# TWiS 229: Is It Starship's Time?

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New episode of This Week in Space: Episode 229, “Is It Starship’s Time?” is now available.

Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik

Topics covered:

- 🚀 SpaceX’s Starship Flight 14 preparations and its importance for lunar landing plans
- 🛰 Industry uncertainty over the proposed Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon phaseout and possible Starliner alternative
- 🌙 Vast’s new lunar division and the U.S.-China race for lunar leadership, plus Jared Isaacman’s comments on Chinese delays
- 🔭 NASA’s PRIMA far-infrared probe and ESA’s JUICE and Ramses missions
- 🧊 A troubling new study on global ice loss

> **[This Week in Space: Is It Starship's Time? | TWiT.TV](https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space/episodes/229)**
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> This week it's Rod and Tariq working through the most important space headlines. The big story: Starship could launch test flight 14 as early as Monday the 28th. We've seen

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