 23. So glad to have you all aboard. I am Jared to my this direction. Dutta sitting pretty in the center, pushing the buttons, providing the commentary and not being a disembodied voice. And all the way on the far end of that direction of me as well. I've got a Ryan who is significantly closer to 2023 than myself or 2024, excuse me, than myself and Dutta. But also, if you're already watching us in 2024, happy new year to you. And we hope that you're having a very good start. And we must also ask what's it like to live in the future. But 2023 was an absolutely astounding year for space flight. Numerous records were set throughout the year. You want to talk about a total number of flights and overall for the world and for the United States and for one company and all. But wow, what a year 2023 was. And it was all over the place too. It wasn't just necessarily here on earth. It was also in the moon, it was asteroids, it was in the outer planets all, I mean, just yeehaw. It was a good one this year if you're a big fan of space. So I want to just go ahead and throw it around to anybody who wants to get started because we're kind of just reviewing the year this year. And then I figure for next week's show, we can kind of talk about 2024 and what we're looking ahead at for that day. So to you all who must go ahead and get started kind of talking about some recent things. And then we can get into the official look back on 2023 because we did have some stuff happen. Unfortunately, in the past week where we were, Ryan, you are probably well aware that we did have to say goodbye to a very good friend of ours. Yeah, the traditionally quiet news period over Christmas kind of was turned on its head ever so slightly, you know, we just had to kind of, you know, throw everybody on in a helicopter, send them out, see what on earth happened to be 1058 as SpaceX did, you know, like a nice kind of remembrance tweet just kind of like, our fleet booster just landed for the 19th time. There goes a good PR things about SpaceX. And then they replied to that tweet by saying, during recovery operations, it fell off the deck and was lost at sea. So it's like, yeah, oh, so as the tug, as the tug brought the drone ship back, and beta what remained of B 1058 was visible off the coast, you could just kind of see the rear end, the oxygen tank of the also the Kerosine tank, one of the tanks, the bottom tank was seen just kind of hanging there on the side of the drone ship just with it with its legs just kind of stuck up in the looking like it had just been toppled over by strong, strong winds, strong waves, something like that. And it just kind of snapped in half and they've just kind of rolls the rest of the booster back in and it looks like the rest of B 1058 from kind of the logo upwards has now become a reef in the Atlantic Ocean, unfortunately. Yeah, these things happen in terms of the actual landing. It was successful. We saw it live. It landed fine. So the actual booster has proven that this amount of reuse is viable for a Falcon 9 booster. But it just seems like maybe SpaceX needs to alter their wind thresholds maybe for recovery, like maybe they should have just waited with the drone ship out at sea away from a stormy area for a little bit. Or was this unexpected? This is like the primary mission was completed perfectly. The secondary mission, the landing was completed perfectly. It's the actual bringing it back to port part that maybe they just need to review a little bit. Or if it was completely unexpected, I wouldn't imagine them purposefully towing one of their boosters through an area which they knew it wasn't going to be able to survive. So maybe thresholds need updating, maybe they need a stronger octagrabber, maybe I don't know, I'm not an expert. But there's just things to think about with B1058. Yeah, and losing that hardware definitely sad because that was obviously a fleet leader, a historic piece of machinery that maybe at the end of its life could have ended up somewhere to be very inspiring to the next generation. But obviously, whatever is left over of 1058, there's been a lot of discussion as to SpaceX going to be basically grabbing everything that they can, stripping it down almost like in nature, right? Something dies and the carcass is returned back to the earth around it, except in this case, we're taking all the technical materials off and stripping it down to the skeleton and placing it on other things. And with that, that also kind of reminds me too of what would happen with space shuttles where they would often swap parts with each other, which Dada, I think you can speak to, I can't remember which shuttle it was, but still had the body flap from Challenger flying on it until the end of its career, if I remember correctly. It's either a Lannister discovery, one of those two. I know it's not endeavor. Maybe someone in our chat room will most certainly know, but it's almost so interesting what once was still is. So we're sad to see 1058 go, but also what an incredible career that they had with that booster. JTTV notes that booster made SpaceX over a billion dollars. They ain't losing sleepovers loss. That's very, very true with that there. So you've done your work. You've been paid in full. Yes. Rest easy with what you have now. Matthew, he says, was the old style booster legs on 1058? The newer ones will have self leveling legs, so it won't be an issue again. I'm