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While Everyone ‘Poo-Pooed’ SpaceX For Bidding, Guess Who Is Still On The Ground?

  • NASA’s Bill Nelson told Newsweek that critics “poo-pooed” SpaceX when it was bidding for the agency’s crew programs.
  • Yet, he said that SpaceX has accomplished a lot compared with Boeing.
  • NASA has awarded SpaceX 14 missions and Boeing six missions.

According to Business Insider, NASA administrator Bill Nelson stated that while SpaceX was competing against Boeing, sceptics disregarded the firm but that it has accomplished more.

On schedule

A total of 14 missions have been given to SpaceX by the US...

https://mfame.guru/while-everyone-poo-pooed-spacex-for-bidding-guess-who-is-still-on-the-ground/

Commercial Space Hotels Are On Their Way!

  • Francesca Gregory in a recent podcast on space-to-space infrastructure has shared about the possibility of commercial space hotels.
  • The first tailored piece of space infrastructure constructed for civilian astronauts will come out in 2030.
  • T Mobile is expected to use SpaceX’s low Earth orbit satellites to give a more active signal to their clients across the country.
  • Since 2019, SpaceX has sent almost 3,000 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

We might witness a commercial space hotel...

https://mfame.guru/is-living-in-space-a-possibility/

Texas carrier fined for supplying NASA with ‘potentially tainted rocket fuel’

A space rocket sits horizontally in the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

Hankamer, Texas-based bulk chemical transporter Anahuac Transport Inc. has been fined $275,000 for supplying the Johnson Space Center in Houston with “potentially tainted rocket fuel.” Anahuac must also forfeit the $251,401 in gross proceeds it obtained during the fraud scheme and serve three years of probation.

Anahuac will be banned from federal government contracting for three years.

From 2012 to 2020, Anahuac was subcontracted by NASA and the Department of Defense to transport rocket fuel...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/texas-carrier-fined-for-supplying-nasa-with-potentially-tainted-rocket-fuel

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