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Sep 12 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Commander @rookisaacman has egressed Dragon and is going through the first of three suit mobility tests that will test overall hand body control, vertical movement with Skywalker, and foot restraint
@rookisaacman The first test focuses on using a single hand to control body movement. The spacewalkers will evaluate their ability to move in all directions, hold a single position for 10-15 seconds, and hold position while the other arm is simulating tool use
May 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
The SpaceX Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit → #Maythe4thBeWithYou spacex.com/updates
At ~700 km above Earth, the EVA suit will support the @PolarisProgram’s Polaris Dawn crew in the vacuum of space during the first-ever commercial astronaut spacewalk
Apr 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
At Starbase, @ElonMusk provided an update on the company’s plans to send humanity to Mars, the best destination to begin making life multiplanetary
The update included near-term priorities for Starship that will unlock its ability to be fully and rapidly reusable, the core enabler for transforming humanity’s ability to send large amounts of payload to orbit and beyond
Mar 14 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Watch Starship’s third flight test → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
While it's not happening in a lab or on a test stand, this is absolutely a test. What we're doing today will provide invaluable data to continue rapid development of Starship
Apr 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation
Teams will continue to review data and work toward our next flight test
SpaceX has been selected to develop a lunar optimized Starship to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon as part of @NASA’s Artemis program! go.nasa.gov/3f0o3ux
A lunar optimized Starship can fly many times between the surface of the Moon and lunar orbit without flaps or heat shielding required for Earth return
