SpaceX Super Heavy and Starship updates

So much for this taking 6 months to a year...the SpaceX PadRats are out in force,

RAPTOR 3

Chamber pressure: 350 bar
Raptor 3 thrust: 590.9 klbf/269 tonne-force
Raptor 3 x 33: 19.5 mlbf/8877 tonne-force
 

SpaceX hires former head of NASA human spaceflight

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/15/elon-musks-spacex-hires-former-nasa-official-kathy-lueders.html

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SpaceX hires former NASA human spaceflight official Kathy Lueders to help with Starship

KEY POINTS

• Kathy Lueders, the most recent top human spaceflight official at NASA, has joined Elon Musk’s SpaceX after retiring from the agency, CNBC has learned.

• Lueders will work out of the company’s “Starbase” facility in Texas, people familiar with the matter told CNBC, and report directly to SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell as General Manager.

• She represents a key hire for SpaceX as it aims to make its massive Starship rocket safe to fly people in the coming years.

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Lueders retired from NASA at the end of April, following a 31-year career with the agency. Before leading NASA’s human spaceflight program, she oversaw the culmination of its Commercial Crew program as manager, including the first SpaceX missions to carry NASA astronauts.

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