“Here’s a teaser for the weekend. This is flight 3 from our testing today looking up from the edge of the launching pad. The flight is a boosted hop to 68 meters (our current FAA waiver is 76 meters for now). This is our 7th free flight of XA-0.1-B, Xombie and our first since our Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge level 1 win in October of 2009. Testing went very well for the day and Xombie is performing admirably. More video after the Presidents’ day weekend. Visit www.masten-space.com for more information.”

Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member 🖖🏻