Joe Tegtmeyer 🚀 🤠🛸😎

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@MikeSeeley @SpaceX @NASA Beautiful!

One of my photos of the March 4 Starlink 10-40 SpaceX Falcon 9 launch was chosen as NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (”APOD”) for today. I’m humbled by this, as the “Space Jellyfish” shown was visible across much of the U.S. East Coast, and many very cool photos were captured of it. The caption, written by the very smart Cecilia Chirenti, well describes the phenomenon shown. Photos don’t really do it justice; it’s truly breathtaking, like a giant illuminated flower opening in the night, or, if a more apocalyptic tone is your thing, it’s like the night sky is ripping open. Big shout-out to the ever-cool and ubiquitous John “Snap” Kraus aka @johnkrausphotos, who has developed an app to gauge the likelihood of a still sometimes surprising space jelly, located in public beta here: jellyfish.johnkrausphotos.com. The prediction for this launch was good, and this is a tool every launch/weather enthusiast should know about. This frame was captured using the same camera I stuck in the Banana River for the streak, inverted under my tripod, just a couple of inches above the water. The water wasn’t still enough for the mirrored shot I hoped for, but the jelly glow is reflected nicely. After I ended the streak shot, I quickly dialed in some settings, and this is what I came up with. APOD link here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260319.… Details: ISO1250, f4.5, and 1.3-secs captured with a @CanonUSA R5M2 and EF24-70mm L lens.

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Artemis II SLS Rollout LIVE! x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

SPACEX: +60 second deluge test at Pad 2.

Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen entered quarantine on March 18, 2026, ahead of NASA's target launch date of April 1. We're reminiscing on their journeys and found some familiar faces that are heading around the Moon soon! 🌕 📸: NASA

Live television interview with TVM Malta from the middle of the South Atlantic, only possible over Starlink.

@AJamesMcCarthy You think you can sneak a camera onboard? 🤓

Humans for scale Next stop, the moon 🌙

Giga Bay update - March 16, 2026 - @SpaceIntel101

New cadence of COPV testing at Massey's!

Satellites integrated and encapsulation complete for our upcoming launch for the European Space Agency @esa. The "Celeste" IOD-1 & IOD-2 satellites will test next-gen satnav technologies in LEO that support ESA's current Galileo system in higher orbit.

Catch vibes 🚀. Can’t wait to see this again this year.

Great summary … the entire architecture of @NASAArtemis is in upheaval and changing fast. Now both @blueorigin and @SpaceX must demonstrate their systems and approach can pick up the baton and execute missions at a high safety and tempo rate. Going to be an exciting next 24-36 months!

NASA may be handing SpaceX the keys to the Moon!!! According to a Bloomberg article just posted today, instead of Boeing’s SLS rocket doing the heavy lifting, Starship could now dock with Orion in Earth orbit and take astronauts all the way to the lunar surface. Big win for SpaceX, bad news for Boeing, & a major shake-up for Artemis III. 🌕🚀

@Mackquinney1 @SawyerMerritt @shr0a0 @carwowuk @Tesla True

Joe, Follow the money (and the incentives) and then you’ll see the smear job that is afoot. It’s dirty enough already, but then they use terms like “journalist”, “objective”, “unbiased”, “standards”, and “integrity”. Which makes me use terms like “hypocrisy” and “dishonor” in response. You can’t hate the MSM enough. I can’t believe a word they say.

Carwow just released a new video to its 11 million YouTube subscribers titled: "Why Tesla Full Self Drive is Pointless!" @carwowuk misleads its viewers into thinking Tesla’s Autopilot is FSD, even though FSD hasn’t been approved in the UK yet. Autopilot isn’t meant for city driving, yet they test of bunch of scenarios that Autopilot wasn't built to do in the first place....

Mission complete. After three months in orbit and 49 tests completed validating critical systems, components, and processes, we have successfully performed a controlled deorbit of Haven Demo, our in-space testbed for Haven-1 technologies. Read more. vastspace.com/updates/haven-…

NEWS: Tiny SpaceX rocks Boeing Starship will now boost Orion and the Artemis crew to the Moon rather than Boeing's SLS.

@koalafiedtesla @SpaceX Congrats!

Well, crossed something off of my bucket list today! Finally got to see a @SpaceX Falcon 9 launch! Weather was kinda cold but it was SO worth it!

NEWS: Tesla is asking a Colorado federal court to throw out a suit alleging that a defect in its Autopilot technology led to a fatal car crash, saying the evidence now shows that Autopilot was not on, and that the driver was drunk well beyond the legal limit. law360.com/productliabili…