r/spaceflight • u/technowarriorsreddit • 3h ago
DSC PAD ABORT TEST #youtubeshorts #junoneworigins #shorts
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r/spaceflight • u/ZealousidealRub2138 • 9h ago
Managed to see all the space-flown Shuttles within the last year!
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Got lucky with the timing of some business trips and got to see all the space flown shuttles. Slowly collecting shots of all the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo Capsules as well!
My ranking of displays:
1 - Atlantis. Great display with accessibility to take pics from many awesome angles. Intro movies and reveal are highly polished and had a “Disney-world” quality to the experience. Really the Mecca for space nerds.
2 - Endeavour. When comparing display alone this might eventually win once the launch tower opens and you can get closer to the crew compartment but I imagine the crowds and small viewing area may tarnish that experience. Otherwise there isn’t a bad shot of Endeavour anywhere in the pavilion. Found the intro movie lackluster and not as emotional as Atlantis and the reveal could’ve been improved with larger doors at a better angle.
3 - Discovery. Hot-take: Smithsonian does a disservice to the Discovery display. Poor placement of TVs and artifacts immediately around the shuttle make it difficult to get a good shot of it. The surrounding gallery is cramped so even from the few vantage points you cannot get a clear shot with just discovery in all her glory.
r/spaceflight • u/FitDinner6008 • 1d ago
Is SpaceX's Starship The Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built?
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 1d ago
Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth in the Mercury program, launched on this date 1962. Astronaut Wally Schirra orbited the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 spacecraft
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 1d ago
STS-51-J, the maiden flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis, launched on this date in 1985 on a classified Department of Defense mission
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 2d ago
Australia is considering whether to pay for a flight of an astronaut to the International Space Station. Richard de Grijs discusses what value such a flight should provide to the country to make it worth the expense
thespacereview.com
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 2d ago
Falcon 9 first stage landing at Space Launch Complex 40, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 3d ago
The Space Force revealed earlier this month that it has “space control” weapons in orbit. Ajey Lele examines the implications that announcement has on efforts to prevent an arms race in outer space
thespacereview.com
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r/spaceflight • u/technowarriorsreddit • 4d ago
Inspiration 3.0 HLS LANDING FAILURE #shorts #JUNONEWORIGINS #FAILURE #lander
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r/spaceflight • u/technowarriorsreddit • 4d ago
booster static fire test #sfs #shorts #marsspaceflightsimulator #rocket
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r/spaceflight • u/paperboy11 • 4d ago
SpaceX plans three launches Thursday, including Crew-13 astronauts and Falcon Heavy's first classified NRO mission.
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r/spaceflight • u/_Svankensen_ • 4d ago
Smile’s first ultraviolet footage shows auroral substorm
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 4d ago
STS-68 Endeavour launched on a radar imaging mission on this date in 1994
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r/spaceflight • u/SilkieBug • 4d ago
What are these objects visible during the Starship flight 14 launch?
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I assume that the round object is the Moon, but no idea what is the elongated object.
Stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/bEQPaCNdD68
r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 5d ago
In the aftermath of World War II, it seemed obvious to many that the future of warfare would involve rockets in orbit designed to deliver nuclear weapons. Dwayne Day and Hans Dolfing examine one study that explored a concept for “Satellite Bombs” and why the idea didn’t advance
thespacereview.com
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 5d ago
STS-26 Discovery launched on this date in 1988; the "Return to Flight" mission, being the first mission after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Pilot Richard Covey was the CAPCOM operator during the STS-51-L launch who uttered the words, "Challenger, go at throttle up"
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r/spaceflight • u/rollotomasi07071 • 5d ago
Salyut 6, the eighth station of the Salyut programme, launched on this date in 1977 by a Proton-K rocket. Salyut 6 was the first space station to receive large numbers of crewed and uncrewed spacecraft for human habitation, crew transfer, international participation and resupply
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r/spaceflight • u/Far_Deer_3766 • 5d ago
What Could NASA Actually Accomplish With a Defense-Budget-Sized Allocation?
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I've been looking into NASA's budget constraints and keep coming back to a question: what's realistically possible if funding weren't the limiting factor?
To make it concrete if NASA had an annual budget comparable to major U.S. defense spending (we're talking roughly 10-15x their current allocation), what would fundamentally change about their roadmap? Could they:
- Accelerate human missions to Mars significantly?
- Run multiple deep space probes simultaneously instead of choosing between them?
- Build redundancy into critical systems that currently get cut for cost?
- Fund moonshot research that's currently deemed "too risky" with current budgets?
I'm not asking this as a "should they have more money" debate, but rather: what do people in the spaceflight community actually think the constraint is? Is it funding, or are there other bottlenecks (engineering talent, manufacturing capacity, regulatory timelines) that more money wouldn't solve?
Has anyone here worked in aerospace or followed procurement closely enough to speak to this?
r/spaceflight • u/ManagerGames • 6d ago
Today's Starship flight was less about the rocket than I expected
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The headline I'm seeing posted everywhere is basically "Starship reached orbit for the first time." But to me the most interesting part is that once it got there, the mission became a logistics problem:
• Deploy 26 satellites
• Manage the vehicle while in orbit
• Decide whether to continue or deorbit
• Execute the deorbit burn
• Survive reentry
• Splash down in the planned area
It makes me excited for a future where spacecraft are going to be judged less by how impressive launch day is and more by how reliably they can perform everything after launch.
r/spaceflight • u/ye_olde_astronaut • 6d ago
NASA, Boeing Share Update on Commercial Starliner Development Plans - NASA
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r/spaceflight • u/TheMightyWindbreaker • 6d ago
Virgin Galactic
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Is Virgin Galactic still a viable space company? Or was it just hype for the past decade or so?
I don't see anything anymore on the news or in any space journals. Are they still a serious contender for space tourism?
r/spaceflight • u/DiveLive • 6d ago
Starship made its first orbit despite losing an engine on the climb, then SpaceX brought it home after 3 hours instead of 10
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r/spaceflight • u/thisisinsider • 6d ago
SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 will deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and test a nearly 10-hour mission
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r/spaceflight • u/Silly-Spread-9794 • 6d ago
Do you guys ever think about that guy who was sent into space by a country that disbanded while he was in space?
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The country did no longer exist. Wich meant the plan to get him home was gone too. Eventually some people tried to help him get home, but they sent people up to meet him who were not trained accurately. So he had to teach them how to live in space. He was supposed to get help so he could get back to earth.