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The Road to Making Life Multiplanetary: an update from Elon Musk on SpaceX's plan to reach Mars

#Testflight1 Update: We’ve completed our investigation into the payload fairing anomaly on May 15. What happened? The payload fairing was triggered during a vehicle shutdown by an unexpected power surge, caused by electrical backfeed from downstream devices. 1/2

Catch me if you can! 🏎️💨 RESILIENCE status: nominal Distance above the Lunar surface: ca. 100 km Current orbital phase: Low lunar orbit, traveling at ca. 5,800 km/h RESILIENCE snapped this photo of the lunar surface prior to the successful completion of an orbital control

5 years ago #OTD, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken made history as the first astronauts to fly on SpaceX's Crew Dragon. Their Demo-2 spaceflight was the first to launch from US soil since NASA's final shuttle flight in 2011.

Skepticism lingers about cost and business case for IRIS² spacenews.com/skepticism-lin…

🎉 #50YearsOfESA: we're 50 today and #ESAarchives organised a special gift for the occasion! With big thanks to France Diplomacy 🇫🇷🇪🇺, we have for the first time opened a digital copy of the unique and original ESA Convention, along with a copy of the Final Act of the Conference of

Since it looks like Twitter ate my earlier post, here's the link to the detailed NASA FY26 budget documents. New initiatives in exploration, but a lot of science missions proposed for cancellation/ nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget…

One ESCAPADE/New Glenn tidbit buried in the budget: "NASA is in the process of establishing an updated schedule and cost profile to enable this mission to ride on the second launch of New Glenn."

The NASA FY26 budget also projects cutting its civil service workforce by a third.

NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands spacenews.com/nasa-budget-wo…

One of the proposed areas of restructuring under NASA's FY26 budget is to eliminate all center-level public relations and consolidate it within NASA HQ (which will also be reduced from $39.9 million to $33.8 million). Budget docs: nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget…

Success 8: Achieved ✅🌔 RESILIENCE has now completed all orbital maneuvers while in lunar orbit and is now readying for its landing attempt on June 5, 2025 (UTC/EDT). This marks a critical turning point for Mission 2 - the final technical milestone before descent.

Capsule touchdown. Welcome back, NS-32 crew!

The Crew Capsule reached an apogee of 340,290 ft AGL/343,937 ft MSL (104 km AGL/105 km MSL). The booster reached an apogee of 339,963 ft AGL/343,610 ft MSL (104 km AGL/105 km MSL) Official launch time was 8:39:11 AM CDT/13:39:11 UTC. Capsule landing occurred at 8:49:18 AM

🟡 SCOOP: The White House is likely to pull the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the Senate, Shelby Talcott and Burgess Everett report. semafor.com/article/05/31/…

Blue Origin performs 12th crewed New Shepard suborbital flight spacenews.com/blue-origin-pe…

From a WH spokesperson on reports it was withdrawing Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA: “It’s essential that the next leader of NASA is in complete alignment with President Trump’s America First agenda and a replacement will be announced directly by President Trump soon.”

White House to withdraw Isaacman nomination to lead NASA spacenews.com/white-house-to…

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