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Starship The only currently listed flight-TFR is for Tuesday.
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Mary @BocaChicaGal 3/21/21, 9:47 AM
This morning RCS thruster testing was performed on Starship SN11 at SpaceX Boca Chica. #WenHop
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https://twitter.com/bocachicagal/status/1373632292187430912 20 sec
Trevor Mahlmann @TrevorMahlmann 3/21/21, 2:21 AM
sn11 did a spring equinox dance today
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https://twitter.com/trevormahlmann/status/137352004440412979245 sec: OMG. Starship flaps to “The Chicken Dance”
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SpaceX sea fleet Gavin Cornwell @SpaceXFleet 3/21/21, 9:45 AM
It's a gray and gloomy morning but the work never stops and OCISLY droneship is about to depart for the Starlink V1 L22 mission.
NSF Fleetcam: ➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnt2wZBg89g
https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1373631787797204992 Screencap at the link.
Gavin Cornwell (@SpaceXFleet) 7:25 PM · Mar 19, 2021:
Earlier, Shelia Bordelon returned from a day-long fairing recovery sea trial offshore from Cape Canaveral.
Spot the test fairing and check out her fancy moves.
Highlight clips from @NASASpaceflight Fleetcam. Live 24/7 here: https://t.co/C4G89syG4W
➡️ https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1373052974109487104
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Greg Scott (@GregScott_photo) 3/19/21, 7:36 PM
#SpaceX's new Fairing boat, the Shelia Bordelon, pulled back into port late this afternoon after a long day of fairing scoop practice. It was out most of the day offshore dropping the fairing in the wtr & then scooping it back out getting ready for the next Starlink mission #NASA
https://twitter.com/GregScott_photo/status/1373055907391811588
4 photos at the link
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Next Falcon launches March 24: Falcon 9 • Starlink V1.0-L22Launch time: 0858 GMT (4:58 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the 23rd batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink V1.0-L22. Delayed from March 21 and March 22.
April 22: Falcon 9 • Crew 2Launch time: 1011 GMT (6:11 a.m. EDT)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a Crew Dragon spacecraft on its second operational flight with astronauts on-board to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch on the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The Crew Dragon will return to a splashdown at sea. Delayed from March 30 and April 20.
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Dragon & Soyuz shift their ISS positions Their astronauts must be on board, in case a problem prevents the capsule from re-docking
Soyuz crew relocates spacecraft to new space station parking spot March 19, 2021 Stephen Clark
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut strapped into their Soyuz spacecraft Friday and moved the capsule to a different docking port on the International Space Station, clearing the way arrival of a fresh crew next month.
Russian commander Sergey Ryzhikov manually controlled the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft during the relocation maneuver. Cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins were also aboard the spaceship.
All three crew members launched inside the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft in October, and are scheduled to return to Earth on April 17. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft has custom-fitted seat liners for each crew member, and all three were aboard for the relocation maneuver Friday, ready to return to Earth in case of problems reconnecting with the space station.
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Dragon commander Mike Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialists Soichi Noguchi and Shannon Walker will climb aboard their Crew Dragon capsule April 5 to perform a similar port relocation maneuver, freeing up the space station’s forward docking port for the arrival of the next Crew Dragon on April 23.
Unlike the Soyuz relocation, the Crew Dragon will undock and dock automatically, with Hopkins and his crewmates monitoring systems and ready to take manual control if necessary. ...
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Here are five questions we would ask the nominee for NASA administrator Eric Berger - 3/19/2021
5. Why do you want this job?
It's not clear what Nelson's vision for NASA is, and this is important, because serving as administrator is a difficult and demanding job. Frankly, there is widespread skepticism in the space community about Nelson's motivations. His flight on space shuttle Columbia in 1986 was widely seen as an opportunistic move to advance his political career. Some of his fellow astronauts nicknamed him "Ballast" for the role they perceived he played during the mission.
Bridenstine's nomination, of course, was also met with widespread skepticism in 2017, and he generally overcame those concerns to get high marks from space historians. It's possible that Nelson could rise to the occasion as well, and certainly the space community will be rooting for him to lead NASA forward. But how would he do that? ...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/here-are-five-questions-we-would-ask-the-nominee-for-nasa-administrator/