#return to flight

[talkoftitusville]

SpaceX Seeks To Resume Starlink Launches While It Investigates Falcon 9 Failure From Last Week

A Falcon 9 sitting on its launch pad in Jun 2024 at Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral.Photo: Charles Boyer / Talk of Titusville. Will Robinson-Smith of Spaceflight Now reported yesterday that SpaceX has petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to permit the resumption of its Falcon 9 rocket flights, despite an ongoing investigation into a recent mission anomaly. The request…

SpaceX Seeks To Resume Starlink Launches While It Investigates Falcon 9 Failure From Last Week

[geekmusthave]

Video: See our full interview with Apollo 7 astronaut Walt Cunningham

Around NASA and its contractors, the phrase “Return to Flight” carries special meaning. It’s used very seriously in very specific circumstances: a “Return to Flight” mission is a resumption of normal scheduled missions after an anomaly or accident. Most recently, the phrase was used to refer to the 2005 STS-114 and STS-121 shuttle flights, which were the first missions to take flight from the…

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[thehikingastronomer]

So I didn't post about SpaceX's Return to Flight because I was at work, but I DID watch it at work and hooooly cow it was amazing to see a SpaceX launch again..... AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT CAMERA VIEW FROM THE ROCKET AS IT LANDED???? The drone ship appeared in the ocean and got bigger and bigger and bigger until it landed and just GAHHHHHHHH IT WAS AMAZING

[sixthrangerknight]

SpaceX's return to flight Iridium-1 mission is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Ca. with an instantaneous launch window of 09:54:39 PST (12:54:39 EST), webcast to start a few minutes earlier.

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[everythingspacex]

T - 1 DAY!

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[historical-spaceflight]

July 26, 2005 - OV-103 Discovery is launched for STS-114, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program since the loss of Columbia on reentry two years prior. 

STS-114 was a mission of supply delivery to the ISS, as well as a focus on testing new Space Shuttle flight safety and repair techniques.

Discovery also lead the Return to Flight of STS-26 in 1988, the first flight after the Challenger disaster.

[dyalani]

Raptors return to flight [Image 11 of 14] by DVIDSHUB Via Flickr: An F-22 Raptor takes off from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 21, after a four-month stand down. Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley and Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz recently approved an implementation plan developed by Air Combat Command officials that will allow the F-22 to resume flight operations. The commander of Air Combat Command directed a stand-down of the fleet May 3 as a safety precaution, following 12 separate reported incidents where pilots experienced hypoxia-like symptoms. Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Public Affairs Photo by Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson Date Taken:09.21.2011 Location:JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK, US Related Photos: dvidshub.net/r/rfvlpx

[spacewatching]

The Return to Flight launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery and its five-man crew from Pad 39B at 11:37 a.m. September 29, 1988, as Discovery embarked on a four- day, one-hour mission.