Great job to all who sailed on M/V Megan and made the SpaceX human spaceflight program truly unique! We chartered Megan, then GO Searcher, in 2016 to learn how to recover payload fairings. After extensive modifications to support Dragon, we learned how to recover astronauts after human spaceflight missions with Megan – helping set the stage for the return of human spaceflight to the U.S. with Demo-2.
Megan recovered 24 astronauts, including the crews of the first fully commercial and first private astronaut missions to orbit. After the final East Coast Dragon recovery with Crew-9 in March, Megan sailed to Louisiana for retirement from the SpaceX fleet last week.
Fair winds and following seas Megan!!! Thank you for your service to Human Spaceflight!
P.S. Megan was named for astronaut Astro Megan, the second woman to fly on Dragon.
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Megan recovered 24 astronauts, including the crews of the first fully commercial and first private astronaut missions to orbit. After the final East Coast Dragon recovery with Crew-9 in March, Megan sailed to Louisiana for retirement from the SpaceX fleet last week.
Fair winds and following seas Megan!!! Thank you for your service to Human Spaceflight!
P.S. Megan was named for astronaut Astro Megan, the second woman to fly on Dragon.
Source: RT @TurkeyBeaver
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Falcon 9 will launch the SpaceForceDoD’s multi-manifest USSF-178 mission, including a new weather system space vehicle for Space Systems Command and BLAZE-2, small prototype satellites designed for operational research and development → https://t.co/bpg99j6ht2
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Watch Falcon 9 launch 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida https://t.co/wPutk3tYqY
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Watch Falcon 9 launch 26 Starlink satellites to orbit from California https://t.co/tBjJOHjUrK
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Targeting Tuesday, July 1 for a Falcon 9 launch of the Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission from Launch Complex 39A in Florida. Weather is currently 20% favorable for liftoff → https://t.co/bJFjLCilmc
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Starbase is changing fast! This week:
• Giga Bay Construction: Starbase's largest building yet is rising fast-pile driving is underway and the scale is massive!
• Starfactory & Infrastructure: New work stands, facility expansions, and rapid changes all aimed at Block 3 production.
• Massey's Aftermath: The Ship 36 explosion cleanup continues. Damage assessment and recovery work remain ongoing.
• McGregor Minute: Possible retirement of a Raptor 2 test stand after a dramatic last firing... plus new Raptor 3 engines roll by.
• Pad 2 Updates: Final trench work, deluge system progress, and potential launch pad milestones.
• Block 3 Progress: Booster 18 continues stacking, Ship 39's nosecone waits for tiles, and the first Block 3 vehicles inch closer to flight readiness.
• THE WILD THEORY: Did SpaceX just quietly start modifying a Ship transport stand to enable static fires... on the OLM?! Sounds crazy.. but the signs are there.
• Cape Construction Progress: Thanks to Axiom 4 launch footage, we also caught new glimpses of Starship Pad 39A Work at KSC.
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Propellant load is underway for today’s launch of the Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission from Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 5:04 p.m. ET → https://t.co/bJFjLCilmc
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship
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