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Michael Sheetz on Twitter: SpaceX is proposing to build a 469 ft tall steel launch tower for its Starship rocket in Texas, which will also "catch the super-heavy booster upon return from launch," according to an FAA filing

Mars helicopter Ingenuity unlocks its rotor blades to prepare for 1st flight on Red Planet

Glow in the dark, epoxy resin Nebula Space art, OC

M81 - Mr. Bode's Galaxy among the integrated flux nebula

🎵Blue Duuuuuuuune 🎵 Sand dunes often accumulate in the floors of craters. Shown here is a sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long striations, surrounding Mars' northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas! In this false-color image, areas with cooler temperatures are recorded in bluer tints, while warmer features are depicted in yellows and oranges. ✍️FILL IN THE BLANK: This scene combines images taken during the period from Dec. 2002 to Nov. 2004 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on the ________________. *Hint: It is the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history. Give us your best guess in the comments! Image credit: NASAJPL-Caltech #NASA #Mars #Planet #RedPlanet #Dunes #Marte #Texture

[Elon on Twitter] Shock absorption is built into tower arms. Since tower is ground side, it can use a lot more mass to arrest booster downward momentum.

April 12 marks the 40th anniversary of the inaugural launch of the space shuttle – humanity's first reusable spacecraft. Watch footage, see imagery, and hear from astronaut Bob Crippen as he reflects on the legacy of his first flight aboard Columbia: https://t.co/IvsZSPWdeC https://t.co/nj2BC6v7A9

It's time to bring another rocket back from space. https://t.co/lzK9JtP54z https://t.co/9PrJQnByH6

St Margrets milkyway

Maybe We Could "See" a Singularity After All - Scientific American Blog Network

Starship SN15 is coming around the bend at the launch site. 🤩🚀 @NASASpaceflight https://t.co/dWRF5fuAlo

📡 A radio telescope… on the Moon? One of our robotic technologist's ideas for turning a lunar crater into a parabolic dish got @NASAIAC grant money for further research. It would involve bots stringing wire mesh inside a crater on the Moon’s far side. https://t.co/c5VuXNywhg https://t.co/nF6CCF44Fe

A trio of space travelers, including @NASA's @Astro_Sabot, is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to station at 3:42am ET on Friday. More... https://t.co/xu5FdzrYYL https://t.co/FxqPa22wft

Night owls: we have a launch for you. Watch @Astro_Sabot, Pyotr Dubrov, and Oleg Novitskiy lift off on a Soyuz rocket to dock with the @Space_Station at 3:42am ET. Live NASA TV coverage begins at 2:45am ET (all times UTC-4): https://t.co/5AY9xrpxim https://t.co/UnfvAVPyA6

Our next mission, launching in May, is another major step toward making Electron the first orbital-class reusable small launch vehicle. https://t.co/I9HlgwtiUT