How do we not yet have a general thread about space exploration and related activities? With so many private launches & missions, in addition to the likes of NASA, there’s plenty to discuss.
Unfortunately, the first topic is a sad one. Humanity’s first extraterrestrial aerospace mission has come to an end, following a forced landing by Ingenuity:
Well we don’t have any one tread but there are other threads about specific events
And there’s the #space tag
I don’t think it’s actually that sad.
Plucky little blighter was designed to carry out 5 test flights over a month, and ended up venturing out 72 times over 3 years.
Getting to fly around Mars and be millions of miles away from people is a pretty good life if you ask me.
Second lander in 2 months to end up on its side 
Time to get excited again! SpaceX announced the flight plan for Starship Flight 3. Could potentially be as soon as next week, if they get permission.
SpaceX hinted that Starship (in the distant future) will have a slight spin on route to Mars to
simulate artificial gravity.
As to Lunar landings - there is an excellent video on YouTube regarding the Surveyor missions in the sixties - highly successful soft landers using the very basic technology of the time.
When/where was this shared 
Starship will have a small spin on the way to Mars. Even a tiny gravity vector is better than none.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)March 6, 2024
Back when Starship was being dreamed up, there were plans of having multiple Starships that could dock together once in orbit and then great a station of sorts that could spin during Martian transits to give a small amount of gravity. There was talk of a ‘butt-to-butt’ style docking, suing an umbilical type system to essentially rotate two of them around a much bigger circle.
Cool stuff, but many years off.
Launch of the last Delta Heavy IV going up at about 1845 ish.
Go for launch, 5 mins! Now holding…
Scrubbed 
Sat here with my dinner all ready 
Never mind… 
Well I heard them say “24 hour turnaround” so sounds like it’s same time, same place tomorrow.
