Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022
From #NASA: Now targeting Friday May 17 at 6:16 PM EDT for the #Boeing #Starliner Crewed Test Flight.
From #NASA Goddard ... What happens when you fall into a black hole.
(Spoilers ... It's like signing up for a mortgage but with better terms.)
From #NASA: Now targeting no earlier than (NET) Friday May 10 for another #Boeing #Starliner Crewed Test Flight.
No time given in the blog post. For #ISS flights, they move up roughly 23 minutes each day due to orbital mechanics, so if last night was targeting 10:34 PM EDT, figure Friday will be around 9:00 PM EDT (a more civil hour).
#NASA and #Boeing have scrubbed tonight's #Starliner launch due to a problem with an oxygen relief valve on the second stage.
The livestream has begun for tonight's #NASA #Boeing #Starliner Crewed Test Flight, targeting 10:34 PM EDT.
#Space #SpaceCoast #NASA #CCSFS
From #ArsTechnica ... #Boeing will finally launch a crewed #Starliner test flight today, seven years behind schedule. Here's why.
Today's #NASA #Boeing #Starliner Crewed Flight Test pre-launch briefing. Launch is scheduled for May 6 from #CCSFS Launch Complex 41 at 10:34 PM EDT.
The CFT will be the first crewed flight from Cape Canaveral since Apollo 7 in October 1968. After that, U.S. crewed spaceflight moved up the coast to #KSC on Merritt Island.
#Space Today's #NASA #Boeing #Starliner first crewed flight test readiness review telecon. The first crewed test flight is targeting May 6 from #CCSFS Launch Complex 41. (They're something like seven years behind schedule ...)
#NASA #Space #SpaceCoast #Politics
In retrospect, perhaps the most significant event that day was the #Obama visit to #SpaceX at #CCSFS Launch Complex 40. Obama was given a tour by a clearly nervous Elon Musk. Obama committed to reform that would end the government monopoly and open space to competition.
This raw video of the tour was released last year by the Obama Library.
From #WhiteHouse: U.S. and #Japan announce lunar exploration agreement. Japan astronauts will fly with #NASA astronauts on future lunar surface missions. The first non-American to land on the Moon will be from Japan.
Stephen Smith 🇺🇦
I am a long-time advocate of space exploration, settlement and commerce. Migrated from @WordsmithFL on Twitter.
Joined Nov 2022