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06 July 1988 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

In this case, is the would the completed form be "If looks could kill, I'd be dead", or "If looks could kill, the ducks would be dead"?

[Eager Space] Starship Problems: What Would Falcon 9 Do? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Have they had heatshield issues? So far, as long as a ship didn't lose attitude control or fail on ascent, the ship survived to splashdown.

[Eager Space] Starship Problems: What Would Falcon 9 Do? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Good video overall, though I disagree with his statement that Starship is "failing at the easy stuff and succeeding at the hard stuff". Booster catches, while impressive, build off of SpaceX's experience with F9 landings. Starship is a very different beast from an F9 upper stage though, so it's not surprising to me that it is proving to be the more difficult part of the program.

That said, the performance of Ship Block 2 has been particularly disappointing.

ESA tracks rare interstellar comet in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Neat! It seems like interstellar objects pass through our solar system pretty often. The more we look, the more we find.

Starship Development Thread July 2025 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Starbase activities (2025-07-05):

  • Jul 4th cryo delivery tally. (ViX)
  • Jul 4th addendum: Fireworks at the beach. (ViX, Gisler, NSF)
  • Launch site: Modification of the the ship transport stand continues. (Roger S)
  • Build site: Clamp arm installation begins on the booster transport stand for block 3 boosters. (Anderson, Gisler)

McGregor:

  • Part of a tank is launched, possibly a test to investigate the cause of the S36 anomaly. (NSF 1, NSF 2, Golden)
ESA prepares downselect for European Launcher Challenge in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I hope MaiaSpace are successful. A launch vehicle with a reusable booster would be great for Europe.

Driving an EV is now FREE for the rest of the year in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

With running costs of electric cars typically cheaper than those for a petrol model, there's an inevitable date each year when they technically become comparably ‘free’ to drive.

Mercedes-AMG's upcoming EVs will come with a V8 rumble and fake ‘gears’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I hate it.

Electric Trucks and the Future of Chinese Oil Demand in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Excellent.

eBussy : Campervan, Bus, Transporter in c/[email protected]
05 July 1988 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Glad to see that Calvin has his priorities straight.

Electric vans, BYD leads the Italian market thanks to the eTP3 model in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Happy cake day!

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Starship Development Thread July 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
 

SpaceX Starship page

FAQ

  1. When next launch? (Flight 10) TBD.
  2. When previous launch? (Flight 9) Starship flight 9 launched at about 23:36:29 UTC May 27.
  3. What was the result? Ship reached a suborbital path with a 189 km apogee. It lost attitude control during coast and tumbled during reentry, with loss of signal at about 59 km altitude." (Jonathan McDowell) - Booster experiences rapid unscheduled disassembly immediately after landing burn startup. (Golden, SpaceX 1, SpaceX 2)

Quick Links

Nerdle Cam | Lab Cam | Sapphire Cam | Sentinel Cam | Rover Cam | Rover 2.0 Cam | Rocket Ranch Cam | Plex Cam | NSF Starbase Live

Starship Dev June | Starship Dev May | Flight 9 launch thread | Starship Dev April | Flight 8 launch thread | Starship Dev March | Starship Dev February

Official SpaceX Starship Update Video (2024-04-06)

