Retired KSC Bus Driver

@Erdayastronaut @rocketgirlbecks Will it be the furthest that humans have ever flown? Did whoever initiated that bit of information, actually calculate the Moon’s distance at the time of each of the Apollo missions, vs now. The Moon’s orbit fluctuates quite a bit between perigee and apogee.

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

@mattvanswol Which is funny, because you’re not even allowed to drop off your luggage anymore than 3 hours ahead. 🤦‍♀️

🚨#BREAKING: COMPLETE INSANITY in the Atlanta Airport as the official website has now suspended ALL POSSIBLE ESTIMATES of current wait times for TSA security as travelers have had to wait sometimes as long as... ...6+ HOURS IN LINE!!!! HOW LONG MUST THIS GO ON?!!!!!!!!!

@amyklobuchar My husband had to show ID to buy windshield washer fluid at Walmart, for Petes sake!!! It is not a hardship to produce ID. Besides, you Congress mooks haven’t been listening to We The People for decades! 85% support voter ID! Pass the SAVE Act!

The SAVE America Act makes it harder for American citizens to vote. It hands private voter data over to DHS and adds costly hurdles just to register. We should be making it easier for Americans to have their voices heard and have their right to vote — not harder.

@FOIAgirl @EricLDaugh @bennyjohnson @elonmusk @POTUS @PressSec @SenMullin Actually, rethink how selfish the Democrats are to have caused this. Ridiculous. 🤦‍♀️

@EricLDaugh @bennyjohnson Pathetic. What about the thousands of other DHS employees not getting paid? It’s wrong to single out the employees that are causing all of you an inconvenience. Rethink how selfish you travelers sound. @elonmusk @POTUS @PressSec @SenMullin

🚨 WOW! TSA agents are absolutely ECSTATIC and love that Elon Musk offered to pay their salaries while Democrats keep DHS shut down They ERUPTED in cheers upon hearing the news! 🇺🇸 "Thank you, sir! Appreciate you! My man! Thank you bro!" BENNY JOHNSON: "A true patriot. I'm telling you — I yelled it as we were going through...that Elon would cover the salaries...and EVERYONE cheered!" 🔥 📽️ @bennyjohnson

@rabidchupacabra @EricLDaugh I am sure they are already sharpening their knives.

@EricLDaugh Elon will be targeted by Democrats once they've taken back control of both Houses. Our suffering is precious to them- valuable political leverage to bully through their agenda. They have already vowed retribution. youtube.com/watch?v=aJiYPl…

@CuriosityonX It’s space radiating their brains. JK! 😆 The real problem is that humans that “don’t have” will always try to take away from the humans that “do have.” And there will always be humans that never have enough: e.g. our insider trading Congressmen. So a global mindset won’t work.

🚨: Astronaut says humanity is 'living a lie' after spending 176 days in space “I went to space and discovered an enormous lie.” Former astronaut Ron Garan reveals the "enormous lie" of global division after witnessing Earth's fragile biosphere from the International Space Station. Ron Garan spent nearly six months orbiting the Earth, a journey that permanently altered his understanding of our world. From the International Space Station, he experienced the "Overview Effect," a profound cognitive shift where political borders and social divisions completely vanish. Looking down at the planet from 250 miles up, Garan was struck by the shocking thinness of the atmosphere—a delicate blanket of gases that serves as the only shield against the lethal vacuum of space. This vantage point replaced the concept of separate nations with the reality of a single, fragile orb suspended in the darkness of the cosmos. This perspective led Garan to conclude that many of humanity’s greatest challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss, are actually symptoms of a "lie" we tell ourselves: that we are separate from the environment. Instead of seeing competing economies or political factions, he saw a unified, interconnected biosphere supporting nearly every living thing. He argues that our survival depends on shifting our collective mindset to match this orbital reality, treating the planet not as a resource to be divided, but as a rare and finite life-support system that requires urgent, global stewardship. source: Big Think (2024). I went to space and discovered an enormous lie: Astronaut Ron Garan on the Overview Effect. Big Think Media.

Had to share this beautiful snap shot of Artemis that Joe Pio took earlier this morning.

