August 7, 2025 • 17 mins
Alex shares his experience at the National Sports Card Convention in Chicago, highlighting the amazing VeeFriends community and the diverse collectibles he found, including a $12,000 signed Princess Leia card.
He discusses his car troubles en route to Maine, and draws parallels to totalled spacecraft contingencies and what space AAA might look like.
To close the episode, Alex promotes AG3D Labs, emphasizing 3D printing and AI tools, and discusses upcoming projects and shares his thoughts on NASA's workforce cuts, the progress of SpaceX's Starship Flight 10, and invites everyone to join in our live Stargazing and Vibes streams on social media.
Keywords: space science, VeeFriends community, emotional intelligence, National Sports Card Convention, trading card tournament, 3D printing, AG3D labs, AI tools, telescope, stargazing, NASA cuts, SpaceX Starship, software updates, hardware and software.
Timestamps:
00:00 Adventures in Space and Collectibles
02:45 Community Events and Car Troubles
05:49 3D Printing and AG3D Labs
08:27 AI Tools and Stargazing in Maine with our Telescope
16:14 NASA Updates and Future Plans
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Unknown (00:00):
Foreign Hello, everybody. Welcome to today
(00:07):
in space. I am an only new spacescience podcast host from the
East Coast. Alex Jean orfanosback for another episode of
today in space right now, I amdriving up to Maine and have
been on quite the adventure. Iwas in Chicago this past weekend
meeting up with the V friendscommunity. If you don't know
(00:29):
what v friends is, it's acommunity that started on web
three with nfts from a guy namedGary Vaynerchuk. You may know
him, but essentially, it's thisbrand about emotional
intelligence, and it's got allthese characters, and it's
brought a bunch of people. It'sjust a community. I mean, at the
(00:50):
end of the day, the reason whyI'm so excited and what I'm
getting out of it is not thatit's some NFT online, it's a
group of people that gettogether that have similar
interests, or, you know, in thiscase, to be friends, but it's
just a great group of peoplethat I've met, and this is at
the National Sports cardconvention. So for me, it was
(01:12):
like this mixing of all theseawesome things, getting to see
these people that I don't get tosee many times a year. You know,
we get to talk online, and we dostreams, and we hang out, and a
few of us call each other, andour friendships have, like grown
over the years, but at thenational sports cards
convention, it's like this mixmash of my interests as a kid
(01:38):
growing up, collecting Pokemoncards and Yu Gi Oh, cards, and I
mean sports cards too. And wejust had a blast when my
friends, Alex, we were able toshare a hotel room. So it's,
it's really just like awesomemeeting all these people and
having friends that are willingto share hotel rooms to help get
(02:00):
me out there so that I can seethem like I've just I felt so
much love this weekend hangingout with those people, and I'll
be posting what we found. Wefound some really cool space
collectibles. I was walkingaround, and there was a Princess
Leia card that was signed by herthat had a price tag of $12,000
(02:21):
which was insane. Some of thestuff that's there, stuff that's
older than 100 years. I metcomic book collectors, Trading
Card Collectors, sports CardCollectors, coin collectors,
like there's so many. It wassuch an interesting group of
people all in one place. Andthen we had all these other
events for the community I waswith. There was a trading card
(02:43):
tournament, which was a lot offun. It was a great night. I
flew out there on Friday, had ablast. And then Saturday, there
was more events. There was anice event after the card show
that a guy named Mike J y, who Igot to meet for the first time,
really big community member hasbeen very generous and has been
(03:05):
collecting as it has a reallyinsane collection, but also very
nice guy, and it's just anopportunity for all of us to get
to know each other more, or forme to meet new people I just had
never met in real life, and thatcame back on Sunday, and I was
about to go up to New York, Imean, to to Maine and New York's
(03:30):
the next trip, I was going up toMaine, and all of a sudden my
car had an issue. I was drivingon the highway going like 7075
and just lost, like allacceleration from the pedal, and
started hearing noises, startedsmelling rubber, ended up
pulling off. Luckily, there wassomething right there. Ended up
(03:51):
pulling the car off safely, gotit right into a natural repair
shop. It was amazing that hemade it that far without the car
not being able to move, and thengot a tow the next morning, and
it, you know, it was definitelynot what I was expecting,
especially after driving for twohours already and having another
(04:12):
three and a half hours to go,made me think a lot about space.
