NASA’s Secret to landing people on Mars in one easy step: Hire SpaceX to do it.

SpaceX: we didn't know it was impossible, so we did it.

2:16 - Interplanetary. We are very far away from interstellar travel.

Kinda wild that JPL is learning from SpaceX, as SpaceX learned from NASA. Looks like a beautiful circle of knowledge IMO.

The way he said "genuinely" feels like Ai

I was watching these kind of videos 20 years ago...landing on mars

Cassini is being displayed instead of Voyager 1 from 7:55 to 8:14 and from 8:21 to 8:27. Besides the difference in bus size, the Huygens probe attached to the side is hard to miss.

If someone tells you something is impossible they are most likely wrong. They are almost certainly trying to say "I don't think there is currently a practical way to do whatever you asked"

‘Interstellar velocity”…oops…I think you meant “interplanetary velocity”.

NASA negotiator, "SpaceX, I'll give you a billion dollars to measure fluid mechanics on Falcon 9." SpaceX, "we were going to do that anyway.., but, well.., ok."

It’s kinda wild that Elon Musk has enough money to just brute force these engineering hypotheticals. Like, “There’s a high but not certain possibility this will completely blow up our billion dollar rocket.” “Screw it, roll the dice baby.”

NASA: We have a theory this won't work SpaceX: We just preformed your theory..... you were wrong! NASA: Tell security to remove Manning from the building and revoke his ID! (computer scrubbing) NASA: We knew it was going to work all along

Wow! This was an exceptionally well done video. This is the first I've heard about this particular joint research initiative for NASA/SpaceX... Great reporting!

I still really miss the original voice actor! this voice still sounds more like a robot but I think one thing I have identified that lends to the robot voice is there is very little pause between stories and even sentences. this is especially true between different stories. it's like he does not even take a breath which makes it sound like an AI voice reading. hope you can improve. this is just my personal opinion

My marriage is as old as Voyager 1. I hope very much to see both of us make our 50th anniversary in 2027!

Correction: The Japanese I-Space lander developed by HAKUTO-R did land successfully on the moon and performed simple maneuvers such as taking pictures of its surroundings. It did misjudge the height during the descent making it hover wasting extra fuel and making it topple over on its side, reducing the amount of sunlight received, thereby forcing the lander to stay longer during the lunar day to recharge its batteries. Because the landing was deemed successful, however, Japan has been recognized as being the fourth country to have soft-landed on the moon, after the US, Soviet Union and China (and before India). Of course, it would have been more impressive if the powered touchdown had been flawless, since one of its tests included determining the accuracy of the landing position.

A downright excellent episode and narration. Your channel is underrated.

Oh okay, so it was a mathematical shock-front instability problem they were worried about after all this time. NASA should have tried testing this decades ago😅

NASA's only plan is to watch someone else land on Mars. My money is on Space X

NASA is culturally against doing something that they have no idea whether it will destroy a vehicle, just to see what will happen. Since that is SpaceX' primary mode of hardware development, their approach is highly valuable for NASA. And NASA's excruciatingly obsessive method of gathering data points and implementing computer modeling of aerodynamic regimes is a great complement to SpaceX, since Elon has absolutely no patience at all.