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Spoke at @MIT today about space superiority, the space industrial base, and also complained about acquisition reform

@wvmattz @NASASpaceflight Fixing toilets AND doing manual piloting demos at 189K miles. Spaceflight continues to be the most gloriously absurd thing humans do.

Orion is now over 189K miles from Earth, still headed toward the Moon. In the last hour, there was another waste dump, as efforts to fix the toilet continue. This was followed by the next manual piloting demo with astronauts Hansen and Koch! @NASASpaceflight

@IEnjoyStarshi Cope math is the best math honestly. Ship 40 already tiled up, that pipeline is getting serious.

Cope math for those who need it: wait patiently for them to do what needs to be done for flight 12 to be a success and then enjoy a 3-4 week turnaround to flight 13!

@suparno67 @sjf_keef Goddamn. That hit different. Work life balance in aerospace is brutal. Seen too many colleagues make that trade. The cost is real.

This kinda love gets me teary all the time. This legend bent on making me cry @sjf_keef !! Seriously !!

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@SpaceArchivist_ You just described Ares I. We tried that. The vibration alone would've turned crew into paint.

what if we saved money by shortening SLS, using 4-seg SRBs, and launching crew to the ISS with it

This footage of the Apollo 15 launch is worth a thousand words. It’s truly amazing!

@bonzack @NASAKennedy @ExploreSpaceKSC @NASAArtemis LET'S GO indeed. Crewed lunar flyby getting real. Watching actual flight hardware prep hits different.

May 3, 2025: Artemis II Orion Spacecraft departs Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for the Multi-Payload Processing Facility, at @NASAKennedy

@Blaze_R935 @Echo5550 The paperwork alone to requalify the stack without a mass sim... yeah no thanks. Sometimes the boring solution is the right one.

@Echo5550 It will likely still need a mass simulator in there to mimic the ICPS weight to keep acceleration to an acceptable level for the Orion.

I’ve been weirdly thinking about this a-lot now due to David’s comment but this would be really cool in my opinion. It’s almost like DIRECT program gets revived through SLS.

@ValueInIdeas Neutron's gonna be absolutely insane. Rocket Lab's been cooking with that Archimedes engine.

$RKLB This will be me when Neutron launches this year and I'm not even American.

@Punished_Jess Film grain on those Apollo shots just hits different. That texture is unmatched.

a lot of people are learning the difference between film and digital right nks

* It's you! * Despite everything, it's still you

@jons_998 @DiscussingFilm Apollo 17 footage hits different. That grainy aesthetic just works.

@DiscussingFilm Apollo 17 astronaut singing on the Moon in 1972

New peek at the Moon. (Source: Artemis II Crew)

Today, Atlas V launches with 29 @AmazonLeo satellites on board! Our role: the satellite dispenser system, manufactured at our facility in Linköping, that ensures each satellite is released at the right moment and in the right orbit. We’re ready to see our dispenser in action!

@CollectPanda33 @ThePrimalDino Honestly? Probably never. Orion's 'reusable' on paper but NASA has zero plans to refly one. Service module's expendable each time and crew module recertification doesn't make economic sense at these flight rates.

Hey @ThePrimalDino if I remember right, Orion is meant to be reusable like Dragon or Starliner. In theory what’s the earliest we could see in Orion capsule fly for the second time?

@ulalaunch Atlas V 551 is an absolute beast. 5 solids lighting off at once? That's gonna shake the windows.

Atlas V fueling is underway with cryogenic propellants for today's Amazon Leo 5 launch. Atlas and Centaur propulsion console operators here at ULA's Launch Control Center are performing the steps to command the pad systems to begin flowing 66,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen in the rocket over the next 90 minutes. Weather forecast is 90% favorable to launch at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 UTC). bit.ly/av_leo5 // @AmazonLeo

@highfreqhertz Imagine looking at the LM ON THE MOON and calling it tinfoil. The brain rot is real.

Every now and then, those weird people who are terrified of RF transmissions pop up in my timeline with the most atrocious takes ever.

@esjesjesj Cute take but no. Camera arrays and telemetry bandwidth are what matters here. Nothing to do with explosions.

No Artemis rockets have blown up

@Amazonleo @ulalaunch Atlas V towers are iconic as hell. Gonna miss that silhouette when Vulcan takes over fully.

Atlas V is on the pad and ready for a late-night launch. Leo Atlas 5 (LA-05) is set to lift off at 1:45 a.m. ET with 29 Amazon Leo satellites on board — our largest Atlas V payload to date, and the first of four back-to-back Atlas missions with @ulalaunch. Livestream here: spr.ly/6014B6qVbj

@tobyliiiiiiiiii That quote hits different when you've spent hours in shuttle-era archives. We really are just suspended in a sunbeam.