97: 🚀 Starship Fails Again, Firefly’s Moon Success, & More Space Drama!
Mar 08, 2025
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This week in spaceflight: Firefly Aerospace makes history with a successful Moon landing, while Intuitive Machines’ Athena mission doesn’t go as planned. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s Starship Flight 8 suffers another major failure, and rumors swirl about a Chinese rocket explosion at the launch pad. With NASA missions failing, ESA retiring old spacecraft, and even Cygnus getting damaged before launch, space isn’t having the best week. But there’s still plenty of excitement ahead, and we’ve got all the details!
30: Starbase Update: Booster 9 Testing, Ship 28's Cryo Test, & RIP SN15
Aug 01, 2023
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NSF's Jack Beyer updates us on the ongoings at Starbase.
29: Starbase Update: SpaceX's Incredible Progress Towards Starship's 2nd Integrated Launch
Jul 03, 2023
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NSF's Ryan Caton gives an update on all things Starbase. July 3, 2023.
29: This Week In Spaceflight: Blue Origin's Success, Gravitational Wave Eureka, India's Space Endeavors
Jul 03, 2023
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NSF's Elysia Segal takes us through the Spaceflight News of the week. June 30 2023
28: This Week In Spaceflight: NASA & China Partnership? SLS Engines Ready for Flight. Mercury in Sight.
Jun 24, 2023
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NSF's Elysia Segal takes us through the news of the week.
27: This Week in Spaceflight: Stoke Tests Prototype, SpaceX Hits Landing Milestone, ULA Gives Update
Jun 17, 2023
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NSF's Elysia Segal rounds up the news of the week in Spaceflight.
26: Artemis Showdown: SpaceX Starship vs Blue Origin's Lunar Lander
Jun 15, 2023
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NSF's Adrian Beil compares and contrasts SpaceX's Starship and Blue Origin's Lunar Lander. Do we need both?
25: Starbase Update: Road Closures, Boosters, Ships and New Hardware
Jun 12, 2023
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NSF's Jack Beyer takes us through the Starbase News of the week.
24: Methane Rockets March Towards Space, JWST Stunds, and Canadian Fires from Space | This Week In Spaceflight
Jun 09, 2023
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NSF's Elysia Segal delivers the Spaceflight news of the week.
23: Spaceflight This Week: 04/10/2023
Apr 11, 2023
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NSF News Director Thomas Burghardt walks us through a quick summary of the spaceflight news of the week.
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