Jason Dunn

The future is certain, just give us time to work it out.

@DrChrisCombs High beta decelerators are tough

At risk of stating the obvious, "rapidly reusable" tiles probably shouldn't do this

@angelaroosee NGL giving me this kind of vibe

The fact that people people are living out of their cars and campers near SpaceX Starbase South Texas Launch Site on the beach is so wild to me. On guy claims he saw God, and that Elon Musk told him to do something productive with his life 🤣🤣

@GunloverClub1 Enders Game is real

Imagine a soldier who trained his whole life, mastered hand-to-hand combat, and ran 5 miles a day, only to get killed by a geek sipping a Sprite Zero in an air conditioned room. Modern warfare is wild.

Let’s go @TimDraper ! We are honored to unlock the next layer of global logistics with you.

The next wave of the space economy won’t be built the way the last one was. Strong perspective from @AmirBlachman on what’s missing and what comes next. spacenews.com/spaces-missing…

This video really hits home for me. My family lives just over the hill from the Palisades and had the good fortune of the winds blowing the other way that day. But seeing this is a reminder of the reality that lives in the back of our mind of what could happen. Simple actions like burying the power lines and making water more accessible would save communities and I hope @spencerpratt is able to make that happen.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

@PangaStock LOFTID is an inflatable decelerator. We have designed one that mechanically deploys to save on mass, complexity, and is retractable. Both use the same concept of large surface area to reduce ballistic coefficient on re entry and protect the payload.

@ImJasonDunn Is this a verizon of LOFTID?

Outpost is building the heavy downmass complement to SpaceX's upmass dominance.

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@ethanbarajas11 @Farshchi It is very difficult to iterate quickly on hardware that has to operate on a crewed space platform because of the cost and time to certify it, plus the infrequency of Earth return.

@ImJasonDunn @Farshchi Yep. Unfortunately, crew certification of hardware adds cost at every level. To scale on orbit we need to decouple presence from operations. To be clear, no need to eliminate humans, but we should not be requiring them for everything either.

The only humans sent to space ought to be tourists Robots should be doing all the science/mining/building/etc

@astro_reid Thats awesome 🙏

Been waiting for this moment. There is a lot in my head that I must process and very little has to do with leaving the planet. Today is my first step. I have never in my life felt peace like this.

Building open claw agents is the most early adopter thing I have ever done and feels like such a super power.

@benc0nrad yes, thats a big part of it

@ImJasonDunn Its the 3d printerers

I can’t believe 3D printers are still this dumb

@astro_reid @Astro_Christina Shot on iPhone

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@Comrademarsalex Now you’ve got me wondering how it could be even more true than I was thinking

@ImJasonDunn This is far more true than you might have been thinking

Expanding into space and taking care of Earth aren't competing priorities — they're the same priority seen from different altitudes.

@NYCMayor From each according to their ability. To each according to their need.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.