the budget is a five-alarm fire at NASA, a creeping vine in the foundations of our beloved agency. The budget wedges are 50 sharks in a tank with nothing to eat but each other.

NASA really having a hard time keeping a lunar prospecting mission afloat

Firefly Aerospace and its Board of Directors announce leadership change: fireflyspace.com/news/leadershi…

Really didn't take long

SpaceX is in talks with U.S., Australian officials to land and recover Starship boosters off a coast in Australia, a possible first step toward a bigger SpaceX presence in the region as the two countries bolster their security ties, per three sources. reuters.com/technology/spa…

Preliminary results from the July 27 #Starliner tests show all the tested thrusters are back to preflight levels based on thrust and chamber pressure. For additional details about the test: go.nasa.gov/3zWHTFN

A homepage I am sure the staff of the The Wall Street Journal has been dreaming of publishing:

NASA and Boeing's careful parsing of their work on Starliner has walked the line of transparency, but if the agency did just lie to reporters about the July 14 study, as Eric Berger reports here, it will be a major blow to its credibility. arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/…

This week in space getting off to an interesting start.

New blog post on a timely subject: waynehale.wordpress.com/2024/08/05/fli…

The fate of one ISS-related capsule seems solid. Now what about the other one... blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2…

Good morning, Dave

Truly a wild Starliner press conference: -- NASA finally went into detail about a SpaceX contingency plan for bringing Butch and Suni home -- People within NASA do not agree on which path to take -- They need to decide by mid-August on how to move forward bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Polaris Dawn up next! No earlier than August 26. News media friends - check out the hundreds of photos from myself, and many from the awesome SpaceX team, documenting the crew's training and preparations ahead of launch: flickr.com/photos/polaris…

Astronaut Jon McBride, early NASA space shuttle pilot, dies at 80: collectspace.com/news/news-0807…

🚨 Slingshot Orbital Alert 🚨 Following China's launch of 18 G60 satellites on August 6th, Slingshot is tracking over 50 pieces of space debris that pose a significant hazard to LEO constellations below 800 km altitude.

NASA continues to face significant cost increases and schedule delays as it develops the more powerful version of its Space Launch System heavy-lift rocket known as Block 1B. Read the full audit report: oig.nasa.gov/office-of-insp…

Reading between the lines: Ship 30's Spin Prime completed the testing requirements post-engine swap out. Booster 12 is ready to go and waiting for rollout. B14.1 is the additional booster catch testing, with upcoming slap and clap tests. Ship 31 is undergoing TPS replacement

Nothing more relatable these days than a rocket that just suddenly falls apart in space

NASA is developing a second mobile launcher (ML-2) to support larger variants of the Space Launch System. NASA estimates the ML-2 will cost $1.8 billion, over three times more than planned, despite efforts to improve project performance. Read the full report: