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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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A Quiet Flame in Vacuum Stardate 447.7170 (October 16, 1969) On the morning of 16 October 1969, Georgy Shonin and Valeri Kubasov closed the hatch of Soyuz 6 and let the orbital module fall into vacuum.

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At the Science: A Golden Age Summit this week, NASA and the Department of Energy signed a key Memorandum of Understanding to accelerate space nuclear power and propulsion. Administrator Isaacman highlighted

Today in Space History - China's First Orbit 🚀 Stardate 2235.7500 (OCTOBER 15, 2003) Before the sun had fully cleared the desert horizon, a Long March rocket lifted Yang Liwei from Jiuquan. China became

Get the noun right Let's get the descriptions right. Starship mission profile flights versus space infrastructure ones. Let's talk about old think vs new reality. Starship tankers are not part of the mission

So the question of the day is: who gives way, the rockets or the planes? SpaceX is asking for up to 456 Starship launches a year from Starbase. At that pace a closure stops being a one-off and starts looking

KiwiThinker's log, supplemental - stardate 3445.3924 🌌 The Parker Solar Probe has touched the Sun's atmosphere. #Q1Ls

Not AI/SI. Not Mars. Yes, New Zealand. Maybe it could be the next Mars simulation zone. I'm happy to be local coordinator🙂

Space is no longer a government-only club. SpaceX, Blue Origin and others are pushing hard, and that expansion brings a growing problem: debris. There are millions of fragments orbiting Earth, and every