Rory Lander

What we can accomplish when we work together will inspire generations.

@NASAAdmin @mmealling @rookisaacman

@mmealling @rookisaacman We are going to build a Moon base

Our number one priority: American leadership in the high ground of space. 🇺🇸 - return to the Moon 🌕 - establish an enduring presence 🧑‍🚀 - realize scientific, economic, national security value 🧫 - make investments in nuclear power 🔋 - strengthen the orbital economy 💵 - increase the rate of world-changing scientific discovery 🔬 All of this is laid out in President Trump’s national space policy, and we’re gonna get it done.

@amyklobuchar News flash, voting machines are not secure. x.com/mad_liberals/s…

Taking election integrity advice from Vladimir Putin is a choice… LA Times report: On Putin’s advice, Trump launches assault on mail-in ballots and voting machines

Why not Godzilla? Made by @grok Imagine

The point is to build a pipeline to orbit. Human civilization, as expressed in the tech stack, is complicated, and deeply dependent. You need the tools to build the tools to build the tools to build the tools. Earth is resource-poor. You don't think of it like that, because it's all you know, but it is. All the heavy elements have sunk to the core, and we scratch meager allotments of raw materials, on the surface, from the remains of old asteroid strikes. Out there is not only an absurd abundance of everything we use to make stuff, but limitless free energy, in the zone close to the sun. In an era where some are seeing a shrinking Earth, and preaching angrily about need to make do with less, the broader universe offers... more. More than we ever had. More than we could ever use. Outside the gravity well, the limit of our power to build is our imagination. But you have to bring the tools to the stuff. And that means rockets to claw every last gram of everything you need out of gravity's fist. Once you're out there with your tools, once you can survive out there as a human organism who needs light and air and water and food and gravity and radiation shielding, once you have your tools and habitats, everything out there is cheap. Raw materials? Cheap. Power? Cheap. Transport? Cheap. Computation? Cheap. Space? Free. This isn't for a publicity stunt like walking on the moon, or for a science fiction nerd's dream of living on Mars. It's for the the second industrial revolution. It's for the next step in human evolution. It's for becoming gods and inheriting the stars. Earth is important, but it is an incubator for humanity's infancy. Western civilization is important, but it is a school for humanity's childhood. When a boy becomes a man, he leaves home with aspirations. He must not return with them unfulfilled, even in death. For there are green mounds for graves along every way in life.

Liftoff of Starship!

I made the worlds loudest mechanical keyboard

Great shot from one of NSF's robotic cameras of liftoff and catch during Flight 8, focusing on the chopsticks. Shortly before the catch, the chopsticks rotate to align with the booster's trajectory. 🎥 @NASASpaceflight

Tinkering with Grok today. Even something simple like pulling the top 10 seismic events from the USGS earthquake API is pretty awesome. grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

@amyklobuchar I'm sorry transparency is happening to you.

A judge temporarily restricted Elon Musk’s access to sensitive Treasury data. This is an important win, but we will keep fighting to protect Americans.

AI image gen with Grok. 🤔 x.com/i/grok/share/k…

@elonmusk Ummm

Tough call 🤔

When it’s all over, maybe they should just mail us a DVD of what happened. #TysonvsPaul #Netflix

Straight into my veins.

Each American will pay $3,593 in interest payments this year... on our national debt!

This should hold its place as greatest Space Flight Footage of all time until the first catch attempt for the ship right??

A great day for engineering:

Watch Starship's fifth flight test twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional.

Presentation masterclass on what networking at scale looked like at AWS. Nearly eight years later, details have surely changed, but the passion, technical depth and forward looking vision of this session is world class. #AWS #networking #scale youtube.com/watch?v=uj7Tin…