If they can make us dance instead of shoot each other, I am all for it!
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Thank you. I was signed out again and didn’t realize. I traded up Chromebooks. Samsung Galaxy w/ touchscreen and flips into a tablet. Double memory and storage went from 32gig to 256. Everything is better. Blender starts in a couple seconds rather than long enough to wonder “will it work”?
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Transporter-1 mission
After the scrub yesterday, SpaceX is having another 22 minutes launch window for the Transporter-1 mission today. The window opens at 10:00 (am) EST, or 15:00 (pm) UTC at Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA.
The mission will launch 143 satellites into earth orbit with SpaceX’s Falcon 9. This will be a new record for the amount of satellites launched into space by a single rocket, beating India’s PSLV-C37 launch of 104 satellites in February 2017.
Also see: SmallSat Rideshare Program 
SpaceX
Live stream on YouTube should be below:
Edit: Moved Starship SN9 test launch info to new reply
Upcoming scheduled launches (urls/links):
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Wow, February is a full schedule if all goes well. Didn’t realize how many launches happen worldwide until seeing the schedules.
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Starship SN9 - 12.5km Test Flight
A launch for this test is planned for Monday, January 25th (today) at 13:00 (am) EST, or 18:00 (pm) UTC from Launch Pad B at SpaceX’s Space Launch Facility, Boca Chica, Texas, USA.
Powered ascent to an altitude of 12.5 km or 41,000 ft, followed by a belly flop maneuver, controlled descent, landing flip maneuver and landing.
Of course LabPadre (YouTube) has live cam feeds on site. Other streams may be available as well.
Some speculate there will be no launch today, which is likely, due to weather conditions.
Temporary Flight Restrictions (see: Federal Aviation Administration - Graphic TFR's) were issued 01/21/2021 for Brownsville, TX, January 25th, 26th, and 27th, 2021.
Road closures have been issued (Boca Chica Beach/Highway 4, 12pm-6pm CST), but evacuation notices have yet to be confirmed.
Update:
Launch scrubbed, due to heavy wind.
Maybe tomorrow or the day after with launch windows between 14:00pm - 23:00pm UTC
Update Tuesday Jan. 26th
No launch today
Pressure testing on SN7.2 (tank)
New Temporary Flight Restrictions for Thursday 28th and Friday 29th.
Possible launch windows SN9 Jan. 27-29
Update Wednesday Jan. 27th
No launch today 
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Oh. I just had a realisation. So BocaChica is a launch pad in South Texas, USA…? I expected it to be a female astronomer reporting from a Caribbean island! 
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Starship SN9
- Still no launch of SN9 as we’re apparently awaiting FAA approval.
- New road closures have been issued for Feb 1st - 3rd from 9am-6pm CST (15:00-24:00 UTC)
- No new TFR’s have been issued as of yet.
- SN10 has joined in on Launch Mount #1, making it a pretty sight to watch
source: r/spacex Reddit
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Now that looks like something from a 60ies scifi cover! 
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Actually his chunky rocket design is a blast from the past. Not the same rocket but it feels like Musk is very much influenced by retro space travel. There were so many ideas back then, it is not uncommon for those ideas to be revisited.
(Old article)
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Well, there aren’t really that many ways to build such a big rocket. The thing that caught everybody by surprise was that Musk said “what the hell, let’s just build such a huge rocket!” 
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This is impressive
ScienceAlert: This Insane Picture of The Moon Was Actually Taken From Earth.
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Inspiration4 SpaceX
Today, it was announced SpaceX is targeting no earlier than the fourth quarter of this year for Falcon 9’s launch of Inspiration4 – the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to orbit – from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Read more:
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Well, if my GameStop Ponzi scheme had only worked out a little better, I would be able to afford one of those seats. 
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Starship SN9
We may have a launch today … ???
As early as Tuesday, February 2, the SpaceX team will attempt a high-altitude flight test of Starship serial number 9 (SN9) – the second high-altitude suborbital flight test of a Starship prototype from our site in Cameron County, Texas.
Source SpaceX
New TFR’s from Feb. 2nd - Feb 4th
A selection of channels Live on YT right now:
LabPadre
NASASpaceflight
Everyday Astronaut
… if no launch, I will pick from this list of 50s movie spaceships and hope to get lucky with my google-fu
source Wikipedia
SpaceX is LIVE now!!!
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2 for 2 now… “We just have to work on that landing a little bit more” sounds about right! 
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… just a tad! 
Edit: Now spoiler free
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Ars Technica: Remastered images reveal how far Alan Shepard hit a golf ball on the Moon.
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The Associated Press: Arab spacecraft closes in on Mars on historic flight.
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