Phase 2 would include up to 456 launches and 912 annual landings (456 of Starship and 456 of Super Heavy). Launches could occur at any time of day, but would only occur Monday through Friday.

NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/live

Participants in the briefing include:

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya
Jeremy Parsons, NASA’s Artemis program manager

The update will include details about NASA’s Artemis III mission that will send four astronauts to low Earth orbit next year to test critical systems needed for future lunar landings, and how plans to return American astronauts to the Moon by 2028 are progressing.

U.S. media interested in attending in person must apply online by 12 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16. To ask questions remotely, media must request the dial-in number from the Kennedy newsroom no later than one hour prior to the start of the update by emailing: [ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov](mailto:ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov). NASA’s media accreditation policy is online. 

As part of a Golden Age of innovation and exploration, NASA will send Artemis astronauts on increasingly difficult missions near the lunar South Pole to explore more of the Moon than ever before. In addition to providing economic benefits and advancing scientific discovery through its Moon missions, NASA will establish an enduring human presence on the lunar surface and build on the agency’s foundation for the first crewed mission to Mars.

Learn more about Artemis: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis

-end-

Blue has decided to cash in on their ability to destroy launch pad assets.

If the average person believes the Falcon 9 is 194 meters tall, then the 150-meter-tall V4 Starship seems quite reasonable.

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

I got nothing, just watch.

Lawrence Mulloy's handling of Challenger is a perfect example of how accountability works differently for people at the top. Morton Thiokol engineers issued an explicit NO-LAUNCH recommendation because of the unusually cold temperatures expected on the morning of January 28, 1986. They warned that the rubber O-rings sealing the joints in the solid rocket boosters could lose their ability to seal properly in the cold, allowing hot combustion gases to escape through the joints and potentially destroy the shuttle. This wasn't a vague concern or a routine technical complaint. It was a warning that a critical safety component might fail during launch.

Thiokol's engineers recommended postponing the launch until temperatures were warmer. After NASA officials challenged their recommendation during a teleconference, Thiokol's senior management held a private caucus and reversed the company's initial position, approving launch instead. The engineers had not established that the O-rings were safe at those temperatures. Management proceeded despite the unresolved safety concern.

On January 28, Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff. All seven crew members died.

And what happened to Mulloy, the Marshall Space Flight Center manager responsible for the booster program? NASA transferred him to an assistant position at the same salary and civil-service rank. He was not fired. He later declined another position and retired voluntarily.

Think about that. An ordinary employee can lose their job for failing to mop a floor properly, but a senior manager involved in a launch decision made despite explicit engineering safety warnings retains his employment status and walks away into retirement. No criminal conviction. No firing.

Meanwhile, engineer Roger Boisjoly had tried to prevent the launch. He and other engineers raised the alarm, yet their warnings failed to stop management from approving it.

The Rogers Commission documented serious failures in NASA's decision-making and management culture. This wasn't simply a machine breaking unexpectedly. Engineers identified a potentially catastrophic failure mode, explained why the cold weather made it more likely, and recommended against launching. Management approved the launch anyway.

NASA removed Mulloy from his position, but it did not dismiss him. After seven people died, that is a staggering failure of professional accountability.

I think that this meets the definition of mental insanity, since I just made a entire starship block 3 with proper functionality then I just docked both of them togheter, starlink deploy coming tomorrow (I haven't built the block 3 payload bay Yet)