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06 Jun

NASA’s SpaceX Dependency Becomes a Safety Issue

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NASA's SpaceX Dependency Is Now a Safety Issue When astronauts had to shelter inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule last week because of air leaks in the International Space Station, nobody called it what it was: a contingency that should never have had to exist. Per TechCrunch, Roscosmos discovered new leaks in the Russian service module, forcing a temporary evacuation of parts of the station. The fix wasn't a NASA system kicking in. It wasn't a backup from a partner agency with decades of independent capability. It was a commercial spacecraft—one that exists primarily to ferry cargo and crew for profit—doing…

29 May

NASA’s Moon Problem: The Real Cost of Betting on Blue Origin

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NASA's Moon Problem: What the New Glenn Explosion Really Exposes A rocket exploding on the pad is bad. A rocket exploding on the pad when two of the most consequential space programs of the next decade are counting on it is a different category of problem entirely. per TechCrunch, Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during testing at Launch Complex 36 in Florida — a dramatic hardware failure that lands at arguably the worst possible moment for Jeff Bezos' spaceflight company. NASA's lunar ambitions under Artemis are already running behind, and Amazon's Kuiper constellation is staring down SpaceX's Starlink with…