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4 years

Can we get serious about the climate emergency now. Please?

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#SpaceX looks like 6 engines were out

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RIP Dick Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe. A launch that should not have happened 35 years ago today. We must never forget the lesson inside this terrible loss. #Challenger

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7 years

Bumper sticker on professor’s door at MIT. #SolarPower

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6 years

Ten years ago today, #CNN showed 8 colleagues and me the door - the end for an experienced, talented team that covered science and technology with accuracy and relevancy. Unfortunately, just another brick in the wall for corporate media's willful avoidance of the subject.

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. @JudyWoodruff possesses something very rare in our business; humility, humor & grace along with dogged determination to reach the truth. I will miss her on the anchor desk, but I look forward to the good work that will inevitably emerge as she writes her next chapter. @NewsHour

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4 years

@realDonaldTrump In the immortal words of Gloria Gaynor: "Go on now, go, walk out the door. Just turn around now, 'cause you're not welcome anymore." We will not just survive...we will thrive.

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4 years

@soledadobrien Always follow the money. Trump was great for the cable news ratings. Now that they are addicted, can they go cold turkey? Or will they cover Biden with a split screen of Trump's invective? "Trolling" Coverage?

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4 years

We have a lot on our plate, I know. But this is vitally important. Appreciate and support the work of journalists before we are all gone. Without us, our democracy will perish.

The Threat to American Democracy That Has Nothing to Do With Trump

The disappearance of local news is a slow-moving disaster.

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8 years

#standupforscience rally in Boston draws thousand to Copley Square. #AAASmtg

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5 years

The pilot flying #KobeBryant , family and friends was flying under visual flight rules (meaning you avoid obstacles by looking out the window), but as he approached Burbank Airport, the weather made it impossible to do that. /1

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5 years

I am thrilled, honored!

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National Space Society to Honor Space Reporter Miles O'Brien at Its 2019 International Space Development Conference

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4 years

Antibody test kit buyer beware! Why antibody tests, a crucial step toward overcoming COVID-19, are still unreliable

Why antibody tests, a crucial step toward overcoming COVID-19, are still unreliable

Testing, both for active cases of COVID-19 and for antibodies indicating prior exposure to the disease, will be critical to resuming economic activity. In addition, scientists are racing to develop...

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4 years

@ratemyskyperoom I should be graded on a curve for being in a hotel room!

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7 years

RIP #Challenger 7: 32 years ago we lost Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis and Judith Resnik. And we lost faith in #NASA . The agency must never forget the bitter lesson of hubris.

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4 years

Science is not a matter of belief.

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10 years

Like my new hand? http://t.co/MphEqUV18e

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10 years

Guess which is my prosthetic arm? Trying to be humerus... Mad props to @medstarnrh @hangernews for the fast work. http://t.co/3ld70UB2GR

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4 years

Imagine if we had leadership like this all over the world. The climate emergency would be on its way to extinction - instead of us.

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New Zealand just became one of the only countries in the world to declare Climate Change a global emergency. Here’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's incredibly passionate statement on why the world needs to act. Leadership...

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9 years

#Falcon9 #SpaceX what goes up must come down. In this case, yielding a perfect 10 - even from the Romanian judge. @elonmusk stuck it!

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5 years

This breaks my heart. I loved her. Working with her a treat - and always fun. I will treasure the friendship and the laughter. Bobbie Battista, former CNN anchor, dead at 67 - CNN

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5 years

So proud to be a part of the @NewsHour team covering the most important story we will ever face; the #ClimateEmergency We try hard to give it the attention it deserves, along with some solutions.

PBS NewsHour significantly outperforms corporate broadcast nightly news shows in covering climate...

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8 years

#GeneCernan never wanted to remain the last man on the moon. We would honor him by pressing on w/the exploration of space.

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8 years

By Jove, #Juno and @NASA have done it!