And, you know, spacecraft arenot always going to work as
planned, and so what kind ofcontingencies Do you have?
Obviously, the Apollo 13 teamdid not have repair abilities or
the ability to get someone elseup there to fix it. They had to
(04:35):
do it with the help of thepeople back on Earth. But like
is, what does a space aaa looklike? What does a space toe look
like? And how long do you haveto survive? What can you do in
the meantime? Something I'mdefinitely gonna play with story
idea wise, because I think thatwould make a pool sci fi. You.
(05:00):
Or something, you know, I don'tknow, but I would love to know
what you think and and just thatidea, like getting lost in
space, or, you know, how wouldyou handle fixing your
spacecraft if things go wrong?Star Wars, does it great, right?
With chewy and Han, spacecraftdoesn't is usually has something
(05:22):
wrong with it, but it's it's howmy brain works. I could have
been miserable and just beenpissed that I was stuck and I
had to wait for a ride and thenI had to get it towed. Instead,
I just made the most of it andlet my let my brain roll with,
uh, with the creative ideas. Butnow I've got another car. I'm on
(05:47):
my way up. We still don't knowwhat's going on with the car,
but we'll figure that outeventually here. But yeah, I'm
driving up this week. I plan todo some more work with AG, 3d
labs. If you guys didn't listento our last episode. Definitely
a good idea to go listen to ournext our last episode, because
we talked about this new era forAG, 3d which has been our 3d
(06:09):
printing lab. Here for thepodcast, we help bring people's
ideas into reality with 3dprinting. So if you ever have a
project or and that if you wantto figure out how 3d printing
could fit in with you, helpsolve a problem for you. If
you've got an idea that you wantto make and have it in your
hand, just make a singleprototype. Maybe start a
(06:30):
business, whatever it is, evenif you're interested in 3d
printing, go to AG, 3dprinting.com. We have a bunch of
services you can sign up for.We've got a, I believe it's a 15
minute video call that you cansign up for at any time. There's
a schedule built right in there.Same thing goes for any of the
other three printing services.Whether you know you're just
(06:53):
you, you have your smallbusiness with printer, or you're
just a person with a 3d printer,you're stuck on this mystery.
You just can't figure out how tomove forward. There's a sign up
for that 30 minutes at a time,and we get on video, and we work
it out. I've been working in 3dprinting and solving 3d printing
(07:13):
problems for almost a decade atthis point. And so the part
detective services with AG, 3dhelp you get those parts
successful, and we're expandingthat so you can go check that
out again. AG, 3d printing.com.For what we do, what we've done,
(07:34):
and how we can help you withyour next 3d printing. Mystery.
