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It's window washing day at Starbase! SpaceX is busy drone cleaning the windows on the office building to give their employees the best view of the launch possible.
Starship Flight 14 remains on track for September 28, even though SpaceX destacked (before restacking) Ship 41 after the WDR and continues to wait for the launch license.
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Crew 13 has arrived at KSC ahead of their mission scheduled for October 1.
Meet the Crew
Jessica Watkins - NASA
Luke Delaney - NASA
Joshua Kutryk - CSA
Sergey Teteryatnikov - Roscosmos
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This morning at Starbase: Ship 41 was lifted and stacked atop Booster 21 for what we hope is the final time. Here's a timelapse from a few angles (with cube-zooms)! Fingers crossed Starship Flight 14 launches on time, Monday morning!
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We have a full stack again!
Ship 41 has been lifted back onto Booster 21 ahead of Starship's 14th Flight, still currently targeting NET Monday, September 28th.
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Flight 14 Update: Ship 41 is being re-stacked atop Booster 21 at Pad 2 for hopefully the final time before launch NET Monday morning (pending regulatory approval). Follow along here: nsf.live/starbase.
I know no one might care about this, but if Starship goes orbital on Monday it'll be 18 years after Falcon 1 first reached orbit. It was SpaceX's 4th launch overall. nextspaceflight.com/launches…
The Falcon 9 recovery vessel Doug has been reunited with some familiar friends once again!
Doug recently arrived at the Port of Long Beach in California, joining Dragon recovery vessel Shannon as SpaceX winds down its Falcon 9 cadence from Florida.
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NASA:
"During a news conference at 3 p.m. EDT on Monday, Sept. 28, NASA and Boeing leadership will discuss Starliner’s development and plans for regular crew flights to and from the International Space Station."
Ah good, nothing else happening Monday... 😅
Work continues at a frenzied pace at SpaceX's land near the Port of Brownsville, the massive building is starting to take shape on the freshly cleared land just south of the port, with a brand new road quickly taking shape beside it!
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Blue Origin is busy over at the Rocket Park. The former Ares 1 LM-1 has moved to be staged outside of MILA where the GS2 test area is well underway. Another crane has risen on the skyline. The Project Horizon building should take shape relatively fast with a ton of steel already staged.
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Starship Flight 14: SpaceX potentially staging to destack Ship 41 from Booster 21. Don't panic; it could be a short destack, and Monday will still be on (pending regulatory approval).
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Four crew members from three space agencies will launch to the @Space_Station no earlier than spring 2027 for a long-duration science expedition as part of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 mission.
NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Chris Birch will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Makoto Suwa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan as mission specialists
Learn more: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-s…
ALT NASA’s SpaceX Crew-14 crew members during preflight training at SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California (from left, Roscosmos cosmonaut Arutyun Kiviryan, NASA astronaut Chris Birch, NASA astronaut Kayla Barron, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Makoto Suwa).
Credit: SpaceX