not sure that that's exactly the case. I think self leveling is like once it lands, it'll level itself. So it won't be crooked sideways because of a crooked sideways landing all the way coming into port, but that doesn't get rid of the dangers of rough seas. Yes. SpaceX, I imagine SpaceX included that note. The new boosters have this new system to make this doesn't happen. I feel like that's very much a PR-y improvement kind of thing. They tied on to the end of the tweet because saying that you just lost your vehicle to rough seas isn't the best look on your company. So I imagine that's just a thing to kind of sweeten the loss a little bit. Like the new boosters, this won't happen to, but it doesn't. You can have like an infinite amount of self leveling. If it tips on its side, like you can't do anything about that once it gets past a certain point. Yeah. I could grab it with some sort of gimbal or something to be able to just kind of dance around and keep the booster vertical while the germ ship sways in the seas. Yeah. I'm wondering if anyone's looked at the telemetry from the 1058 landing, albeit the telemetry that is what we're allowed to see with that there. So I wonder if anybody's looked at that and compared it to previous landings from 1058 to see if maybe any of the crush core in those lands had been used. And that's why it might have been leaning, which obviously in rough seas, not going to help you out. And we have seen that in rough seas, boosters will skid across the drone ship in the famous how not to land an orbital booster. There is that one where it like skids. And I think you have to remember the size of this landing area is basically an American football field. I think skids like 30, 40 feet before it comes back down. That's like watching it slide across my house to sort of quote a certain CEO of a company concerning when something like that happens. So I am very interested in the telemetry and if there is a difference and if it shows like a if it really did have like a hard landing. Or in this case, it was just octagrabber didn't grab the supposed to. And then, you know, yeah, it's tough. It's tough with it. And Arvel says, I do hope they put an engine or something in the museum. Cool. Stephen Glasser asks, I wonder if any of the engines on the last flight flew on the first. Oh, that's a good question. So I actually I wonder what the I wonder what the lifetime on a Merlin is actually or if there is about a determined lifetime yet on a Merlin with it. So we know they swap them. We just don't know when or with what or to what or we know. And they're in the record public like NASA. So we're not going to come up with books and books and books with charts. Yeah. Yeah. I was just I was just about to say as a private enterprise, you are privy to zero of what they do. You should be you should be glad you pleb that you even know what's going on. So yeah, and I'm like the super heavy boosters on Starship as well. The serial numbers aren't like printed on the side where they're easily visible. So, you know, it's important even when it comes into port and we look on fleet cam and such is it's still impossible to tell, you know, what engine is what. Yeah, day TTV saying the thing most worthy of a museum was the NASA worm logo. But that is gone. I sort of feel the same way. I can't imagine why I would feel that way about the worm logo. But you know, just yeah, I can't I can't think of any reason why I'm clever girl is saying they really they really hope SpaceX saves at least a landing leg after they stripped in 58 for inspect inspections. Yeah, that would be very cool. I do remember you know, I haven't been on a tour of SpaceX in a really long time, but they did have a landing leg in the essentially the first what I call cafeteria area. Basically, once you go past the lobby, you're immediately at a full size landing leg in there as you've got the first cargo that cargo dragon that flew on the first cargo dragon flight test flight hanging from the ceiling there with it. So yeah, pretty pretty cool with that. There was one more. There's somebody in here that I had. Yeah, many missile. I should say I keep hoping that they make little medallions in the scrap so I can order one. Mr. Quilf that is something that often happens, but that is usually an employee only kind of kind of deal with that. And then Manimus 11 saying they should have a ship with the whole platform that levels out, which I'm sure is one of those things that sounds easy. I can already hear the Clarkson voice in my head saying how hard could it be? But it's probably incredibly complicated and ridiculously expensive. And it probably outweighs the cost of just losing a booster every once in a while because of that. So that's my best guess on that front where they wouldn't do something like that. But yeah, you can add some large gyros to that there. And yeah, so goodbye B1058. It's a sad day that we've lost our oldest booster, but also welcome to the world of how it operates. So what's up? So yeah. Sorry, I'm interrupted at the moment. Somebody is begging for attention down here, so I'm just going to bring her up to be our special guest in this right here. So hi, Missy is now with us on this today. So what was your favorite space moment of the year? And I guess I was going to start with Missy here, but I think I'll give her some extra time to think about that. So I'll ask, tada, let's