Voyager hit a 90,000°F wall at the solar system’s edge. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed one of the most dramatic frontiers in the cosmos: the heliopause, the tenuous boundary where the Sun’s influence finally gives way to interstellar space. What the probe discovered there was astonishing—a turbulent zone of superheated plasma with temperatures soaring between 30,000 and 90,000 °F (roughly 17,000–50,000 °C). This wasn’t a physical wall or barrier, but a dynamic transition region where the outward-flowing solar wind abruptly slows, compresses, and piles up against the incoming pressure of interstellar material. That compression converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, driving the plasma to extreme heat levels far beyond anything found inside the heliosphere. Remarkably, despite the blistering temperatures, this “wall of fire” would pose no danger to a hypothetical astronaut. The plasma is extraordinarily diffuse—far less dense than the best vacuums achievable in Earth laboratories—so there are simply too few particles to transfer meaningful heat. The region is hot in temperature but cold in practical effect. Voyager’s instruments captured clear signatures of the crossing: a sudden plunge in solar wind particles, a sharp rise in galactic cosmic rays, and faint plasma oscillations that revealed the density and temperature of this exotic boundary layer for the first time. These vibrations—analogous to ripples on an unseen sea—provided direct measurements of conditions in a realm previously known only through theory. The heliopause itself serves as a vital shield. The entire heliosphere—the vast bubble carved by the Sun—deflects most of the galaxy’s high-energy cosmic radiation, helping protect life on Earth from constant bombardment. Beyond this protective envelope lies the harsher, unfiltered radiation environment of the interstellar medium. Today, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from home, Voyager 1 remains the farthest human-made object ever sent into space. Still operational and transmitting precious data, it continues to reveal the secrets of this distant frontier. At the outer limit of our solar system, space is neither empty nor serene. It is a violent, glowing threshold—and humanity has only begun to map its mysteries.

@ArizonaBobcat @PattyMurray And don’t forget buying windshield washer fluid! That required ID at Walmart! 🙄

The average person is more likely to be struck by lightning than they are to commit voter fraud. Seriously. That's a real stat. I'm voting NO on the SAVE America Act.

@CrustyTumor @ksorbs 🎯 Yes, exactly. What are Oscars again? 🤣

@ksorbs In the Oscars defense, they forgot to tell me that they were on. So I wasn't able to actively not watch them.

TPUSA’s Halftime Show had 25 million household views. The Oscars got 17.9 million views. That should tell you everything you need to know

🚨: After 48 years of travel, NASA 's Voyager 1 is nearing one light-day from Earth, almost 16 billion miles away. A proud milestone for humanity, and a humbling reminder of how small we are in an infinite universe.

@mattvanswol @SenDuckworth For Petes sake, my husband had to show ID to buy windshield washer fluid at Walmart!!! 🤦‍♀️

Ok Senator Duck… let's actually talk about what the SAVE Act does, since you apparently don't want to. ALL THE SAVE ACT DOES is require proof of citizenship to register to vote. That's it. Proof. Of. Citizenship. The same thing you need to get a job, open a bank account, or board a plane. The entire European Union requires this. Canada requires it. Germany requires it. EVEN MEXICO requires photo ID to vote AND uses INK ON YOUR FINGER to prevent double voting. The argument that asking Americans to prove they're American before they vote in American elections is some kind of authoritarian power grab is so intellectually stupid it barely deserves a response. I’m so sick of this crap… I used to vote for Democrats, what in the HELL happened to you?!!!!

The SAVE Act is not about stopping voter fraud. It was designed to serve the fraud in the White House. Trump knows his policies aren’t popular so he is desperate to stop Americans from having their voices heard. It’s the “Save Trump’s Ass Act.” I will vote no.

@TS_Secrets We drove our 3 sons from FL to the Grand Canyon and had the best time! Broke it up into multiple days with sites to see on the way. Sometimes we used stories on CD (Geronimo Stilton) or I read edited-for-youth versions of the classics: Count of Monte Cristo, Treasure Island, etc.

