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Space reporter at Bloomberg @business | Order my book The Six, out now! | Send me news tips: Signal username lorengrush.56 or email lgrush @bloomberg .net

Austin, Texas

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Loren Grush

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They all went on to have fascinating careers and flights, and it was a dream to chronicle their stories in The Six set to be published in September. Happy Sally Ride's flight anniversary day!

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“Vivid.” —The Guardian * “Engrossing.” —Booklist * “Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening.” —Margot Lee Shetterly, #1 New York Times bes...

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This is the Moon

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Touchdown confirmed! NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars! And in one piece! And transmitting data!

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Bad News: NASA is rolling back the SLS ahead of Hurricane Ian, further delaying Artemis I Good News: NASA will let out its frustrations by slamming into an asteroid tonight

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Astronomers have pinpointed the orbit of an extremely distant Solar System object called TG387, also known as "The Goblin." And many are gleeful since this object could help in the search for the mysterious Planet X or Planet 9

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At long last, we have the most elite profession: rocket surgery

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STABBY STAB

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It’s an unbelievably sad day for the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. After two major cable failures, the telescope is on the brink of an uncontrolled collapse and the NSF has decided to demolish the structure.

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After eight months of silence from Oppy, NASA is saying goodbye to the Mars rover that was supposed to last just 90 days on the Red Planet but stuck it out for 15 years instead. We’ll hear more from the space agency at 2PM ET today

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NSF has released drone footage of the Arecibo collapse

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Hello please stop what you're doing and gaze upon this beautiful NASA/ESA pic of Cygnus approaching ISS at sunset

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So this just happened

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Yesterday, SpaceX employees shared an open letter to the company’s execs in an internal chat, criticizing Elon Musk’s recent behavior: "Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us..."

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Good morning! A friendly reminder that the Commercial Crew Program was started under Obama. Also he’s retweeting the Starship hop which is... a SpaceX test

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Donald J. Trump

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NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again. Now it is the most vibrant place of its kind on the Planet...And we have Space Force to go along with it. We have accomplished more than any Administration in first 3 1/2 years. Sorry, but it all doesn’t happen with Sleepy Joe!

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Hard not to be bummed after a second failed lunar landing this year, but each of these teams should feel super accomplished for reaching the Moon at all. Still a great day for space. #Chandrayaan2

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Was told there’d be a rocket

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Another touching moment as Bob Behnken's son runs up to give his dad a big hug

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Waking up to a Mark Kelly win -- another astronaut in office. I spoke with Mark last year when he first announced his candidacy

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Former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly hopes to bring some science to the Senate

“Science and data is at the root of most of the issues that we have to deal with.”

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As engineers had feared, the 900-ton platform suspended above the Arecibo Observatory collapsed onto the telescope’s giant dish overnight.

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Oh no my heart!!! Again!!!

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When you come back from space

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The worst kept secret of all time is here! Scientists have detected a gas within Venus’s clouds that they say could be a sign of life on the planet. But no one is crying “aliens” just yet. There’s still a long journey ahead to confirm this detection.

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The astronauts taking it all in

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Must be the coolest thing watching your parent go to space

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When nerves and apprehension turn into exhilarating pride. #crewdragon #endeavour #falcon9

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Dinosaur amusement park goes awry

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Share the plot of your favorite movie in five words.

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Some *personal news* (I've never done this before, forgive me!): After seven incredible years at the @verge , my last day will be next week. I'm so excited to be starting a new role as @business 's space reporter — just in time for SLS to finally launch (maybe??)

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Lift off of the 18th and final SpaceX launch of 2017!

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Husband: So what, this spacecraft is just going to slam into an asteroid? Me: You should read my article Husband: Why can't you just tell me??

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The climb before the boom

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Proof that NASA is reading my tweets!

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Put baby yoda in space, you cowards

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Here it is, in all its glory #JWST

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Leading up to this mission, there was a lot of talk about this launch uniting the country. Clearly, that did not happen. I think that's an important message for the space community. These things can't be celebrated fully when people are in pain on Earth.

