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[TankWatchers @WatchersTank]

Roughly 5 hours into this evening’s test and B20 is still going strong 💪

📸@NASASpaceflight // https://t.co/nYYBhyJ8ej

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

Interesting development on the sticky grid fin: B1090 has returned to Port Canaveral with its fins *extended*.

This is not typical operating procedure - normally, the fins retract before they get back.

📷 Space Coast Live/@NASASpaceflight

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

It'd be interesting to find out what the "more extensive" repair operation involves, to the point that the Crew-12 astronauts need to be (I assume) "inside" Dragon and ready to undock in the event those repairs...well, it wouldn't be good for anyone, not least the Cosmonauts conducting the repairs.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Starship Flight 13: Booster 20 can be seen as the doors open on Mega Bay 1, ahead of its roll to Massey's for its cryo proofing test.

https://t.co/e3xbqPnwZ5

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

That’s right. Under budget AND ahead of schedule.

Looking forward to seeing the beginning of the world-changing Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope NET August 30.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

Two cosmonauts went on a spacewalk on May 27 to install a solar radiation experiment. The duo also removed research gear that exposed semiconductor materials and microbes to the space environment. More... https://t.co/s5ed2uoIyA

[ABC News @ABC]

Cameras installed by the United States Geological Survey captured the moment a small whirlwind formed around Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

I enjoyed being at the CNBC event, but I wanted to clarify. The question was about the timing of the Moon Base and recent lunar rover awards. I was pointing out that those missions are not until 2028, which should be well within what is possible for pad recovery.

Blue Origin leadership has responded incredibly quickly, and NASA will do all we can to help with root cause analysis and accelerate pad recovery timeframes while staying extremely focused on progressing the lander.

[Morgan Wyatt Khan @MorganWKhan]

When you're testing and developing.

Rockets like ICBMs or SAMs or ATA attack missiles are rockets too.

They don't blow up unless striking their target.

I dont agree with excuses for when you are in an operational capacity unless explicitly transparent about still being in R&D like Starship.

If Falcon started blowing up regularly it wouldn't just be written off as "rockets are hard". The success to failure metrics matter a lot. They determine reliability of vehicles. Rocket science can be hard when you're developing a new vehicle or in an iterative phase.

Something heavily tested and proven safe or reliable for its intended purpose should not be shrugged off to be hard & difficult. That reduces a company and persons credibility on the subject & draws the concern of why be in that business if its difficult rather than talk about the main body of focus for why they blow up and accurately articulate the issues commonly faced, how you got over them and why this industry matters to you.

[Kiko Dontchev @TurkeyBeaver]

Couldn’t agree more with Shana. Thinking about the entire team at Blue. We’ve been there before and there are very few things worse than losing a vehicle on the pad. Remember @blueorigin, it’s the darkest before the dawn and you will be measured not by this anomaly, but by how you respond. We are all rooting for you to get safely back to flight as soon as possible!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

The important confirmation is that all personnel are OK.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Wow. Not good at all.

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

OMMMMMGGGGG!!! That was a very big one. I hate to see set backs in progress. This is not good 😭

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

The sound of the explosion just arrived at our cams miles away.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

Spaceburger 🍔

Gomez's Hamburger shows a Sun-like star near the end of its life, casting off layers of gas and dust. The "buns" are light reflecting off dust, and the "patty" is the dark band of dust in the middle.

Learn more for Hamburger Day: https://t.co/vosoLRx5sa

[Starbase Surfer @cnunezimages]

39 - May 19, 2026

[Mark Federschmidt @BoosterTribe]

Starlink making things easy. What an awesome shot.

[Starlink @Starlink]

Starlink-equipped buoys provided real-time video streaming in the Indian Ocean during Starship's twelfth flight test