𝕏 Elroy von Braun 🚀 🪐 𝕏

@DrunkRepub Hope next up isn’t Civil War II. The nation lost around 650,000 citizens in the last one.

The fact that we are having a hard time throwing America a 250th birthday party because leftists are threatening to kill everyone involved is the most zeitgeist shit I’ve ever seen in my life

It was always an awkward moment when someone needed the red bat. “Yeah, Billy, you can play but you gotta use the red bat.” “But I wanna use the yellow bat like everybody else.” “Motherfucker, you went 0-for-46 yesterday. The yellow bat is no longer an option for you.”

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy. Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead. There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems. We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes. @NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible. America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

Well, he has tenure

I'm in my very early 60s. The best President of my lifetime is Donald Trump. The best Vice President of my lifetime is JD Vance. The best SecDef/War of my lifetime is Pete Hegseth. The best SecState of my lifetime is Marco Rubio. The best SecTreasury of my lifetime is Scott Bessent. The best entrepreneur of my lifetime is Elon Musk. We truly live in a Golden Age.

This seems relevant again. For non-nerds, Blue Origin took NASA's design approach, careful (and slow) design, with extensive reviews, to produce a rocket that works the first time with no embarrassing explosions. It just exploded and destroyed their only launchpad. The SpaceX approach is, "Build a prototype, smash it on the concrete until it breaks, then reinforce the part that broke and do it again." In my opinion, 20 iterations of the SpaceX approach might produce a design that can reasonably be called "robust." The NASA approach never did. Let's hope Blue Origin has better luck.

This funny! And I use to ride road bikes.

Elon Musk on why rockets are hard: “There are thousands of things that can go wrong.” “There are thousands of things that can go wrong and everything has to go right. Once the rocket lifts off, there's no opportunity to do a recall or upload a software fix or anything like that. Passing grade is 100%, at least for the ascent phase. I've seen rockets blow up in so many different ways, so, you know, it's a big relief when it actually works.” From: Falcon Heavy Press conference, February 7, 2018

In case we didn’t have a good sense for how much energy is loaded into a rocket. This shows it.

Ornella Muti was insane for this🔥 Flash Gordon (1980)

@InfraDalek2 @RetroMoviesDB It was her Dad the Emperor Ming the Merciless that called for the bore worms to torture his daughter on the table.

@RetroMoviesDB Kinky fun with Ornella Muti….

Sorry ladies, only guys would understand 😂🤣😇

Men at work vs. Men at home You can laugh! 😂😂

Cybercab driving itself out of the GigaTexas factory

@dontsayrino @ByronYork He will be the bad guy if he doesn’t cleanup and reform the CIA. Not a lot of leaks from the deep state to their media friends about the CIA house being cleaned out.

@ByronYork Interesting article, but how is Ratcliffe the bad guy? This went on for decades. They caught him under Ratcliffe.

The gold bars thing has people shaking their heads. What would a CIA employee (who got his job by lying about his past) do with 303 gold bars? And why did the CIA give them to him, plus another few million in cash? washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

🚨BREAKING: Tesla has been authorized by the State of Texas to operate driverless vehicles commercially under the new law that took effect today, May 28th, 2026. Tesla has officially self-certified the software running on its robotaxis as Level 4. $TSLA