But we're also expanding intosoftware and AI tools with ag
three labs, which is kind of theculmination of all of them,
because we are working on 3dprinting software tools to make
people more successful with 3dprinting and rolling that all
(07:56):
into an AI and AI tools thatwill not only help you leverage
all of that knowledge and thatknow how that the part detective
and and just 3d printingknowledge how to make a good
part, but you'll also learn withit. So if you're brand new to 3d
(08:18):
printing, you the idea would bethat you would learn at a an
accelerated rate, a faster rate,because this AI tool is guiding
you and prompting you along theway on what to do. Now that's a
lot, especially if you didn'tsee me working on AI tools at
all. This may, this may comeacross as a shock. If it does,
(08:42):
I'd love to hear from you, or ifyou're interested, I'd also love
to hear from you. Butregardless, if you want to reach
out, email me anytime at todayin space podcast@gmail.com and
hit me up on social media,there's today in space on
Tiktok, today in space pod on XTwitter and Instagram. We love I
(09:05):
really would love to hear fromyou, especially as we enter this
new phase to the writing ofsoftware and debugging and
troubleshooting and goingthrough different milestones to
get to a functional app has beenreally meditative in a lot of
(09:27):
ways, and also a lot of fun. Ithink I talked about last
episode how it feels a lot likewriting like a book or anything
like that. Creative writing,writing a script, it's it's it's
more about showing up every dayand putting in that work and
focusing on those milestonesthat you need to do. And it's,
(09:52):
it's been interesting to seemyself grow in in coding,
because I was definitely verylike brute force. When I was
doing that project for my IQP incollege,
we were making the paperlessapp. And now it feels good to
(10:14):
have a nice focus, and I'mreally excited on combining all
those things. You know, oneexample that I have that's
actually relevant to me going upto Maine is I'm bringing up my
telescope, and you guys may haveseen our our vibes and
stargazing live stream. Sobasically, if there's ever a
clear night and we're home or ata place with internet access
(10:36):
with Maine, I will not haveinternet access to stream, but
I'll put my telescope on and youcan check it in at any time
during the night, as we're goingthrough. I usually give a
schedule of what we're going tolook at, and that's been a lot
of fun. It's been cool hearingfrom people that are following
along, who are even if they'reonly popping in for 10 to 20
(10:57):
minutes, maybe they're up superlate, maybe they can't sleep. I
know a few people who have kidswho they're up late, and they
just put it on because we justhave, you know, some Lo Fi, some
music on in the background whilethe telescope is gathering light
from the universe. And sodefinitely check that out and
follow us online for, you know,YouTube, tick tock, we started
(11:20):
streaming on there, and we'realso streaming on x and I
believe Facebook too, so Oh, andour Twitch channel too, today in
space. So if you ever want to dothat, check it out. But my whole
point of bringing up thetelescope in relation to AI
tools is a great example ofsoftware and hardware working
(11:42):
together and getting better overtime is the smart telescope from
ve onus. Now I'm not paid bythem. I have had Cyril Dupuy on
who was the CEO of this ofvionas early when vespera, the
telescope that I have, was justabout to launch. It was, I
think, in the early bird, whichis what I ended up getting on
(12:05):
and it was definitely a goodchoice, especially since the
company continues to release newsoftware updates. Now, this
company is in France, right? Sothey're deploying I have the
same hardware that I bought afew years ago, but it is always
getting better, and there's newfeatures. It's able to do more
(12:26):
than just the hardware was ableto do originally, and it's been
such a joy to see that as as acustomer. And I think in the 3d
printing world, I think Prusaresearch did a really good job
with the prusas. They're opensource. They have kit options
(12:46):
that you don't have to spend allthe money, and you can also
learn how to put somethingtogether. They also just have
great 3d printers in general,but that's more in like the DIY
space and not so much like thetelescope. I have the telescope.
