Highlights:
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Progress at Pad West aka Pad B. Lots of big plumbing delivered.
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New tank farm hardware installed, too.
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New Flame Trench floor and ramps concrete poured. 300 Concrete trucks.
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Sidewall forms in progress.
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Launch mount fab looks nearly done.
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Build site high bay demolition started, to be replaced with a new Mega Bay.
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Weather damage to build site parking garage repaired, with upgraded mural.
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Ship 37 nose rolled out without flaps, many tiles missing.
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Test tank ten moved from Massey’s to rocket garden, showing deformation from the testing.
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Booster 15 post flight engine removal completed, moved to rocket garden, too.
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Blue Ghost mission complete, with many gigabytes of results transmitted before lunar sundown.
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Discussion of techniques to survive lunar night.
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Intuitive Machines Athena mission failure report, with partial successes enumerated.
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ISS Crew Rotation complete, with Crew-10 taking over for Crew-9, and the return of Suni and Butch.
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Crew-10’s Dragon suffered a minor failure in waste processing. Cough.
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Falcon 9: Transporter 13, Starlink 12-16, Crew Dragon, NROL-57
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Rocket Lab “The Lightning God Reigns” and “High Five” missions.
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Rocket Lab proposes reviving the Mars Sample Return project with their hardware.