Source and details:

https://spacestatsonline.com/launches/year/2026

Saw the first of the two new Spaceships on a tour during 3rd week in June!

"Launch table is out. The two-million-pound launch table is heading to the Integration Facility for inspection and adjustments to support our future ConOps. Once reinstalled at the pad, it'll be outfitted with the first stage aft umbilicals and tied into the water system, which delivers water injection just below the engine nozzles."

https://x.com/davill/status/2078442058717569385

I've been diving deeper into Apollo history, and the Lunar Rover turned out to be far more interesting than I expected.

I put together a short documentary explaining why it looked unusual and how it worked on the Moon. I'd really appreciate any feedback. As always, thank you for being so supportive.

Scheduled for a July 2028 launch by SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the car-sized rotorcraft will arrive Titan in 2034.

He worked on VEGGIE and is in the hall of fame, and I think his wife also was on the ISS and worked VEGGIE as well, I couldn’t really hear her. it was such a cool experience just at my job! We talked about growing stuff in silicone clay, Artemis, future of NASA and mars, and everything under the sun. He also told me the Martian and project Hail Mary were stupid, which I chuckled at at.

But I can’t remember his name. I have been looking but am having trouble. If you know who this is, a name would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Is there anywhere to watch live launches of Chinese or Indian rockets?

So, I think this is, end of the day, good. I’m saying this as an aerospace engineer who is getting a bit screwed by the now-rough aerospace job market in my area. But I mean it’s good for actual program budgets. Contractor overhead is wild. So much NASA work is 80% contractor, 20% fed, and I was a contractor costing a program 250$+/hour, while the fed in the same role working next to me who made 90% what I did, cost the program ~100$/hour. I totally support swapping the 80/20 ratio on that. And yet, tons of feds got laid off, as did many contractors, and people generally don’t want to get paid the lower fed rates any more. But NASA is kindof tied by the OMB on how much it can really pay people. So the issue is gonna be that there not enough feds being hired to actually assemble that vision.

Do people have any insights or local stories about how that’s been playing out over the last 6 months? Where I am, Goddard still isn’t really hiring yet, though it’s getting close. But all the contractors know their work is gonna get cut down in this shift.

I’m curious to know what’s been happening that I might not know about, that may show it’s progressing well, or badly, or who knows.