 So there's even more news that we didn't get a chance to get to on this last week's orbit 10.37. Mike, nanoracks, what's going on over there? Yeah, so nanoracks announced this week that they have raised an undeclosed amount of money to be able to support their commercial airlock module that they want to attach to the International Space Station, a commercial airlock that would be used for mostly for the deployment of CubeSats and microsatellites that would have way more volume than the Kibo module that currently launches a lot of these microsatellites and CubeSats. So nanoracks said that Space Angels, formerly the Space Angels Network, led the investment round and Jeff Manberg, the chief executive of nanoracks, said in a statement that this investment will expedite our production and it's wonderful to have Space Angels invested in this landmark program to enable the future of commercial space. Now nanoracks hopes to install their airlock to the International Space Station in 2019 and nanoracks signed an unfunded space act agreement with NASA in 2016 to develop the airlock and not only would it be able to handle a larger volume of commercial satellite deployment than Kibo does but it could also house externally mounted payloads and experiments as well and the airlock itself could be birthed to the unused port currently on the tranquility module where the cupola and the beam module are currently attached. The beam module would be kind of on the right-hand port of that on the opposite of the permanent logistics module that you see on the left there but with this program there is a right now there's a formal manifesting of the payload on a resupply flight and it would be stored in the trunk of one of the Dragon commercial resupply services flights and it's being manufactured right now they already have pieces of this that exist they're bending metal and nanoracks has long-term ambitions to develop its own commercial station and it's part of the whole Ixion partnership with Space Systems L'Oreal and United Launch Alliance to study refitting the upper stages that would could be used as habitation modules for NASA's next step program so this is just the beginning of nanoracks own kind of space station module ambitions and I'm excited and happy for them that they've been able to get the money that they need through private investments to be able to push this forward and hopefully it does launch when they hope to in 2019 so very good news yeah very good it brings a whole new and much better meaning to throw it out the airlock so on orbit 10 37 our main topic was actually about the newly reformed National Space Council here in the U.S. and if these kinds of things interest you feel free to always join us live every Saturday at 1800 UTC