Jon Edwards @edwards345 Twitter profile

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Jon Edwards

@edwards345

1 month

Starlink is a positive force in the world, bridging the digital divide across the globe. Starlink will boost education, healthcare, and economic opportunities for communities that have limited or no internet access. Everyone at SpaceX is working crazy hard to achieve this.

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This was one of my favorite days at work, bringing @Starlink ’s high-speed internet to a school in the Amazon and meeting (and getting hugs from) these extraordinary students. This picture shows just a few of the hundreds of thousands of amazing Brazilian people whom we are

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Important, please read!

SpaceX

@SpaceX

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Starship's fully and rapidly reusable design will exponentially increase humanity’s ability to access and utilize outer space. To unlock its full potential, and do it rapidly enough to meet commitments to national priorities like NASA’s Artemis program, Starships need to fly →

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10 months

Congrats to the entire Falcon team at @SpaceX on a record breaking 96 launches in 2023! I remember when @elonmusk first threw out a goal of 100 launches as a thought experiment, intended to unlock our thinking as to how we might accelerate Falcon across all levels of production

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Liftoff!

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@johnkrausphotos We are planning to salvage the engines and do life leader inspections on the remaining hardware. There is still quite a bit of value in this booster. We will not let it go to waste.

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@edwards345

3 months

Please, for the love of god, will all domestic US airlines please switch their ISP to Starlink ASAP? I’m not just saying this as a SpaceX employee. I’m simply a human trying to update my inbox and respond to a few emails. This is excruciating.

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@edwards345

7 months

20 years ago I saw @elonmusk ’s copy of Aviation Week sitting by the front door in our El Segundo office and had a feeling it might be cool to have a copy. I hope he still has the original!

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4 months

🤯 Congratulations to the @Spacex Starship AND Starlink teams today!! Without Starlink we would have had zero data through ship reentry and landing.

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2 months

@torybruno @GlenJWohlgemuth @Hohounk @Space_Ignorant @ajtourville Incorrect. SpaceX received the higher technical score.

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@edwards345

2 months

@johnkrausphotos @inspiration4x @rookisaacman @ArceneauxHayley @DrSianProctor @ChrisSembroski Losing a booster is always sad. Each one of them has a unique history and character. Thankfully this doesn’t happen often, due to the robust design and vigilance of the team. We are working as hard as we can to thoroughly understand root cause and get corrective actions in place

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@edwards345

9 months

This is why I joined SpaceX 20 years ago, and why I still work here. I just want to help make this dream a reality.

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@SpaceX

9 months

SpaceX was founded to help create a future where not just hundreds but thousands and ultimately millions of people can travel off Earth, to live and work in space and on other planets.

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@edwards345

1 year

Some pics from that day

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@SpaceX

1 year

15 years ago today, Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit

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@edwards345

10 months

@Yrouel86 @TurkeyBeaver @_lenny97 Main thing right now is to accelerate our supply chain and get our production rate up so we are consistently shipping a 2nd stage/Mvac every 2.5 days. The supply chain is a very challenging thing to accelerate and sustain as we are consuming tens of thousands of specialized parts

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@edwards345

6 months

Attaining a new milestone of 20 launches with a single booster in <4 years represents a formidable accomplishment. However, ensuring this feat was achieved safely and reliably has posed a monumental challenge. This achievement not only speaks to the remarkable capabilities of the

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@SpaceX

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Since its first mission in November 2020, this single first stage has launched eight astronauts and more than 500 satellites, totaling 261+ metric tons to orbit in under four years

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So proud of SpaceX’er @Gillis_SarahE ! Not only is she brave enough to rocket into space and perform the first commercial spacewalk in history, but she performs a concert in zero-g accompanied by musicians from around the world. What an extraordinary and inspirational human being!

CBS Saturday Morning

@cbssaturday

1 month

Polaris Dawn astronaut Sarah Gillis performed the first known violin solo in space, playing "Rey's Theme," from the "Star Wars" series. The violinist shares how she prepared for the out-of-this-world moment to inspire the world.

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7 months

Orbit!! Congratulations to the Starship team and everyone at @SpaceX . Very well done. The progress is 🤯

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9 months

Obviously I received this award on behalf of the Starship team. We only had two Falcon launches today so I was basically free to make the event. 😂 Thanks for the great event Tim! @Erdayastronaut

Astro Awards 2024

@AstroAwardsLive

9 months

Congratulations to @SpaceX for their spectacular flights of Starship! Watch live at #AstroAwards2024

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@edwards345

1 month

Meanwhile, truly remarkable things are happening in space.

