30: Starbase Update: Booster 9 Testing, Ship ...

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 Ryan Caton gives an update on all things Starbase. July 3, 2023. 

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

537: Reusable Rocket Revolution Astronomy Cast 537: Reusable Rocket Revolution by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We took a hiatus this summer, but SpaceX sure didn't, with the tests of the Starhopper prototype. Today we're going to talk about the revolution in reusable rocketry and ...  Show more