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Welcome to Industry Focus, I'm Nick Saipel.

We've got a big show for you this week.

Space Hacks has all kinds of news. Boeing has more plane trouble

and UPS just reported earnings buoyed by this surge in online shopping we've

seen during the pandemic. Joining me to help break it all down is Motley Fool contributor Lou Whiteman Lou

thanks for joining me. Always a pleasure. Yeah it's a set off the top of the show very

very full a full show lots of topics going on this week so I just want to get into it right off the bat first off we've got space X in the news this week for lots of reasons some of them good some of them bad want to go with the good news first space SpaceX says they're going to send their first

all civilian crew to orbit this year.

Yeah and you know the funny thing about this is is that how quickly this suddenly looks routine

I mean it was it was less than a year ago it was May

2020 that we were celebrating their doing the crew dragon doing its first launch

to the space station and it almost feels routine there's going to be one of those

dragon capsules parked at the space station almost indefinitely from now on

this is a it's it's a next step from there but it's really amazing to see how much this story has shifted in a very short amount of time from concept to actual no we're doing this it's it's on

So Lou hot seat Virgin Galactic what do you think you know I mean yeah I mean the

the real question is how much demand is there at these price points and what I would much rather be SpaceX with a diversified

business right now than Virgin Galactic. They're planning other things but right now they are

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