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@SpaceX

1 month

Achievement unlocked - apogee 1,400.7 km Forward bulkhead Draco firing during burn 🔥

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@edwards345

4 months

Also our first 20th flight of a fairing 😊

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@SpaceX

4 months

Deployment of 22 @Starlink satellites confirmed

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3 months

I love this rocket ❤️

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@SpaceX

3 months

This is Falcon! Our 300th reflight of a booster delivers 23 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit

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10 months

There and back again, for the first time, 8 years ago today. A dream made real through the blood, sweat, and tears of a whole lot of special people. And the hard work and sacrifice continues ⁦⁦ @SpaceX ⁩

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@edwards345

4 months

Our first Falcon Heavy launch of 2024 (weather permitting)! Fun fact: Falcon Heavy lifts off with all three cores at 100% thrust, totaling 5.2 million lbs of thrust (23 MN). At roughly t+10 seconds the center core throttles down to 43% thrust to conserve propellant and allow the

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Falcon Heavy rolls out to the launch pad at 39A for @NASA ’s GOES-U mission

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9 months

Great day for a launch! Go Cygnus, Go SpaceX! (Also our first 10 launch month 👍)

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9 months

@JoeBiden Buying them Starlink terminals would be 10 times cheaper.

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@edwards345

1 year

Our new camera takes epic pics!

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@SpaceX

1 year

Views from the second stage

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3 months

At the time, this would have been considered major progress. We launched 18 times in 2017 which was more than double the previous year and more than the last two years combined. The road to where we are now was paved with blood, sweat, tears, and sacrifice. The road to where we

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@nova_road

3 months

This is what it was like to cover SpaceX 7 years ago. Was reporting for @WIRED .

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@edwards345

9 months

Everything should be in metric. We need to abandon imperial units once and for all. Such a dumb measurement system, we should be embarrassed that we still use it.

Christian Keil

@pronounced_kyle

9 months

I have known this story for a while, but never actually read the NASA After-Action Report... until today. The full story behind the $330 million mistake is fascinating: The Mission ‣ In 1995, NASA scoped out a mission for a Mars Climate Orbiter: the first-ever interplanetary

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@edwards345

8 months

Can’t stop, won’t stop

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

8 months

Due to continued design improvements, this Falcon 9 carried its highest ever payload of 17.5 tons of useful load to a useful orbit

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@edwards345

8 months

First American spacecraft to land on the moon in 50 years launches tonight. Get excited!

Intuitive Machines

@Int_Machines

8 months

In coordination with @SpaceX , our IM-1 mission launch is targeted for a multi-day launch window that opens no earlier than 12:57 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on February 14th from Launch Complex 39A at @NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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@edwards345

4 months

I’ve always loved this video. Such a good perspective of the landing trajectory.

Dima Zeniuk

@DimaZeniuk

4 months

250 successful droneship landings 🤯 Congratulations SpaceX!

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@edwards345

7 months

Four spaceships operating in orbit simultaneously - two Falcon upper stages and two Dragons 🙌

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@SpaceX

7 months

Liftoff of 23 @Starlink satellites from Florida while Transporter-10's second stage coasts through space ahead of its final payload deploys

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@edwards345

9 months

We also have a strict No Acronym Policy or NAP as we like to call it.

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@engineers_feed

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2 years

Falcon just put 17.4 mT of useful payload into orbit (new record) and recovered the booster and both fairing halves. This is only possible due to the unrelenting hard work of some very determined people.

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@edwards345

3 years

@SciGuySpace @SciGuySpace We always count AMOS-6 at SpaceX. That was 100% a mission failure.

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@edwards345

6 months

Great update from @elonmusk on the state of the company and our plan to get to Mars. Worth a watch!

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@SpaceX

6 months

At Starbase, @ElonMusk provided an update on the company’s plans to send humanity to Mars, the best destination to begin making life multiplanetary

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5 months

@Erdayastronaut Hang in there Tim! Our overarching goal is to make the Moon and Mars accessible to the masses within our lifetime.

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@edwards345

9 months

Kind of crazy to think we might hit our 300th AND our 400th launch this year 🤯🍀

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@SpaceX

9 months

Falcon 9 delivers 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida – completing our 300th successful launch!

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@edwards345

8 months

The Falcon and Starlink teams are working hard to get the first direct-to-cell constellation up by the end of August.

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@SpaceX

8 months

This post was sent through a SpaceX Direct to Cell satellite in space 🛰️

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29 days

@elonmusk “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill Thank you for never giving up E!

