Warren Osborne

@VKAbramowicz If you get a chance a visit during AusArmourfest is worth it.

Hmm, in Cairns for a few hours layover. What should I… omg.

@NASAArtemis Welcome back! Its been fantastic watching your journey and safe return. Love it that Rise also got picked up.

The Artemis II astronauts were all smiles on the flight deck of USS John P. Murtha after they were extracted from their Orion spacecraft after splashdown.

@nicksortor @NASAAdmin I kinda feel for the administrator that comes after him - whoever that might be. It's going to be a tough act to follow, and there will be lots of comparisons.

🚨 NOW: As Artemis II reaches its final hours in space, @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman PERSONALLY bought HUNDREDS of pizzas for the Mission Control team Isaacman REFUSES to use tax dollars to support his role as administrator—even declining to use government jets for official travel He pays his own way, and donates his salary to Space Camp for kids. There’s NEVER been an administrator who cares more about the mission than Administrator @rookisaacman. 📸 @spaceguy87

@hdt885 @wdwpro1 I think its supposed to be a reference to the TV proof of concept he did based on his books.

@wdwpro1 Failed filmmaker? He's a successful author and popular film critic. The MS is made up of retards.

You have 4,000 subscribers. He has 2,400,000 subscribers. I do not think you understand that word "pushback".

I looked into it a few years ago - probably wrong because its been a while. I believe there is one if you're looking to become a citizen - it doesn't automatically expire when you leave NZ. The normal one is granted automatically (and virtually so you never see it) but expires on departure so your days in country count would go back to zero.

Hey @Qantas you have a walking lawsuit in the form of an unhinged, aggressive baggage handler lady spreading misinformation regarding the Trans-Tasman travel arrangement at one of your desks. Desperately needs retraining or let go. She demanded she 'must sight my physical permanent residency visa for New Zealand and a utility bill'. Despite knowing I had an Australian passport. Interestingly though, this happened yesterday at a rural Australian DOMESTIC airport. And she is, in fact, not a New Zealand border security officer but a baggage handler with emotional baggage of illogical power. And as I'm sure you know, no such thing as a physical visa permit for Australians exists for NZ. All whilst the actual check in lady did nothing to correct her whilst she (incorrectly) did her job for her. I'd love to pass on more information in DM's as long as you're not an AI bot. - Regards from New Zealand

@peterrhague @deltaIV9250 It was still the cold war era. Would the US have actually wound down their program if the Soviets had kept going with their effort? The concerns about moon rocks being rained down on them would have been a big incentive to keep a presence on the moon.

@deltaIV9250 By that point NASA had fully committed to the Shuttle. There would be maybe an extra lunar landing added on with existing Saturn/Apollo hardware but then no more. Soviets would have the Moon to themselves for a long time

Legit curious what would’ve happened if the Soviets landed men in the moon by like 1972 or so

@peterrhague Thought the Lunar Cruiser was scheduled for a later landing. But as someone with a 4WD, I'm looking forward to some awesome overlanding adventure videos from the moon.

The Chinese space agency maintains a continues human presence in LEO and is testing their lunar spacecraft as we speak. Also, it was a European built service module that sent your guys to the Moon, and when they land in ‘28 they will be driving around in a Japanese rover.

@TheCriticalDri2 And to you Drinker.

Happy Easter, everyone!

@Austen Back in the late 80s, one of my engineering lecturers told us that there was no need for anything better than ISDN, because no private customer would ever need more than 64kbps of data comms. Just goes to show even the brightest people can be undone by their misconceptions.

I remember people tweeting this video at me all the time: A physics phd claimed each Starlink satellite could only serve ~1,000 customers at 20 Mbps, making the whole business model impossible. Plus the cost of launching satellites was too high to sustain.

@MarcusHouse Better later than a RUD I suppose.

4 weeks is turning into the 2 weeks meme. 😅

@SciGuySpace Going to be interesting to see how he walks the line with SR-1 and the budget.

It's hard to get too exercised about the ridiculous White House budget for NASA, because Congress will address a lot of its issues. But this will make Isaacman's job a lot more difficult than it need be.

@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX Maybe NASA should contract out the camera work to NSF - their tracking is awesome. @SpaceX tracking is great too, but trying to avoid being accused of bias.

NASA’s Artemis II livestream really makes you appreciate @SpaceX’s launch broadcasts. Bad camera tracking, no onboard cameras, countdown timer disappeared, NASA even showed people in the crowd instead of stage separation lol. The screen also blacked out twice during the first 10 seconds of the launch.

@NASAAdmin To the moon and beyond! Not sure about the date, but at least its not a Friday the 13th launch.

Tomorrow, we launch. At sunset tonight, Artemis II waits on the pad, ready to carry astronauts potentially farther than any humans have traveled in more than half a century. The next era of exploration begins.

@Ellieinspace There's only one thing worse than scheduling a April 1st launch, and that would be putting it down for Friday the 13th. 😀

Will Artemis launch April 1st?

@CWLemoine Excellent. Another topic for the Mover & Gonky show.

I have questions.

@RMBee I was hoping we might get a season of them taking their first steps beyond the solar system. Seems it might be a huge leap to get to that point. I guess I will have to settle for what we could have had in the 2020s instead.

Now THAT’s what I’m talking about! deadline.com/2026/03/for-al…

@FelixSchlang This seems to be your classic tit for tat response. Apparently SpaceX petitioned against Amazon's extension request, to the FCC, concerning their ability to meet their July milestone for their LEO constellation back in February.

Amazon says SpaceX 1 million satellite constellation would take a century, making it an unrealistic pipe dream. Funny, because 5 Starship launches per day across 5 pads currently under construction gets it done in just over a decade. Maybe do the math first. We’re not even talking more than one launch per pad per day. You won’t stop SpaceX with this. The solution would be to step it up yourself.

I believe the main controversy came from Belgrano being just outside the originally declared exclusion zone. She was part of a pincer movement to attack the UK fleet that had been called off. The UK didn't know that at the time, and fearing she was a continuing threat the War Cabinet changed the rules of engagement which led to her sinking.

@CynicalPublius Thinking back to the Falklands War when the British sub HMS Conqueror sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, the sinking was a little controversial, in part because US satellites had located the Belgrano.

Could someone please tell me when it became a rule that you cannot sink an enemy combatant's warship in "international waters"?

Had a chat with Grok about the breakdown. Its about $4-6B in true Govt subsidies, about $11.4B in essentially carbon credits (selling credits to other manufacturers in line with Govt policies), and about $22-23B in contract payments. His companies' combined value is what $3-3.5T? Yeah really over-subsidised.

NEW: 🇺🇸🇫🇷 French President Macron blames Elon Musk that is subsidized by the US taxpayers: “Everybody is fascinated by Starlink. I'm super happy. But if you are lucid, Mr. Musk is probably one of the guys in the world who has had in his pockets the most billions of dollars from American taxpayers in order to be subsidized. I mean, Elon Musk is first an over-subsidized guy by the federal agencies in the US. Good news! It makes him super innovative.”

@MrtnGtlr I make one satirical comment about a single Ariane launch... but Osborne effect... mmmmnnn... I kinda like that. Ok, maybe it was two comments.

@wozosb Osborne effect? 😅

Amazing! Like 7 seconds of rocket launch and then we get a 3D render