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8 years

Thirty-one years ago today, we lost #Challenger and her crew. RIP. We must keep exploring space in their memory. @ChallengerCtr @NASA

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8 years

Just in: new artist rendering of #BEAM deployed.

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6 years

Say Amen somebody

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7 years

RIP #Apollo1 crew on this 51st anniversary. Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee. Your and your families’ sacrifice will never be forgotten by those who understand how much you gave to get humans to the moon.

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Ten years ago today, we saw a space shuttle carry the fire to orbit for the last time. Sure, I miss the program and the missions, but mostly I long for the great shuttle family reunion we held 4-5 times a year. Hope you all are well. Ad astra. #NASA #shuttle #STS135

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7 years

He was exactly what Tom Wolfe wrote about. A moon walker and the commander of the gutsiest test flight ever; STS-1. John Young has gone West. RIP to one of the giants on whose shoulders we stand. #NASA @NASA

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6 years

Two uncontained CFM56-7 engine failures due to metal fatigue in 20 months. The FAA should order a grounding and emergency inspections to insure the flying public is safe. #Southwest1380

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4 years

Been sleepless in Seattle making this film. I hope you will tune in or click on it.

FRONTLINE

@frontlinepbs

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With the United States now dealing with the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in the world, @milesobrien examines the federal response, and the response in Washington State, where the coronavirus was first identified in the U.S. Tune in or stream 4/21 on @PBS .

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RIP Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. We lost them 54 years ago today. Their sacrifice made it possible for humans to walk on the moon 905 days later. Ad Astra.

Miles O'Brien (@milesobrien) • Instagram photo

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4 years

@JohnKerry This change in the (political) climate comes in the nick of time. We couldn’t afford another 4 years of outrageous denialism and devastating deregulation. We can make it up to future generations if we get busy now.

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5 years

@soledadobrien @jkbjournalist On it!

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2 years

RIP to the crew of STS-107 - Columbia. 20 years ago this morning, we lost them on their way home. #NASA Where were you? I was here:

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11 years

"Just a Flesh Wound" http://t.co/b0XGgYNzl9

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4 years

With the legendary Walter Cronkite at the Kennedy space Center 22 years ago today. STS-95 was the late great John Glenn’s second trip to space. Covering this event was, and remains, the highlight of my career.

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4 years

@ratemyskyperoom It’s A chrome plated combustion chamber for a turbine jet engine.

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4 years

I for one am looking forward to some -Joe- news days. I’m exhausted. #joenewsday

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5 years

The days will start getting longer now. Here's proof.

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Happy #WinterSolstice ! To celebrate, we collected an image per day over the last year from #GOESEast , taken at 1200 UTC, and looped them together. You can really see how the seasons change from #equinox to #solstice due to the #Earth 's 23.5° tilt.

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#LaunchAmerica let's light this candle! liftoff!

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4 years

We have a new robo-emissary from #Earth on the Red Planet! @NASAJPL does it again. 5 for 5 landing rovers on #Mars . They are so good, they make it look easy. But it actually is rocket science. But that's what #Perseverance gets you.

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6 years

When I met #StephenHawking in 2007, I was impressed by his humor and his resilience. The occasion was, after all, his flight on the @GoZeroG plane! Seven years later, I would draw on that example as I grappled with my own disability. Godspeed Stephen Hawking. And thank you.

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RIP #challenger crew. You are missed but remembered in loving, meaningful ways 29 years later. http://t.co/1nvU9Jtc9I #nasa #STS51L

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2 years

Thank you @greta for exposing a real #pizzagate

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10 years

I'm bowled over by the words of love, support & encouragement. I will try to thank you individually. But now I return to stories NOT on me!

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4 years

We’ve gone from wood to whale oil to coal to petroleum. What’s so scary about this transition? It is a false dichotomy that this next era will hurt the economy. There are huge opportunities to make money saving our planet.

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4 years

#OregonWildfires2020 for some prescient insight on why this wildfire season is so historic, watch my 2019 @novapbs film "Inside the Megafire."