Road closures and road delays

Vehicle Status

*As of 2025-07-05

Ship Location Status Comment
SN2 Rocket Garden Pending scrapping?
S20 Rocket Garden Pending scrapping?
Test Tank 16 Sanchez Resting Cryo tested four times between July and September. Sliding plates added to the catch points on Jan 27th. Moved to Sanchez Mar 15th.
S35 Indian Ocean Destroyed Parts spotted Sep 20th. Forward flap installation Dec 3rd. Nosecone stacked on payload bay Dec 11th. Stacked by Feb 7th. Cryo tested Mar 11th. Single-engine static fire Apr 30th, six-engine static fire May 1st. R-vac likely replaced May 6th. Static fired May 12th. Spin prime May 22nd. Rolled out and stacked May 25th. Launched May 27th. Ship lost attitude control shortly after SECO and broke up during reentry.
S36 Massey's Destroyed Parts spotted in December. Stacking began Jan 30th. Moved to Megabay 2 Feb 12th. Stacking completed Mar 11th. Cryo tested Apr 27th. Single-engine static fire Jun 16th. RUD Jun 18th.
S37 Megabay 2 Pending engine install Parts spotted in December. Forward dome section moves to Megabay 2 Mar 24th. Cryo tested May 30th.
S38 Megabay 2 Stacking Parts spotted in December. Nosecone stacked on payload bay as of Mar 28th.
S39 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Apr 9th).
S40 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (Apr 10th).
S41 Starfactory Assembly Parts spotted (May 10th).
Booster Location Status Comment
B12 Rocket Garden Resting Cryo x2, Static fire Jul 15th. Full stack cryo tests Sep 23rd and Oct 7th. FTS installed Oct 9th. Launched as IFT-5 on Oct 13, returned to launch site for successful chopstick catch. Moved to Megabay 1 Oct 15th.
B14 Gulf of Mexico Destroyed Stacked Apr 26th, Cryo tested Oct 4th and 5th. Static fired Dec 9th. FTS installed Jan 3rd. Wet dress rehearsal performed Jan 10th. Launched and landed Jan 16th. Static fired Apr 3rd. Stacked on launch mount May 13th. Destacked May 16th. Rolled back May 17th. Rolled out May 24th. Launched May 27th. RUD immediately after landing burn startup.
B15 Rocket Garden Resting Stacked from July to September. Methane tank cryo test Dec 27th, full cryo test Dec 28th. Static fired Feb 9th. Launched and landed Mar 6th.
B16 Megabay 1 Pending FTS install Stacking completed by Dec 26th. Cryo tested Feb 28th. Static fired Jun 6th. FTS potentially installed Jun 18th. Hot staging adapter removed Jun 19th.
B17 Rocket Garden Pending engine install Parts spotted. First two sections moved to Megabay 1 Jan 4th. Fully stacked by Apr 7th. Cryo tested Apr 9th.
B18.1 / Test Tank 17 Massey's Pending cryo test Test article for Booster v3. Parts spotted Feb 24th, Apr 21. Cryo tested Jun 2nd and 3rd.
B18 Megabay 1 Stacking Parts spotted May 19th.

Resources

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Progress MS-31 launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
6 comments fedilink
 

Another four months, another Progress resupply to the International Space Station.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-07-03 19:32 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-07-04, 00:32 (AQTT) | | Docking scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-07-05 21:27 | | Mission | Progress MS-31 | | Launch site | Site 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan | | Launch vehicle | Soyuz 2.1a | | Spacecraft | Progress | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Roscosmos | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYuhu4a1bNg | | Roscosmos | (docking) https://www.youtube.com/@tvroscosmos/streams | | NASA | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmcRo4wp6E | | NASA+ | (launch) https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-92-cargo-ship-launch/ | | NASA+ | (docking) https://plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-video/progress-92-cargo-ship-docking/ | | The Launch Pad | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_tx1VoR7c | | The Launch Pad | (docking) https://www.youtube.com/@TheLaunchPad/streams | | Space Affairs | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JR6vHMPqi0 | | Space Affairs | (docking) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXu1_YA00Y | | Space Devs | (launch) https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos | | Space Devs | (docking) |

Mission Details

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Starlink Group 10-25 launch bulletin (B1067-29 flight leader!) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
4 comments fedilink
 

Starlink Group 10-25 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-07-02 06:28 UTC or 2025-07-02 02:28 local time (EDT). Booster 1067-29 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

B1067 will be the first booster to launch and land for the 29th time.

Webcasts:

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MTG-S1/Sentinel-4A launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink
 

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-07-01, 21:04 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-07, 17:04 (EDT) | | Launch site | LC-39A, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA | | Booster | B1085-9 | | Landing | Just Read the Instructions | | Payload | MTG-S1/Sentinel-4A | | Payload mass | 3,800.0 kg | | Customer | EUMETSAT | | Target orbit | Geostationary Transfer Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://youtube.com/watch?v=MUims7kDjGg | | Spaceflight Now | https://youtube.com/watch?v=P4b2ozFLE40 | | NASASpaceflight | https://youtube.com/watch?v=phfAjAI1yeA | | The Launch Pad | https://youtube.com/watch?v=gGwEaTScbgI | | SpaceX | | | The Space Devs | |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 16th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 6 days, 14:32:08 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 24 days, 16:10:00 hours since last launch of booster B1085

☑️ 126th landing on JRTI

☑️ 475th Falcon family booster landing, 488th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 82nd Falcon 9 mission this year, 500th Falcon 9 mission overall

☑️ 82nd SpaceX mission of 2025, 516th overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 85th SpaceX launch this year, 534th overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) is the follow-up system to the Meteosat MSG series of geostationary satellites.

