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Interests in space, planes and race cars

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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 28/09/2026
SpaceX footage of the Starlink view of payload deployment from Ship 41 on Starship Flight 15
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 05/09/2026
LAUNCH! Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum on its second flight from the Andøya Spaceport in Norway. youtube.com/live/uUc2d_N...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 30/08/2026
LAUNCH! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches the Roman Space Telescope.
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Jeff Foust @jfoust.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The jet flyby, led by NASA Administrator Isaacman, of LC-39A ahead of tomorrow's scheduled Falcon Heavy launch of the Roman Space Telescope. (Starship launch tower for scale)
Three jets fly over a launch pad with a Falcon Heavy rocket on it. An even larger launch tower is nearby. In the foreground are much better photographers shooting the event.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 28/08/2026
STATIC FIRE Starship Booster 21 performed what looked like a 14 second multi engine static fire test ahead of flight 14. We will have to wait to find out if this is the final test or SpaceX plans further testing before the booster returns to the production site for final processing.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 26/08/2026
Starship 40 is headed home! Our friend Svyatoslav Shanygin has shared the following video and pictures, showing Ship during loading operations onto the Boskalis semi-submersible heavy transport vessel, Forte, at Christmas Island, Australia. Image/video source: Svyatoslav Shanygin
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 19/08/2026
The world has another partially-reusable launch vehicle: Zhuque-3 has STUCK THE LANDING! Here's the full rundown on today's beautiful flight → youtu.be/cpA2nDH6GSY
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 18/08/2026
Starboat lives and will return to Starbase! written by Chris Bergin www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/08/ship...
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Starship in space and some starlink sats #space
Spacex starship seen in space from a starlink satelliteStarlink satellites deploying solar panels in space
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 25/07/2026
This is amazing and well done to the drone operator. They'll have gotten so much data out of this floaty Ship 40.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 25/07/2026
Starship Flight 13: Ship 40 flip and burn landing to conclude the mission! And Ship 40 didn't want to boom at the end!
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/07/2026
Starship Flight 13: T-0 Abort and Scrub for the day. While we do not know the cause, we will update you once we know more from SpaceX
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 12/07/2026
SpaceX has confirmed it is targeting No Earlier Then Thursday, July 16th for the launch of Starship Flight 13. www.spacex.com/launches/sta... 📷 Ceaser G for NSF
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Cosmic Penguin @cosmicpenguinov103.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I once suggested something like this as a back-up system for recovering Starship boosters, before Flight 5 stunned me with the chopsticks catching method. But boy did the most experienced Chinese rocket state institute chose the right way to success... m.weibo.cn/detail/53191...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 09/07/2026
Starship Booster 20 has arrived to Pad 2, after rolling out from Mega Bay 1 at the Production Site, ahead of some static fire testing as part of the pre-flight testing ahead of flight 13 in the coming weeks. Rollout Stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtjY... Starbase Live 24/7: nsf.live/starbase
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 09/07/2026
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 NOW from Starbase, Texas, as SpaceX rolls out Super Heavy Booster 20 to the pad, ahead of Starship Flight 13. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtjY...
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SpaceX rolls Booster 20 for testing on Pad 2
YouTube video by NASASpaceflight
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 02/06/2026
By most accounts, this is a risky move for Blue Origin—and especially for NASA—when you consider the work ahead for the launch company.
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Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline
The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen, and LNG tanks are all in good shape."
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Lukas C. H. @gewoonlukas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
First look at LC-36 shows unrecognizable pieces of New Glenn scattered everywhere. While 1 of the lightning towers is still standing, it is heavily damaged. The Transporter-Erector and other lightning tower are completely destroyed. On a positive note, the tank farm looks ok. 📸 Asher B.
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Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is remarkably bad for Blue Origin, and possibly even worse for NASA. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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The most spectacular rocket explosion since N1 just happened in Florida
New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026
Well....thats an issue.... New Glenn was ready for a static fire, however it blew up on the LC-36 pad. According to Blue Origin, all personnel are safe. Source: @nasaspaceflight.com NSF Space Coast Live cam
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Damn, very pretty
Image of Starship and booster during separation on flight 12Image of Starship S39 engine section during flightImage of starship S39 before touchdown into Indian OceanImage of starship S39 before touchdown into Indian Ocean
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Yipeeeeeee
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 22/05/2026
Join us 🔴LIVE🔴 on Friday, May 22nd, from 2:30 p.m. CDT / 19:30 UTC as SpaceX makes a second attempt to launch Starship Flight 12, following Thursday's scrub! www.youtube.com/live/UfQHy4m...
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SpaceX Starship Flight 12 Attempt 2 - LAUNCH STREAM
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 21/05/2026
NEWS: Kyle Busch, one of the purest racing talents NASCAR has ever seen and winner of more national series races than any driver in history, has died after falling severely ill, NASCAR announced. Busch was hospitalized this week and never recovered. He was 41. www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 07/05/2026
STATIC FIRE of Booster 19 on Pad 2!
