Massive Changes Coming, and SpaceX Starship Prepares For Flight 7!

Things are going to change and they are going to change quite dramatically I suspect. Indeed, we have huge news this week that will mean Massive Changes Coming in space, and in a good way. In a shock but welcome announcement on Wednesday, Jared Isaacman was nominated as NASA Administrator! I think this is freaking huge. With the constant debacle and the now brand new push for Artemis II waaaay down the line now in 2026, I certainly think a shakeup is needed.
SpaceX Starship Prepares For Flight 7 with the booster getting ready for static fire right now, and the ship should be rolling for its static fire test over the next few days! Exciting times! Outside of all that, its been a bonkers week of launches, a new Falcon 9 reuse record and all sorts of great stuff. Personally super interested in the Proba-3 mission by ESA too.

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[EricMortensen]

I just learned that spacex has been upgrading their drown ships to have their own water deluge systems to help protect the deck of the drone ship. You can even see some of that in the footage of the landings in this video. I was wondering if you were going to talk about this in a future video.

[kstaxman]

Every thing is so busy. Great time to be alive if you love space missions.

[christheswiss]

Gosh, I just can't get enough of your videos. They could be three times as long and I still wouldn't budge to the last minute. My wife knows I wait for your video every Saturday and smiles when I yell: it's here again!

[discombubulate]

2029: the second artemis launch has been pushed back once again much to the disappointment of space x who is due to make it's 38th moon landing later this week.

[Maxim.Teleguz]

The drone ship has a modification that we have missed that now has a layer of water on the deck before the touchdown of the rocket.

[mcspaddencw]

I appreciate all you do. you provide a weekly update I really look forward to.

[LeonBerrange]

Fantastic news about Jared!! Just the man.

[bayricker]

Artemis and SLS head into year 19 with zero astronauts in orbit much less sent to the Moon. Hard to imagine the US went from no astronauts to landing on the moon in 8 years - more than 50 years ago! NASA needs a shakeup as does the traditional contractor base that is also failing on Artemis. Should be exciting to watch.

[jakethesnake]

Great video Marcus!! Keep up the good work.

[kenw]

14:52 Thanks for the update about direct-to-cell.

[rkttime]

Another great briefing, Marcus! Thanks.

[mahbubhossainsamm]

Awesome news for all the space lovers.

[EricBelardoCyber]

Great Information, As always @MarcusHouse ! I am very excited to see what Jared will accomplish!

[anthonyperks]

Your segue into ground news was smooth as brah.

[HansMilling]

Jim was one of the best administrators that NASA ever had in my opinion. Anyway why do they need to change administrator for each new president? It’s too short to only be there for 4 years, you hardly scratched the surface.

[jeffjames]

Why shouldn't he fly because he's Administrator. He's a total bad ass - I think he'll still fly.

[peterderycke]

A big big thank you... nice content... especially the last one... finally a happy corona story...

[Pleiades]

YT has been so quiet since the holidays, at least on space or science topics. Just happy to see this video released.

[israelitenet]

Thank you so much Marcus. We love you.🎉

[spacecowboy]

I could have never imagined the appointment of Isaacman as NASA admin, but it makes all the sense in the world. He is a successful entrepreneur, which means he is a proven resource allocator, and paid the way to space out of his own pocket, which means he knows what it means to have skin in the game.