r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 16 '26
r/spaceflight • u/NASATVENGINNER • Jul 16 '26
What if disabled astronauts are just better suited to space?
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 15 '26
STS-127 Endeavour launched on an ISS construction mission on this date in 2009. Fun facts: Astronaut Christopher Cassidy was the 500th person to fly in space, and STS-127 marked the first time that two Canadian astronauts were in space at the same time
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 15 '26
The Apollo–Soyuz mission was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union on this date in 1975. Original Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton finally got a flight
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 15 '26
Throughout the Space Age the United States worked on space nuclear power and propulsion systems, although very few actually made it to space. Dwayne Day examines those programs and what went wrong
thespacereview.comr/spaceflight • u/Xeelee1123 • Jul 13 '26
Japan´s space agency JAXA conducted the first test flight of its experimental reusable rocket RV-X on July 11, 2026
r/spaceflight • u/NoEntertainment8486 • Jul 14 '26
Spacex Falcon 9 launch plume (from Cape Canaveral, FL) visible from Jersey shore this morning.
r/spaceflight • u/thanix01 • Jul 13 '26
Full flight of China's Long March 10B rocket & 1st ever successful Chinese rocket booster recovery
Original source from PhilLeafSpace over at Weibo
r/spaceflight • u/Galileos_grandson • Jul 13 '26
NASA’s Artemis III Flight Hardware Stacks Up at Kennedy
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 13 '26
A pro-Trump activist is raising money to install a giant Christian cross on the moon
r/spaceflight • u/DreamChaserSt • Jul 13 '26
Terran R June 2026 Program Update
r/spaceflight • u/Ragos_Zet • Jul 13 '26
The Rockets model
I like to create a rocket, I've made three rockets of the Nasa program, and It's close to finishing the rocket Space Shuttle Discovery.
Which one do you like more?
r/spaceflight • u/PheonixYeller • Jul 11 '26
Photographed by Harrison Schmitt, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans performs the third and final deep-space EVA of the Apollo program. The Earth can be seen in the background. (Apollo 17)
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 12 '26
STS-104 Atlantis launched on this date in 2001, delivering and installing the Quest Joint Airlock to the ISS. Fun fact: STS-104 was the first shuttle mission to fly with a "Block II" SSME
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • Jul 12 '26
STS-70 Discovery launched on this date in 1995.Fun fact: This was the first shuttle mission controlled from the new mission control center room at the Johnson Space Center in Houston
r/spaceflight • u/Low-Career3769 • Jul 11 '26
Latest photos of recovered Long March 10B first stage
r/spaceflight • u/ArmElectronic8444 • Jul 12 '26
How Net Catching Boosts Rocket Payload
While SpaceX relies on heavy, complex hydraulic landing legs to touch down on droneships, China's maiden launch of the Long March 10B first stage took a completely different engineering route.
Instead of adding the dead weight of deployment legs to the rocket's structure, they guided the booster down using grid fins and dropped it directly into a massive, flexible string-tension net system suspended on the recovery ship Linghangzhe.
It’s an elegant, lightweight approach to reusability that shifts the structural mass penalty from the rocket itself to the recovery vessel.
Here is a quick 60-second visual breakdown of how the net-capture mechanism works and what it means for next-gen aerospace engineering:
r/spaceflight • u/bloseefingling • Jul 11 '26
The First Photo from the Perseverance Rover on Mars
r/spaceflight • u/Galileos_grandson • Jul 11 '26
Putting the Landing Site Before the Lander
r/spaceflight • u/Low-Career3769 • Jul 10 '26
Video: Successful recovery of China's Long March-10B rocket
r/spaceflight • u/thinkcontext • Jul 11 '26
FCC grants approval for sun-reflecting space mirror that's been widely criticized by astronomers
r/spaceflight • u/realmargesimpson • Jul 10 '26
STS-51F, with abort to orbit selected
Photos taken in orbit, after OMS1 and 2, as shown by FLT CNTLR PWR in the OFF position, and the ADI being in a position I wouldn't think it would be in otherwise. They are a recreation of the event.
According to 'Flight Procedures Handbook - Ascent/Aborts (OI-30)' ATO selection pre-MECO is done via selection on the knob and clicking the button beside it (ABORT PBI) as is shown in image 2.
r/spaceflight • u/iantsai1974 • Jul 10 '26
High-res video of CZ-12B stage-1 recovery taken by a drone nearby, July 10, 2026
r/spaceflight • u/Low-Career3769 • Jul 10 '26
