ispace's targeted landing site for Mission 1 is represented by the red dot, while the black circle shows where it crashed. The company came very, very close to fully succeeding on its inaugural lunar mission.

ONE WEEK until Varda Space Industries launch! I sat down with one of our Also Capital LPs, Col. Terry Virts (Terry Virts for Congress), to chat about the significance of this event in context of his own experience as a career astronaut. Hot thread incoming!

According to @BryceSpaceTech, SpaceX lifted nearly 10 times as much mass to orbit in the second quarter of this year as its closest competitor, the nation of China. brycetech.com/briefing

Close to 1000 job applications for Northwood in 4 days since launch… Proof that a crack early team with a strong (but pragmatic) tech roadmap can make ground stations cool and attract incredible talent. Going to need lots more GSs for the industrial space era…

Here's a video of our capsule ripping through the atmosphere at mach 25, no renders, raw footage:

Hell of a week in LA. Founders, friends, and factories. Awesome seeing and spending time with some of the best! Something special is definitely happening in SoCal...

Boeing VP over commercial crew, in an interview with me in 2014, when I asked about the competition with SpaceX: “We go for substance, not pizzazz.”

We recently led the pre-seed in a stealth surgical robotics startup. It’s one of the most exciting opportunities and compelling founders I’ve backed. Genuine $10B+ outcome potential over the next 10 years as they work towards building Intuitive Surgical ($140B market cap) for

Rockets Gerry Hudak Charlie Garcia

I am honored to receive President Trump’s Donald J. Trump nomination to serve as the next Administrator of NASA. Having been fortunate to see our amazing planet from space, I am passionate about America leading the most incredible adventure in human history. On my last mission

Our team agrees 🙃 deployed roles here northwoodspace.io/careers

I’ve worked for both SpaceX and Blue Origin and only one has a meaningful equity plan for employees. Say what you want about Elon Musk and his politics, but one billionaire is rewarding the team putting in the work, and the other is keeping it all to himself.

Tap, hold, and load in 4k.

Counterfact: the majority of SpaceX employees are enriched by their time there and learn and do a ton. They will continue to have a gazillion resumes submitted for every open position. If you don't want to work there, don't apply. Do your thing follow your bliss. But less cope.

Sound up for a hit of adrenaline 🔊 Highlight reel of our 2nd reentry vehicle's flight from space to earth.

Rendezvous Robotics emerged from stealth yesterday, announcing its plan to send self-assembling tiles to the ISS next year. payloadspace.com/rendezvous-rob…

Some news today… Tune in at 140pm PT! TBPN 👇

We’re back with round 2! Announcing Also Capital’s second fund, $50M to catalyze founders solving hard problems Was a ton of fun breaking the news with TBPN Jordi Hays John Coogan 🙏 We’ll share more detail tomorrow, but for now we made this graphic to celebrate 🚀

Also Capital Founder Mike Annunziata: Too many startups vertically integrate without any real strategic reason. "You should not vertically integrate just for vertical integration's sake. It's a poor use of capital to take a bunch of equity and put it into a commodity machine, which you