Keith’s note: SpaceX Starship 13 certainly did its thing: Booster soft landing, ship in orbit. 40 second Raptor relight, 20 Starlink Version 3’s deployed, all of which worked, smooth reentry […]
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OIG Has Issues With Commercial Crew
Keith’s note: The NASA OIG has issued a report on Management of Commercial Crew – and they are concerned with a lot of things. Summary below.
Posted inArtemis, Astronauts, Moon, News
Artemis III Crew Announced
Keith’s note: NASA announced the Artemis III crew today. Their two week mission in 2027 involves testing of the SpaceX and Blue Origin lunar landers. Whether or not either lander […]
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Starship V 3.0 First Flight
Keith’s note: The V 3.0 edition of the SpaceX Starship made its maiden flight tonight. The first stage with its sexy new Raptor 3 engines and total vehicle redesign did […]
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OIG Report: NASA Management Of Human Landing System Contracts
“NASAâs acquisition approach for the lunar landers has been effective in controlling contract costs, with the SpaceX and Blue Origin contracts having only increased by 6 percent and less than […]
Posted inAstronauts, ISS News, News
They’re Back
Keith’s note: according to NASA: “NASAâs SpaceX Crew-11 mission safely splashed down early Thursday morning in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, concluding a more than five-month […]
Posted inAstronauts, Commercialization, ISS News, News, Russia, TrumpSpace
Per Aspera At NASA
Keith’s note: the other day Russia broke the only launch pad it has that can launch Soyuz or Progress missions to the ISS. Space social media is all over the […]
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Is There An Actual Artemis Schedule?
Keith’s note: In a nutshell, acting/interim/(maybe)actual NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says that SpaceX is behind “schedule” on its Artemis stuff. OK this may well be true. Yet Duffy can’t say […]
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Starship Flight 11
Keith’s note: SpaceX Launched the 11th flight of Starship this evening. The first stage came back exactly as planned. Ship made it to orbit and worked smoothly. Payload doors opened […]
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NASAWatch on CNN International As Crew 11 Leaves Earth
Keith’s note: I was just on CNN International doing live commentary during the launch of Crew 11 to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon [Audio]. I […]