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 04/05/2026
Blue Origin is rolling forward towards flight 4, as New Glenn GS1-3 "No, It's Necessary" booster made a early morning Kennedy Space Center tour as it made its way to Launch Complex 36 for further processing and preflight preparations and testing. nsf.live/spacecoast
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 02/05/2026
Epic video posted by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp, of a New Glenn fairing returning back to Earth with the help of exo-atmospheric reaction control system (RCS) following their recent launch. This test as part of the process in order to hopefully recover them on future flights.
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Viasat @viasat.com · 29/04/2026
ViaSat-3 F3 has separated and is now on its way to geostationary orbit. vsat.co/vs3
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Jenny Hautmann @jennyhphoto.com · 29/04/2026
SpaceX launches the first Falcon Heavy since 2024, carrying a communications satellite for Viasat. The rocket lifted off at 10:13 a.m. ET from LC-39A in Florida. The side cores landed at LZ-40 and LZ-2, while the center core was expended. Reporting for Supercluster
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 26/04/2026
After a hiatus of more than a year, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is set to finally fly again from historic LC-39A at KSC in FL. www.nasaspaceflight.com/2026/04/vias... The mission, ViaSat-3 F3, will see the third internet satellite of the constellation put into GEO. By Sawyer Rosenstein
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPB... very cool and it's only the 1st video
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SpaceX Test Like You Fly Documentary
YouTube video by The Space Devs
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 22/04/2026
New Glenn GS1 booster "Never Tell Me The Odds" has returned to Port Canaveral following the NG-3 mission, having launched on April 19. MUCH faster turnaround time bringing Jacklyn into port compared to NG-2! 📸 Max Evans for NSF
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/04/2026
New Glenn Flight 3: STATIC FIRE! Blue Origin conducts a Static Fire test at LC-36 ahead of a potential weekend launch. Thanks to NSF's Max Evans for additional views
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 13/04/2026
Blue Origin is getting ready for its third launch potentially in the coming days, and first reflight of a New Glenn Booster, as "Never Tell Me The Odds" with the AST SpaceMobile BlueBird 7 satellite went vertical at LC-36 overnight. nsf.live/spacecoast
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 11/04/2026
As SpaceX continues to prepare for Flight 12 of Starship, Ship 39 headed back to Massey's overnight, this time with its engines, for its static fire testing campaign, hopefully in the coming days. nsf.live/starbase
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 11/04/2026
ARTEMIS II: SPLASHDOWN! Welcome home, astronauts! youtube.com/live/_veRvxj...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 08/04/2026
Video released by Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp of the New Glenn "Never Tell Me The Odds' Integrated vehicle being lifted onto the Transporter Erector ahead of flight 3 potentially later this month.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 07/04/2026
ECLIPSE Images captured aboard Orion Integrity by the NASA Artemis crew of total solar eclipse, as the moon got between the sun and the capsule. The sun's faint Corona visible, the eclipse totality lasted 54 minutes, longer the normally on Earth 📸 NASA images.nasa.gov
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#NASA #ArtemisII - The Artemis II crew with their spacecraft "Integrity" has broken the distance record set by the dual ships "Odyssey" (The wounded Command/Service Module) and "Aquarius" Lunar Module on the Apollo 13 Mission at 1:56 PM EDT ( Time unofficial)
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 05/04/2026
GOOD MORNING ARTEMIS As the crew wakes up to another day, and gets closer to the moon. NASA shared a number of images captured by the crew of the Crescent Earth as well as a image of of the moon including this Orientale basin on the far side of the moon
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Fresh from the NASA archives: Two stunning views from the Launch Abort System Jettison 🧪🔭 #ArtemisII
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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SwordPhy @swordfi.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Go go
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 01/04/2026
LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES WITH A CREW OF 4 TOWARDS THE MOON
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 30/03/2026
NASA is targeting Wednesday, April 1st, for the launch of the crewed Artemis II mission, sending humans on a journey towards - and around - the Moon for the first time since the final Apollo mission in 1972.
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 24/03/2026
BREAKING: NASA to launch first Nuclear-Powered mission to Mars called Space Reactor-1 Freedom - First EVER mission with nuclear-electric propulsion to travel beyond Earth orbit - Launching NET December 2028 - Features a nuclear fission reactor to generate electricity 📷 NASA
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 18/03/2026
Great update from SpaceX, marking the initial flight vehicle testing with Pad 2, and that the Static Fire was shorter than expected due to a GSE issue, not the booster, and still successful!
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 16/03/2026
STATIC FIRE: Multi angle replay as Booster 19 fires up, While it was a short test, potentially an abort, this was the first time for Pad 2, the first time for V3, and the first time Raptor 3's have fired up together. NASASpaceflight livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z83P...
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NASASpaceflight.com @nasaspaceflight.com · 12/03/2026
Starship Booster 19, Day 2 of testing got off to a late start, giving us a sunset tanking start, ending with a possible spin prime test, before detanking as the fog rolled it. With more testing expected in the next few days ahead, leading up to hopefully a static fire test. nsf.live/starbase
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