I have the visperial one is alot more like an iPhone than,
(13:08):
you know, a telephone, if youwill, like or just like a just
like a piece of technology, it'sa piece of technology, a piece
of hardware that has softwarethat makes the user experience
really, really good, and to thepoint where it's so easy to use,
like for instance, I hook up myiPad to my laptop and that
(13:30):
screen now that I guess this isApple's uniformity of software
and hardware, combined with thistelescope's uniformity of
hardware and software, justmaking it super easy. But that's
good technology, right? Goodtechnology allows you to do more
and be more creative than whatyou originally have. That is the
(13:55):
ultimate goal of what I'm tryingto do here with AG, 3d labs and
printing. I want it to get tothe point where you can focus
more on the 3d printing of partsthan tinkering with the printer
or with your model, and thendealing with the problems of
using something that reallywasn't meant for that
(14:15):
technology, right? Can you weedout the parts? Can you recommend
changes to make sure that youdon't have to print multiple
times to troubleshoot a bunch ofdifferent things. 3d printing
has made a huge leap right inthe in the world of everyone can
have a 3d printer in their ownhouse, like they have a paper
printer at home with bamboolabs. They've done a tremendous
(14:39):
job of, you know, everyone Italked to now recommends, oh,
you print, you have a bamboolike that. It's so commonplace,
and it's been so easy to 3dprint and 3d print, multi color
parts. It's been it's thatproduct is a very great example
of hardware and software being.Combine combined. To do that,
(15:03):
what I want to do is add anotherlayer to that, and put the human
in the loop, put the personusing the machine in the loop,
so that not only is the AIgetting better, but you, as the
person 3d printing, you also aregetting better. And so I just
wanted to talk that out a littlebit as I'm driving up hours to
(15:26):
Maine, it's been rolling aroundin my head. I want to do more,
eg, 3d lab updates with you, andwe've got another 3d printing
extravaganza. We've got anotherfun 3d printing project that
I've been working on with myfriend Matt guy over at niche 3d
(15:46):
we're combining 3d printingforces for a new content
release. I mean, we'll talkabout it soon, but stay up to
date on that. Go to AG, 3dprinting.com follow us at EG, 3d
printing, on Instagram and onLinkedIn, and we're gonna have
(16:07):
more to share there about that.But I just wanted to check in as
we're in the midst of all thischaos with so many people at
NASA leaving, choosing to leavebefore there were cuts made at
NASA. I think if all the cutswere made, I think it's like 47%
of the workforce would be cut. Iand there's an assistant
(16:31):
administrator in place who'salso running a whole bunch of
other agencies and not justfocused solely on NASA. So it's,
it's very, very wild out therein the space world. Starship
just had two static firessuccessful. So flight 10 gets
closer to reality, probably midAugust. I think that's what they
(16:53):
said themselves. So we will seewhat happens and how that goes.
The meantime, I'll be pluggingaway with software and AI
printing. If there's any goodstargazing moments pictures you
know that I will share itonline. So make sure to follow
us. Today in space on tick tock,today in space pod on X,
(17:17):
Instagram and LinkedIn, and makesure to like and subscribe over
on YouTube and Spotify orwherever you get your podcasts.
I am your space science podcasthost from the East Coast, Alex G
or fanos. Thank you for joiningus for another episode of today
in space. Talk to you soon.Happy stargazing. You.
Foreign Hello, everybody. Welcome to today
(00:07):
in space. I am an only new spacescience podcast host from the
East Coast. Alex Jean orfanosback for another episode of
today in space right now, I amdriving up to Maine and have
been on quite the adventure. Iwas in Chicago this past weekend
meeting up with the V friendscommunity. If you don't know
(00:29):
what v friends is, it's acommunity that started on web
three with nfts from a guy namedGary Vaynerchuk. You may know
him, but essentially, it's thisbrand about emotional
intelligence, and it's got allthese characters, and it's
brought a bunch of people. It'sjust a community. I mean, at the
(00:50):
end of the day, the reason whyI'm so excited and what I'm
getting out of it is not thatit's some NFT online, it's a
group of people that gettogether that have similar
interests, or, you know, in thiscase, to be friends, but it's
just a great group of peoplethat I've met, and this is at
the National Sports cardconvention. So for me, it was
(01:12):
like this mixing of all theseawesome things, getting to see
these people that I don't get tosee many times a year. You know,
we get to talk online, and we dostreams, and we hang out, and a
