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March 19, 2025 – SpaceX’s Starship program, critical to NASA’s lunar goals and Elon Musk’s Martian dreams, is at a crossroads, with experts offering starkly contrasting visions. While one leading engineer champions a smaller “Mini-Starship” to expedite human landings on the Moon and Mars, critics slam Starship for its repeated failures as evidence of a doomed design.
Crew-9 is back…finally! All four astronauts are happy to be home, with two of them perhaps even more so than their crew mates.
It’s finally time for NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to come home! If everything goes according to plan, one of the most talked about journeys in American spaceflight will come to an end with a splashdown tomorrow evening somewhere off the coast of Florida.
It was a good day to have a good day here in Florida, and that’s exactly what NASA, SpaceX and Crew-10 had today at Kennedy Space Center. Falcon 9 lifted off carrying three astronauts and one cosmonaut towards orbit and the International Space Station just as the sun was starting to set in the west. Some seven and a half minutes later, SpaceX booster B1090 completed its duty for the day by landing at LZ-1 in Cape Canaveral, 8.8 miles south of LC-39A.
The astronauts were strapped in, the weather was perfect, and everything pointed to a flawless launch. But that’s not how it usually goes in the spaceflight business, and Wednesday evening’s Crew-10 launch attempt was no exception.
March 10, 2025 – Kennedy Space Center, FL – It’s “all systems go” for Crew 10 following their arrival at Kennedy Space Center in Florida last Friday. The crew has since successfully completed a wet dress rehearsal in preparation for their six-month mission.
SpaceX conducted its eighth test flight of their Starship rocket this afternoon. Designated IFT-8, the vehicle launched from the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica, Texas. Within minutes, the mission was over.
SpaceX’s ambitious Starship program encountered yet another hurdle this week as the eighth integrated flight test (IFT-8) was scrubbed just moments before liftoff on March 3, 2025.
SpaceX announced today that it is expanding its Starship operations in Florida and will be bringing Starship production and launch capabilities to the Space Coast.
“Really big things are coming to Florida!!!!” said SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell on the X platform today. She’s not kidding.
It’s been no secret that SpaceX has been in the process of building a Starship factory at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. That process could take a few years, but according to SpaceX, they won’t be waiting around to finish it before flying Starship here.
Boca Chica, Texas – March 3, 2025 – SpaceX’s highly anticipated eighth Integrated Flight Test (IFT-8) of its Starship rocket was scrubbed on Monday afternoon, just seconds before its scheduled liftoff from the company’s Starbase facility in South Texas.
