Mike Joyce

@Jason If you qualified for the Boston, you aren’t a walker.

“Pace shaming” 😂😂😂

@colleenliedtke @NASASpaceflight Naked and unafraid.

33 beautiful Raptor 3 engines on Booster 19! 📸@NASASpaceflight

A new Golden Age of exploration is here and we’re building the team to lead it. NASA Force applications open today at 1pm ET. Join NASA through a 1–2 year appointment and work on the missions pushing America higher, farther, and faster than ever before.

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.

@PhilipJohnston @Xinyi_Tong1 Wow! Congrats !!

Most important launch of my life… she said yes!!! I secretly wrote my proposal to @Xinyi_Tong1 on our first satellite and then showed her as it passed above us at sunrise in Mexico 😍😍🤓🤓🌹🌹🥰🥰😘😘🤗🤗💎💎🎊🎊💘💘💋💋😻😻

It’s interesting to read critiques of the Moon base proposal, which seems like the smart path forward and could fit within NASA’s budget. The gist I’m hearing from critics is that this Isaacman priority is happy talk, will all fade away, and not happen. Then you realize these were the same people who: - Said Isaacman wouldn’t be renominated - Said he would was a political amateur - Said he couldn’t build a coalition to cancel EUS and put SLS on a path toward sunset -Said he was an Elon puppet (who has subsequently prioritized getting Blue Origin moving on HLS due to Starship delays) - Said he would never get Congress, which called it a “national priority,” to go along with canceling Gateway - Said he would never actually cancel Gateway These people are now saying Isaacman can’t get NASA and its contractors to execute on a plan that has administration and Congressional support. The reality is, from a policy and political standpoint, NASA is in a better place now than it has been for years. If the Moon Base fails that’s on NASA and private industry, not stupid policy. And believe me, I’ve seen a lot of terrible, pie-in-the-sky space policy over the decades. #JourneyToMars It’s a new era. I’m not sure everyone realizes this, but Isaacman and his team have eyes wide open to a lot of the major challenges facing NASA and they’re trying to fix them. They’re working long days. Weekends. It’s inspiring to see our government work like this, especially in an era when so much seems broken. I don’t know what will happen. Maybe this Moon base all will fade away. But I do know that NASA’s chance for success in the next couple of decades is a lot higher today than it has been for a long, long time. What we were doing was decidedly not working. This has a chance.

@DrPhiltill Reminiscent of the hopper from our GLXP team.

Based on the Mars helicopter? Where are the helicopter blades?! 😉 Don’t @ me.

NASA is leading the greatest adventure in human history, and it has only just begun.   On Tuesday, we’ll share our plans for the future of NASA across many of our programs.   We’ll see you tomorrow morning for Ignition.

Can Carter and I not take a fishing vacation for a few weeks without you all freaking out?!?

@StephenFleming Did you leave the stove on?

That magenta blob is pretty much centered on my house.

@NASAAdmin @Erdayastronaut @AeroBigMike I'll volunteer to fly your incentive rides to free up some of your time! (Just kidding, keep flying!)

Correct. A half century later, after more than $100 billion invested in recent history, the solution to America’s lunar ambitions is not the lack of an Apollo-era budget. That ignores the technological progress we have made from a time when we knew so little, as well as the massive investments from private industry. Taxpayers should expect more from their space program in 2026, and we are going to deliver.

Back when one Apollo mission was in space and the next was already rolling to the pad. Time to start believing again.

@Erdayastronaut This is why you get paid the big bucks!

As excited as I am for the new energy and changes to the Artemis program, I am STRESSING OUT with it right now. I was almost done with my 90 minute deep dive on Artemis, making predictions and laying out what options there are, and now almost everything I've shot has to be redone to said "has been" or "was", it's 7 pages of reshooting / re-editing / re-animating. I've been working on this since October. Almost had it done before Astro Awards in January, but then that took over, picked up work on it after wards, and it's almost all a big fat redo at this point. It is fun seeing the original script and seeing that things I talk about like replacing EUS with Centaur V, stopping work on ML2, cancelling Gateway are all seeming to happen. Now we'll have to see if my HLS ideas come to fruition too... I just have to get this done before any more changes are made there 😅 Wish me luck!

NASA does not have a top-line problem. We receive roughly $25 billion in annual appropriations, including more than a $10 billion plus-up from President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill. If that is not enough to run a lunar exploration program and do all the other things across science and discovery, then what is the right number? We don’t need to blame budgets or continuity of decision-making as the common excuse, as if a billion dollars is somehow not a billion dollars and troubled programs should perpetually stay troubled programs. NASA, like the federal government, cannot spend our way out of every problem, nor can we perpetuate bad decisions. That means not getting spread thin across too many imposed endeavors or jumping straight to the “dream state,” which is how everything becomes over budget and behind schedule. Instead, we concentrate on the needle-moving objectives, the reason NASA exists in the first place. We execute with urgency, in an iterative and safe way, and empower the workforce and our partners to get the job done. That is how we changed the world on July 20, 1969, and it is how we will do it again. Expect more from NASA and start believing again.

@rocketrepreneur @ToughSf @JeffBezos @DJSnM @Aviation_Intel @DrPhiltill @lrocket You shouldn't.

@ToughSf @JeffBezos @DJSnM @Aviation_Intel @DrPhiltill @lrocket Man, I feel imposter syndrome being on that list...

The six @ToughSf rules for how to gain 34k followers over 10 years: 1) Pick a very niche topic and stick to it. Post papers from 60 years ago, complicated charts that aren't always pretty, dive into interests without broad appeal and solve problems few people have.

@jeff_foust Wait... "private inhabitable spacecraft" is weird?

The FCC is outlining plans to provide spectrum for novel space activities, or what it calls "weird space stuff."

@ChozangNoyb @DutchRojas @grok Explain both viewpoints.

@DutchRojas The reason they were banned was to prevent conflicts of interest arising from physician self-referrals. This is a valid concern.

Section 6001 of the Affordable Care Act banned the construction and expansion of physician-owned hospitals. The American Hospital Association lobbied for it. Physician-owned hospitals consistently rank among the highest quality facilities in the country. They have lower prices. They have better outcomes. Patient satisfaction scores are higher. Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) data confirms this every year. The ban has nothing to do with quality. It has everything to do with competition. Large hospital systems couldn’t outperform physician-owned hospitals, so they made them illegal. There is no polite way to say this: Congress banned the best option to protect the worst operators in the market.

@JeffGreason @1GamewithDave1 CLOAD

@B9C_Mike @1GamewithDave1 What a huge improvement it was to be able to store programs on those tapes instead of typing them in fresh every time on the ELF!

Are you this old?

@JeffGreason @1GamewithDave1

@1GamewithDave1 I'm this old:

@Jason Sleep, it's not just a good idea...

Makes a lot more sense now