begin with you. Since you're in the center in there and you're closest to us right now, what was your favorite or actually, what are some of your favorite moments if you have more than one? Because personally, I got more than one for this year. So what were some of your favorite moments of this year? Coming home from Cornwall. Yeah, you would. You would, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you want more? Okay, come back. So my gosh, tada, that must have been something. Missing a flight through Gatwick again. So did you at least get your luggage? I did. I did. Yeah. I regained everything that I came with and some extra. It all worked out in the end, but none of it was great in the moment. I did get to go on a couple of test flights with Cosmic Girl. That was fun. I'll stop my comments there, but I could say it. If you need somebody to say it. But yeah, we all miss Cosmic Girl. So the spirit of Mojave is not the same as she was. At all. So, no, not even close. So we love you, Strattle Launch, but it's just, it was just not a good, it's just not a good look at all. Dawn of Clarity says, Ha, Cornwall is not that bad. Gatwick, on the other hand, dire place. I agree. Keith is saying that at least she didn't have trouble on the Gatwick Express. I feel like this is something that either you or Ryan can explain. I didn't ride the Gatwick Express, but I did ride the public trains at some point during my trip and they were not bad. Train. I planned ahead accordingly. I got on the Heathrow Express from I can't remember the name of the place. Heathrow. I didn't get it on it from Heathrow. I got on it to Heathrow. I'll have to look back at my notes. But yeah, I planned ahead and my flight to Gatwick was the day before my flight out of Heathrow. And so I had an overnight stay and plenty of time to reclaim my baggage and all that. So I didn't actually miss a connection that time, but it was still a pain. I still don't like Gatwick. Very expensive cab ride from Gatwick to, what was that? Go on, stand by and I'll find that. Okay, copy that. So in other words, you just, not exactly the best in terms of logistics with the things like that. So there were some more of the favorite moments. I saw somebody, JTTV had a really good one, which just single word exclamation mark relativity, which relativity space getting to launch their Taran one for the first. And what we now know is the only time it did not make it to orbit, but it did make it all the way up to stage step. And the hard part, Max Q, going through the area of maximum dynamic pressure, where the aerodynamic forces on the vehicle are at their highest, was successfully reached, which was important because that was a 3D printed rocket and nobody really had had a rocket that had that much 3D printing done to it at that time. So yeah, that was amazing. Yeah, it was very, very cool to watch that. And then also I just wanted to say shout out to JTTV, sent the words right out of my mouth for what I was about to say. Shout out to more importantly, it had blue flames. The myth, as I always say, the mythical blue flame, which methylox is just, it's pretty. So it's gorgeous. Yeah, clear, Steven, clear blue shock diamonds. I feel like everybody's getting into shock diamonds nowadays. 2023 was the year of the shock diamonds, I feel like. So and of course, as we all know, shock diamonds are an engineer's best friend. And Julian, as we know now that the Taran one, yeah, it looks amazing, but also Julian, sent a comment that Taran one was so successful that it got canceled. So yeah, relativity basically saying, okay, Taran one looked great. All right, that was fun. Yeah, exactly our avail. They said, that was fun. We enjoyed the small rocket. Now we're just going to go straight to Taran R, which is a reusable, fully reusable vehicle to compete with Falcon 9. So yeah, so why run your small rocket for a couple of years when you can move on to the next one, which by the way, Taran R does not have as much 3D printing in it. I think I'm not sure of the full reasoning behind it, whether it was just the complication of it or the additional production time that they just couldn't swing yet. But yeah, they just moved away from 3D printing as was expected. And now they're back to a large number of traditional aerospace manufacturing techniques with that there. It's huge. It is big. Turns out I'm still rings on that bad after all. Yeah, honestly, it probably has to do with the size, trying to 3D print a rocket equivalent in size to a Falcon 9 so that medium into medium heavy lift. It's that's that's no small, that's nothing small as me that that's that's for that. It's Stephen asking a great question here, which I also feel like was a question that rained through 2023 a lot, which was that any update on the mishap investigation? And Stephen, I'm just going to look straight at the camera and say which one? Because there was a flood of mishap investigations this year. So like we have ABL space for their RS1, their first flight this year. I don't know if we've actually heard what happened after the rocket went kaboom back in January. We know I think the reasoning behind ABL was mostly the flame deflector or flame trench was big enough, or they didn't design it properly. So there is too much fire. So the flame trench was too flamey. That will do it. So it's 2023 also the year of the flame trench as well? Perhaps. Count the FAA and first