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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This week Butch and Suni come home after a 9 month stint on the ISS, ISRO gets approval for another lunar lander, and SpaceX breaks a turnaround record

Crew-9 return

Blue Ghost goes offline wish potential for revival on April 1st https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1901414669677449256 https://x.com/firefly_space/status/1902003622201745632

Chandrayaan 5 has received mission approval https://www.deccanherald.com/india/centre-has-accorded-approval-for-chandrayaan-5-mission-isro-chief-3448873

new suborbital rocket alert! NordSpace announces SHARP (Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform) https://x.com/nord_space/status/1901978538711855184

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