Loren Grush
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Space reporter at Bloomberg @business | Order my book The Six, out now! | Send me news tips: Signal username lorengrush.56 or email [email protected]
Austin, Texas
Joined November 2008
They all went on to have fascinating careers and flights, and it was a dream to chronicle their stories in The Six set to be published in September. Happy Sally Ride's flight anniversary day!
simonandschuster.com
“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bes...
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RT @NASAOIG: NASA is developing a second mobile launcher (ML-2) to support larger variants of the Space Launch System. NASA estimates the M….
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Nothing more relatable these days than a rocket that just suddenly falls apart in space.
🚨 We’re actively monitoring and analyzing the breakup event in #LEO involving a Chinese rocket body, CZ-6A. Our radar data indicates this event occurred on 6 August at ~20:10 UTC at ~810 km. It resulted in at least 700 debris fragments and potentially more than 900.
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RT @NASASpaceflight: Reading between the lines:. Ship 30's Spin Prime completed the testing requirements post-engine swap out. Booster 12….
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RT @NASAOIG: NASA continues to face significant cost increases and schedule delays as it develops the more powerful version of its Space La….
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RT @sling_shot_aero: 🚨 Slingshot Orbital Alert 🚨. Following China's launch of 18 G60 satellites on August 6th, Slingshot is tracking over 5….
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RT @johnkrausphotos: Polaris Dawn up next! No earlier than August 26. News media friends - check out the hundreds of photos from myself, a….
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Truly a wild Starliner press conference:.-- NASA finally went into detail about a SpaceX contingency plan for bringing Butch and Suni home.-- People within NASA do not agree on which path to take.-- They need to decide by mid-August on how to move forward.
bloomberg.com
NASA is working with Elon Musk’s SpaceX on plans to return two astronauts to Earth in the event that they’re unable to travel on the troubled Boeing Co. craft that initially carried them to space.
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Good morning, Dave.
This forward module validation test is fun to see. Our four fins on New Glenn are about the size of a car—roughly 16 feet long at the base and sticking out 6.5 feet from the body of the rocket. They’re responsible for steering the rocket on ascent and descent. Most of the
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The fate of one ISS-related capsule seems solid. Now what about the other one.
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This week in space getting off to an interesting start.
Cygnus NG-21: At ISS crew wakeup today, Mike Barratt asked mission control if the onboard Cygnus capture timeline for Tuesday was still good or if a revision was expected. The MCC CAPCOM replied, "it's a good timeline for tomorrow." Barratt: "OK, superb, we're really looking.
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RT @TimFernholz: NASA and Boeing's careful parsing of their work on Starliner has walked the line of transparency, but if the agency did ju….
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RT @Commercial_Crew: Preliminary results from the July 27 #Starliner tests show all the tested thrusters are back to preflight levels based….
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RT @joroulette: SpaceX is in talks with U.S., Australian officials to land and recover Starship boosters off a coast in Australia, a possib….
reuters.com
SpaceX is in talks with U.S. and Australian officials to land and recover one of its Starship rockets off Australia's coast, a possible first step toward a bigger presence for Elon Musk's company in...
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Really didn't take long.
Thanks to the pace we’ve been able to launch, we’re able to gather unprecedented levels of flight data and are poised to rapidly return to flight as soon as Saturday, July 27 →
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RT @Firefly_Space: Firefly Aerospace and its Board of Directors announce leadership change:
fireflyspace.com
Bill Weber is no longer serving as CEO. Peter Schumacher, a partner at AE Industrial and board member at Firefly, will serve as interim CEO.
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RT @astrogrant: the budget is a five-alarm fire at NASA, a creeping vine in the foundations of our beloved agency. The budget wedges are 50….
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NASA really having a hard time keeping a lunar prospecting mission afloat.
After a comprehensive review, we are discontinuing development of our VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) project. We are committed to studying and exploring the Moon, and will pursue other methods to accomplish many of VIPER's goals:
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