Is this creature in your house intentionally? And if so, whose intention?

2026-06-24:

• Massey's: Overnight, S40 rolls out to Massey's. (NSF, Avid Space, ViX, Starship Gazer 1, Starship Gazer 2, Gomez)
• S40 performs its first engine test. Full LOX load, partial methane load, igniter test, and detank. (Avid Space, ViX, StarshipGazer)
• Tank farm spools up. (TrackingTheSB)
• LOX loading. (TrackingTheSB)
• Methane loading. (TrackingTheSB)
• Igniter test. (efraser77, wvmattz)
• Detanking. (J_A_Rees_94)
• NSF full livestream.
• Road delay for "Masseys to Production" is still scheduled for Jun 24th 23:59 to Jun 25th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive)
• Florida: A chopstick arm 1 of 2 is transported from Roberts Road towards SLC-37. (NSF, Avid Space, Evans, J_A_Rees_94, ABernNYC)
• The roof of the Florida Gigabay is nearing completion. (Anderson / Copernicus)

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2070002888471138506

Deployment of 24 @Starlink satellites confirmed

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3mp3j5ja2u227

#Falcon9 fairing halves of Starfall Demo

https://bsky.app/profile/rykllan.bsky.social/post/3mozgjis6k226

#Falcon9 fairing halves of #Starlink 17-54

The post says 17-54, but I think this is a typo. The image says 17-28.

M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Liftoff!

Launch pushed back by 11 minutes, now scheduled for 03:30:38 UTC.

A 2016 Nature study

To be more specific, this study in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12172

Edit: Ha! NoSpotOfGround beat me by 2 minutes.

now this person doesn't have the drastically higher chances of surviving Malaria

Do they not?

one parent passes on the gene it doesn't lead to sickle cell yet it provides the benefits against malaria

They can't have edited all of the patient's cells, just enough of them to produce enough normal non-sickle blood cells to cure the disease. Would the remaining cells which still prosess the sickle-cell gene provide any protection against Malaria?

the therapy uses a patient’s own stem cells that have been edited in a lab so they no longer produce the defective cells that cause the disease

Huzzah. So awesome that we can do this now.

Any tasty pizza is a good pizza no matter how it looks

Would you consider the Ultimate Pizza Sandwich likely to fit in that category?

And hat eating

2026-06-23:

• Build site: Overnight, B21's forward section (FX:3, the hotstaging section) moves from Starfactory to Megabay 1. (ViX, TrackingTheSB, Flight2Starship)
• The ship static fire stand moves from Sanchez to Megabay 2. (ViX)
• S40 is transferred to the static fire stand. (ViX)
• S40 rollout is delayed until between Jun 23rd 22:00 to Jun 24th 02:00. (ViX)
• S40 exits Megabay 2. (TrackingTheSB, NSF, cnunezimages)
• S40 rollout begins. (TrackingTheSB, NSF, CeaserG33 1, CeaserG33 2)
• The nosecone with a hole in it has had a pipe with a flange attached to the hole. Likely to pressurise the nosecone during testing. (StarshipGazer, RyanHansenSpace)
• Massey's: Road delay for "Masseys to Production" is posted for Jun 24th 23:59 to Jun 25th 04:00. (starbase.texas.gov, archive, ViX)
• Launch site: Pipes are delivered to the cryo offload area. (ViX)
• Pad 1 reconstruction continues. (cnunezimages 1, cnunezimages 2)
• Florida: Launch tower construction at SLC-37 continues. (Anderson)

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2069420637383168301

Deployment of Starfall confirmed

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

Nominal orbit insertion. Looks like no views or further coverage of Stage 2.

MECO, stage separation, M-vac startup, and fairing separation confirmed.

Liftoff!