Tim Peterson

Engineering is real magic

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

And splashdown! America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon and bringing them home safely. Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy did an outstanding job. These talented astronauts inspired the world and represented their space agencies and nations as humanity’s ambassadors to the stars. This was a test mission, the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, pushing farther into the unforgiving environment of space than ever before, and it carried real risk. They accepted that risk for all we stood to learn and for the exciting missions that follow, as we return to the lunar surface, build a Moon base, and prepare for what comes next. And they were not alone. The entire NASA workforce, our commercial and international partners, and the hopes and dreams of people all over the world were with them. The astronauts know it, and you should too. This mission would not have been possible without you. Congratulations. Artemis II, mission accomplished.

Recovery operations for Artemis II require elite coordination between NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the USS John P Murtha. As a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, the Murtha is uniquely equipped to handle the Orion spacecraft recovery. 🚀🌖⚓️

@RobSchneider @TheBigRuss77 Soon to be " North Montana"

I officially RECOGNIZE the NEW INDEPENDENT NATION of ALBERTA and its separation from the People’s Republic Of Canada and the socialist morons in Ottawa.

@WCCSG_ @CSG_MSU @CSG_Griz 4 time national champions MSU Bobcats! FTG!

Brawl of the Wild Which side are you on? A. Montana B. Montana State

You tried to paint me as a pervert for exposing fraud, and as a result radical leftists started trying to dox me and send death threats, wanting to kill me. Now you are taking credit for “leading the charge” on the fraud. Are you serious? You are the fraud.

@IBDinvestors MMM

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406 Day hits different in the Treasure State 🏔️💙💛 From Bozeman to every corner of Montana, we rep the 406 with pride. Here’s to the fans, the grit, and the gold standard of Bobcat Nation. Go Cats Go! #GoCatsGo

@DailyMail You seem disappointed. Now you know what your parents feel like!

Where no man has gone before.😑

@WilliamShatner Have you ever been to Bozeman Montana?

Over the past 48 hours, I had the privilege of witnessing two of the most daring, bold, and courageous rescue operations in American history. Each phase was marked by profound moments of grace—small miracles made possible through unrelenting tenacity, extensive experience, and elite training. From the highest levels of planning to the final execution, the effort was nothing short of extraordinary, characterized by relentless determination, unbreakable resilience, and flawless coordination. God bless our troops. God bless our Secretary of War. God bless our President. Happy Easter. God is good. 🇺🇸

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child" - Cicero Luke 24:6-7 He is not here; He has risen! Happy Easter everyone!

Fantastic! 🏅

For the 1st time in Bozeman, our Mayor has proclaimed April 5 as First Contact Day. On this date in 2063, humans will meet the Vulcans here in Bozeman. “Look to the stars with hope and to one another with open hearts and open minds,” Mayor Morrison said. Live long and prosper 🖖

@CityofBozeman Is Zefram Cochrane currently residing in Bozeman?

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon. He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in. I laughed. I feel a little bad about that. Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen. I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.” Be prepared to duck. Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop. My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence. Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it: “I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.” That always broke the ice. PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out. They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman. The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey? What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest. Have you deployed? Have you seen combat? In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio. “Medic.” Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights. That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ. He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that. And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven. The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in. This is the quiet math underneath American violence. Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot. Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.