The satellite system will consist of a twin configuration of 3-axis-stabilised satellites: the Imaging mission satellite (MTG-I) and the Sounding mission satellite (MTG-S).

The payload proposed for MTG-S would have an Infrared Sounder (IRS) and Ultra-violet Visible Near-infrared (UVN) Sounder, the later of which is included as the Sentinel-4 mission

The Sentinel-4 mission focuses on monitoring trace gas concentrations and aerosols in the atmosphere to support operational services covering air-quality near-real-time applications, air-quality protocol monitoring, and climate protocol monitoring. The specific objective of Sentinel-4 is to support this with a high revisit time over Europe.

The Sentinel-4/UVN instrument is a high-resolution spectrometer system operating with 3 designated bands in the solar reflectance spectrum, covering the ultraviolet (305-400 nm), visible (400-500 nm), and near-infrared (750-775 nm) bands. The central Sentinel-4/UVN instrument parameters are a spatial sampling of 8 km over Europe and a fast repeat cycle over Europe and North Africa (Sahara) of 60 minutes.

The respective spectral resolution is 0.5 nm in the ultraviolet and visible bands, with the goal of 0.12 nm in near-infrared.

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Blue Origin NS-33 Launch Thread (take 2) (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
2 comments fedilink
 

This follows a previous launch attempt on June 21st.

| Scheduled for UTC | 2025-06-29 13:30 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-29 08:30 (CDT) | | Launch provider | Blue Origin | | Launch site | Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA | | Landing site | North Landing Pad | | Launch vehicle | New Shepard | | Booster | NS5-4 | | Capsule | RSS Kármán Line | | Passengers | Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, James (Jim) Sitkin. | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and safe landing of booster and capsule | | Target Orbit | No |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Blue Origin | https://youtube.com/@blueorigin/streams | | Space Affairs | https://youtube.com/watch?v=4SC5GDMvFT4 | | The Launch Pad | https://youtube.com/watch?v=J5Ad19qxuv4 |

Stats

  • 5th New Shepard launch of 2025, 33rd overall
  • 6th Blue Origin launch of 2025, 34th overall

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7879

This mission is the 13th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 33rd in its history. The crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin.

Previous mission (NS-32) | Next mission (NS-34)

Please post small launch updates, discussions, and questions here! Also feel free to leave feedback or suggestions for the mod team. We welcome feedback from the community!

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Starlink Group 15-7 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
 

Starlink Group 15-7 launch out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is currently scheduled for 2025-06-28 17:13 UTC, or 2025-06-28 10:13 local time (PDT). Booster 1088-8 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

Webcasts:

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🇯🇵 [JAXA / MHI] GOSAT-GW launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

Final launch of an H-IIA rocket.

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-06-28 16:33:03 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-29 01:33:03 (JST) | | Launch site | LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan | | Launch vehicle | H-IIA 202 | | Launch provider | Mitsubushi Heavy Industries / JAXA | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and deployment of GOSAT-GW into Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | JAXA | https://youtube.com/watch?v=5tRdzj_7OwQ | | The Launch Pad | https://youtube.com/watch?v=_icWwadCMIM |

Stats

☑️ 1st launch from LA-Y1 this year

☑️ 1st H-IIA launch this year, 50th and final overall

Payload info (NextSpaceflight)

GOSAT-GW (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite Greenhouse gases and Water cycle), formerly known as GOSAT 3, is JAXA's next-generation satellite to monitor the greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere. It is the follow on to the GOSAT 2 (Ibuki 2) and GCOM-W (Shizuku) missions.

GOSAT-GW will have 2 instruments:

  • Total Anthropogenic and Natural emissions mapping SpectrOmeter-3 (TANSO-3), for observing concentrations of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, over a wide area and with high precision for improved estimation accuracy of greenhouse gas emissions

  • Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 3 (AMSR-3), which will estimate the geophysical quantity of Earth's water on land, sea-surface, and in the atmosphere.