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Good morning, I must have fallen asleep before I learned that Baby Yoda is the Crew-1's Zero G indicator. May this bless your Monday morning

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Wally Funk just achieved her life long dream of going to space

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Today, a former SpaceX employee Ashley Kosak published an essay detailing alleged sexual harassment she experienced while working at the company. We spoke w/ 4 additional former SpaceX employees who say they had similar experiences w/ inadequate response

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Five former SpaceX employees speak out about harassment at the company

Employees say their complaints about workplace misconduct were routinely ignored

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The aurora timeline is by far my favorite, rivaled by the eclipse timeline. The sun produces the best content

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Look I know the test was successful in a lot of ways, but I can't stop laughing at this picture

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The aftermath

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Hard to believe that 20 years ago, I got a call from my dad telling me they'd lost the orbiter and that he and mom wouldn't be coming home for a while as they stayed at JSC to figure out what happened. Sharing their experience again today

The Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: a conversation with my parents who worked the accident

Looking back on the anniversary of the failure

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Dwarf planet Haumea has a ring, y’all!

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While Starliner is in a good orbit, two thrusters failed during the flight. One thruster shut down early, and the flight control system turned it over to the second thruster. That one fired, but shut down early too and the flight control system turned it over to a third thruster.

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STABBY STAB

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The dawn of a new age of human spaceflight: SpaceX successfully launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit on the company’s Crew Dragon capsule. It’s the first time in nearly a decade that people have launched to orbit from the US

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The NASA astronauts ringing the opening bell this morning

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Me and my dog celebrating New Years

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NASA says the burn was a success and that JWST is at its orbit around L2

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Just want to remind everyone that NASA will legitimately be looking for aliens with the launch of Perseverance next week. And the agency will actually have some evidence to share with the public if they find it.

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In November, engineers at Lockheed Martin and NASA discovered that a power unit in Orion’s adapter had failed in such a way that it lost redundancy. Now they’re trying to figure out the best way to fix it, with some options taking between 4 and 12 months.

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Signing back into to Twitter so I can enjoy the entire planetary science community leaping for joy over TWO new missions heading to Venus. Let's study this hellhole!

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Holy crap it flew!

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Live look of me trying to survive this week

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Has to be the prettiest rocket plume ever @ulalaunch

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Here it is! My experience photographing the Falcon Heavy launch for the first time. I’ve definitely caught the bug, and I think I’ll try to set up a camera or two when I go to launches from now on. I mean just look at the pics!

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Just snapped from the surface of Mars

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SpaceX: “As conditions worsened with eight to ten foot swells, the booster began to shift and ultimately was unable to remain upright. While we had hoped to bring the booster back intact, the safety of our team always takes precedence."

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SpaceX loses the center core of its Falcon Heavy rocket due to choppy seas

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Mars and I are officially on a break now. Gonna need about six and a half months of space before we can start talking again.

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Incoming: a big fat list of women who write about space

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Sorry friends, but Jupiter no long has 69 moons. It’s got at least 79 now, and one of them is kind of weird!

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US Fish and Wildlife has made its assessment on the impacts of SpaceX's Starship launch: -- 3.5-acre fire started south of the pad -- 385 acres of debris on SpaceX land and Boca Chica State Park -- concrete chunks and other objects hurled thousands of feet

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SpaceX’s Starship Launch Sparked Fire on State Park Land

SpaceX’s Starship test launch from southern Texas sparked a 3.5-acre fire and spread debris over hundreds of acres of combined company-owned and state park land, a federal agency said.

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I’m officially writing a book! It’ll be about the first women astronauts at NASA during the Space Shuttle —a program that very much defined my childhood.

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"Rocket launches are my Apple events," she whispered to herself

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We're at the branding stage of the twitter space wars "Elon Musk's response to Roscosmos inspired American Broomstick, the world's first SpaceX inspired broomstick."

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Liftoff of the UAE's Hope Mars mission!

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Actually going to cancel some plans tonight to monitor two satellites possibly run into each other. This is where my life is at right now

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"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States" via Twitter Translate

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мусором, коим ваши талантливые бизнесмены загадили околоземную орбиту, производится исключительно двигателями российских грузовых кораблей "Прогресс МС". Если заблокируете сотрудничество с нами, кто спасёт МКС от неуправляемого схода с орбиты и падения на территорию США или...

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The three little words every woman wants to hear: "payload deployment confirmed"

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Before handing over the key Shkaplerov briefly mentions ongoing tensions between US and Russia: "People have problems on Earth. On orbit we are... one crew."

