Senate Lunch System:
SLS "Booster Obsolescence and Life Extension" (BOLE) SRB nozzle blows up during testing at Northrup Grumman SRB test site in Utah.
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Logarithmic scale showing average payload size per launch, and number of launches. Marker shows total mass to orbit for the past 12 months. Note that if this was linear, only Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 would be visible on the graph. Everyone else will be flat against the vertical axis (payload per launch).
To get the reusability of Falcon 9 Block 5, SpaceX had to blow up a lot of Falcon 9 boosters to get it right.
Elon's SpaceX Crew Dragon:
Crew Dragon Grace separates from the Falcon 9 upper stage, after orbit insertion. Grace is now on its way to bring the Axiom-4 crew to the ISS.
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Axiom-4 Crew Dragon is Go for launch.
T-43 minutes.
SpaceX X Livestream: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1eaKbWQbNlYGX
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