few of us call each other, andour friendships have, like grown
over the years, but at thenational sports cards
convention, it's like this mixmash of my interests as a kid
(01:38):
growing up, collecting Pokemoncards and Yu Gi Oh, cards, and I
mean sports cards too. And wejust had a blast when my
friends, Alex, we were able toshare a hotel room. So it's,
it's really just like awesomemeeting all these people and
having friends that are willingto share hotel rooms to help get
(02:00):
me out there so that I can seethem like I've just I felt so
much love this weekend hangingout with those people, and I'll
be posting what we found. Wefound some really cool space
collectibles. I was walkingaround, and there was a Princess
Leia card that was signed by herthat had a price tag of $12,000
(02:21):
which was insane. Some of thestuff that's there, stuff that's
older than 100 years. I metcomic book collectors, Trading
Card Collectors, sports CardCollectors, coin collectors,
like there's so many. It wassuch an interesting group of
people all in one place. Andthen we had all these other
events for the community I waswith. There was a trading card
(02:43):
tournament, which was a lot offun. It was a great night. I
flew out there on Friday, had ablast. And then Saturday, there
was more events. There was anice event after the card show
that a guy named Mike J y, who Igot to meet for the first time,
really big community member hasbeen very generous and has been
(03:05):
collecting as it has a reallyinsane collection, but also very
nice guy, and it's just anopportunity for all of us to get
to know each other more, or forme to meet new people I just had
never met in real life, and thatcame back on Sunday, and I was
about to go up to New York, Imean, to to Maine and New York's
(03:30):
the next trip, I was going up toMaine, and all of a sudden my
car had an issue. I was drivingon the highway going like 7075
and just lost, like allacceleration from the pedal, and
started hearing noises, startedsmelling rubber, ended up
pulling off. Luckily, there wassomething right there. Ended up
(03:51):
pulling the car off safely, gotit right into a natural repair
shop. It was amazing that hemade it that far without the car
not being able to move, and thengot a tow the next morning, and
it, you know, it was definitelynot what I was expecting,
especially after driving for twohours already and having another
(04:12):
three and a half hours to go,made me think a lot about space.
And, you know, spacecraft arenot always going to work as
planned, and so what kind ofcontingencies Do you have?
Obviously, the Apollo 13 teamdid not have repair abilities or
the ability to get someone elseup there to fix it. They had to
(04:35):
do it with the help of thepeople back on Earth. But like
is, what does a space aaa looklike? What does a space toe look
like? And how long do you haveto survive? What can you do in
the meantime? Something I'mdefinitely gonna play with story
idea wise, because I think thatwould make a pool sci fi. You.
(05:00):
Or something, you know, I don'tknow, but I would love to know
what you think and and just thatidea, like getting lost in
space, or, you know, how wouldyou handle fixing your
spacecraft if things go wrong?Star Wars, does it great, right?
With chewy and Han, spacecraftdoesn't is usually has something
(05:22):
wrong with it, but it's it's howmy brain works. I could have
been miserable and just beenpissed that I was stuck and I
had to wait for a ride and thenI had to get it towed. Instead,
I just made the most of it andlet my let my brain roll with,
uh, with the creative ideas. Butnow I've got another car. I'm on
(05:47):
my way up. We still don't knowwhat's going on with the car,
but we'll figure that outeventually here. But yeah, I'm
driving up this week. I plan todo some more work with AG, 3d
labs. If you guys didn't listento our last episode. Definitely
a good idea to go listen to ournext our last episode, because
we talked about this new era forAG, 3d which has been our 3d
(06:09):
printing lab. Here for thepodcast, we help bring people's
ideas into reality with 3dprinting. So if you ever have a
project or and that if you wantto figure out how 3d printing
could fit in with you, helpsolve a problem for you. If
you've got an idea that you wantto make and have it in your
hand, just make a singleprototype. Maybe start a
(06:30):
business, whatever it is, evenif you're interested in 3d
printing, go to AG, 3dprinting.com. We have a bunch of
services you can sign up for.We've got a, I believe it's a 15
minute video call that you cansign up for at any time. There's
a schedule built right in there.Same thing goes for any of the
other three printing services.Whether you know you're just
(06:53):
you, you have your smallbusiness with printer, or you're
just a person with a 3d printer,you're stuck on this mystery.