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@edwards345

8 months

Happy Leap Day! Nice that we got an extra day to squeeze one more launch into February 👍

SpaceX

@SpaceX

8 months

After a quick leap, Falcon 9’s first stage has completed its 11th mission, landing on the Just Read The Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean

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@edwards345

2 months

It is essential for all space organizations and companies to act responsibly as good stewards of space.

Starlink

@Starlink

2 months

The Starlink team is closely monitoring the debris created by a mishap of the upper stage of the Long March 6A rocket. The debris does not pose a significant immediate risk to the Starlink constellation, but most is likely to remain in space for decades due to the incident

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@edwards345

8 months

@KenKirtland17 Our flight leader fairing half has flown 15 times. Getting ready for its 16th flight in March. Also have a 14 flight unit and a 13 flight unit (which hopefully flies its 14th flight tonight if weather clears up).

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@edwards345

4 months

@Erdayastronaut @elonmusk @AstroAwardsLive I made sure to give it to the Starship team. They certainly earned it!

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@edwards345

8 months

6 years ago 🤯 So cool that @elonmusk let us send his car into space. Someday we’ll have to get it back for him 😉

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@edwards345

7 months

Wow, so much captured in a single video!

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@Rainmaker1973

7 months

Still one of the most epic Falcon 9 booster landings

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@edwards345

5 months

The value of a car without full self driving is going to plummet over the next few years.

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6 months

@TurkeyBeaver The pad abort test failure was actually a gift (albeit a painful one). We learned something super important that we likely wouldn’t have learned otherwise.

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@edwards345

3 months

Happy 4th of July! 🚀🇺🇸

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8 months

@Int_Machines Congratulations and thank you for flying with Falcon!

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@edwards345

7 months

Love this, rockets and baseball! 🇺🇸

Baseball Quotes

@BaseballQuotes1

7 months

The Mets booth was in awe of the Space X rocket launch tonight 🚀

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@edwards345

2 months

In awe of human potential and the beauty of our universe.

Cosmic Perspective

@considercosmos

2 months

Falcon 9 transits the moon 🎥 Watch the sound waves radiate outward from Falcon's exhaust! They create a refractive effect and break up the edges of the moon, making it ripple Incredible super-slowmo capture by @johnpisaniphoto with @freeflysystems and a beautiful tribute to

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@edwards345

5 months

Precision and elegance in motion.

Massimo

@Rainmaker1973

5 months

You don't see a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster landing from this point of view, normally. [📹 TikTok's Sea_speed]

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@edwards345

8 months

Another amazing accomplishment by the Falcon team. Undeniably the best group of rocketeers on earth!

SpaceX

@SpaceX

8 months

Falcon 9 completes its 300th successful mission

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@edwards345

11 months

Someday we might all get a chance to fly on this beautiful machine. Congrats to all the amazing people at @SpaceX !

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1 year

@historyinmemes Pretty sure the correct answer is 3.

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9 months

@Yrouel86 We add new capabilities for our customers much more often than people realize. In general, we will do whatever it takes to get the best result for our customers.

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@edwards345

14 days

Happy Birthday @NASA ! 🎉 Thank you for 66 years of inspiring us to reach for the stars and for paving the way for other space pioneers like @SpaceX . Here's to many more years of innovation, exploration, and pushing the boundaries of human ingenuity!

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@NASAhistory

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It's our #birthday today! 🎉 @NASA officially began operation 66 years ago #OTD in 1958. As part our continuing mission to explore the unknown in air and space, we've learned and accomplished so much over the years. And so many more astounding discoveries are yet to come.

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7 months

Great job to @TurkeyBeaver and the incomparable Falcon/Dragon launch team for returning this capability to @SpaceX and @NASA !

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@TurkeyBeaver

7 months

Dragon is back on pad 40!!!!

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@edwards345

1 month

🎯

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1 month

It would not surprise me to see this attitude from many. Which is fine. But some perspective: When the Falcon 9 first launch in 2010, the same could be said. We've been launching into space forever, blah blah. But here's the difference. 14 years later SpaceX is launching 100+

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9 months

“We’re starting to make it seem like it’s normal for rockets to land.” - @elonmusk , 2017 This video is only 6+ years and 250’ish landings old, but seems like an eternity ago. It’s a great throw back, I highly recommend watching.

