00:00NASA just dropped a surprise about future space missions.
00:03But it's not what you think.
00:04For the first time, NASA is planning a 30-day mission to a commercial space station.
00:09And that made people think they were switching to short-term space travel permanently.
00:13But hold on, NASA says.
00:15Not so fast, this 30-day mission.
00:17It's just a demo.
00:19The goal is to test out systems and do some science.
00:22It's not the new normal.
00:23NASA still wants long-term missions like the six-month stays on the ISS.
00:28They just don't want a gap between the ISS retiring and the new stations going live.
00:33That's why they're moving fast.
00:35Funding companies like Voyager, Blue Origin, and Vast.
00:38And they've made it clear.
00:40They don't want China to be the only game in low Earth orbit.
00:43So what's next?
00:44A race to build the next-gen space stations with launch targets around 2029.
00:48And NASA's pushing hard to keep America in orbit, without missing a beat.
00:53The future of space isn't shorter. It's just getting started.
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