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
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
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/
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°
#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/
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/
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°
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