Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 710: NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) Program by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Feb 26, 2024. In the olden days, NASA developed its missions using a variety of in-house engineers and external suppliers. As more commercial companies are targeting the Moon, NASA is working with partners to deliver its payloads to the lunar surface. Today let’s talk about NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Program. This video was made possible by the following Patreon members: Jordan Young BogieNet Stephen Veit Jeanette Wink Siggi Kemmler Andrew Poelstra Brian Cagle David Truog Ed David Gerhard Schwarzer THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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0:00.0	Oh, Oh, Thank you. 710, NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Program.
0:53.8	Welcome to Astronomy Cast,
0:55.0	our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmelis,
0:57.0	where we help you understand not only what we know,
0:58.9	but how we know what we know.
1:00.1	I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today.
1:02.4	With me, as always, is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the director of Cosmo Quest.
1:08.7	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
1:10.0	I am doing well. I am greatly enjoying the fact that this year for Lunar New Year we have attacked the
1:18.1	moon with things that can't stand upright.
1:20.9	Yes, yeah, we're going to get into this.
1:23.0	The Moon won.
1:26.0	I mentioned a couple of episodes ago that we, you know, I'm trying to come up with my own seasons here.
1:31.0	And so we just experienced first crocus season.
1:34.9	Excellent. Yeah, yeah.
1:36.7	That feels like hope like we're reaching the end of a long dark tunnel and of winter and we're in spring is almost here so it feels good
1:47.5	it feels good to see just had first skunking it's less hopeful write that down in a calendar.
1:53.4	Are you kidding?
1:54.2	That's vital.
1:57.3	They're supposed to still be hibernating.
1:59.5	Yeah, yeah, you chart the seasons by when you see the first skunk.
2:03.0	That's awesome.
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