14: Spaceflight This Week: 03/07/2023

This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the ...  Show more

NSF's Jack Beyer updates us on the ongoings at Starbase. 

SpaceX accélère son ambition spatiale avec Starship, un vaisseau au cœur des prochaines missions lunaires Artemis et de la future colonisation de la Lune. Et ce n’est qu’un début. Elon Musk rêve déjà d’envoyer des centaines de Starship vers Mars, à condition de valider les tec ...

What I learned from reading The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban. In the most recent 1% of our species short existence, we have become the first life on earth to know about the situation (4:38) The total market for satellite manufacturing, the launches that carry ...  Show more

What I learned from reading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger.  ---- [12:38] Numerous other entrepreneurs had tried playing at rocket science before, Musk well knew. He wanted to learn from their mistakes so as not to repeat them. ...  Show more

What I learned from rereading Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger.  ---- Ramp gives you everything you need to control spend, watch your costs, and optimize your financial operations —all on a single platform. Make history's greates ...  Show more