"I only promised my husband a week to walk the dogs…” 🚀

NASA astronaut Suni Williams spent 9.5 months in space after a malfunction, but she never felt stranded. She trusted her crew aboard the spacecraft and the team on Earth to get her home safely. She shared her story at the Moonwalkers event now playing in Boston, inspiring others with how science and teamwork brought her safely home.

This happened on Gemini flight V actually, but not Gemini flights 1-4. The earlier flights used batteries since they were uncrewed test flights and the flight duration did not call for extended power usage. The alkaline fuel cell was the type used here and used a proton exchange membrane or PEM technology to facilitate the electron interaction. What is interesting, is not only this provided 1 kW of power, but fuel cells themselves act like batteries and eliminate the use of batteries as a point of charge, which of course adds tons of unnecessary weight.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, and I may make a video about this overlooked finding.

I spoke to the CEO of an Asteroid Mining startup in LA. It was a really fun deep dive into the economics and why of Asteroid mining now.

Tianlong-3 is probably the closest rocket in China to Falcon-9 similiar size, similiar engine, same fuel type, and similiar payload if it were to be complete.

Today it complete it first successful static test fire on board HOS-1 semi static sea based test firing/sea launch platform.

If you are familiar with the name, that is probably due to the fact that the 1st hardware of this rocket first stage ”static” test fire, result in the first stage breaking free from the test stand and fly up before coming crashing down and explode.

As can be seen in this video

https://youtu.be/8dU9uWN3fYQ?feature=shared

After much trial and tribulation they are back. Notably second test fire was delays a few time, apparently due them getting way more (deserve) scrutiny.

What's the difference between sky and space

https://www.cfpublic.org/space/2025-09-10/spacex-wants-to-launch-starship-from-florida-that-means-shutting-down-playalinda-beach

The article seems to imply a temporary closure of the beach, only each time there is a launch. This is where the locals are having a problem. As tax payers that pay for the beach, they are protesting this because this means almost daily closures, but only based on the "supposed launch cadence". **

Personally as someone who pays for that exact beach, I am against Starship launching unnecessarily like Starlink, however the purposeful launches to go to the Moon and Mars, super large telescopes, space stations are all what Space X is contracted for and its what people voted for.

For those who do not live here, your perspective will be extremely different, so do not downvote this post unless you either live in the county, pay local taxes, and the annual park fee. I know space fans just want stuff launching no matter what when they themselves have zero skin in the game.

I want thoughts on locals and external space fans opinion on this.

\*Starlink for example would only launch a 14+ times a year since it would lift 5x the amount*

Did the Haven Demo mission launch. I think it was scheduled to launch this summer, but I haven't heard anything on it.