@JuddLegum Don't the Saudis have a large and well equipped military?
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Spaceflight Research (virtual blue check mark)
@SpacefltResrch
Former Shuttle guy, later Shuttle safety. Working on opportunities for rendezvous development, orbital debris mitigation, and science missions. Retired USAF.
Houston, Texas Katılım Eylül 2016
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REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.
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@brianweeden A big problem is the accuracy of the orbital elements of many pieces of debris, hopefully the system has the ability to gather and process observations on them. We might use elegant algorithms but if the input is flawed…
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Improved thresholds and SSA accuracy can reduce most satellite collision risk - SpaceNews spacenews.com/improved-thres…
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@washingtonweek @anneapplebaum Glad to see a UK correspondent!
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“What [President Trump is] interested in at any given moment is, ‘am I winning?’ and ‘is this a victory?’” said @anneapplebaum.
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@SpaceChickJen @NASAAdmin But jared just got there. What crisis did he steer Artemis through? None. When did he go to bat for funding? Never. He is now promising lots of new starts but we see funding being cut significantly - and he is ok with that. All he has is Powerpoint charts.
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As a PhD candidate in organizational leadership with a focus on NASA, I must say…I am just so impressed with @NASAAdmin and his leadership…in good times and in the tough times. He will absolutely go down as one of the most consequential administrators in NASA history.
Congrats team on a job well done!
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@planet4589 Now that you have time Jonathan we need to do a Go Fund Me to send you on a short space flight
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@SenMarkKelly The Artemis crew has the experience of ISS and Shuttle crews to start from
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In 1960s, the Apollo missions gave people something to believe in. We could use that right now. And I think Artemis II is it.
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@Matt_Francis @AstroTerry Certainly a softer landing than in Soyuz
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@AstroTerry Thats got to feel quite the bang when you hit the water and then bob about on the waves after spending so long in microgravity.
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@SenMarkKelly They are fortunate to have years of ISS and Shuttle crew’s experience to learn from
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Right now, the Artemis II crew is flying by the Moon, over 250,000 miles from Earth. Further than Apollo. Further than any human in history.
Congratulations to Reid, Victor, Christina, Jeremy, and everyone who worked to make this possible.
NASA Earth@NASAEarth
New record🥇 The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth than humans have ever been! At 1:57 p.m. EDT, they broke the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Their journey around the far side of the Moon today will take them a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.
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@AstroTerry They have the benefit of our ISS and Shuttle experience, years of crew experience in space
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The Earth just drifted behind the Moon, from the Artemis-2 crew's perspective. They are completely out of touch from humanity until~725pm ET.
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@robert_savitsky It will be interesting to see if the Russian segment CAN be separated
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This is how ROS could look like in its final form. Pretty much the same layout as before, but with Nauka as an additional module.
I still remember some people, including Eric Berger, writing that the whole russian ISS segment will be undocked and serve as a core for ROS.
afec7032 🇷🇺@robert_savitsky
Depiction of the russian ISS segment with modules of the Russian Orbital Station (ROS) attached: Node Module (UUM) Science & Power Module (NEM) Airlock Module (ShM) Reminder: NEM will be launched on Proton-M, UUM and ShM – on Soyuz-2.1b.
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@AstroTerry People like you set us up for this success
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@AstroTerry You would be an ideal person for a mission like this
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Discussing the upcoming Artemis II moon mission on CNN All Access, LIVE now:
cnn.com/live-video-5
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@SenMarkKelly Thanks at least in part to pioneers like you
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It’s happening. We’re going back to the Moon. 🌔
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@AstroTerry @steadystate2025 That was an important and meaningful speech! I’m glad I was there to hear it.
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I spoke at a No Kings rally today in Pasadena TX.
Years ago NASA made the grave error of “normalizing deviance,” which led to 2 deadly space shuttle accidents.
We need to never “normalize” the deviant behavior of Trump and MAGA.
Our democracy depends on it.
@steadystate2025
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@brianweeden The hard fact is that we aren’t going to see money appropriated for most of this.
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NASA Rolls Out New Moon Plan spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-roll…
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@JerryMoran The plan may last a couple of years at most
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NASA’s Ignition is a bold plan to land Americans on the Moon by 2028, build a sustained lunar presence & stay ahead of China in low earth orbit & beyond.
It’s going to take a national effort — Kansas aerospace leadership, bold innovation & serious investment in workforce development to train the next generation of engineers & explorers.
As authorizer & appropriator, I’m committed to delivering a successful, affordable & sustainable program.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
To return Americans to the Moon, NASA is shifting to an iterative, execution-focused approach – just as we did during Apollo. We are standardizing rocket architecture, embedding NASA expertise across industry, and increasing launch cadence to support sustained lunar operations. We are sending a demand signal for crewed missions beyond Artemis V, with at least two providers capable of bringing astronauts to the surface every 6 months. The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay. America will never give up the Moon again.
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@ron_eisele I worked the NASA/Mir program and closely supported the US crew that worked on Mir. It was a deathtrap but we weren't told that.
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23 March 2001. Mir, the Soviet and later Russian low Earth orbit space station, broke up over the South Pacific during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
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@SpaceNews_Inc Did they discuss where the funding would come from?
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In recent days, NASA officials including Administrator Jared Isaacman has discussed a new effort, yet to be formally announced, that would call for sending robotic landers to the moon as frequently as monthly, potentially to support development of a future lunar base. bit.ly/4bFWg0E
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@AstroTerry I like the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes so much that I wish we had more of them.
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@AstroTerry I’ve seen the Milky Way but not like that!
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