Serious question for families… How many hours do you drive before you just fly? We drove 16 hours yesterday and I’m absolutely exhausted. Halfway through I was thinking: “Why didn’t we just book the flights?” My rule has always been: If it’s under 8 hours we drive. If it’s over 8 hours we fly. But flights for a family aren’t cheap and the TSA Deal worried me, so sometimes the road trip wins. The math in my head usually looks like this: Drive: • Gas 4 times • Snacks • A hotel sometimes • 2 full days of travel Fly: • Expensive tickets • Airport chaos • Rental car But you arrive in a few hours instead of two days. Yesterday reminded me… 16 hours in a car with kids feels like 40. Curious where everyone draws the line. What’s your rule? How many hours before you stop driving and start flying?

@rotten_guts5 @TS_Secrets In an RV? - Sounds like a great time to me! And good memories made.

@TS_Secrets Don’t scare me like this! My wife and I are planning a decent road trip for the family this summer. We have two small kids and a dog gunna be crammed in a RV for 2 weeks 😅

@SusanR51NC @DividendBreeder What fast food restaurants do you consider to serve “food” to your satisfaction?

@BusKsc @DividendBreeder Read the ingredients and list how many you recognize as food.

We stopped at Chick-Fil-A for lunch. Such an incredible business model. The place was packed. Long line to place an order, barely an open table. Cars winding around the building for drive-thru. But the in-store line moved fast. We ordered and had quality food delivered to our table within minutes. While we were eating, an employee came to our table and asked if he could get us drink refills. Absolutely, I’ll take some more Coke. A great experience, overall. Chick-Fil-A is one of the best run companies, not just restaurants, period. If it was a publicly traded company, I would buy that stock and feel really good about it.

@HistoryBoutique I too have lost many of my old NASA friends. Older college-educated women are so conceited with their own intelligence, that they consider their own opinion as fact. No discussion or compromise. Because I do not agree lockstep with them, they called me “willfully ignorant.”

I had a bad day. Why am I smiling? I assure you, my soul is smiling, even brighter. Really, I had a hard few days. I saw many people in the past 3 days who used to be close friends and now ignore me. Friends whose babies I treated like my own. I very rarely cry and today for the most part I haven’t been able to stop. This is not why I’m writing. For no reason I can discern, I decided to go out in the garden and plant a native plant. I’ve been meaning to add this to one of my beds. I dug my hole, supplemented my soil, pulled the weeds around the area so it could thrive, and planted my plant. I turned to grab my hose so I could water the area and I heard HORSE trotting. i’ve never heard horse trotting around my house and I love horses as much as I love golden retrievers, which is saying a lot. I ran up to my fence and peeked my head over and what do I see… I see a young man with a cowboy hat, riding a horse in a slow trot, right behind my house. The joy, the peace, the childlike wonder I experienced in that moment was God. I’ve been talking to him all day. Praying that he help me let go of this pain and resentment I have for people who cut me out of their lives. (That is their right.) I have prayed to let go of this for months. Yet still, I dream about the friends that I lost and constantly stress about seeing them. I don’t know how to explain it, but the minute I finished planting that plant and saw that horse and listened to his trot that he seemed so proud to display and the cowboy that was in an unbreakable trance, since that moment I have been at peace. This is just a reminder to everyone that God is everywhere. He’s there to help you heal. You just have to be quiet, listen, and follow.

@NASAAdmin I can state unequivocally that making contractors be civil servants will NOT fix your lack of talent. It will bloat the space program even more than it already is. And if you make contractors also follow DEI hiring guidelines, they will not succeed either.

It’s simple: NASA needs the best talent—and we’re bringing it back in-house. We’re reviewing thousands of contractor roles for conversion to civil servant positions to rebuild core capabilities, move faster, and put more resources toward science, and discovery. We will launch rockets in months, not years.

@indepvoice @NASAAdmin Yes

@NASAAdmin Do you still require a BS for software engineers?

@4thOfJuly365 And windshield washer fluid! Hubby had to show ID at Walmart last week. 🙄

You need ID to buy beer, cigarettes, and Sudafed. But showing you're a citizen to vote is suddenly "voter suppression"? Pass the SAVE Act.