WHERE IS MAJOR TOM?
15/2026

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
- Crew: 7
- Docked vehicles: 4
-- Harmony zenith: Crew Dragon Freedom
-- Zvezda aft: Progress MS-32
-- Poisk zenith: Progress MS-33
-- Rassvet nadir: Soyuz MS-28

TIANGONG SPACE STATION
- Crew: 3
- Docked vehicles: 2
-- Tianhe forward: Shenzhou 22
-- Tianhe aft: Tianzhou-9

🖼️ NASA

#Space #SpaceStation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116324995800817999

No one ever could really explain why #NASA needed a #SpaceStation around the Moon.

#NASA was giving billions 💰 of dollars to #Boeing to build a more powerful upper stage for the #SLS. And this new rocket required a $2 billion launch tower. The only purpose of this #boondoggle (besides political pork, of course) was to bring #Gateway modules to lunar orbit.

WHERE IS MAJOR TOM?
14/2026

INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
- Crew: 7
- Docked vehicles: 4
-- Harmony zenith: Crew Dragon Freedom
-- Zvezda aft: Progress MS-32
-- Poisk zenith: Progress MS-33
-- Rassvet nadir: Soyuz MS-28

TIANGONG SPACE STATION
- Crew: 3
- Docked vehicles: 2
-- Tianhe forward: Shenzhou 22
-- Tianhe aft: Tianzhou-9

🖼️ NASA

#Space #SpaceStation

Clarity would only come through the issuance of a “request for proposals” that would lay out specifically what #NASA wanted. “Commercial industry is already investing over twice as much as NASA has spent on CLDs over the past five years, but NASA thinks it understands #commercial market potential better than private investors and want to cut CLD’s budget while extending #ISS’ lifetime” https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/what-happens-next-with-nasas-plan-to-replace-the-iss-source-it-could-get-ugly/

#SpaceStation #CLD

No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations

It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football."

Ars Technica

The International Space Station is passing overhead Ouseburn at:

19:53 hrs 26 Mar, from WSW to S for 3min 51s and max elevation 14°

#themalings #ouseburn #newcastle #uk #spacestation

#Yuri, a German space 🌌 #biotech company, has reserved an unspecified amount of payload space on #Starlab for the station’s first full year of commercial operations.

Starlab Space selected SpaceX’s #Starship to launch the station. It said it has a launch contract priced at $90 million to send Starlab to orbit https://spacenews.com/starlab-space-fully-books-commercial-payload-space-on-planned-space-station/

#SpaceStation #SpaceEconomy

Starlab Space fully books commercial payload space on planned space station

The Starlab commercial space station has fully booked its commercial payload space as it awaits the next phase of a NASA program.

SpaceNews

Weekly challenge prompt - Space Station.
...to boldly go :)

So we just dug into it and..yeah this is it I guess.

#scifi #spacestation #ttrpg #rpg #mastoart #fediart #krita #conceptart #space

For $90 million, in one single launch, Voyager will put in orbit a #SpaceStation with 400 cubic meters of volume, able to support 100% of the work that's currently being done aboard #ISS https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/03/21/how-much-will-a-spacex-starship-launch-cost/

#Starlab #Starship #LaunchCost #SpaceX

How Much Will a SpaceX Starship Launch Cost?

SpaceX's Starship is just as powerful as you've heard -- and costs a lot less than you'd think.

The Motley Fool

The International Space Station is passing overhead Ouseburn at:

19:02 hrs 25 Mar, from W to SE for 6min 6s and max elevation 30°
20:41 hrs 25 Mar, from SW to SSW for 1min 12s and max elevation 10°

#themalings #ouseburn #newcastle #uk #spacestation

Back to the moon? NASA says it will spend US$20B on building lunar base
The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in a lunar orbit.
#Science #lunarorbit #Moon #NASA
https://globalnews.ca/news/11743891/moon-nasa-lunar-base/