You just can't figure out how tomove forward. There's a sign up
for that 30 minutes at a time,and we get on video, and we work
it out. I've been working in 3dprinting and solving 3d printing
(07:13):
problems for almost a decade atthis point. And so the part
detective services with AG, 3dhelp you get those parts
successful, and we're expandingthat so you can go check that
out again. AG, 3d printing.com.For what we do, what we've done,
(07:34):
and how we can help you withyour next 3d printing. Mystery.
But we're also expanding intosoftware and AI tools with ag
three labs, which is kind of theculmination of all of them,
because we are working on 3dprinting software tools to make
people more successful with 3dprinting and rolling that all
(07:56):
into an AI and AI tools thatwill not only help you leverage
all of that knowledge and thatknow how that the part detective
and and just 3d printingknowledge how to make a good
part, but you'll also learn withit. So if you're brand new to 3d
(08:18):
printing, you the idea would bethat you would learn at a an
accelerated rate, a faster rate,because this AI tool is guiding
you and prompting you along theway on what to do. Now that's a
lot, especially if you didn'tsee me working on AI tools at
all. This may, this may comeacross as a shock. If it does,
(08:42):
I'd love to hear from you, or ifyou're interested, I'd also love
to hear from you. Butregardless, if you want to reach
out, email me anytime at todayin space podcast@gmail.com and
hit me up on social media,there's today in space on
Tiktok, today in space pod on XTwitter and Instagram. We love I
(09:05):
really would love to hear fromyou, especially as we enter this
new phase to the writing ofsoftware and debugging and
troubleshooting and goingthrough different milestones to
get to a functional app has beenreally meditative in a lot of
(09:27):
ways, and also a lot of fun. Ithink I talked about last
episode how it feels a lot likewriting like a book or anything
like that. Creative writing,writing a script, it's it's it's
more about showing up every dayand putting in that work and
focusing on those milestonesthat you need to do. And it's,
(09:52):
it's been interesting to seemyself grow in in coding,
because I was definitely verylike brute force. When I was
doing that project for my IQP incollege,
we were making the paperlessapp. And now it feels good to
(10:14):
have a nice focus, and I'mreally excited on combining all
those things. You know, oneexample that I have that's
actually relevant to me going upto Maine is I'm bringing up my
telescope, and you guys may haveseen our our vibes and
stargazing live stream. Sobasically, if there's ever a
clear night and we're home or ata place with internet access
(10:36):
with Maine, I will not haveinternet access to stream, but
I'll put my telescope on and youcan check it in at any time
during the night, as we're goingthrough. I usually give a
schedule of what we're going tolook at, and that's been a lot
of fun. It's been cool hearingfrom people that are following
along, who are even if they'reonly popping in for 10 to 20
(10:57):
minutes, maybe they're up superlate, maybe they can't sleep. I
know a few people who have kidswho they're up late, and they
just put it on because we justhave, you know, some Lo Fi, some
music on in the background whilethe telescope is gathering light
from the universe. And sodefinitely check that out and
follow us online for, you know,YouTube, tick tock, we started
(11:20):
streaming on there, and we'realso streaming on x and I
believe Facebook too, so Oh, andour Twitch channel too, today in
space. So if you ever want to dothat, check it out. But my whole
point of bringing up thetelescope in relation to AI
tools is a great example ofsoftware and hardware working
(11:42):
together and getting better overtime is the smart telescope from
ve onus. Now I'm not paid bythem. I have had Cyril Dupuy on
who was the CEO of this ofvionas early when vespera, the
telescope that I have, was justabout to launch. It was, I
think, in the early bird, whichis what I ended up getting on
(12:05):
and it was definitely a goodchoice, especially since the
company continues to release newsoftware updates. Now, this
company is in France, right? Sothey're deploying I have the
same hardware that I bought afew years ago, but it is always
getting better, and there's newfeatures. It's able to do more
(12:26):
than just the hardware was ableto do originally, and it's been
such a joy to see that as as acustomer. And I think in the 3d
printing world, I think Prusaresearch did a really good job
with the prusas. They're opensource. They have kit options
(12:46):
that you don't have to spend allthe money, and you can also
learn how to put somethingtogether. They also just have
great 3d printers in general,but that's more in like the DIY
space and not so much like thetelescope. I have the telescope.
