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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Motley Fool Contributor Lou Whiteman returns to the podcast to break down SpaceX winning the NASA contract to return humans to the moon, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity, and Canadian National Railway challenging Canadian Pacific’s bid to acquire Kansas City Southern Railroad.
Stocks Mentioned: SpaceX (Private), LDOS, CNI, CP, KSU
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day. |
0:11.0 | I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seyple. I'm Dylan Lewis. And today |
0:16.0 | we're talking financials. Today we're talking consumer goods. Wild Card Wednesday. |
0:20.4 | And we're talking energy. And today we're talking tech. |
0:23.0 | Let's dive in. |
0:24.0 | Welcome Industry Focus, I'm Nick Saipel. |
0:29.0 | We've got lots of news to run down in Energy and Industrials this week and I'm excited to have |
0:33.7 | Lou Whiteman back on the show with me to break it all down. Lou how's it going? I'm |
0:38.0 | doing well how you doing? I'm doing fantastic. We're gonna we've got a couple topics to break down today. We'll update |
0:44.9 | listeners on the Kansas City Southern acquisition we discussed about a month ago. This is already a |
0:49.8 | super complicated acquisition. We weren't sure if the government was going to approve it. Now we've got a |
0:54.0 | bidding war on top of that with Canadian National Railway jumping into the mix. We'll break that down and see what could |
1:00.6 | come next when it comes to this transaction but first I want to start with |
1:04.1 | space space x scored a huge win at the end of last week when NASA selected the company |
1:09.2 | as the sole winner in the bidding to provide landing equipment needed to bring humans back to the moon. |
1:14.4 | Lou what does this news mean for SpaceX and you know for the space industry more |
1:18.5 | broadly? Yeah though this was a huge deal this is part of NASA's big Artemis project, which as you say is going to bring us back to the moon. |
1:27.0 | This is a $2.9 billion with a bee contract for the human landing system. This is the part that is going to bring |
1:35.0 | astronauts from orbit to the moon's surface and back. This has been in |
1:41.3 | development for a long time. |
1:42.8 | NASA, it was a who's-who's list of people signed up for this. |
1:47.5 | NASA narrowed it down to three bidders. |
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