Rockets and Space🚀

Truly remarkable accomplishment by @spacex catching the Super Heavy booster on the 1st attempt!

Project Orion wasn’t your regular rocket idea 🚀 instead of burning fuel, it planned to use nuclear bombs for thrust.

3… 2… 1… Lift off into the weekend!

took around 20 Starship tests, including multiple Super Heavy booster flights, to achieve the first successful mid-air catch in 2024

Get a rocket’s-eye view of SpaceX’s 200th orbital launch.🚀

Moon or moscow

Abandoned Soviet Launch Rocket 🚀

Today SpaceX successfully caught Starship Super Heavy booster back on launch tower!

SpaceX rocket was seen bursting into a gigantic ball of fire during a routine test in Texas

History was made today 🤯. We are one step closer to Mars, and making life multiplanetary ✨🚀.

@booster_10 the toasted fairings next to a pristine stage is kinda the perfect visual for where we're at w reusability some parts worth saving some not yet

I love how the reused fairings contrast with the brand new second stage on Falcon 9.

@NASASpaceflight love watching the vents ngl that crispy oxygen boiloff just feels special at t 20

T-20 minute vent:

@nyoomtm @TLPN_Official love how falcon just punches through whatever weather and we barely blink anymore that's the flex

The Falcon does not waiver in the rain. Starlink 10-33 lifts into the cloudy Cape Canaveral Skies this morning at 10:20 AM. 📹 Me for @TLPN_Official

@DrChrisCombs lol same disappointment every time starship double sonic boom on landing is prob the best one we've gotten in years that sound never gets old

Got excited to see sonic boom is trending but it's about the hedgehog Anyway here's the real deal

@DI313_ c17s are built for this tho they can land on dirt strips w full payload raf pilots prob thought that was a pretty chill landing compared to what that bird can handle

🇬🇧 A C-17 Globemaster III from the Royal Air Force made a powerful landing at RAF Northolt that felt impossible to ignore. As it came down, the approach was steady but intense, and the moment the wheels touched the ground, the impact was heavy and precise. The engines roared through the air, and the force of the landing could be felt in the ground itself.

@historydefined nuts when you think a falcon heavy launch is like 150mil and that thing can put 64 tons into orbit love the b2 engineering tho

When adjusted for inflation, each B2 cost about $2 billion.

@AJamesMcCarthy watched the booster land on the drone ship during one of these and it still feels like magic every time f9 is such a workhorse

Never gets old. Falcon 9 rocket launched off the Florida coast just a few minutes ago. I took this photo from about 13 miles away.

@FireflySpace @NASA bet amit got to see eclipse up close before most of us will jealous tbh that rocket's gonna be a workhorse if they nail the design

We loved giving a warm Texas welcome to @NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya and giving him a behind the scene look at Blue Ghost Mission 2 and our Eclipse rocket. These partnerships are key to America leading the next era of space exploration on the Moon and beyond.

@wvmattz @NASASpaceflight bqd at 39a is nuts to think about that pad saw 82 shuttle launches and now theyre plumbing it for liquid methane completely different propellant architecture on the same concrete

This morning in Florida, SpaceX installed the Methane BQD Hood on to the launch mount at historic LC-39A. Progress continues ahead of a future where Starships are launching right next to where Shuttles used to launch! @NASASpaceflight | nsf.live/spacecoast

@HUBBLE_space the fact that they finally caught one after all those failed attempts is nuts scheduling telescope time around unpredictable comet breakups sounds like an absolute nightmare

The comet K1 was making its way out of the Solar System ☄️ when it crumbled into pieces. Astronomers had always wanted to use Hubble to watch a comet break up 🤞 but these observations are very difficult to schedule and were never successful. 1/2