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Firefly/Northrop's MLV is going to be no joke...

From left to right: Miranda, Lightning, Reaver, Spectre

7 Miranda engines will power the MLV, currently four Reaver engines power Firefly's Alpha rocket
April 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
5: Tokyo
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
4: Twilight Zone
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
3: Stars... from space!
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
2: Milky Way
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our top 5 photos from Don Pettit during his stay on the ISS

1: Lake Baikal
April 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Brian Babin push to move NASA HQ out of DC and into Texas

www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...
April 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
First Republican breaks rank over President Trump's proposed NASA budget cuts.

Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02), who co-chairs the Planetary Science Caucus with Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), made a joint statement defending the importance of NASA Science.
April 15, 2025 at 7:42 PM
For the first time in 14 years, the NRO plans to launch a Minotaur IV rocket from California!

Liftoff is set for tomorrow, April 16, at 12:33 P.M. PT
April 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
French launch start-up, Latitude, announced funding for a new factory that plans to build as many as 50 rockets a year.

The funding came from the French government in hope to bolster homegrown industry.
April 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A joint ROK-US statement discusses cooperation between Korea's space agency and NASA in Artemis, Moon and Mars programs, human spaceflight, and a Earth-Sun Lagrange Point 4 mission.

More: www.state.gov/joint-statem...
April 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NASA's Artemis II rocket is starting to take shape.

Next up will be SLS's second stage then Orion!
April 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Rocket Lab's hypersonic research spinoff of its Electron rocket, Haste, gains a combined $47 billion in value contracts from the US Air Force and UK's Ministry of Defence.
April 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Last captured by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), you can see just how powerful Webb is.
April 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Breathtaking new NASA Webb Telescope capture of NGC 1514 that was first discovered in the 1800s!
April 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Blue Origin successfully launched its NS-31 mission this morning carrying an all female crew. Included on the flight was Jeff Bezos' fiancé, Lauren Sánchez.
April 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The crew of Axiom-4 completed their NASA training at Johnson Space Center, and there was even cake!

This mission will be commended by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and carry with it four international astronauts for a short stay on the ISS.

Launch date is still TBD.
April 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
SpaceX is set to launch its next Falcon 9 rocket with NROL-192 no earlier than 5:25 AM PT tomorrow morning out at SLC-4E in California.

This will fly on Booster B1071, which has flown 23 times. Its first flight was NROL-87, which lifted off from the West Coast back in February of 2022.
April 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM