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KiwiThinker's log, stardate 3446.6637. 🌌 "I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get someplace nobody's ever been." - John Glenn, astronaut

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KSC efficiencies surge, X-planes revival takes flight, and key leadership shifts underscore execution mode. Builder mode at Kennedy This past Friday, Administrator Isaacman visited Kennedy Space Center

Today in Space History - A Window on Venus 🚀 Stardate 764.0953 (OCTOBER 22, 1975) On the morning of 22 October 1975, the Venera 9 lander settled onto a steep slope near Beta Regio and opened a camera

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The most interesting thing about Tesla's flying Roadster isn't that it jumps over trucks. It's how. Suction, not wings. To drive upside down on a curved ramp, the Roadster uses a powerful underbody fan

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Today in Space History - A Brief Touch on Bennu 🚀 Stardate 3130.8368 (OCTOBER 20, 2020) More than 300 million kilometres from Earth, OSIRIS-REx lowered a sampling arm onto the rubble of asteroid Bennu.

Could Crew Dragon outlive Falcon 9? Yes... Here's how: Launched inside Starship. Deployed to complete mission then returns as normal. The logic is plain. Getting Starship certified to launch people is

So the question of the day is: one permanent Moon bunk, four applicants, a scientist, a miner, a medic and a teacher. Who gets it, now that staying matters more than visiting?

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Classic Cosmos of the Week: NGC 1827, a spiral seen edge-on, about 37 million light-years away in Columba, the Dove. Rusty dust lanes run the full length, with blue star-forming patches tucked along the

Today in Space History - First Breath of Another World 🚀 Stardate 342.7480 (OCTOBER 18, 1967) On this day in 1967 the Soviet probe Venera 4 entered the atmosphere of Venus and began to transmit. For

KiwiThinker Flashback Today is CSD 3445.8421, Oct 18 2026 Two years ago I said Starship could start putting Starlinks up before SpaceX recovered a single ship. Flight 14 last month did just that: first

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3445.8246 🌌 A black hole the mass of a mountain would be smaller than an atom. #Q1Ls

Watchmen Above the Treaty Stardate 132.2077 (October 17, 1963) In the small hours of 17 October 1963, an Atlas-Agena lifted two satellites from Cape Canaveral and set them on paths more than 100,000 kilometres

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Every planet in our solar system spins on its axis — and nearly all of them spin the same direction: counterclockwise, as seen from above the North Pole. Every planet, that is, except Venus. The odd one