Inside the Megafire

Scientists investigate what was behind the deadly megafires that swept through California in 2018.

www.pbs.org

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8 years

#NASA finds the Trappist-1 system -might/could- harbor alien life. #Trump works to insure USA is devoid of it.

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"Fire!" 49 years ago today, we lost three of our finest. RIP #Apollo1 - Gus Grissom, Ed White & Roger Chaffee #NASA

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4 years

My interview with @JoeNBC and @morningmika this morning.

Frontline releases new documentary 'Coronavirus Pandemic'

PBS NewsHour's Miles O'Brien discusses the new Frontline documentary 'Coronavirus Pandemic'. Dr. Leana Wen also joins the discussion.

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@soledadobrien I have never been more proud of any work than what we did together in New Orleans. Sad that climate change, racism and social justice take a backseat to the tweetstorm of the day. @KimBondy

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Seven years ago today, @CNN showed me the door. It was a lucky day, as it turns out. So fortunate to be part of the @PBS family.

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12 years

Ruff times for #Romney . http://t.co/Msm964s2

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9 years

I'm riding my bike 313 miles in 2 days. It's in honor of my late sister and for my favorite charity @lesscancer

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10 years

I trust #HarrisonFord will fix his divot.

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8 years

Said this moment 47 yrs ago: "That’s one small step for a man…one giant leap for mankind.” #Apollo11 . Where were u?

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5 years

@soledadobrien @TSA Happy birthday SOB!

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2 years

95 years ago this morning, Charles Lindbergh departed New York for Paris on a 33 hour flight that would change the world.

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5 years

A pivotal year for the future of humanity. Time to end the procrastination.

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“Are enough people ready? Turning the tide will require some hard choices about how to power our future and pay the bill,” reports @milesobrien of taking action on climate change

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3 years

A flawless launch! 2 weeks of nail biting ahead as Webb unfolds.

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3 years

NASA’s James Webb telescope poised to launch new golden age of astronomy via @YouTube

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Moderna jab #1 is on board. Stump entry. Emotional moment. One year ago today, I was in Seattle reporting on the first act in this tragedy.

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8 years

The truth: there are not a lot of great TV journalists who happen to be warm, kind & generous. @gwenifill was at the top of that short list

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10 years

At #CNN DC. Weighing in on #MalaysiaAirlines for @ErinBurnett at 7:40 EDT. http://t.co/sTtEVITWDw

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4 years

Hey ⁦ @ratemyskyperoom ⁩ - I have a new office. Need your feedback!

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The CNN that I joined in 1992 was #BernieShaw 's shop from top to bottom. We embraced our Seminal Anchor's philosophy of life and work as we marched into the journalistic trenches: Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. I'm still feeling this Bern...

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10 years

Pings likely heard without seeing a shred of debris. Would love to know what classified sub or radar asset made this "luck" happen #MH370

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6 years

The last #Soyuz down-range abort was on April 5, 1975. The crew ended up in the snow in Siberia with wolves pawing at the capsule. They were rescued the next day. First launched in 1966, Soyuz rockets are by far the most veteran launch vehicles on the planet. 1700 launches.

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10 years

#HarrisonFord is a good "stick" who performed a textbook forced landing. No doubt he will fly again in that PT22!

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9 years

Where were you when we lost #Challenger - 30 years ago this morning? RIP Scobee, Smith, Resnik, McAuliffe, Onizuka, Jarvis, McNair #STS51L

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As he rejoined the highway - with low clouds/visibility, it is quite possible he lost "situational awareness" - meaning he was lost. Did he take a wrong turn as he tried to sort this out? /3

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7 years

RIP #Columbia 7-Rick Husband, Willie McCool, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon. Sadly, your loss was distant echo of #Challenger . Spaceflight is unforgiving of those who are not relentlessly, rigorously vigilant. Lesson learned, I hope.

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2 years

#Artemis No audio or video from Launch Control Center again. NASA owes us more transparency - we are paying $4.1 billion for this launch!

