 Hey, what's up everybody, welcome to tomorrow. So there's lots of upcoming missions that hopefully will be successfully launching into space very soon, and today I wanted to talk about some of the updates regarding those missions. For this, your space pod for November 24th, 2015. First off, SpaceX has gotten its first official order for commercial crew flights on their Dragon V2 capsule. This is not development funding, this is actual booked flights with astronauts on board, and this announcement comes about six months after Boeing received a similar announcement. But how many flights and how much do they cost? Well NASA won't comment on how many flights have been booked and how much they cost for either SpaceX or Boeing, and the reason for that they say is that they won't release the award value because there could be future competition for commercial crew flights. That makes me hope that there might be some sort of commercial crew round two where Sierra Nevada and maybe Orbital ATK and a couple other companies could compete for commercial crew flights. That would be very cool, but as of right now, that's all we know, we can only speculate. Meanwhile, the pieces are coming together for SpaceX's return to flight of the Falcon 9, hopefully in mid-December from Cape Canaveral. They're going to be launching the Orbcom 2 mission, which will be launching 11 OG-2 second-generation Orbcom satellites into orbit. This will also be using their new full-thrust version of the Falcon 9, version 1.2. The first stage of the rocket has arrived at Cape Canaveral as of Friday, November 20th, and it will go through a static fire test usually a week before launch at Space Launch Complex 40. This rocket stage has already gone through several static fire tests at SpaceX's facility in McGregor, Texas. Meanwhile, Blue Origin has announced that they're going to be attempting another flight of their new Shepard vehicle sometime before the end of this year. They're still being very secretive, but at least this time they're giving us a heads up. They hope this time to recover both the capsule and the rocket stage. But regarding launches that we do get a lot of info about, the next Cygnus cargo freighter has been encapsulated in its payload shroud and mated to the top of its Atlas V rocket for a hopefully December 3rd launch. Finally, earlier today there was a launch from Japan of their H2A rocket, and this was carrying the Telestar 12 Vantage telecommunications satellite for Telesat of Canada. This was the first time that Japan has launched a commercial satellite as the primary payload on the H2A rocket. Although they have launched commercial payloads before on the H2A, they've only been secondary payloads, this is the first time that it was a primary payload. This launch also features an upgraded upper stage rocket engine that will be able to have a third engine relight during the flight, to be able to help payloads get to geosynchronous orbit easier, and making the rocket competitive on the commercial launch market. So personally, I hope that after this mission Japan is able to get a lot of customers on the commercial market and be able to generate a lot of profit to be able to upgrade their rocket even further. They've talked about man-rating their rocket and having their own type of capsule to send up their own astronauts with, and Japan has lots of other ideas and hopefully this sort of thing would lead to future things that they want to do and would be able to bring them up to a higher level to compete with China and Russia and the European Space Agency and even the United States. So congratulations Japan on this successful launch and hopefully many more commercial launches are in your future. Anyway let us know on social media which you think about this successful launch for Japan and whether or not you think it will have a big implications on their future spaceflight program. Also we want to know what you think the success rate is of these upcoming missions that hopefully will be launching very soon. Very interested to know which ones you think will go off without a hitch or will have problems and why. So please leave a comment and let us know what you guys think about these. So thank you so much to everyone who's been contributing to our Patreon campaign. There's recently been some changes to how we're doing things. Instead of having the donations per episode we're actually doing it per month now and there's lots of different goals and rewards that we have been able to set up there. 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