Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, has been breaking down barriers in satellite launches, broadband LOE communications, and orbital freighters, defying skeptics. And now SpaceX is about to break the very last barrier—manned spaceflight. NASA has certified the Demo-2 Dragon 2 crew capsule for manned flight to the International Space Station. The tentative first launch has been scheduled for May 30th, 2020. Lockheed Martin’s Orion is at least another year away from certification. How did Lockheed, with all its advantages in political patronage, corporate size, experience in space, and money fall behind Musk’s scrappy startup? We take a look at why NASA chose to fund both commercial and federal manned space programs, the design differences between the Dragon 2 and Orion, and the competition issues that have been plaguing the U.S. space industry for decades.

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OTHER SPACE AND SPACEX EPISODES:
Short 16 (LauncherOne’s 1st Flight Fails): https://youtu.be/rkvpxJmyZsk
Episode 32 (Is a U.S. Space Station Needed?): https://youtu.be/WRwQ1_8tteU
Short 15 (X-37B Goes to Space Again) https://youtu.be/uHfn6ZpwymA
Episode 30 (SpaceX Beats Boeing to 1st Manned Spaceflight): https://youtu.be/KSrFUgKCxOw
Short 12 (US Space Force First Recruiting Commercial): https://youtu.be/sG3ip6J-oB8
Short 11 (CHEOPS space telescope): https://youtu.be/dnSd3fievTY
Episode 28 (ULA and US Space Force are not Moonraker): https://youtu.be/a079_g0k6R0
Episode 27 (OneWeb is Driven into Bankruptcy by Starlink): https://youtu.be/UPfABJIqt7o
Episode 26 (Starship and the Spaceports of Tomorrow): https://youtu.be/qFL96xR9ZJI
Short #7A (SpaceX’s Crew Dragon): https://youtu.be/aFvPNUUS03U
Short #4 (Elon Musk Space Sound Bites 2006-2019): https://youtu.be/QoFdibFBpEs
Short #2 (Condensed version of Elon Musk’s Starship Presentations):
https://youtu.be/JVsXcDVc1dY

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Short 10 (Boeing and Embraer Call It Off): https://youtu.be/Ju0Eql-7H1Y
Episode 29 (Why Didn’t the Buick Reatta Get on Car Trek?): https://youtu.be/fXx_ZqR988g
Episode 25 (2019 Year End Tesla Battery Update): https://youtu.be/21-CPwB76dU
Short 8 (Tesla’s 1 Millionth Car): https://youtu.be/s6rpofoaI_8
Episode 24 (The Ford Think City): https://youtu.be/mGTVLKnm-us
Episode 22 (Death Stranding Walkthrough): (Part 1): https://youtu.be/Mj1Q5vlBO1E
Episode 21 (Coca-Cola and the Coca Leaf): https://youtu.be/I0qW7JRQyMc
Episode 17 (The 27th Letter of the English Alphabet): https://youtu.be/YUnSjHFqnRw
Episode 16 (Fake Lamborghinis and the Pontiac Fiero): https://youtu.be/8cPqSbHoOJk
Episode 5 (Cathode Ray Tubes and Dawn of TV): https://youtu.be/nyA6ywTznJ8
Episode 2 (Tandy—Once the Biggest PC Maker): https://youtu.be/mmbCRvTfAJU
Episode 1 (Commodore VIC-20 and SpaceX): https://youtu.be/_UyhkbZXlyk

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