as part of the crew 5 Mission the crew Dragon spacecraft with its four-person crew was launched
into orbit last week by the Falcon 9 rocket however those watching the live feed saw a
somewhat odd changes before the rock had vanished into space SpaceX can be excused for feeling a
little overworked by crude launches starlink missions the ReUse of rockets and the effort
to get Starship ready for launch at the same time Keen observers noticed the NASA meatball
logo shown on spacex's most recent crew 5 launch to the ISS what had gone wrong along the process
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icon so you don't miss any of our amazing videos despite intense geopolitical concerns the historic
Mission launched successfully on October 5 and saw a Russian rocket into orbit for the first
time with SpaceX however there were other factors drawing attention to the rocket that was parked on
the pad on the side of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that carried crew 5 to the ISS the recognizable
spherical red white and blue logo of NASA known as the meatball seemed weirdly deformed and out of
proportion obviously the chance to make fun of it on the internet was instantly taken the fact that
the NASA logos text was not centered was brought to the attention of the online community severely
infuriating perfectionists users started pointing out the flaws in the work of designers although
the text in the image is unlikely to endanger astronauts lives people did not anticipate such
blatant neglect from SpaceX and NASA which for decades has been a model of accuracy and
Perfection down to the smallest detail in here you can see a comparison between the
NASA official logo on the right and the logo that was applied to the rocket in the film on the left
if you look closely you can see that the text is not aligned with the center of the blue circle
and has been moved to the right along with the star constellations others started to employ
artificial intelligence-based image generators to start coming up with ideas for their own
interpretation of the NASA logo which produced interesting outcomes users on the network started
to make fun of the awful NASA logo on Twitter the NASA meatball logo first appeared in 1959
and was used as the NASA's official logo until 1975 when the red worm took its place the agency
claims that the overall round shape of the logo depicts a planet while the Stars definitely stand
for space the circular orbits surrounding the agency's name is designed to stand for space
travel while the Red v-shaped Wings indicate Aeronautics the crew 5 logo might have been
a subtle reference to the fact that Earth is an oblate spheroid somewhat flattened at the poles
by the rotation of the Earth but it was probably not unknown factors may have contributed to
the logo's odd appearance however it's not the only recent space related logo blunder
a flying saucer form also appeared on the emblem of the National Intelligence manager for Aviation
in the end a mediocre Recreation of one of the most iconic space exploration logos won't stop
NASA and SpaceX from continuing to explore and rule the cosmos and Astound us with their new
discoveries and accomplishments meanwhile a big reorganization is taking on at Elon musk's space
companies Texas launch facility despite the fact that he makes headlines every day for changes at
Twitter according to people familiar with the situation Gwen Shotwell president and CEO of
SpaceX and Mark ginkosa Vice President are now in charge of the facility and business operations at
the company's Starbase location they are two of the most powerful Executives at the company aside
from Elon Musk shyamal Patel a senior director of Starship operations who has spent more than
two years working on the Next Generation rocket in Texas is departing the facility to relocate to
the company's Cape Canaveral facilities According to some sources before receiving a promotion and
transferring to Starbase Patel was based in the cape Omid afshar a vice president of Starship
manufacturing for Tesla with a base in Texas was also secretly hired by the space Enterprise
Shotwell and junkosa's new responsibilities were originally revealed by the information
while afshar's inclusion was initially reported by Bloomberg a request for
comment regarding the restructuring was not immediately answered by SpaceX
the Starbase complex south of Brownsville Texas which acts as the main hub for the development
testing and launches of its roughly 400 foot tall Starship rocket has constantly grown thanks to
steady construction efforts on the part of SpaceX SpaceX was awarded a roughly 3 billion dollar
contract by NASA in 2021 to build the rocket which can transport people and goods beyond Earth and is
essential to the agency's goal to send astronauts back to the moon the appointments show how eager
the business is to get Starship into the air since spacex's Inception under musk Shotwell
and junkosa have both worked there according to one of the people knowledgeable told in a report
that jungkosa came to Starbase over the summer for a two-week visit in order to provide mosque
and Shotwell with an update on the status of the construction project and add a fresh viewpoint
this person referred to John cosa's findings as frightening given how far off the company's
leadership had originally anticipated an orbital launch attempt to be the first orbital Starship
launch was supposed to take place as early as the summer of 2021 but because to delays in the
development process and difficulties in receiving regulatory approval that deadline has been
postponed the first orbital launch of the Starship might happen as soon as the beginning of December
according to information provided to NASA last month by SpaceX it was crucial for the company
to receive a license from the federal regulator for Starship launches fortunately the Federal
Aviation Administration completed a long-awaited environmental study of the Starbase facility in
June however as a result of that FAA ruling SpaceX was forced to implement more than 75 environmental
mitigation measures it is uncertain if these procedures have been finished an inquiry for
comments regarding an update on the procedure was made to the FAA on Friday spacex's Raptor series
of engines power the Starship rocket and its super heavy booster and the entire system is intended to
be reusable as opposed to The partially reusable components of the company's Falcon series of
rockets the manufacture of raptor engines was in crisis a year prior according to musk which
led to the dismissal of a vice president from the program and is subsequent departure from The Firm
since then SpaceX has increased Raptor production to a rate of 7 engines per week which is essential
because each Starship rocket has six engines and each super heavy booster needs 33. although musk
has long campaigned for staff members at the company's Hawthorne California headquarters
to relocate to Starbase to assist with the Starship Mission the company is now offering
additional incentives for relocation according to persons with knowledge of the issue last week
SpaceX made salary employees an offer for pay increases ranging from 10 to 25 percent if they
relocated to South Texas sources claim that the corporation also Incorporated performance-based
incentives for 2023 and up the hourly pay rates for non-salaried star-based staff this year musk's
company is launching Falcon Rockets into space at a Breakneck speed in addition to carrying out
routine cargo and crew missions for NASA and other organizations and that ends our episode
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