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First time since I was a little kid I’ll wake up extra early Christmas morning

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NASA Webb Telescope

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☀️ The latest weather forecast has arrived, and we are still GO for launch of #NASAWebb tomorrow, Dec. 25 at 7:20 am ET (12:20 UTC)! Watch live at 📺 More info: 📷 : NASA/Chris Gunn, captured Dec 23.

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Sorry we couldn't fix the pandemic thing before you got back

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Masked up on @Space_Station ! Training myself for my new reality when I get home on Wednesday.

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Friends -- it's about that time where I leave you to legalize my relationship in the eyes of New York State. Space things will happen while I'm gone, it's certain. I will miss it. You'll be good. I'll be back in a couple of weeks with the ability to joint file.

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One year ago. This time we’re waiting on a different, very important launch date for SpaceX

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Bill Nelson testifying during a House subcommittee hearing, touches on the SpaceX Starship test flight: "Now understand that the explosion, that's not a big downer in the way that SpaceX does things. They are hardware rich."

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I don't want a lot for Christmas I just want a launch date please Don't care about the presents Just say when you'll fly JWST

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I aspire to be one of the "others" in a headline someday

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Blue Origin launches Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard Churchley and others to space and back

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And InSight just sent back its first picture!

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Getting back from the club like

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Hopped on a Zoom with Oleg Kutkov who tested out SpaceX’s new Starlink service in Ukraine yesterday. Here’s how his experiment with, thanks to his "Dishy" he bought on eBay a few months ago.

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I had a nice conversation with NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine this week, talking all things Artemis and the feasibility of the program. One fun new thing: the name EM-1 is dead; it’s Artemis 1 now.

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After 25 years of work, sweat, and tears, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is officially off this Earth, embarking on its journey roughly 1 million miles away in deep space

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Astronauts are suiting up! Again!

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Wow, looks like NASA's first all women spacewalk has been canceled.

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NASA's JWST has at long last arrived in French Guiana ahead of its launch this December. Let the epic launch nerves begin!

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NASA administrator is telling people NOT to travel to Florida to watch SpaceX's DM-2 launch

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Today, Virgin Galactic sent its first passenger, Beth Moses, into space onboard its spaceplane VSS Unity. She just became the first woman to ride into space on a US commercial vehicle, too.

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NASA astronaut Christina Koch is coming home tonight, after 328 days in space. She’s set the record for longest continuous spaceflight by a woman, and she’s just shy of Scott Kelly’s US record of 340 days

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NASA is planning to use "kinder and gentler" approach to loading propellant for the upcoming tanking test, with lower pressure. I think the SLS will really appreciate that. The rocket seems stressed.

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Dangerous to sleep on this job. SpaceX has swiftly retaliated against some of the letter writers we first reported on yesterday

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SpaceX fires employees who wrote open letter complaining about Elon Musk: report

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Now the real question is: Will @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug have steak and eggs again

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Woke up this morning and immediately said "Weather?"

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When your launch leftovers are 😍

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Motion to call them XOplanets because we love them so much #TESS #SpaceX #NASA

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During change of command ceremony, cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov jokes about their time together on ISS: "Some satellites tried to kill us but we worked together very hard"

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Lunar landings, Sally Ride, space debris will collide SpaceX scrub, Viasat flub, Rocket Lab engine sub Static fire on the shore, gravity makes Russia sore DOJ at SpaceX’s door, I can’t take it anymore We didn't start the fire...

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Statement from SpaceX on the ESA/Starlink potential collision on Monday

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Okay I'm crying. Bob and Doug's families say goodbye at their windows

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When Google Maps ain't gonna cut it

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I regret to inform you that I’ve done something absurd

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Chris Kemp on Astra's flight: "After reaching an altitude of 390 kilometers, which was our nominal orbital altitude, we reached a velocity of 7.2 kilometers per second... short of the orbital velocity of 7.68 kilometers per second."

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Knew this was risky

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The Onion

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NASA Panics After Asteroid Fires Back

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UNREAL. The cosmic cliffs of the Carina Nebula

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NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins announces the name of their Crew Dragon for Crew-1: Resilience. An apt name for this year!!!

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The aftermath

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