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Underscoring the point himself during his recent dispute with #Trump, #Musk threatened to decommission a #SpaceX spacecraft the US now relies upon to transport #astronauts & critical cargo.

His threat, later retracted, unnerved attorneys at #NASA, who felt forced to explore whether Musk’s warning could be considered a notice of #contract termination, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

#OTD, 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon

carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/c

Some time back I posted a link to this article about a Northrup Grumman study of a lunar train. I used a lot of the same reasoning about dust when I came up with a lunar train concept in 1979, and I just found this concept model I built of a freight boxcar. I did a lot of drawings and made notes, but the model is (amazingly) all that survives.

#space#nasa#DARPA

🚀🛰️ Ah, the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI—a fancy spinning globe that told #astronauts which way was up, because apparently, navigating a spacecraft without a magic eight-ball was *too mainstream*. 🤷‍♂️ Let's dive deep into vintage technology that somehow managed to keep astronauts alive while looking like it belonged in a 60s rec room. 🎱
righto.com/2025/06/inside-apol #Apollo8Ball #VintageTech #SpaceExploration #NASA #RetroGadgets #HackerNews #ngated

www.righto.comInside the Apollo "8-Ball" FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)During the Apollo flights to the Moon, the astronauts observed the spacecraft's orientation on a special instrument called the FDAI (Flight ...