Exciting time in commercial spaceflight. Polaris Program will undertake a series of tech demo missions culminating in first flight of Starship. Thankful to team
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My wife & I getting close up view of stacked Starship. I couldn’t help but think this is what my father must have felt like when seeing a Saturn V… this place, this rocket, this vehicle & all the talented people
Nikon shots out soon. Such a privilege to see our from this perspective. We need to take far better care of our home planet and also reaching for the stars.
So impressive - Safe recovery of Crew2, Launch of Crew3 and delivering them to ISS, Starship static fire and 53 more Starlink satellites to orbit.. in a week.
Cool video from cupola w/ xenomorph. In hindsight, it wasn’t worth the trouble of repacking the alien and probably took away from the video… but the view is pretty incredible and my kids will like the Shot from: iPhone.
EVA suit has been unveiled. We are thrilled to have contributed to the dev & testing and excited to wear them on Polaris Dawn for the first commercial EVA. A huge shoutout to the team working tirelessly on this! As we aim for the moon, Mars, and
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The SpaceX Extravehicular Activity (EVA) suit → http://spacex.com/updates#Maythe4thBeWithYou
technicians & engineers working hard to get Falcon & Dragon ready for launch. This pic is great—the TE structure is so massive, it feels straight out of a Transformers movie. We are grateful for every moment of
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Early this morning, the Polaris Dawn crew visited the hangar at 39A to see Falcon 9 and Dragon before they rolled out to the pad
EVA suit. The successful vacuum test was performed in a historic chamber at JSC that served the Gemini, Apollo & Shuttle programs. We are grateful for the hard work that has now certified these suits for
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The Polaris Dawn crew recently completed a series of spacesuit acceptance tests in preparation for the mission’s extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, marking the final significant developmental and test milestone for SpaceX’s newly-developed EVA spacesuit →