NASA’s $10B Moon Base Plan Puts Task Orders in Focus — November 8, 2026

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. NASA Awards Moon Base Transportation, Technology, Science Projects — NASA Alphabet Added 3.85M SpaceX Shares in Q3, 13F Filing Shows — FourWeekMBA Firefly selected as vendor for NASA's $10 Billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services — Firefly Aerospace NASA Seeks Next Generation of Explorers to Join Astronaut Corps — NASA Chapters 00:00 Today's headlines 00:50 Starship upper stage tower catch attempt 01:37 SpaceX holding: more shares, lower value 02:53 Firefly onboarded as CLPS 2 vendor 03:42 Applications open for NASA astronaut class 04:37 Blue Origin's PROMISE rover contract 07:46 Hype Check on Moon Base contracts Source links nasaspaceflight.com Space Stakes is an AI-voiced podcast, built and run by a real person. Nothing in this episode is financial advice. Follow Space Stakes: subscribe on YouTube · Apple Podcasts · Spotify More 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 .