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  • Artemis 2 is passing its point of no return (post-TLI "Direct Abort" window)

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  • [Eric Berger] Four astronauts are now inexorably bound for the Moon

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  • this marked a point of no return for more than a week

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  • NASA unveils Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission to Mars in 2028

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  • Will the descent module touch down softly and act as a comms relay?

    Will they try 3 slightly different designs of helicopter to see which works best?

  • NASA Administrator teases further Artemis program updates in one-on-one interview

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  • 28:22

    In hindsight we had all the schedule margin in the world against the Soviets. We went to the moon. We left in 1972 and no human's been back since [then].

    Yeah but that's because the Soviets cancelled their effort after losing the race, right?

    (But maybe it's a very good sign that this was the biggest potential nitpick I can think of after listening?)

  • The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

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  • [Eric Berger] FCC chair (Brendan Carr) blasts Amazon after it criticizes SpaceX megaconstellation

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  • Eric Berger shilling SpaceX

    Did you read the article?

  • The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race

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  • I feel compelled to comment here (a Lemmy forum centred around itjust.works?) about another comment (on a Zenforo forum centred around arstechnica.com?) about another comment (on a Disqus forum centred around thespacereview.com?) about the ICPS.

    for Arty 3, SLS doesn't need to launch with an ICPS at all: it's perfectly capable of getting an Orion to LEO using only the core and SRBs. ... This requires that somebody (likely Teledyne-Brown) manufacture an adapter ... If they can get this done in a bit more than a year, Arty 3 could be ready to go in 4Q2027. That then leaves the ICPS that was meant for Arty 3 available for Arty 4, which should be the Moon landing.

    I wonder whether this is a good idea, and how likely it is that NASA would have already considered it.

  • [Jason Rainbow] Virgin Media O2 launches Europe’s first Starlink direct-to-smartphone service

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  • Voice calls are allowed, so maybe it's time to revive the 56k modem!

    But seriously, as a non-expert I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if you told me the audio stream was the easiest option, if the approved apps are all somewhat tamper-resistant. (Probably a very different process though, converting 20th Century analogue telephone line signals, versus converting just-decompressed digital audio.)

  • [Eric Berger] Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

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  • [Eric Berger] Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding

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  • Time to start spreading the rumour that he was raised by wolves who named him after the director of this film and a portmanteau of the film's title :)

  • ‘Very lucky day’: NASA, SpaceX ace astronaut launch to the space station on Friday the 13th

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  • Out of those 13 missions, I believe only 1 person has flown twice, and he's not from NASA. He's Mr Fedyaev.

    This mission is the first where all four crew members are using the new SpaceX suit design. (Some details were given by the SpaceX guy at a NASA Crew 12 press conference earlier this year.) So presumably Fedyaev is the only person to have won both types of suit in space. Perhaps he's giving SpaceX some comparative feedback.

  • Gwynne keeping it classy

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  • Petition for SpaceX's next rocket to be called: New Gwynne

  • ‘Very lucky day’: NASA, SpaceX ace astronaut launch to the space station on Friday the 13th

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  • Official NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Arrival & Welcome Remarks

    • 4:00:30 looks like Fedyaev and Adenot jointly opening the hatch. Don't remember seeing footage like this before.
    • 4:25:45 - 4:26:00 Any Russian-speakers fancy translating Fedyaev's joke? I fear that I'm missing out :)

  • ‘Very lucky day’: NASA, SpaceX ace astronaut launch to the space station on Friday the 13th

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  • This is also the 13th launch of serving NASA astronauts on Dragon. (It's the 12th operational mission, but there was also Bob & Doug on Demo-2.)

  • Prominent YouTuber's visit to Starbase. ("Futuristic Tech" by "Mr Beast". Uploaded 3w ago. 100M views.)

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  • I was especially glad to see the scene at 21:59 and was saying "and that's just the top 2/5 of the overall rocket". No matter how often you remind yourself of the size of the thing, it's never enough!

    P.S. I checked, and it's actually a little over 2/5. More like 42% (my favourite 2-digit number!).

  • ‘Very lucky day’: NASA, SpaceX ace astronaut launch to the space station on Friday the 13th

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  • Don't know if I'm jaded but I'd guess about 5-10% chance of Starliner 2 happening before SpaceX Crew-13.

    Relevant Steve Stich comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12pFrHAuQI 38:23 - 39:50 (And also 30:46 - 33:25)

  • Prominent YouTuber's visit to Starbase. ("Futuristic Tech" by "Mr Beast". Uploaded 3w ago. 100M views.)

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  • You Tube channel subscriber counts:

    • 467M - @MrBeast
    • 006.82M - @SpaceX

    You might be tempted to see this as representative of the dumbing down of society, but to be fair, many of the former might have just been tempted by some subscriber giveaways. Perhaps space channel subscribers are a bit more committed? E.g. the SN10 live stream has 15M views.

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    Prominent YouTuber's visit to Starbase. ("Futuristic Tech" by "Mr Beast". Uploaded 3w ago. 100M views.)

  • SpaceX shifts away from Dragon launches at pad 39A as Starship looms – Spaceflight Now

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  • A NASA spokesperson clarified in a statement on Thursday how this change factors into the agency’s ability to fly its astronauts to the space station.

    “NASA’s Commercial Crew Program does not specify a specific launch pad for crew rotation missions and maintains a launch capability at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida,” the spokesperson said. “If needed, SpaceX could still support NASA crewed launch operations from pad 39A in the future.”

    Gerstenmaier elaborated on this during the 2026-02-09 Crew-12 Prelaunch News Conference.

    20:37 "We're going to do some maintenance on the crew arm. I think the general plan is we'll keep the crew arm on the ground after we do those repairs, but we'll be ready to put the crew arm back up again if we need to go back and launch crew from pad 39A."

    23:40 "In the timeframe it takes us to get Falcon and Dragon ready we can be ready to get the pad operational."

    Perhaps he chose to do that because they realized some people had been assuming SpaceX were removing their redundancy of crew launch pad options? It seems that NSF probably did assume that: TWIS 2026-02-07 (3:33 - 4:17).

  • Jeremy Hansen doesn't want to die in space, but he's ready for the possibility

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    Jeremy Hansen doesn't want to die in space, but he's ready for the possibility

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    ISS First: All 8 Docking Ports Occupied

    www.nasa.gov /blogs/spacestation/2025/12/01/space-station-first-all-docking-ports-fully-occupied-8-spacecraft-on-orbit/
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    Anna Menon (formerly SpaceX / Polaris Dawn) rejoins NASA - as an astronaut candidate

    www.nasa.gov /people/nasa-astronaut-candidate-anna-menon/
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    Hans Koenigsmann and ESA's Michi Benthaus (a paraplegic) discuss planned New Shephard flight (DE, with subtitles in EN & ES)

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    Peter Beck pranks VIPs?

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    More details on the 'boost kit' for CRS-33

    spaceflightnow.com /2025/08/23/live-coverage-nasa-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-dragon-spacecraft-on-crs-33-from-cape-canaveral/
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    Newly Clear (fixed it for them)

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    No groaning at your desk, please ...

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    NASA knew that Boe-CFT Starliner couldn't return autonomously without significant delay

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    Dragon splashdown moving to the West Coast, as part of trunk debris plan

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    Falcon 9's Return To Flight scheduled for 2024-07-27T04:21Z

    www.spacex.com /launches/mission/
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    2nd Stage failure during Starlink 9-3

    www.spacex.com /launches/mission/