before you move on, I want to count the FAA investigations that were from 2023. So you had ABL, Virgin Orbit, Relativity. Yeah, Relativity. Who else? Rocket Lab. Space X, Rocket Lab. I'm trying to figure the other ones as well. There's two from Space X. One has been concluded, but one has just started. The Firefly would be doing one. Blue Origin's completed, but their flight was last year. So we're at six already. This is just for the United States. Virgin Galactic? I don't think. Oh yeah, all the Virgin Galactic's flights went as filed. Yeah, actually, as our bail is bringing up, Space X secondly has two. So that's seven now. That is not what I wanted to have happen. Oh my god. So it's like, what, seven? Okay, so seven FAA investigations. Oh yeah, now you're not doing it. I see how it is. Think about that for a second. That's more than companies that were launching 10 years ago. I would say it's more than companies that were launching five years ago. What a time to be alive. Our bail. Well, if I ever work in an aerospace company and we have to do a mishap investigation, I'll remember to bring in a whole bunch of balloons to get it started with. Not to hold up the V sign. Yeah, I'll bring it in your Zoom. Congrats on your investigation on the case. It could be like a little rocket going up to a firework boom in it there. I'm sure my bosses and the customers would love that. So, yeah, I like to say, always be mishap investigation. There we go. Thanks, I hate that. Paddington Station is what I couldn't come up with earlier. Oh, okay, so it's a place. It's not just a bear. No, it's a place. I had a lovely stay at the Paddington Woodshimmer Shits, and it was great. Delicious pasta the night before my departure. Yeah, good stuff. As long as it's good. So, Stephen, bringing in a good one, is well there, which is the parachute on the sample return capsule. So, yes, the Cyrus Rex's parachute deployed at an incorrect time, but nobody's perfect, right? So, if everybody had their own little mishaps this year, oopsies, oops, all aerospace. So, thank you, Arvail. I will endeavor to make sure that that actually, well, I hope that doesn't happen. I'll just preface that first, but say it that way. But if it does, I will endeavor to soften the blow as much as I can with ice cream and cake and balloons. And I'm sure I will become the most liked person in the office when that happens. Thanks for all of your hard work and overtime. Here's some pizza. Yeah, Stephen brings up a very good point, which is any landing you can extract samples from. So, yes, in 2004, the Genesis capsule that collected solar wind particles didn't deploy its parachute, and it slammed into the Utah desert at a terminal velocity of nearly 200 miles an hour. But hey, they were still able to pull the sample wafers out of it and get samples from it. So, it worked. So, yeah. So, yes, oh my gosh. Yeah, that one, that was a heck of a story finding out this year. Just well, careful, dog. You're still the off nominal podcast. I'm freaking up that appeal throughout the priceless mega upper stage with their, why are you wet? So, they lost an upper stage for a rocket. How does one do that? And then wrecked it after that, too. So, man. And yeah, our veil, very good point, do recommend off nominal. If you need more than just us, which you should have more than just us, a NASA space flight off nominal, man, good stuff, good, good stuff that they have. So, I know, I know. So, what was that? What was that? Oh, you're getting excited for all the upcoming rockets that are going to fly. Is that true? So, because boy, we have a lot. So, don't we? Which one's your favorite? Oh, she said Vulcan. She's ready for Vulcan Centaur. She says she's been waiting for a decade. Has it really been that long? It has. So, wow. I think we'd need to count all of the vehicles that were going to fly in 2023, but actually say they're going to fly next year. All right. So, where do we start? Well, Vulcan Centaur. But that also became very much a case of, was that a combined case of where are my engines and where are the seams on my Centaur upper stage? Is that what ended up happening with that? You could say it that way. Yeah. We could move words around all we want all day long and make it sound like whatever we want. So, very, very true. Oh, Arvail, ouch, Ryan, can we just reuse the list from 2022? No, because Starship flew. Mic drop. And what about, take that list, Scretchoff, Starship, Terran 1. What also did some first flights this year? Oh, I can. You need some ones. Let's see. RS1. Oh, yeah. We can scratch RS1 off the list. This year. Tianan 2, which was a new one, a Keralox rocket from Space Pioneer in China. China kind of really took off with all of their rockets that they had this year. The Series 1 rocket from Galactic Energy also was another one. Firefly flew twice. Yes, Firefly flew twice. And Firefly very, I think very importantly, their September mission, that tactical response mission, was a resounding success, which I feel like even though their most recent mission didn't work entirely like they wanted it to, the fact that they were able to pull off a tactical response, that's something that the Department of Defense is happy about. And when you make the Department of Defense happy, they like to do this thing called, here's some money, continue to do your work. Because there's nothing that we quite like here in the United States. I'm just done with stuff myself right now before I go any further with that. What else flew for the first time this year? Oh, the H3. Yeah. