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An Apollo 8 Christmas Dinner Surprise: Turkey and Gravy Make Space History

On Christmas Day in 1968, the three-man Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders found a surprise in their food locker: a specially packed Christmas dinner wrapped in foil and decorated with red and green ribbons. Something as simple as a “home-cooked meal,” or as close as NASA could get for a spaceflight at the time, greatly improved the crew’s morale and appetite. More importantly, the meal marked a turning point in space food history.

SpaceX’s troubled Starship prototype pulls off successful flight after months of explosive mishaps

• SpaceX launched the 10th test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy rocket booster tonight. Both achieved successful splashdowns on opposite sides of the world during the roughly hour-long test.

• The test flight marked a signficant and encouraging stride forward for SpaceX’s Starship program, which had experienced a string of explosive missteps dating back to January.

• Tonight’s success could queue up SpaceX to conduct another boundary-pushing flight next month, aimed at improving the vehicle’s performance before SpaceX upgrades to a larger version of Starship next year.

[4K] Watch the largest and most powerful rocket launch live! Starship Flight 10

[TIME SUBJECT TO CHANGE] Liftoff NET 6:30 p.m. central [23:30 UTC] — One hour launch window.

SpaceX is launching the 10th full stack Starship with its Super Heavy booster. The booster will not be caught as SpaceX will attempt some more hazardous engine out scenarios with the booster, so it will splashdown off the coast.

But perhaps the biggest milestone is whether or not Starship S37 will be the first Version 2 vehicle to reach the goals of deploying dummy payloads, testing radical heatshield options, and ultimately propulsively splashdown in the Indian Ocean after the setbacks of Flight 7, Flight 8, Flight 9 and S36’s failures.

Want to know what’s new with Starship Version 2? We’ve got a video for you! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZbi8HBRcQ

Want more information on how exactly they’ll catch Super Heavy? WATCH THIS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAPt5vbr-YU

Want to know where to watch this live? I made a video on how to visit Starbase and where to watch a launch from — https://youtu.be/aWvHrih-Juk.

UPDATE: SpaceX Starship’s Historic 10th Flight Test | Launch, Landing, & Reentry Countdown

Join us LIVE for SpaceX’s Starship 10th Flight Test, streaming as soon as Sunday, August 24, 2025.This mission marks a major step forward following the Flight 9 investigation and Ship 36 static fire anomaly. Engineers have introduced critical hardware and operational upgrades to improve performance and reliability. For this flight, the Super Heavy Booster will conduct multiple experimental maneuvers, including: Landing burn tests to refine precision booster recovery Payload deployment trials to validate orbital operations Reentry experiments advancing Starship’s long-term reusability.

#SpaceX #Starship #StarshipFlight10 #ElonMusk #SpaceXLIVE #SuperHeavy #StarshipLaunch.

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