Monteith: "We would not have cleared them to start flight operations again had I not been confident they had modified their procedures effectively and addressed the safety culture issues that we saw."
Monteith: "I would love to see a spaceport in Hawaii, just personally ... with plenty of coast like Hawaii has, it could potentially support a spaceport operation."
Moses: The 2004 Commercial Space Act "is actually functioning exactly as designed" and "it's important to just recommend or recognize how well things are working."
Asked about NASA's HLS program, Admin. Nelson says "competition is good, it brings the best cost and the most efficient route" but NASA only got $850M of its $3.4B request last year.
@NorthwesternU Shotwell: "I think highly dynamic social, political and economic situations are the new normal, and you are now better prepared to succeed in them. You have lived it, and not just survived but succeeded."
@NorthwesternU Shotwell: "As a teenage girl in the late 70s ... I was terrified of being tagged as a nerd. Now I'm super proud to be one."
NASA and SpaceX push back the launch of the Crew-3 mission from Oct. 23 to no earlier than Oct. 31, and the return of Crew-2 from Oct. 31 to "early-to-mid November."
Photo: Aubrey Gemignani / NASA
Crew-3 will launch NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer.
NASA notes that the next crew launch after Crew-3 is targeting mid-April 2022, "with the partner spacecraft and launch vehicle to be determined at a later date."
.@SpaceForceDoD is hosting a media roundtable about the upcoming GPS III SV05 satellite launch scheduled for Thursday, with representatives from the Space and Missiles Systems Center, Space Launch Delta 45, Lockheed Martin and SpaceX.
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@SpaceForceDoD Space Force’s Dr. Walter Lauderdale notes that, while SpaceX landed Falcon 9 boosters after two prior National Security Space Launch (NSSL) missions, this will be the first to launch with a previously flown (i.e., reused) rocket booster.
@SpaceForceDoD Dr. Lauderdale: "We've worked closely with SpaceX to understand the refurbishment processes and are confident that this rocket is ready for its next flight."
Blue Origin closes auction registration, with $4.8 million the highest bid so far.
The stage is set for the final phase – the live auction – on Saturday at 1 p.m. EDT (17:00 UTC), for a chance to fly with Jeff Bezos on New Shepard's first passenger spaceflight.
Here's the link to watch the livestream of the auction:
The company will donate the proceeds of the winning bid to its charity foundation Club for the Future.