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's H3 with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Involved in that. The first one that flew, only one that flew this year because they had a second stage anomaly with that. So that was one with it. I want to say, didn't Iran also have a small Quame 100? Quame 100? Yeah, I think it's Q A E M. And unfortunately, I am not up to date on how to pronounce that one. So. And we also from the Cholima 1 rocket, which was unsuccessful at first, but successful at second. Yeah, although they didn't track an object from it, if I recall correctly. So like nobody's been able to track an object from its launch. Like it was a success. It's a successful, but nobody's been able to track it, right? I thought I saw McDowell saying that there was something from it. I'm not sure. Maybe. We'll find out. Well, if there's anyone I am not going to question the words of Jonathan McDowell, who's at the Harvard Smithsonian work with sound likes and things like that, he knows his stuff. So that would that would be probably the last person I want to do that. I saw that one pop up there. I don't know if that was a accidental one, or you just wanted to throw that up there real quick. I've got the page up here. So I can just go through, because, you know, we also had we had Maiden flights this year, but we also had retirements this year. Vehicles. We said goodbyes. Yeah. So hilariously on the page here, it says Maiden flights, Terran 1 and retirements, Terran 1, which I just think is brilliant. Of course, we said goodbye to the we said goodbye to the Antares 230 plus because of the first half of it was built in Ukraine, and that's obviously not feasible right now. Ariane 5, very sadly saying goodbye to that absolute workhorse of the last couple of decades. The Atlas 501 variant is no longer going to be flying. Unfortunately, has been, you know, retired because no one wants to fly out anymore. So, you know, some some more planned than others, let's say, in terms of the retirements. But yeah, a solid list of vehicles we have said goodbye to this year. And of course, B1058, we can add a serial number into that list as well. Yeah, that's really weird to think about the fact that you we maybe could actually include a specific basic booster as retiring for the year. I feel like there would be a difference between being expended and retired with that. So just to, you know, well, there's a difference between expended, retired and destroyed, or slash slash lost, like expended as planned, retired as planned. The lost and destroyed is not planned. Yeah. I feel like there is a very good point being made by Aravail on there, which is B1058 has flown more than how many rockets on that list. Well, yeah, that's impressive. I just looked it up. The Atlas V in the 501 configuration has only been flown eight times. And I know Terran 1 only three once. Yeah, seriously, that's not just such a wild statistic to think about. Man, if you had told us 10 years ago that that was going to be a thing, we were going to have a single Falcon 9 booster doing that. Wow. That's quite an accomplishment. Yeah, hats off. Hats off to that. And I feel like even, you know, even I'm trying to find how many Antares 230 pluses have been launched as well. That would be eight as well during its lifetime. Total for the 230, okay, total for the 230 series was only 13 for the Antares. So, wow. Yeah, that is wild. There was some national firsts, which I have up here as well, for a varied selection of different nations around the world. Oh, my chat is just, there we go, it's up to date now. My chat was like half an hour old. That's all very useful. So, we have Oman, which tried to launch their first satellite, which ended up being suborbital due to a failed orbital launch. I have a sneaking suspicion that might have been on Start Me Up. I can't remember exactly, but I think that satellite might have been on that, maybe. Oh, I can't speak to that. Yeah, I can't remember either. But it's ringing a very faint bell. It's ringing a very faint bell in the back of my mind. Albania launched their first satellite, Djibouti, Ireland, Oman, as I've said, and the Vatican City launched their first satellite, which for being half a square mile big, that's quite an impressive feat for the Vatican. In terms of people who actually went to space, Antigua and Barbuda had their first two people going into space on Virgin Galactic. And Pakistan had their first person going into space on Virgin Galactic. And just in terms of crewed flights overall, there were six orbital crew flights this year. Or is that eight? No, I can't read it now. It's six. 21 people flying into orbit, five suborbital flights, 30 people flying suborbital, which means a total of 51 people this year have traveled into space in one form or another, which is a significant number of people. Yeah, and I feel like very worth noting too, on May 30th with the inclusion of two crews, Shenzhou 15 and 16 on Chang'an, seven people on Expedition 69 and also the four crew members of Axiom 2, we set a new record for the total number of people on orbit on May 30th, which was 17 people in orbit at once. But we also set the new record for total number of people in space at the same time as well, five days