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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
***Flight Test Scrubbed***Starship SN15 Test Flight is on Crootn Live
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Yeah for sure. Loving this new site layout.
Excellent execution here
BLUE ORIGIN VS. SPACEX
The New Shepard spacecraft is designed to bring commercial passengers into space. By comparison, SpaceX’s current missions have focused on transporting cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station. The Elon Musk-owned company is also developing rockets that may eventually transport humans to Mars.But if you’re into naming winners and losers thus far, one metric is pretty easy to track: SpaceX has successfully brought humans into space, something that Blue Origin has yet to do.
And while Elon Musk is somewhat successfully launching Starship heavy rocket prototypes meant for the moon and Mars, Blue Origin’s comparable New Glenn spacecraft has been delayed for years. April 14 could make a major turning point for Jeff Bezos, but he’s still got a ways to go before he’s caught up with Musk.
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