This week Ethan and Iain discuss the politics surrounding NASA and the pulled nomination of Jared Isaacman. We also discuss the fallout between Musk and Trump and what that means for SpaceX contracts. After the political bit we talk about the Hakuto R mission and StarShip's ninth test flight.

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In this interesting episode Iain is on his own and he is less than enthused, however the news is very exciting so that helped.

Over the past month a lot has happened and we cover it all, which shockingly took only 20 minutes.

RocketLab had their quarterly review and it went quite well

IM-2 investigation is complete and it shows exactly what we expected

Dragonfly defies expectations and passes its CDR

The first satellite internet video call has been made

Stratolaunch completes the second flight of the Talon-A2

Varda completes their third mission

StarBase is now its own town despite the public backlash of six total people

StarShip granted 20 launches per year out of starbase

New Horizons turned back on and Firefly Blue Ghost did not

Redwire and Ispace sign contract for lunar landers

ULA sponsors a coffee shop

Texas senators want Space Shuttle Discovery and so do we

Jared Isaacman faced a tough confirmation hearing.

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