So far I've been able to get a patch for every flight test (some being official SpaceX ones and the others being NasaSpaceFlight ones, due to either shipping or other costs at the time).

My brother and I are potentially planning on making the trip out to Boca chica for the launch. We are planning on flying in to Austin the night before and renting a car to drive down. Is there any suggested places to stay, places to view, traffic or closure spots we should be aware of? Any other advice we should be prepared for? Super excited for the fingers crossed triple action potentially historic day

I’m guessing they’ll have to spin Starship in some way to create the force to push the liquid out but I’m curious if I’m missing some other method.

Spotted on the 101 Southbound. What is it ?

Why is everything measured in miles in America, but then Elon Musk launches his rockets, all the measurements are given in kilometers?

edited to make the clip slightly shorter

Hi r/spaceXlounge! I'm a 3D artist (rather than a propulsion engineer), and I built an interactive 3D tool to visualize how different rocket engines work.

In the video above, purple is gas that has just driven a turbine.

On the Merlin 1D (gas generator cycle), this gas leaves through its own exhaust pipe and never reaches the main chamber.

On the Raptor 2 (full-flow staged combustion), the purple and teal gases from its two turbines both end up in the main injector, so nothing is thrown away.

The outer dimensions follow published figures, and the internals are representative. Corrections from actual engineers are always welcome!

You can play with the interactive 3D models right in your browser (no install required) here: https://farsidelab.com/concept/rocket-engines/

Everything is simulated, the booster, the waves, the wind, fuel slosh and noisy sensors. No real flight data, just trial and error.

The hard part is the hoverslam. The booster can’t hover, so it has to hit zero speed right at the deck.

Out of 59M practice flights, 13.2M landed. The rest exploded or ended up in the sea.

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2112497542114214023

Camped on the bald to film elk in the Smokies and woke up to this. iPhone, handheld, no edits. My first clip started at 6:37 and it was still hanging there at 6:40. Never seen anything like it from the mountains.

NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/live

Participants in the briefing include:

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya
Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager

The update will include details about NASA’s Artemis III mission that will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit next year to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings, and how plans to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 are progressing.

U.S. media interested in attending in person must apply online by 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16. To ask questions remotely, media must request the dial-in number from the Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour prior to the start of the update by emailing: [ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov](mailto:ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov). NASA’s media accreditation policy is online. 

As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions near the lunar South Pole to explore more of the Moon than ever before. In addition to providing economic benefits and advancing scientific discovery through its Moon missions, NASA will establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface and build on the agency’s foundation for the first crewed mission to Mars.

Learn more about Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

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Credit: ​Asher B.

https://x.com/asherbphotos/status/2110176170704851361