earlier on the 25th of May, when we had Shenzhou 15's crew on Chang'an, seven from Expedition 69, four from Axiom 2, and six flying on VSS Unity for just a couple of minutes there. So for just a couple of minutes, we actually had 20 people in space on the 25th of May this year. So a total record of humans in space was set this year, no matter how you define that line, both in space and in orbit in space. So what an amazing year for that. The whole goal is to get as many people to space as possible, right? Because that's the holy grail. That's how civilization really goes forward, leaves them hounds and other things like that. So what a great achievement to getting towards that ultimate goal of spaceflight being something that everyone can participate in and benefits everybody, truly benefits everybody. So yeah, what an astounding and super exciting time that this year has been to make that happen. And what is that number going to look like next year? So maybe we can get a Blue Origin, New Shepard, and a Virgin Galactic VSS Unity flight at the same time? So perhaps. So try and reach their respective altitudes at the same time so we can see that. I'm throwing that out there. And I have the numbers here that I've just found for orbital launches as well. Total. So first of all the dates, the first orbital launch of the year was the third of January. The last was yesterday on the 30th of December. I don't know, China or North Korea or someone gives us a prize launch in the next like five ads or something. I don't know. There were 222 total orbital launch attempts of which 210 were successful, 11 were a failure, and one was a partial failure. I imagine that was probably the firefly launch just the other week. So, you know, that's a good track record of over doing quick maths. 95% of the orbital launch attempts this year were successful, fully successful as filed. So that's, you know, that's not too shabby. Yeah, and also as someone had mentioned earlier in the chat room, SpaceX ramping up and just taking the initiative to just roll forward at an unbelievable pace with it. I mean, we're now at the point where we're not within, up within 2023 as a whole, but from a point in 2022 to 2023 at 365 day chunk of time, they actually did go over 100 launches during that time period. So, man, what is 2024 hold for something like that? Like I'm very excited. Are we going to finally get the first ever triple digit, annual triple digit launch count from them? So, yeah, I was going to say this is an incredible statistic as well. I believe this is the third year in a row this has happened. Actually, excuse me, I believe this is the second year in the row for the United States. And then the third year in a row for the world overall that the launch rate has been a record, or the launch number has been a record since then. So since 2020, 2021 was the first 2022, we set another record and then we set another record this year as well. So, yeah. So, wow, that's a sounding. So that's, yeah, fantastic. Yeah. And of course, JTTV is pointing out to you, Ryan. Well, we had juice launch, which is ESA's mission that's going to be going to Jupiter, steady tannymede in some of the moons of Jupiter, but also you went to watch Psyche launch. So it's not just, you are literally the definition today of been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Yes. Yeah, I would definitely rate that as the top moment of not just like the space what year, but my year personally, that was incredibly exciting. The following week after that personally, yes, exciting, I won't go into details, but being able to see Psyche actually launch after waiting for like years, that was nice to see. Being dead doesn't create high on your calendar. There was a lot of excitement and then a little bit of sigh of relief that it did actually launch on the first ticketed attempt, let's say, because it was pushed back a little bit, but I was smart. I planned for it. Yeah, it went on the first attempt after I got through the KSC VC barrier. So that's all that matters. I didn't have to get another ticket. Yeah, I feel like that's important for folks to know if you're ever going to go watch a rocket launch, the only guarantee in aerospace is delays. So there's lies, there's damned lies, and there's a lot of schedules. So this is how it goes. So anytime there's a delay, it's so funny that people are always like, I can't believe there's a delay. And then folks like me and you, Dutta and Ryan, who do this for a living were very much like, yeah, yeah, it's Thursday. So what else do you want? And sometimes the delay is going to push you beyond your capacity to stick around and watch it. Yeah, that's true too. Yeah, sorry about that. Stephen Glasser is bringing up a good one, at least for ourself at Dutta there, which is that I'm enjoying the new cadence out of Vandy. Yeah, there's been a lot of launches out of Vandenberg this year, tons of one, more than I can ever remember. And the fact of the matter is with Vandenberg, there are only two launch providers, apart from the Space Force and the Air Force, using Vandenberg at the moment, which is SpaceX and Firefly Aerospace. Nobody else launched from Vandenberg. ULA didn't launch from Vandenberg. It was two flights from Firefly and the rest was SpaceX. So, you know, it's kind of, I'm sure you'll be very grateful for the 50 degree styling orbits that they want to reach, which they can't