In the last month or so we've seen a couple of major private space station plans revealed to the world - Orbital Reef lead by Blue Origin and Starlab Lead by Nanoracks. These are likely just the tip of the iceberg as NASA is currently reviewing proposals for the Commercial Low Earth Orbit Destinations project. The video showing the ISS reentering is by HazeGrayArt - watch the full version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsidvoSIGA Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM I have a discord server where I regularly turn up: https://discord.gg/zStmKbM If you really like what I do you can support me directly through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/scottmanley ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ01AtbRH2Y

The Interplanetary mission leaves Kerbin for Jool. Because of the redesign halfway through we can't turn this particularly fast and acceleration is best performed at 10% thrust leaving me with practically unlimited delta V. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev8t-vw5tdk

The first Martian meteorite was identified in 1983, and the analysis that traced the rocks back to their origin on Mars via an impact 700,000 years ago. What's amazing is that while we needed rocks returned from the Moon to recognize lunar meteorites we didn't have the luxury with Martian meteorites. The crucial clue wasn't in the minerals, but noble gasses trapped within the rock when it was kicked into space, these gasses matched the isotopic ratios of the atmosphere sampled by Viking back in the 1970's Some useful background reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_meteorite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001 Ingenuity animation by Simeon Schmauß https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1419414622973616129?s=20 Follow me on Twitter for more updates: https://twitter.com/DJSnM Intro & Outro by Concodroid and Eclipsio ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivbwWr6GP6g

Many people were surprised yesterday when news leaked that NASA was awarding all the funding from the Artemis Human Landing System program to SpaceX with its massive Lunar Starship project. SpaceX's price tag is about $2.9 billion with a commitment to fund half of it themselves. While most space watchers could see why SpaceX had made it to the final round most of us didn't expect it to be the only choice because it was so unlike what NASA was asking for. However the HLS program only got 1/3 of the money it needed from Congress and with time marching on NASA had to make a decision and the only option with a price tag that fit was SpaceX. There's much more info in https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/option-a-source-selection-statement-final.pdf ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuSM_-Aw5HM