 12 on the 55th anniversary of its launch, or is that just a coincidence?😅