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4 years

Welcome home #dragon . A new era in LEO.

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@HeyDetroit @soledadobrien Sure hope so. But good ratings and good journalism don't always correlate.

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8 years

Happy #Juno Day! Will it enter Jovian orbit w/o a hitch tonight? Hoping rocket burns to spec. A primer here: @nasa

NASA promising July 4 big bang — and lots of science — when Juno probe reaches Jupiter

On Independence Day NASA’s Juno spacecraft reaches the largest planet in our solar system and is expected to transmit pictures the 1.8 billion miles back to Earth. But even more interesting than...

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8 years

Estimated cost of #Borderwall is about the annual budget for #NASA . Maybe we should ask #Mexico to write a check for that instead. @NASA

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2 years

#Artemis1 The leak has not been resolved. And the NASA launch sideshow has been put on hold. I think I can see where this is headed.

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3 years

Godspeed Cpt. Kirk! #blueorigin I'm on CNN this morning wishing I was strapping in for a ride. You know, Miles O'Brien IS a Star Trek character after all.

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4 years

@neiltyson or as I say: "My six-pack is inside a keg!"

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6 years

Honored to be the recipient of the inaugural Darlene Schmidt Science News Award from @ans_org for our @novapbs and @NewsHour reporting on #nuclear power! Thank you!

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@NPRKelly Be safe. Be courageous. Stay covered while your cover this one.

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4 years

Working non-stop in Seattle to tell this important story. Our future is playing out here.

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In a special report, FRONTLINE investigates the U.S. response to COVID-19 — from Washington State to Washington D.C. — and examines what happens when politics and science collide. Tune in or stream “Coronavirus Pandemic” starting 4/21 on @PBS .

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Maybe we will be the UFOs (UAPs) some day. This is an incremental step in a long journey. Ad Astra

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9 years

#PlutoFlyby let's replace "nominal" with "awesome."

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4 years

@AdrienneGang The drug that everyone seems to look the other way from is alcohol. Lots of abuse of that in every episode - crew and guests. Shouldn't that be a concern for a captain?

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RIP #columbia 7. Lost on this day 14 years ago. The hard lesson of the blindness of hubris still weighs. Ad astra boldly but not recklessly

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Federal government is responsible for forest management in most of CA

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5 years

Yuri, John and Bob's Day: The two gutsiest missions in space history happened on this day. 58 years ago, it was Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1. 38 years ago, it was John Young and Bob Crippen aboard STS-1. Quintessentially Right Stuff. On their shoulders, we push to Mars. Ad Astra!

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@airandspace Years ago, Bruce called me out of the blue to encourage me to become the first US journalist in space. He sparked my mission to achieve that goal and always offered support. It was such a generous thing; nothing in it for him. He was a gentleman explorer in every way.

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Mourning in America. #trumpwins

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28,026 days since the disappearance of Lockheed Electra carrying Amelia Earhart. Investigators focused on navigator Fred Noonan. #MH370

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#SpaceShipTwo Hey media: stop blaming the pilot. We don't know enough yet. #NTSB hasn't ruled anything in - or out.

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Thrilled to get an #Emmys2016 nomination for this series. Testing out robotic arms of the future | PBS NewsHour

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#Artemis1 Ice on the tank is essentially frozen air in a crack in the butterscotch insulation. Maybe a stress crack in the foam. Air being sucked in, chilled and then comes back out and freezes. So this is not a show stopper. Still a leak in engine 3.

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I’ll be on the newshour at 6:40 PM Eastern.

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He held over Glendale while awaiting clearance from Burbank Tower to fly special IFR (instrument flight rules.) No problems there, but it took him north of the 101 - the corridor he was flying. /2

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3 years

When will #Crew2 #SpaceX #NASA splashdown? Depends...

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9 years

Happy #solstice - the days get longer starting tomorrow. And the sun will come out...bet your bottom dollar.

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