ASTR Astra Space Inc

As filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on July 18, 2024.

Registration No. 333-271589

333-274426

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO:

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-271589

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT NO. 333-274426

UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ASTRA SPACE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

1900 Skyhawk Street

Alameda, CA 94501

(866) 278-7217

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Chris Kemp

Chief Executive Officer c/o Astra Space, Inc.

1900 Skyhawk Street

Alameda, CA 94501

(510) 966-5279

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

Copy to:

Katheryn A. Gettman, Esq.

Cozen O’Connor P.C.

33 South 6th Street, Suite 3800

Minneapolis, MN 55402

(612) 260-9000

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: N/A. The registrant is filing these post-effective amendments to remove from registration any securities registered hereunder that remain unsold.

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DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

These Post-Effective Amendments are being filed by Astra Space, Inc. (the “Registrant”) to deregister all securities remaining unsold under the following Registration Statements on Form S-3 (the “Registration Statements”) filed by the Registrant with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”):

On July 18, 2024, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of March 7, 2024, by and among Apogee Parent Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), Apogee Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and the Registrant, Merger Sub merged with and into the Registrant (the “Merger”), with the Registrant continuing as the surviving corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Parent. The Merger became effective on July 18, 2024.

As a result of the consummation of the Merger, the Registrant has terminated all offerings of securities pursuant to the Registration Statements. In accordance with undertakings made by the Registrant in the Registration Statements to remove from registration, by means of a post-effective amendment, any securities that remain unsold at the termination of each offering, the Registrant hereby removes from registration all securities registered but unsold under the Registration Statements, if any, as of the date hereof. The Registration Statements are hereby amended, as appropriate, to reflect the deregistration of such securities, and the Registrant hereby terminates the effectiveness of the Registration Statements.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statements to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Alameda, State of California, on July 18, 2024.

No other person is required to sign these Post-Effective Amendments in reliance on Rule 478 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.