Loren Grush

SpaceX to Pursue 2026 IPO Raising Far Above $30 Billion SpaceX is moving ahead with plans for an initial public offering that would seek to raise significantly more than $30 billion, people familiar with the matter said, in a transaction that would make it...

The SpaceX news just keeps on coming

This was one of my favorite projects I did at The Verge -- also my last! A fitting send off

NASA and Boeing are reducing Starliner's definitive mission to the ISS to four, after last year's botched test flight and the ISS program quickly approaches its end. Next Starliner flight, a cargo mission, is planned for April

Apollo's bold, unruly and controversial successor A visual guide to the audacious moon-landing mission design that put SpaceX and NASA in the hot seat — and has experts worried the US could lose the new moon race.

We've worked on this project for months — excited to finally share it!

[Note: The animations are not to scale, and details such as flight paths are simplified to give an illustrative overview of the mission design.]

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Bezos’ Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Launches First NASA Mission Blue Origin LLC launched its flagship New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, successfully reaching space and landing its first-stage booster shortly after launch, a major feat for the Jeff ...

Blue Origin sticks the landing on New Glenn's second flight www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Revives Billionaire Isaacman’s Nomination to Top NASA Job President Donald Trump renominated Elon Musk ally Jared Isaacman to lead NASA on Tuesday, a major about-face just five months after the White House ended his candidacy as relations between Trump and M...

At last, some resolution www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Kim Kardashian Insists the 1969 Moon Landing Was Fake: ‘It Didn't Happen' Kim Kardashian revealed that she believes the conspiracy theory that the 1969 Moon landing did not actually happen, and she tried to convince her 'All's Fair' costar Sarah Paulson to believe it, too, ...

You'd think of all people, Kim Kardashian would know how selective editing works people.com/kim-kardashi...

Headline from the International Business Times UK: "3I/ATLAS Alarms Experts—NASA, Avi Loeb, Nostradamus and Baba Vanga Clash Over Earth's Fate" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-alarms-expertsnasa-avi-loeb-nostradamus-baba-vanga-clash-over-earths-fate-1750609

Quite the battle royale here.

What Happens When the US Stops Funding the Science Behind SpaceX? NASA’s shrinking budget threatens the public science behind SpaceX’s success, and it could weaken America’s ability to develop breakthrough technologies.

I have a new essay in Bloomberg Weekend about how important government science is to advanced tech like SpaceX's Starship, and what we can expect from big cuts to government R&D:
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This is one of those weeks where I'm reminded that space reporting is 95% talking about going to space and 5% actually going to space

I did a brief writeup on known space debris reentries on Oct 16, none of which match the UA1093 airliner incident
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Ah yes, the age old "make space companies move faster" technique. Works every time x.com/SecDuffyNASA...

Thank you, @lorengrush.bsky.social, for speaking to my “Covering Technology” students today!

Billionaire Isaacman Met With Trump Over Top NASA Job Jared Isaacman and President Donald Trump have met in recent weeks and discussed reviving the fintech billionaire’s nomination to lead NASA, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Jared Isaacman may not totally be out of the NASA game just yet www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two Comets Are Moving Into Your Night Skies in October: How to Watch

Have a little cosmic wonder with your spooky season: My first story for @nytimes.com, about a pair of once-in-a-lifetime cosmic visitors gracing the northern skies this month www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/s...

This week is going to be revealing in a lot of ways. There's been plenty of speculation over how NASA will respond in the event of a shutdown and a CR, and the agency has been planning to a lot of different scenarios. Soon we'll find out exactly what the path forward is.

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

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White House Tells Agencies to Prepare for Job Cuts in Shutdown The White House budget office is telling federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown.

As another government shutdown looms, OMB is telling federal agencies to plan for mass firings rather than just furloughs, bucking precedent www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Anna Menon of the SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission is among the new class

YouTube video by NASA NASA Selects 2025 Astronaut Candidates

NASA is about to get a new crop of astronaut candidates. Start your Monday on a high note: www.youtube.com/watch?v=frX3...

A $100-Million Mission to Another Star Just Disappeared An abandoned plan to visit another star highlights the perils of billionaire-funded science

An absolute banger of a story from @sarahscoles.bsky.social about Breakthrough Starshot and its dreams of interstellar travel, a decade after the big-deal project was announced, including what happened to that dazzling $100 million promise: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

House Appropriations has filed a CR that would keep the government open through November 21. appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

NASA Rover Finds Mars Rocks That May Be Signs of Ancient Life NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars stumbled upon rocks last year that scientists think may show signs that Mars once hosted microbial life.

And to cap it off, we've maybe, kinda, sorta found life on Mars... again! This time, enticing rocks found by the Perseverance rover hint at past microbial life, and the bot even grabbed a sample! Too bad they're trying to kill Mars Sample Return... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NASA Blocks Chinese Citizens With US Visas From Working on Space Programs NASA has blocked Chinese citizens with US visas from working on agency programs, people familiar with the matter said, as Washington escalates anti-Beijing rhetoric with both nations racing to the moo...

Then, NASA tells us that it is restricting Chinese citizens' "physical and cybersecurity access to our facilities, materials, and network to ensure the security of our work." w/ @eroston.bsky.social and Sana Pashankar www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Is Starship the Weak Link in the US Lunar Race With China? Greetings Earthlings, it’s Loren Grush, reporting this week from the US Chamber of Commerce’s aerospace summit in Washington. The pressure is on for the US to beat China in the race to put humans back...

Kind of a wild morning! First up some post-Starship analysis for the newsletter, with Elon's promise of reaching 100-ton payload capacity next year www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

SpaceX agrees to acquire EchoStar's AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses for up to $8.5B in cash and up to $8.5B in stock, resolving an FCC inquiry into EchoStar (Bloomberg)

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Bridenstine ripping apart the complicated Artemis architecture with a specific focus on Starship and the decision to pick SpaceX between NASA administrators: "This is an architecture that no NASA administrator that I'm aware of would have selected had they had the choice"

Bridenstine is back, and so is the Mountain Dew

U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation

The Senate Commerce Committee's hearing on beating China to the moon is underway after a last minute witness reshuffle www.commerce.senate.gov

Trump will announce Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, AP source says President Donald Trump’s administration will announce U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary headquarters in Colorado.

BREAKING: President Trump will announce Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision, an AP source says.