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On September 12th at 3:00pm UTC NASA administrator Dr. Mike Griffin addressed the NASA community with his NASA Update series. This update lasted about an hour and we have pulled out the best parts in our daily update. If you would like to watch the entire video make sure to check out our extended coverage here on SpaceVidcast.com

NASA comes across yet another delay that may cause the US to not have transport into space for up to four years. And this time, the US space enthusiasts aren’t the only ones who are upset.

Up until August 2nd, 2008 Obama’s campaign had talked about delaying Constellation for 5 years and funneling that money instead to a pre kindergarden program. This would have created a full decade long gap in NASAs manned space program. Obama seems to have changed his tune and is now in favor of NASAs program and has instead found other ways to pay for his education program.

After the shuttle retires in 2010 NASA will be moving on to the Constellation program which promises to bring humans back to the moon and on to Mars. This animation depicts what it will look like when the Orion module breaks from the lunar lander as well as a new lunar rover. I believe the new spacesuits are going to be blue though, so this is a touch dated.

In 2010 the Space Shuttle retires to be replaced with the new Constellation Program. Constellation consists of the Ares I and Ares V rockets and the Orion crew module. This animation depicts what it will be like with the Ares V heavy load rocket carrying up the new lunar lander and the Ares I rocket launching Orion in to orbit to rendezvous with the lander with a safe landing on the moon.

While I have been a regular guest on KSTP’s Twin Cities Live in the past, I have never been on to chat about SpaceVidcast… Until now!

On July 14th at 3:18pm CDT Cariann and I chatted with John Hanson and Rebekah Wood about SpaceVidcast, where we are and where we are going. As always it is a TON of fun to be on that show. The atmosphere is kept light, the topics are fun and there is always something interesting going on. Heck, in this show alone they had an electric motorcycle that looked like a green jellybean and they cooked up a serving of watermelon pie. It sure sounds gross, but holy cow did it taste good!