Loren Grush

I keep getting pitched a story about how Gen Zers regularly have their moms talk to their boss, and I'm really considering having my mom tell them to stop pitching me

Ya can’t fool Mother Nature

Man, a hold and scrub at roughly T-1 minute for Crew-11's launch today. Particularly brutal for a crewed mission but the weather crept in at the last second www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-k_...

Beautiful shot of the Falcon 9 rocket tasked with launching Crew-11. Liftoff set for 12:09PM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-k_...

And to celebrate the NISAR launch , a joint mission between NASA and ISRO...

NASA Says Thousands of Employees Set to Resign from Space Agency NASA will lose roughly 3,870 employees through a voluntary resignation program, part of a broad push from President Donald Trump’s administration to reduce the federal workforce.

ICYMI, late Friday night NASA released the estimated numbers of people leaving the agency through deferred resignation: nearly 4,000. That would drop the total workforce number down to roughly 14,000, the agency said www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

F9/Crew 11: SpaceX aborted a Falcon 9 1st stage engine test firing today at KSC pad 39A less than a minute before the 3:09pm EDT (1909 UTC) target time; no details yet on what might have triggered the abort or what impact, if any, it might have on NASA's plans to launch the mission Thursday

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

In 2022, Elon Musk ordered staff to shut off Starlink service in parts of Ukraine where troops were pushing into during a critical counteroffensive against Russia. Our story today examines this order, and Starlink's relationship with governments around the world since www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Are interstellar objects proof of alien life? This could finally settle the debate. The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun."

I wrote about Rubin again, this time about the telescope's capacity to find potentially dozens of interstellar objects.

It's going to be wild, as one astronomer put it, "like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it."
www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change El...

NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.

F9/TRACERS: The countdown to launch of NASA's TRACERS satellites was aborted at the T-minus 43-second mark due to "airspace concerns;" no other details were provided, but it could be the result of an aircraft straying into the launch safety zone; SpaceX plans to make another attempt tomorrow

Hundreds of NASA employees sign a letter to Sean Duffy expressing their "formal dissent" to the cuts being proposed to NASA's budget www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

What would I give
If I could live
In a world where they announce NASA administrator changes M-F 9-5

Every living NASA science chief unites in opposition to unprecedented… The entire past leadership of NASA’s science activities have released a joint statement condemning the proposed 47% cuts proposed to the agency’s science…

Today, *every* living prior leader of NASA's science directorate have released a joint letter condemning the proposed cuts to NASA science. These individuals every administration from Reagan to Biden, and all believe these cuts are insanely destructive: www.planetary.org/press-releas...

At the beginning of the administration, it seemed as if NASA's Space Launch System might finally be a goner, with the conditions in place to phase out the rocket. But then Sen. Cruz stepped in, while the Trump and Musk bromance fell apart www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's been a heartbreaking couple of days here in Central Texas

Live updates: House Republicans push Trump's big bill toward a final vote House Republicans have muscled President Donald Trump's tax and spending cuts package forward to a final vote. If passed, the bill would bring tax cuts, money for deportations and Medicaid cuts.

BREAKING: Democratic House leader Hakeem Jeffries sets the record for longest speech in the chamber as he delays the vote on Trump's tax bill by more than 8 hours.

Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!

ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.

The bill most likely has plenty of space-related funding packed inside, including for more Artemis hardware, ISS, Gateway, and... potentially a Space Shuttle transfer

Looking forward to these two oscillating between friends and mortal enemies for the rest of the administration

Relocation of space shuttle Discovery may hinge on 'Big Beautiful Bill' A political effort to relocate the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian to Space Center Houston has been merged with the so-called

It may not sound like it when reading it, but the "One Big Beautiful Bill" now directs NASA to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and transfer it to Space Center Houston...

Kind of wild that this concept that things we do on Earth will follow us to Mars is just hitting him... now

F9/Ax-4: Whitson and her crewmates floated into the space station's forward Harmony module a few minutes before 8:30am EDT (1230 UTC), welcomed with hugs and handshakes from the lab's seven long-duration crew members

Y'ALL brand new images from the @vrubinobs.bsky.social are STUNNING!! Revel in the beauty of the cosmos. Supporting basic research is worth it for so many reasons rubinobservatory.org/news/first-i...

The 4 biggest mysteries the new Vera Rubin Observatory could solve No telescope has basked in the night sky quite like this before. Here's what it could reveal about the universe.

My first story for National Geographic is out, and it's about the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which will spend the next decade scanning the night sky in the Southern Hemisphere, revealing all kinds of cosmic wonders: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

"Enhance 224 to 176"

(I've zoomed in, slowed down etc. the Starship 36 footage)

original source: D wise on the other site
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Ship 36 experienced a RUD during
preflight testing at Massey’s ahead of Starship Flight
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Okay I approve of this answer

Why — and I say this rhetorically and grumpily — do a static fire in the middle of the night?