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STS-93 - The Golden bullet (thread) 25 years ago yesterday, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. While Chandra successfully reached orbit, the ascent was far from nominal. An engine issue almost sabotaged the whole mission...

New paper! Allow me to introduce TARS = Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun. TARS (yes inspired by Interstellar!) is a rotating light sail that's capable of launching chip sats into interstellar space using only radiation from the Sun, so let's dive into how it works

Timelapse of Dragon and Falcon 9 going vertical at pad 39A

All SSTOs are stupid and there is absolutely no reason for them to exist.

this is the fantastic four, right guys?

Crew-11 (Boeing hasn't flown a single operational mission yet)

Falcon 9 and Dragon roll out to the launch pad at 39A in Florida for @NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the @Space_Station

It's been a year since Falcon 9's return to flight after the Starlink 9-3 mission just 15 days earlier.

We must be ~3 weeks away from launch at this point

new rainbolt lore

(Kofola is Czech, actually)

In other words, the recording will be posted a few days after launch lol

Booster 13's recovered aft section at Massey's test site this morning. 7/24/25

Happy one-year anniversary to this banger thread

SPLASHDOWN!! On July 24th, 1969, we landed softly in the vast Pacific Ocean – and after eight humanity-changing days, our mission was complete. The great crew from the legendary @USNavy USS Hornet (CV-12) was there to see our prompt extraction from the deep! 56 years hence,…

Incredible