{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Space Stakes: The Business of the New Space Race","title":"NASA’s $10B Moon Base Plan Puts Task Orders in Focus — November 8, 2026","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":732,"description":"NASA's Moon Base program combines a $10 billion CLPS 2 ceiling with specific rover and transport awards, while the episode separates future competition from contracted work. We also cover a proposed Starship double catch, Alphabet's quarter-end SpaceX holding, Firefly's CLPS 2 vendor status and NASA's reopened astronaut applications.\nNASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects — NASA\nAlphabet Added 3.85M SpaceX Shares in Q3, 13F Filing Shows — FourWeekMBA\nFirefly selected as vendor for NASA's $10 Billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services — Firefly Aerospace\nNASA Seeks Next Generation of Explorers to Join Astronaut Corps — NASA\nChapters\n00:00 Today's headlines\n00:50 Starship upper stage tower catch attempt\n01:37 SpaceX holding: more shares, lower value\n02:53 Firefly onboarded as CLPS 2 vendor\n03:42 Applications open for NASA astronaut class\n04:37 Blue Origin's PROMISE rover contract\n07:46 Hype Check on Moon Base contracts\nSource links\nnasaspaceflight.com\nSpace Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice.\nFollow Space Stakes: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · Spotify\nMore from Brian Lampert: Quickly Quantum, the daily quantum computing briefing, and Concrete Compute, the daily AI infrastructure briefing. Transcripts and every episode: space-stakes.kngoworld.chatgpt.site.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nyaLFXa2ttfx9M9mPzUM3GElEJH7pfmkmAcNiSR-ELQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mZGY1/NTM1MDE3MTIwNjMx/ZDJhOGJmOGM4OGZl/ODFhOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}