Back to the Moon: Artemis II Prepares for Launch 🌕

The Space Coast is closing out 2025 with over 100 launches in a single year – and it’s only getting busier. SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA, Stoke, and Relativity are all racing to scale up operations, while Artemis II inches closer to sending humans around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

In this month’s Space Coast Update / KSC Flyover 43, Max Evans is joined by Martijn Luinstra and Sawyer Rosenstein to break down all the latest hardware and construction progress across the Cape:

Starship in Florida – Roberts Road tower modules, chopsticks, LC-39A’s new launch mount, Giga Bay steel rising, and SLC-37 finally cleared for Starship under a completed EIS & ROD.

Blue Origin’s big moves – New Glenn’s second flight and booster recovery, LC-36 tank farm upgrades for subcooling, Exploration Park factory expansions, and the reveal of New Glenn 9x4.

New rockets on the block – Stoke’s Nova at LC-14 and Relativity’s Terran R at LC-16, with new water towers, flare stacks, propellant farms, and pad construction ramping up.

ULA & Artemis II – New Vulcan MLP rollout and testing at SLC-41, plus Artemis II rollout prep at LC-39B as SLS and Orion head toward a 2026 lunar flyby.

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🤵 Hosted by Max Evans, Martijn Luinstra, Sawyer Rosenstein.
🖊️ Written by Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera, Martijn Luinstra.
🎥 Footage from: Julia Bergeron, Max Evans, Jerry Pike, D Wise, Space Coast Live, Starbase Live, Stoke, Relativity, NASA, ESA, SpaceX, Ceaser G, Colleen Liedtke, SJRWMD, Planet Labs PBC via Harry Stranger, ULA.
✂️ Edited by Sawyer Rosenstein (@thenasaman).
💼 Produced by Kevin Michael Reed (@kmreed).

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