reach from Florida. Yes, it is definitely entertaining because those, at least from our perspective here in the Los Angeles area, fly a lot closer than even the 70 degree launches that they'll sometimes do out of Vandenberg. So, yeah, it's impressive. And I love the fact that they have ramped up that launch cadence out of Vandenberg to something that's just not been seen since the cold war. And here, me and Dutta are, and we have not been able to get out there to catch one this year. So, go us. So, the last launch I was out at Vandenberg was the final Atlas V in November of 2022. So, I got to step up my rocket game for 2024, although we'll talk about that for next week's show, since we're going to do that, because we're going to cover some of the exciting things that are coming up for the year at that time. So, yeah. So, anything else from us as a whole that we were excited for in 2023? Just a couple of notes, Bennett Elder adds, yeah, add all the U.S. together. If we want a record, count them like the Ford F-Series. And Don of Clarity says, if PO can achieve half of the SpaceX flights per year when they ramp up, this is a serious total number of private flights to orbit. Yeah, that's definitely true. Yeah, it will be impressive. I'm really hoping that everybody ramps up. As you know here at tomorrow, and honestly, all of us in our respective worlds, we are very strongly in in team space, very much believe in the idea of all ships rise at the time. So, anytime one does good, everybody kind of comes along on the journey for that. So, that's impressive with that. And our veil, actually, our veil is bringing up maybe what was going to be one of my favorite things that was happening this year, which is the Indian Space Research Organization did a successful paddleboard test of their crew capsule. ISTRO is doing so much right now. They did that. They did the paddleboard of their new crewed capsule with that. They're just working on their life support system right now, which I've had a little interesting that they did a press conference to basically be like, nobody's going to build, nobody's helping us build a life support system. So, you know what, you guys, we're going to make our own. So, India is just doing some amazing stuff, and they're just taking it really cheap as well. Yeah, and I feel like that is not, it's not a slight on that either. They know what they're doing. No, it's impressive. Yeah, and they're doing it well. They just fill up, ouch! Well, we'll have to see. That's true. That's another thing that's happening next year that didn't happen this year. Starliner. Yay for Starliner. I feel like we've been saying that for half a decade. That's one thing that didn't happen this year that's going to finally happen next year. Six months out. Man, let me tell you, if 737s were delayed due to maintenance, as much as that. So, oh wait, anyways. Yeah, actually, RRVL ISRO is. Ross, not a great year for Ross Cosmos. They really, like, one launch less. Sorry, my brain just kind of short-circuited there a little bit. They're going to pace, I believe they only pulled off 10 launches this year total. So, I can't speak at this point. 737s don't get delayed for maintenance. They get delayed for features. Ah, good way of putting it. There you go. Yeah, you're going to work. I see you're looking for the job at the communication department. So, with that. I just want to point out some other things that ISRO did this year as well. Shandrion 3, they were able to do that. They landed successfully on the moon. So, fourth nation to do that. So, United States, Soviet Union, and China, now they have joined the, they've joined with the fourth nation to land successfully on the moon. In addition to that, they dropped their rover out there and had to drive around. Their Shandrion 3 lander, they actually had it hopped. They relit the engines and flew it not far, but they did that. So, nobody's ever done that on the moon before. Like, yeah, the lunar module brought humans back, but it didn't reland back on the moon after lighting this engine that was out of there. Also, I just, this is a really cool one that I just, I don't know how I didn't read about this earlier, but the Shandrion 3 orbiter, they actually just moved it out of lunar orbit and back into orbit around the earth. Holy moly! They are not messing around this year. Like, wow, what, like, that is amazing. Also, India just watched their first mission to study the sun. They have a full-blown solar probe going out to L1, the earth moon L1 point, or earth to the earth sun L1 point, and they're, they're going for it. And it's on its way, and it should be arriving in a couple of days. So, man, ISRO just like took off this year and now catch up everybody else. So, what's your excuse? So, India's, India's nailing it. So, what's your excuse? So, I have just a teeny weeny little correction on the Roscoe's figure. They didn't launch 10 times this year. They launched the whopping total of 11 times this year, but they only launched Soyuz 10 times. They had an extra proton launch, which I think was their first launch of the year. But Soyuz itself actually launched 17 times this year because seven launches were performed by the Russian Ministry of Defense, slash armed forces, whatever you want to call them, not Roscoe's most themselves. So, they were military flights. So, you're correct in terms of Soyuz flights. Okay, but I'm