Lots of discussion about Starship landing backup options. There is one solution - Dragon.

I was watching Ship 41 come in on Flight 14. In the last part of the belly flop, just before the flip and burn, it was dropping at about 100 metres a second. That’s roughly 360 km/h, still falling sideways.

I was watching Ship 41 come in on Flight 14. In the last part of the belly flop, just before the flip and burn, it was dropping at about 100 metres a second. That’s roughly 360 km/h, still falling sideways.

Today in Space History - Names New to Orbit 🚀 Stardate 1602.7559 (OCTOBER 2, 1991) On the morning of 2 October 1991 a Soyuz-U2 left Baikonur with Alexander Volkov, Franz Viehböck, and Toktar Aubakirov.

So the question of the day is: If a Moon or Mars colony declares independence, can someone on Earth become a citizen without ever going? Passport, vote, tax. No longer governed from Earth. All from a couch

Will we only trust Starship if it lands like a plane of the Space Shuttle? That is the question people keep asking when they watch a belly-flop flip into a late Raptor relight. Certification can clear

The Isaacman Effect - Week 37 | Starship reaches orbit, Artemis Accords expand to 76 nations, Starliner plots its return, and Crew-13 launches today. Commercial momentum and international coalition building

A laboratory on Mars beats MSR. Surely? The prize is not a box of rocks in Houston. The prize is answers. Age, chemistry, organics, context, and whether Mars ever held anything alive. Classic sample return

To Chicken on Mars, or not to Chicken? That is the question? Once people live in large rotating habitats around Earth and in settlements on Mars, and once those places grow serious amounts of food, then

So the question of the day is: If the company is real and the workers are AI bots and robots, does the product still need a Made with AI stamp? The company produced it. Does it matter?

1,000,000 vs 1,000 - which is best? Elon Musk has said for years that a self-sustaining Mars city needs about a million people and on the order of a million tonnes of cargo. If the ships from Earth stop,

Some dates stack. 29 September keeps returning with the same kind of first: not a parade, just a craft that opened a door and left a habit behind. Today in Space History - A Skylark Above the Ionosphere

Some dates stack. 28 September keeps coming back with the same kind of moment: not a parade, just a craft that did what it said it would, and left a habit behind. Today in Space History - A Private Rocket

Where is Starship 40 today 28 Sep 2026? Ship 40 remains aboard the Boskalis Forte. She's well west of last week's mid-ocean track. Latest AIS puts her in the equatorial South Atlantic, roughly 7°S 31°W,

KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3442.9855. 🌌 "When you look at the Earth from the vantage point of space, our planet looks like a little blue marble. Seeing our world from that vantage point cognitively

Look at the Starship and Nova hot-staging frames. I think those engineers must have been drinking the same Kool-Aid. 🤔

Today in Space History - A Flag Above the Earth Stardate 2496.2920 (SEPTEMBER 27, 2008) On the morning of 27 September 2008, Zhai Zhigang opened the hatch of Shenzhou 7 and became the first Chinese astronaut

A Slow Path to the Moon

So the question of the day is: Is the Tesla Semi the Mars vehicle everyone needs? Cybertruck works for fast, long runs. The colony still needs bulk haul and mobile habitats. And they can fit in Starship.

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3442.8065 🌌 The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a storm that's been raging for at least 400 years. #Q1Ls