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SpaceX completed 18 successful missions in 2017, launching flight-proven rockets and spacecrafts for the first time. It was a record-setting year and we were just getting started on our path toward a more exciting future. Watch the full company talk with @elonmusk :

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1 month

Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 8:20 pm PT. The skies are clear so should be a good show for everyone in Southern California!

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@edwards345

9 months

Can’t wait! @Erdayastronaut

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

9 months

CONFIRMED! Jon Edwards, VP of Falcon Launch Vehicles will be attending the #AstroAwards on behalf of @SpaceX ! SpaceX was nominated for a handful of missions & their ludicrous Starship launches! Remaining tickets are 25% off for this weekend's show -

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@pintleinjector It is very important to keep pushing the envelope. This is how we learn, innovate, and ultimately get closer to our goal of full and rapid reusability, which is critical to enable a spacefaring civilization.

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@edwards345

7 months

@Lezzyl_ 😂 we’re trying to keep an eye on both sides of the engine in case any issues develop in flight, such as nozzle streaking (hot/cold spots caused by non-uniform turbine exhaust distribution).

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@edwards345

7 months

This technology is going to help so many people! And the possibilities are 🤯

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@elonmusk

7 months

Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking

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8 months

Godspeed NOVA-C

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8 months

Deployment of @Int_Machines IM-1 confirmed

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5 months

It’s mind blowing how lucky we are. 🍀

Curiosity

@MAstronomers

5 months

This is how Jupiter has protected earth for billions of years. The gravity of Jupiter keeps most asteroids and space rocks away from Earth. Without it earth would most likely be uninhabitable for humans. Mad respect for Jupiter. ⬇️

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3 months

Another great shot by @johnkrausphotos ! Feels good to be flying again.

John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

3 months

FALCON 9 RETURNS TO FLIGHT This morning’s launch of 23 Starlink satellites, seen here transiting the Moon, was the first since a July 11 second stage anomaly during a Starlink mission from California grounded the Falcon fleet. In just 15 days, SpaceX identified and resolved the

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4 months

Goodbye girl, we love you 😞

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11 months

Happy Thanksgiving! I’m especially thankful today for the super hardcore @SpaceX recovery team still at sea on the Bob, bringing booster 1067 back home. Godspeed!

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5 months

Awesome work @skeech412 and the entire Dragon team! Can’t wait to see these suits in action.

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@skeech412

5 months

The EVA suit includes new features and mobility upgrades from the Intravehicular Activity (IVA) suits flown on every Dragon mission to-date. IVA suits will pressurize and save the crews’ lives in the event of an emergency, but the EVA suit will facilitate nominal operations at

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11 days

@peterrhague Just gonna leave this here. Curious if this might qualify as a “launch incident”?

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@edwards345

28 days

Great convo today. The Polaris Dawn crew embodies the very best of humanity. Their bravery, philanthropy, curiosity, and diligence serve as an inspiration to all of us. Also, they are super cool and down to earth! (pun intended) Link to the recording below in case you missed it.

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28 days

Catch the recording of today’s post-splashdown Spaces event with the Polaris Dawn crew

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7 months

😊

R A W S A L E R T S

@rawsalerts

7 months

🚨 #BREAKING : Thousands of people are witnessing a spectacular jellyfish vapor across the night sky 📌 #LosAngeles | #California Currently, across Southern California and into Arizona and into Utah, millions are witnessing a spectacular event after SpaceX launched their Falcon 9

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8 months

Big day!

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8 months

Four SpaceX rockets vertical on SpaceX's four launch pads in Florida, California, and Texas

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4 months

Congrats to @NASA , @BoeingSpace , and @ULAlaunch for today’s successful launch! Wishing Butch and Suni a safe and smooth flight to the @Space_Station 🍀

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@edwards345

7 months

Congrats Greg Krauland and @boomaero !

Boom Supersonic

@boomaero

7 months

Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world's first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Flown by Chief Test Pilot Bill "Doc" Shoemaker, XB-1's inaugural flight marks a major milestone toward the return

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9 months

Should be a great show, hope you can tune in!

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

9 months

The ASTRO AWARDS ARE HERE!!! Today's the day!!! Please join us in celebrating the most inspiring, innovative and important spaceflight and space science missions of last year! We go live at 3:00 p.m. central [21:00 UTC]. We'll be LIVE here on X and on YouTube (link below) 👇

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🤘🤘

Jade Boudreaux

@nevernorminal

4 months

In disbelief that this isn’t science fiction. Double Return To Launch Site (RTLS) immediately following the launch of Falcon Heavy this afternoon #ReadyToGOES PS you’ll want the sound on ;)

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2 months

Concur!