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Starlink Group 10-34 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
 

Starlink Group 10-34 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-06-28 04:26 UTC or 2025-06-28 00:26 local time (EDT). Booster 1092-5 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

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Starlink Group 10-16 launch bulletin (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Starlink Group 10-16 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida is currently scheduled for 2025-06-25 19:54 UTC or 2025-06-25 15:54 local time (EDT). Booster 1080-20 to land on Just Read The Instructions.

Webcasts:

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Axiom-4 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink
 

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-06-25, 06:31 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-25, 02:31 (EDT) | | Mission | Axiom-4 | | Launch site | LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA. | | Booster | B1094-2 | | Landing | LZ-1 | | Dragon | C213-1 | | Commander | Peggy Whitson 🇺🇸| | Pilot | Shubhanshu Shukla 🇮🇳| | Mission Specialist 1 | Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski 🇵🇱| | Mission Specialist 2 | Tibor Kapu 🇭🇺| | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and docking to the ISS |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Axiom Space | https://youtube.com/watch?v=YAue1QljRg4 | Space Affairs | https://youtube.com/watch?v=8xCx2HzmEjw | NASASpaceflight | https://youtube.com/watch?v=T3sue4w2Ukw | Spaceflight Now | https://youtube.com/watch?v=QTrXauSMm5c | The Launch Pad | | SpaceX | | The Space Devs | TBD

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 15th launch from LC-39A this year

☑️ 27 days, 17:01:00 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 57 days, 3:56:50 hours since last launch of booster B1094

☑️ 52nd landing on LZ-1

☑️ 472nd Falcon Family Booster landing, 484th Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 78th Falcon 9 mission this year, 496th overall

☑️ 78th SpaceX mission this year, 512th overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 81st SpaceX launch this year, 530th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

NextSpaceflight mission page:

Ax-4 is Axiom Space's fourth private crew rotation to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The crew will be composed of commander Peggy Whitson (former NASA astronaut), Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Sławosz Uznański of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary. This will be India and Poland's first crewed trip to the ISS.

Link Source
SpaceX mission website SpaceX
Axiom Space mission website https://www.axiomspace.com/
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Transporter-14 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-06-23, 21:25 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-23, 14:25 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1071-26 | | Landing | OCISLY | | Payloads | 70 | | Customers | Multiple | | Mission success criteria | Successful delivery of payload to SSO |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Space Affairs | https://youtube.com/watch?v=C6jjF7M9H0k | Spaceflight Now | https://youtube.com/watch?v=JEesdVJcUdw | NASASpaceflight | none | The Launch Pad | https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-1F4oM3MSU | SpaceX | | The Space Devs |

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 6 days, 17:41:10 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 27th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 23 days, 1:08:00 hours since last launch of booster B1071

☑️ 139th landing on OCISLY

☑️ 471st Falcon Family Booster landing, 483rd Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 77th Falcon 9 mission this year, 495th overall

☑️ 77th SpaceX mission this year, 511th overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 80th SpaceX launch this year, 530th SpaceX launch overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

Transporter 14 is a dedicated rideshare mission by SpaceX. SpaceX’s SmallSat Rideshare Program provides small satellite operators with regularly scheduled, dedicated Falcon 9 rideshare missions to SSO for ESPA class payloads for as low as $300,000 per mission, which includes up to 50kg of payload mass.

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Blue Origin NS-33 Launch Thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink
 

| Scheduled for UTC | 2025-06-21 13:14 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-06-21 08:14 (CDT) | | Launch provider | Blue Origin | | Launch site | Launch Site One, West Texas, Texas, USA | | Landing site | North Landing Pad | | Launch vehicle | New Shepard | | Booster | Unknown | | Capsule | Unknown | | Passengers | Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, James (Jim) Sitkin. | | Mission success criteria | Successful launch and safe landing of booster and capsule | | Target Orbit | No |

Livestreams

| Stream | Link | |

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| | Blue Origin | https://youtube.com/watch?v=cptQGqX0pC4 | | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2DnAK68Jg | | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1f8EIMvBOQ |

Stats

  • 5th New Shepard launch of 2025, 33rd overall
  • 6th Blue Origin launch of 2025, 34th overall

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7879

This mission is the 13th human flight for the New Shepard program and the 33rd in its history. The crew includes: Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and James (Jim) Sitkin.

Previous mission (NS-32) | Next mission (NS-34)

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