Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
NASA has given approval to begin implementing its project to support @ESA's Rosalind Franklin mission. Scheduled to launch in 2028, this Mars rover will be the first to search for signs of past or present life under the Red Planet’s surface. https://t.co/Q7w0Lmvtnf
EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.
Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl
@ErnestCalFab It's embarrassing and needs to be corrected. This is the face of the Nation, if we esnt to justify the spending and get people excited about the program it needs to look better than this.
@SawyerMerritt@SpaceX It's a really big mistake in my opinion, NASA needs support from the public and the PR aspect of these launches needs just as much if not more attention than the rest of the launch aspects. This is a national and world facing event. It's time we made it look that way.
We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt
Check out more images of the #Artemis II rocket and Orion spacecraft as they made the 4.2 mile journey from the VAB to Launch Complex 39B! 📷 - https://t.co/C19g5X1X8F
Haven Demo remains healthy as we continue to meet spacecraft test objectives. We’ve completed testing of redundant failover systems & an over-the-air software update, calibrated critical GNC instruments, and verified propulsion tank heating.