I have the visperial one is alot more like an iPhone than,
(13:08):
you know, a telephone, if youwill, like or just like a just
like a piece of technology, it'sa piece of technology, a piece
of hardware that has softwarethat makes the user experience
really, really good, and to thepoint where it's so easy to use,
like for instance, I hook up myiPad to my laptop and that
(13:30):
screen now that I guess this isApple's uniformity of software
and hardware, combined with thistelescope's uniformity of
hardware and software, justmaking it super easy. But that's
good technology, right? Goodtechnology allows you to do more
and be more creative than whatyou originally have. That is the
(13:55):
ultimate goal of what I'm tryingto do here with AG, 3d labs and
printing. I want it to get tothe point where you can focus
more on the 3d printing of partsthan tinkering with the printer
or with your model, and thendealing with the problems of
using something that reallywasn't meant for that
(14:15):
technology, right? Can you weedout the parts? Can you recommend
changes to make sure that youdon't have to print multiple
times to troubleshoot a bunch ofdifferent things. 3d printing
has made a huge leap right inthe in the world of everyone can
have a 3d printer in their ownhouse, like they have a paper
printer at home with bamboolabs. They've done a tremendous
(14:39):
job of, you know, everyone Italked to now recommends, oh,
you print, you have a bamboolike that. It's so commonplace,
and it's been so easy to 3dprint and 3d print, multi color
parts. It's been it's thatproduct is a very great example
of hardware and software being.Combine combined. To do that,
(15:03):
what I want to do is add anotherlayer to that, and put the human
in the loop, put the personusing the machine in the loop,
so that not only is the AIgetting better, but you, as the
person 3d printing, you also aregetting better. And so I just
wanted to talk that out a littlebit as I'm driving up hours to
(15:26):
Maine, it's been rolling aroundin my head. I want to do more,
eg, 3d lab updates with you, andwe've got another 3d printing
extravaganza. We've got anotherfun 3d printing project that
I've been working on with myfriend Matt guy over at niche 3d
(15:46):
we're combining 3d printingforces for a new content
release. I mean, we'll talkabout it soon, but stay up to
date on that. Go to AG, 3dprinting.com follow us at EG, 3d
printing, on Instagram and onLinkedIn, and we're gonna have
(16:07):
more to share there about that.But I just wanted to check in as
we're in the midst of all thischaos with so many people at
NASA leaving, choosing to leavebefore there were cuts made at
NASA. I think if all the cutswere made, I think it's like 47%
of the workforce would be cut. Iand there's an assistant
(16:31):
administrator in place who'salso running a whole bunch of
other agencies and not justfocused solely on NASA. So it's,
it's very, very wild out therein the space world. Starship
just had two static firessuccessful. So flight 10 gets
closer to reality, probably midAugust. I think that's what they
(16:53):
said themselves. So we will seewhat happens and how that goes.
The meantime, I'll be pluggingaway with software and AI
printing. If there's any goodstargazing moments pictures you
know that I will share itonline. So make sure to follow
us. Today in space on tick tock,today in space pod on X,
(17:17):
Instagram and LinkedIn, and makesure to like and subscribe over
on YouTube and Spotify orwherever you get your podcasts.
I am your space science podcasthost from the East Coast, Alex G
or fanos. Thank you for joiningus for another episode of today
in space. Talk to you soon.Happy stargazing. You.
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