Axiom Mission 4 finally set for launch June 25

NASA has a launch date for Axiom Mission 4. The much-delayed private astronaut expedition is now targeting for liftoff on Wednesday, June 25. After scrubs due to weather and a leaky SpaceX Falcon 9, NASA opted to shift the mission to June 19 to evaluate the result of repairs to leaks in the Russian segment of the orbiting …

[Michael H.F. Wilkinson]

I will miss the ISS when it is deorbited

I regularly spot it overhead when stargazing. With big binoculars (16x80mm in my case) I can just make out a little detail, in particular the solar panel arrays showing up as two parallel stripes. Once it is gone it will be a while before anything that size will be visible again

[Zolko]

banana !!!!

Kapu Tíbor did reach orbit

How come that SpaceX is so good with the Falcon rocket and so abysmally bad with the Starship ?

[bombastic bob]

Re: banana !!!!

Starship is still in development. Expect mistakes and rapid loss of structural integrity. Thing is, every mistake is done in public. Imagine if every broken line of code you had while testing during development made the headline of every major news outlet on the planet...

[druck]

Re: banana !!!!

I don't think anyone would be bothered unless the consequences of failure weren't so spectacular.

Personally I'd take a bit more care checking the code before I hit run, if I was holding up flight's through in a several thousand square mile exclusion zone, and risked several tones of debris potentially coming down on someone's head. But that's just me, and I don't have a rocket company to play with and $billions to buy my way out of any consequences.