#Space #SpaceCoast #KSC

The #SpaceX #PolarisDawn mission scrubbed overnight due to a groundside helium leak. Polaris Darn. 🤣

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2024/08/26/polaris-dawn-launch-overnight-what-to-know-liftoff-florida-nasa-kennedy-space-center-spacex-dragon/74950675007/

#Superman

How they selected us, I've no idea, but Chris and Dana Reeve chose my old home town Irvine CA to open the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine.

Another reason I feel a connection with the Reeves.

https://www.reeve.uci.edu/

#Superman

Normally I don't get upset over the passing of celebrities, but two destroyed me inside -- Carrie Fisher, and Chris Reeve.

I needed facial tissues just for this trailer. The movie is going to gut me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX-B3HMlMfY

#Politics

Today's "This Modern World" by Tom Tomorrow on #DailyKos.

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/Tom%20Tomorrow/

#Space #SpaceCoast

From #FloridaToday: #BlueOrigin targeting no earlier than October 13 for its first #NewGlenn launch. The payload will be two small #NASA satellites to study the #Mars magnetosphere.

https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2024/08/26/blue-origin-inaugural-new-glenn-rocket-launch-may-occur-on-oct-13-from-cape-canaveral-florida/74944895007/

#Politics

From #WaPo: That campaign event #Trump had last week at a border wall he claimed to have built? It was actually built by the #Obama administration!

Nearby was a stack of wall materials his administration had bought but never erected.

https://wapo.st/3z4GGMu

#Politics

From #CNN: Former #Trump national security advisor H.R. McMaster asked why he couldn't bomb Mexico and North Korea. Oval Office meetings were “exercises in competitive sycophancy."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/politics/mcmaster-trump-book-account/index.html

The video of today's #NASA #Boeing #Starliner #CFT press conference is now on my #Space SPAN YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZux0pmLuA

#Space #SpaceX #Dragon

The #NASA press release regarding today's #Boeing #Starliner #CFT press conference.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-decides-to-bring-starliner-spacecraft-back-to-earth-without-crew/

#Space #NASA #CFT

One thing for certain ... #Boeing #Starliner is going to get a bad Yelp review ... 😳

#Space #NASA

Nelson: #Boeing wants to continue flying #Starliner. NASA needs multiple options, therefore needs Starliner as well as Dragon.

#Space #NASA

#Boeing #Starliner #CFT will come home uncrewed, landing somewhere near White Sands NM, sometime in "early September."

#Space

#NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: Butch and Suni will return with Crew-9 on a #SpaceX #Dragon next February. #Boeing #Starliner #CFT will return uncrewed, schedule TBA later in the event.

#Space

The #NASA #Boeing #Starliner #CFT livestream has begun. The press conference is scheduled for 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOswKRSsHc

#Weather

Former WTVJ meteorologist Bryan Norcross's blog today about #Hurricane #Andrew making landfall 32 years ago today.

https://www.hurricaneintel.com/post/remembering-hurricane-andrew-and-the-anniversary-of-destruction-at-dawn-while-the-2024-atlantic-tr

Among the many dumb things about "Gravity" ... and there are a lot ...

Why is there a Shenzhou at Tiangong? Spacecraft are only at a station to take crew to and from. There are no spares.

So where did the Chinese crew go?!

Not to mention that Tiangong-1 was at an entirely different orbit and altitude than ISS.

China licensed Soyuz from the Russians in the late 1990s, then modified it to their own needs, so no way Stone could have flown it.

And on and on and on ... 🤬

#Sarcasm

BREAKING ... Having watched the movie "Gravity," #NASA management will announce that the Starliner crew will return home via a Shenzhou docked at the Chinese space station. 🙄

#Space

#NASA will hold a press conference today no earlier than 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT to announce their decision about how to proceed with the #Boeing #Starliner #CFT. It will stream live at the link.

The time is tentative, as a final review meeting is underway right now and could run late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGOswKRSsHc

#Weather

Miami TV station WTVJ produced a documentary about their coverage of #Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 hurricane that struck south #Florida 32 years ago this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYuA7yqT1Lc

#Weather #Florida

The front pages of the #MiamiHerald and #FloridaToday, 32 years ago today, as #Hurricane Andrew came ashore.