still, no, I will still say I was wrong total for Russia as a whole. So, but thank you for the correction. That's always helpful to get stuff like that, and always, always good to be corrected if something's incorrect. So, thank you, Ryan. I appreciate that with that. And then, our bill is asking, doesn't ISRO have another science satellite launching tonight? I don't remember. Maybe they do. So, check that space for us. Yes, actually, they're going to have an X-ray satellite, X-ray astronomy satellite doing that as well. That's awesome. Yeah, but it's launching on January first in terms of UTC. So, I don't think it'll count for this year, and it will definitely be January first in India if it's UTC. So, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's at like 9am local time. Okay, yeah. Sorry, our avail doesn't count. You're 9 hours, 10 minutes late. We'll get to that next week. Yeah. Although, the first launch for the United States is going to be happening from Vandenberg. So, go us out here, and I still won't be able to go to it. So, I got to get on that. So, that one's actually happening at a time where we may get the twilight effect out of that there. So, maybe, maybe, maybe. We'll have to see. If it goes at the start, because it's 6.13pm local, we'll have to see. Just a little bit of an hour with it. Oh, and actually another, yes, another correction in the chat room from me here. How can I forget? Surveyor 6 was actually the first lander to hop on the moon. The Surveyor program, very underrated, and not as acknowledged program as I have just demonstrated with that there. So, the Surveyor program was done in the 60s to study the surface of the moon just to make sure that everything for Apollo would go smoothly in terms of like landing something on the moon, operating on the moon and things like that, and studying the basic geology of the moon as good as they could affect it. So, yes, I was wrong about Chandra on 3D, the first one to hop on the moon. It was actually Surveyor 6. But still, I'm still excited that Chandra on 3 hopped on the moon, because we obviously have not done that in a very long time. Bennett is now asking what week will SpaceX hit 100 flights at? What do we think? 49? So, that would be just before Christmas? Somewhere in there? I'm going to say September, which I know isn't a week's number, but I don't want to do the maths. So, September. Let's save our predictions for the next episode. I think we need to wrap this one up. Yeah, I'm just going to say we're getting very, very close to it, but I also do want to say I do want to say that we still do have your integrated test flight 3 predictions written down for you. So, some of you are coming up on that, because some of you just selected January. So, Pamphalic, you selected January, so yours is coming up very, very soon here. And also, Dada, you haven't given us your prediction for that as well. And also, Jamie hasn't given us the prediction either. Dada, are you just going to decline at this point for predicting it, or you just don't care, you just wanted to fly? Yep. Yep. As far as I'm concerned, it's a good attitude. By the way, I want to say integrated flight test 1 was really cool, but I think integrated flight test 2 was even better. Not necessarily because the performance was better, but it was just great to see SpaceX bounce back. I really felt like integrated test flight 1 was, there were a lot of missteps. I feel like there were a lot of missteps that happened in that, but there was a lot of corrections that were done, and they're good corrections, and they're the kind of corrections that are going to help in the long run, which was good job with that there. So, very, very happy with that. So, to wrap things up, we, of course, want to thank all of you, our wonderful members here at Tomorrow. And if you would like to become a member, you can go to youtube.com slash tmro slash join, and that will allow you to become a member. It is literally, gosh, just a buck. That's all it takes for that. So, that's it. Or, you know, less than a price, you know, I have words, and every once in a while I use them correctly. Now is not that time. So, I will just say you should become a member of Tomorrow, because if you reach the escape velocity level, like these next amazing folks, you actually get to come to the escape velocity channel on Discord, which is where you can see us do coordination, other things like that, terrible jokes, and fun photos of what we may or may not be up to. And overall, it's just a much more inside look than what our general Discord channel is with that link below. And if you become a member, you can also enter into our members only stream, which we are going to be doing as soon as this one ends. And this is it. This is the final wrap up for 2023. Ryan, would you like to say anything as the year ends? It was alright. Saw three launches, so I'll call myself happy with that. Yeah, I'm totally going to mirror his sentiment and just say, well, alright, well, I'm very happy. I'm ready for a more productive 2024 than 2023 was. Yes, I was going to say, I think all three of us are ready for that. Alright, thank you, Ryan and Sonna, for your absolutely British assessments of the year. Thank you all so much for watching 2023. We leave it laughing, as we always do. We'll see you next week. We're going to talk about 2024 and stuff that we're excited about in it. We'll see you.