ISS Debris Hit A Florida House // Crisis for Mars Sample Return // Closest Black Hole

A piece of the ISS smashed into a house in Florida. Evidence for the first stars in the Universe. NASA is having to rethink its Mars Sample Return mission.

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00:00 Intro
00:14 Chunk from ISS hits a house in Florida
01:45 Did JWST find Pop III stars?
04:46 Problems with Mars Sample Return
07:00 Closest black hole
08:26 Vote results
09:20 Moon dust shield
11:18 Patreon
12:29 Hint for an exomoon
14:27 Mind-blowing eclipse video
15:16 More space news
16:07 Mars sample return

Host: Fraser Cain
Producer: Anton Pozdnyakov
Editing: Artem Pozdnyakov

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[Foche_T._Schitt]

So NASA took the debris without reimbursement?
I'd be "you're paying for the damage and I'm putting this on ebay."

[HebaruSan]

I never liked that the "return" part of Perseverance's sample collection was left as a to-do item for later. It would be too much to claim "I told you so" given the complexity and costs involved, but it's still frustrating to see those sample canisters slowly turning into tiny monuments to failure-by-procrastination. Even if it was going swimmingly, we're still forcing two missions to go to the same spot, whereas if they had been honest and delayed both collection and return till they were ready, that rover could go someplace completely new.
What's the old saying, a sample in the lab is worth infinity samples sitting on the surface of Mars?

[jfeeney]

In 1995 I worked for Space Systems Loral, and worked on that battery unit. I clearly recognized the device from the pictures. Well, it's good to see they got their use out of it. However they should have packaged this up in a Cignet capsule, and controlled re-entered it over the South Pacific.

[MiggelR]

1:56 the flash frame of James and Kirk is perfect 😂

[dustman]

But the truth is that it should cost WAY less. It's kind of like road construction budgets. There are so many inefficiencies and so much profiteering in the whole chain that make it so expensive.

[anthonyshiels]

To put NASA's "inflated budget" into context:
If the full Federal Budget was represented by a Dollar bill NASA's portion would not even cut into the ink.

[talkingmudcrab]

My rant about the Martian sample return mission is how sad it is that we can spend hundreds of billions of dollars on war, with no questions asked, and consistently failing audits on that weapons spending - While asking for a single billion for good science that improves all of Humanity's collective knowledge is too much to ask. Our priorities as a species is very, very sad to me.

[ThomasHooper]

Would you consider adding "Space Bites" to the title of these to be able to notice them better?

[mollyj]

I appreciate your rant at the end. I was working at GSFC on CCRS. I've since left NASA, it is very disappointing to hear that HQ plans to go back to the drawing board. There is NO WAY NASA's going to save money by abandoning what has already been put into the program, which passed PDR. Sigh. It's going to cost what it costs.

[kadourimdou]

Insurance company “You’re not covered for extra terrestrial debris hitting your house”

[trignals]

I sympathize with the rant but the HLS tender comes to mind as a counter example. 2 contenders fell short of the bar and one left the bar far behind. I'm sure spaceX has full intentions to demo launch from Mars as soon as they are that far along. It's possible to innovate a new path when you discover a dead end. The suggestion that it's easy, is laughable though.

[davidva]

When you said you were going to rant, you really meant it 😂

[blender_wiki]

Space junk is a real problem that no one take seriously. The attitude how space around the earth is managed is disgusting.

[WilliamAndySmith-Romaq]

I'm happy to see your channel come up in my feed. I blame your ITF-3 interview with Marcus House and Scott Manley.

[Collectible_Andy]

@fraser Is NASA on the hook to pay for the damage caused by the ISS debris?

[kolbyking]

If you want to see the full question show, click on the live show. They unlist the video, but you can find it whenever you want saved in your YouTube history.

[rbgtk]

"according to researchers that's the temperature you want to bake cookies" 😆

[MrGunderfly]

there is a reason there is a "plus" at the end of the term "cost-plus". i respectfully disagree that it "just costs what it costs". no, it does not just cost what it costs. it costs far more than it should because of people who think that way. in fact far more than it must for us to ever attain "star trek" status. the biggest part of innovation is not actual technology examples, its how to create them better, faster and most importantly, cheeper. this is organizational, motivational, first principles reasoning. i think there are many who would agree with me, and we see many examples right now of innovators acting on these principles. as a result, we also are seeing the contrast in achievement between those who think "it just cost what it cost", and those who know better..

[bertram-raven]

NASA should do a SciFi series tie-in and get Red Bull as a sponsor.

[lumtrebor]

You are a fantastic person, Fraser, as are your team! The work ye do to promote and provide space and science news is second to none. I will be pateroning ye as soon as I am in a position to so, (hopefully sooner rather than later), I cannot put a monetary value on how much you have educated me thus far, luv u xoxo