18: Spaceflight This Week: 03/20/2023

18: Spaceflight This Week: 03/20/2023

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97: 🚀 Starship Fails Again, Firefly’s Moon Success, & More Space Drama!

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

30: Starbase Update: Booster 9 Testing, Ship 28's Cryo Test, & RIP SN15

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

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