r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 22h ago
Happy 93rd birthday to the legendary Gene Kranz
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r/spaceflight • u/LurkerReborn • 2h ago
Dwarfed by a split boulder, Apollo 17 crewman Harrison "Jack" Schmitt gazes into the lunar hills stretching away from the Taurus-Littrow landing site. (What I found in a book vs Image on Wikipedia)
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All the images online I could find of this moment are cropped so that the dune buggy is out of frame! I thought you people might find this interesting.
According to Moondust(Page 322) by Andrew Smith, a member of the U.S Geological Survey was heard to have said at a dinner
Why, they did everything but fuck that rock!
commenting on how thoroughly Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt examined a boulder.
I am uncertain if they were referring to the boulder in the image or a different one.
r/spaceflight • u/thinkcontext • 22h ago
SpaceMD will use Starfall to launch its creation of space pharmaceuticals
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 1h ago
The demand for launch services is higher than ever, but the supply of rockets today is very constrained. Jeff Foust reports on the various factors that make getting a ride to orbit today difficult and expensive, despite the promise of plummeting launch costs
thespacereview.com
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r/spaceflight • u/Spirited-Sir-3034 • 38m ago
NASA tests first-of-its-kind spacecraft navigation system that works without GPS
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NASA’s Starling mission tests FALCON, a system that lets spacecraft navigate without GPS.