Elon’s SpaceX Starship:
Workers sitting on the Chopsticks at Starbase, TX.
#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk
"We really did not have the budget for two companies at the time," said #PhilMcAlister, the #NASA official at the agency's headquarters in Washington overseeing the Commercial Crew program. "No one thought we were going to award two. I would always say, 'One or more,' and people would roll their eyes at me." #SpaceX #Space
In the room where it happened: When NASA nearly gave #Boeing all the crew funding
https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/09/in-the-room-where-it-happened-when-nasa-nearly-gave-boeing-all-the-crew-funding/
Jeff Bezos's New Glenn:
New Glenn's upper stage conducts its first static fire.
New Glenn's first stage is a reusable methalox booster, while the upper stage is a hydrolox expendable stage.
There is a reusable version of the upper stage in development under the Project Jarvis.