Richard Hofer
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Richard Hofer
@rhofer
I'm a husband, a father (twice), a JPLer, and a Wolverine. I make rockets for a living.
Monrovia, California Katılım Haziran 2008
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The biggest and most beautiful stadium in the western hemisphere 〽️
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@codebrewed OMG, I feel seen now. I’m glad I’m not the only one that notices this.
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I love how TSA rules are different at every airport and they look at you like you're a fucking idiot when you don't speak their regional dialect of security theater.
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As Michigan Athletic Director, I will:
1. Re-hang the Fab Five banners.
2. Retire “Mr. Brightside” as our unofficial anthem.
3. Lobby for an 8-team College Football Playoff, and against Notre Dame’s automatic bid.
4. Rename Stadium Blvd. to Harbaugh Way.
5. Commit the resources necessary to make Michigan Baseball the premier program east of the Mississippi and north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Who says no?
Paid for by Friends of Don for Athletic Director (this is not a serious inquiry).
#GoBlue
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My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.
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@Jbooty88 What a performance by Cape Verde. Proof that you should never ever give up.
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Less than a year ago, Ship 36 and the test stand had a really bad evening, and I was delivering pizzas. A year later, V3 launched and now I typically deliver coffee & donuts. A lot of progress can happen in a year. This was a setback, but I have no doubt Blue will bounce back well. NASA will be there to help find solutions, and this time next year, excitement will be building for Artemis III.
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Long before @NASAAdmin lead NASA he was personally cheering on the industry after painful losses. the night after Ship 36 RUD'ed, Rook was there at Starfactory with several pallets of Dominos, taking over the cafeteria and personally giving all of us pizza.
I am grateful for his continued support.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
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🇺🇸
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The entire event yesterday, launching missions, landers, rovers, tech demos building a Moon Base, and sci-fi capabilities like MoonFall, brought to you by those who Dare Mighty Things. Just the very beginning. What a time 🇺🇸
NASA JPL@NASAJPL
Four JPL-built propulsive drones – known as MoonFall – will survey the lunar surface at potential @NASAArtemis landing sites in unprecedented detail. The mission is part of the initial phase of the @NASAMoonBase initiative. Learn more: jpl.nasa.gov/missions/moonf…
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Maybe Grok just knows how to rub behind my ears, haha, but I am pumped about this! 🚀🚀 @rookisaacman
"Long-term Dream Combo — Fusion + Lithium MPD (True Epstein Drive)
If TAE (or anyone) ever gets their cigar-shaped FRC fusion reactor working, bolt one of these lithium MPDs on the back. The fusion reactor gives you megawatts of power + the hot plasma. You use some of that plasma for thrust and the rest for electricity. You now have a compact, high-thrust, high-Isp engine that can run for months at 0.5–1g while the ship spins for artificial gravity. That’s basically the Epstein drive in real life."
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Powering the next giant leap.
A novel electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor was successfully fired up for the first time during initial tests at JPL.
Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, these thrusters could reduce launch mass and support payloads required for human Mars missions.
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@FunkTion29 @NASAJPL No, there isn’t. Like any commodity, there was a spike in prices when demand fast outstripped supply in 2021, but that’s been fixed now. Plenty of lithium.
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At JPL, we’re challenged to follow the path less traveled and to Dare Mighty Things. This first test at JPL of a lithium-fed MPD thruster was all of that and more. The next test is in a few weeks. @NASAAdmin you’ll have to come back to see it firing!
NASA JPL@NASAJPL
Powering the next giant leap. A novel electromagnetic thruster that runs on lithium metal vapor was successfully fired up for the first time during initial tests at JPL. Fully developed and paired with a nuclear power source, these thrusters could reduce launch mass and support payloads required for human Mars missions.
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Looooooooong overdue.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman@NASAAdmin
The time has come for America to get underway on nuclear power in space🇺🇸
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Richard Hofer retweetledi
Dusty May just won a national championship at Michigan.
Before each season, he runs "Mental Conditioning" where the team names every problem that could derail them.
It builds the ultimate team resilience.
Here's how it works:
(📌Bookmark this)
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Goodnight Earth
Reid Wiseman@astro_reid
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.
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