Pintle

@pintleinjector

2 months

Actually the coolest place in the entire world and it just keeps getting cooler

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@edwards345

9 months

It was a hell of a year! This year has the potential to be even better 🍀 Watch Elon’s all-hands meeting from yesterday below!

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@SpaceX

9 months

In 2023, SpaceX completed 96 successful missions, safely flew 12 more astronauts to orbit, launched two flight tests of Starship, and more than doubled the number of people around the world connected by @Starlink . Watch @elonmusk deliver a company update:

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7 months

Happy birthday Tom!! @lrocket

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@edwards345

4 months

@AustinDeSisto We still have a good shot at 148. In fact, we may even try to do a few more this year.

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@edwards345

10 months

Beautiful 🥲

John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

10 months

FALCON HEAVY TRANSITS THE MOON: Tonight’s launch of the USSF-52 mission with seventh mission of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane.

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28 days

Tune in today at 9:15 am PT to listen to the Polaris Dawn crew (along with Stu, Kiko, and me) chat about this epic mission!

Polaris

@PolarisProgram

29 days

Join the Polaris Dawn crew Tuesday at ~12:15pm ET for a live Spaces event to discuss their mission to space, which included the first commercial spacewalk, an Earth-orbit altitude record of 1,408.1 kilometers, tests of @Starlink , and ~36 science and research experiments

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10 months

China has 3 orbital class launch pads that are completely landlocked: Taiyuan, Xichang, and Jiuquan. Why they do orbital launches from these launch sites instead of Wenchang or somewhere else along their 9,000 miles of eastward and south facing coastline boggles my mind.

China 'N Asia Spaceflight 🚀𝕏 🛰️

@CNSpaceflight

10 months

Long March 3B booster fell in Guangxi

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Congratulations! Success on the first flight of a brand new rocket is always impressive.

ULA

@ulalaunch

9 months

MISSION SUCCESS! ULA's #VulcanRocket successfully performed its #Cert1 flight test today! Thank you to the engineers, technicians and teammates across the nation who designed, built and launched this versatile new rocket. ULA success #159 .

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@TurkeyBeaver @SpaceX Thanks Kiko! I’m looking forward to many more years. The future has never been more exciting.

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Best. Day. Ever.

SpaceX

@SpaceX

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15 years ago today, Falcon 1 was the first privately developed liquid fuel rocket to reach Earth orbit

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@KenKirtland17 Next few Heavy missions all require we expend the center core, but should have at least one mission next year where we recover it (Astrobotic Griffin).

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Let’s go Crew-6!

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For those of you watching the eclipse today, don’t forget to start #darksideofthemoon exactly 41 minutes and 53 seconds before totality.

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@thesheetztweetz @torybruno @SenBillNelson @Astro_Pam Nothing compares to a rocket launch with humans on board. The stakes, intensity, and focus are unmatched. Ironically, many of us hope that in the future, it becomes as routine as boarding an airplane.

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@Yrouel86 Got to keep innovating. Use it or lose it!

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Awesome! We will endeavor to continue producing museum-worthy pieces of space exploration history.

National Air and Space Museum

@airandspace

1 year

Two new artifacts from @SpaceX ’s Falcon rocket have joined our collection: a Merlin engine used in three launches in 2018 and 2019 and a grid fin flown on a 2017 launch. Both artifacts will go on display in an upcoming exhibition that explores what’s next for spaceflight.

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@PhysInHistory Not mutually exclusive. Not even close.

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Words every launch vehicle operator should live by.

NASA History Office

@NASAhistory

9 months

#OTD in 1967, three days after the fire that took the lives of Grissom, White, and Chaffee, Flight Director Gene Kranz spoke candidly with the flight controllers: "From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: 'Tough' and 'Competent.' Tough means we are

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@TurkeyBeaver @SpaceX @elonmusk Same to you Kiko!

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@thesheetztweetz I remember when we had one launch a year and most of us figured the likely outcome was failure.

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I met Jerry Ross when I was a young boy. My best friend growing up is Jerry’s nephew. He heard that I wanted to be an astronaut, so he went way out of his way to meet me and chat about what it’s like to live and work in space. He gave me some good advice - work hard and go to

Clayton C. Anderson - The Ordinary Spaceman™

@Astro_Clay

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Great #Astronaut , but even better #Human . Read how he helped my family when I landed from #ISS . Mom had cancer; he allowed me to be with her one more time before she was gone. Thanks #JerryRoss #TheOrdinarySpaceman ™️

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