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@MAstronomers We trained brave Bruce in the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator in Huntsville with an underwater version of the MMU. He was confident & eager to use it in space. Astro Bob Stewart also flew with it. If it had failed, the shuttle could have maneuvered over to Bruce but the pilot would

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@AMAZlNGNATURE Morays, especially the greens, are docile, intelligent, and curious. You almost have to stick your fingers in their mouths to be bitten. I have always enjoyed my time underwater with the green morays. They are a threatened species.

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Sad news: Family statement on the death of Sam Durrance: Sam died quietly today (May 5, 2023) surrounded by family after a long struggle with dementia and Parkinson’s disease. He had spent his final days in hospice care at a facility in Viera, Florida. Sam was a veteran of

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RIP Frank Borman. You and the crew of Apollo 8 made Christmas '68 a great one for our country & the world. After the Apollo 1 fire, you also masterfully defused & reassured a reluctant Congress that might have cancelled the program. Thank you, sir.

Frank Borman, Apollo 8 astronaut who led first flight to the moon, dies at 95

'My reason for joining NASA was to participate in the Apollo program, the lunar program, and hopefully beat the Russians. I never looked at it for any individual goals.'

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When VP Pence ordered @NASA to land on the moon by 2024, I told his people if they were serious, they should take SLS out of the critical path. Now I must be honest & say I was wrong. What I should have advised was that @NASA HQ be taken out of the critical path.

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7 months

Congratulations @Spacex ! Prodigious! The Rocket Boys of the Big Creek Missile Agency are proud of you!

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2 years

Everybody can just relax. The #RocketBoys are preparing to take care of that balloon if it dares to fly over Coalwood, West (don't mess with us) Virginia!

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11 months

Looks like the Starship 2nd stage came in well north of the Virgin Islands although my property manager on St. John heard booms and thunder and reported something like a meteor coming in. Windy today in the VI so shipping was at a minimum. That is very deep water out there.

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@Habubrats71 Bruce was extremely brave. I helped train him on an underwater version of the MMU. However, he & NASA were not involved in a potential suicide mission. If the MMU had failed, the shuttle could have maneuvered over to him but it would have taken some white knuckle flying.

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3 years

This arguing about where space begins is silly. It begins at 60,000 feet, the cruising altitude of the Concorde where the curvature of the Earth is clearly visible. I know this because I rode the Concorde twice. Thank you. - Astronaut Homer Hickam.

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I recently found this 8 mm film of a football game at @virginia_tech @HokiesFB around 1960. I'm pretty sure my dad took it. I recall the grassy slopes and no stands. Note the upperclassman cadets gradually moving down to the sidelines.

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Sad news has reached us that Astronaut (Dr.) Sam Durrance has entered hospice. Sam was a Payload Specialist on the Astro-1 and Astro-2 missions (STS-35 & STS-67). To my knowledge, Sam never received his astronaut wings because at that time it was required to be a @NASA employee.

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2 years

Our Molly passed today. She was a wonderful girl. We were graced by her presence of which we are mindful & grateful to her Maker and ours.

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1 year

The producers of the film "December Sky" in development wanted to visit Coalwood, the home of the Rocket Boys so we went last week. It has changed a lot since the 1950's but the spirit of the people is still there. We visited the church, the old machine shop, the ruins of the

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6 years

Today marks the premiere 20 years ago of October Sky the movie which has inspired countless people, young and old. It's also my birthday. Coincidence? I don't think so.

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To reiterate: The question keeps being asked and my answer remains the same. I would not bring the crew back in Starliner. Boeing is a great company but to stay great, even if their management confidence is high, they should not take any chances with the people in their care. It

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For weeks and weeks I was 100 percent confident astronauts were coming back on Starliner. About 10 days ago I was 80-20 they were. Now, I am less than that. NASA needs to be more transparent.

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Just heard a fellow from Appalachia who is a military veteran and wrote a best-selling memoir about his childhood that was then made into a movie by Hollywood has been picked to be Vice President of these United States of America. This has made me wonder two things: (1 How to get

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@no_code_blue @MAstronomers lol. Well, that was in 1984. I've moved on since then. 😉

Home - Homer Hickam, Author, Official Site

Homer Hickam, author of many books, is best known for his # 1 New York Times best-selling memoir Rocket Boys which was adapted into the movie October Sky.

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Astronaut Bill Anders of Apollo 8 has passed. He was one of the bravest of the brave. Apollo 8 was definitely a roll of the dice but he, Lovell, and Borman were willing to chance it and became the first humans to fly to the moon. As James Michener asked, "Where do we find such

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A little trivia: Principle filming for the movie #OctoberSky began on my birthday Feb. 19, 1998 & premiered on my birthday in 1999. The producers didn't know that day was my birthday until I pointed it out. I thought it was "way cosmic."

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6 months

Our Summer passed away today. She was a beautiful cat with a great deal of dignity. We will miss her.

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55th Anniversary! We Americans who were alive can recall exactly where we were during the first moon landing. I was at the hospital at Fort Lewis, WA, having some debris removed from my legs and face, courtesy of the Vietnam war. Watched it on a black & white TV with other VN

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They tore the old school down yesterday. The #RocketBoys went here 1-9 grades. They may destroy our places but never our spirits. Like those vaults that keep seeds to plant if the Earth is destroyed, West Virginia will keep its truths ready for when the world tires of lies.

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I recall early in the @spacex dev of Falcon 1, a static test fire cut off in a few seconds. I sent word to them that said "Oh, well. That's why you test. Try again tomorrow or next week." They lit that fuse in about two hours. That's when I realized they were kinda special.

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Remember the fallen here: @44MagnumBlue1 . War is the worst idea mankind has ever had. It is so easy to get into one. The price is blood and tears, oceans of both, to get out. Do not think it won't happen again. The same kind of people who got us into Vietnam are still in charge.

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@SciGuySpace Brave. Courageous. Someone at NASA really does want to go back to the moon in real time.

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@LannieStabile I once had no one show up for a book signing & that was for a book that eventually sold millions. The one person I thought came to see me asked me to move, there was a book behind me he wanted. I signed stock, smiled, & made a run for it.

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For sure, I may disagree with @NASA officials about some things but I never doubt their sincerity and hard work along the pathways to space against formidable political & budgetary constraints. Theirs is not an easy task & I’m grateful they are willing to press on.

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Dear Aliens: This is probably not a good time to show up. We're a little on edge right now about a number of things and probably won't be at our best. Thank you.

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11 months

@peterrhague lol I'm older than the first flight of the V2 rocket.

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10 months

@SpaceX We’d love to have her @RocketCenterUSA @SpaceCampUSA and would give her a place of honor. We’d even fix her dents.

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@SciGuySpace Cancelling smaller valuable missions like VIPER and continuing SLS is like throwing all your clothes away except for a moth-eaten tuxedo that doesn't fit.

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2 years

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day for me. One of my books I developed into a screenplay is going to get a table read voiced by professional actors. That's all I can say about that at this time except I'm very touched by the early enthusiasm.

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5 months

It's always fun to check on the DVD sales of #OctoberSky and see how much better it's doing than the films that won Academy Awards in 1999. They just didn't understand what they had. They still don't but the people who watch movies do.

October Sky

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NASA made the obvious decision. Beyond it, there are vast lessons (re)learned especially about quality control & how to properly test a spacecraft prior to flight. A few heads ought to roll to reinforce those lessons.

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5 months

Just bought $200 of groceries. Am always a bit shocked. Cart bottom barely covered. Makes my heart go out to young families.

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4 years

SN10's post-landing demonstration that sometimes rockets can be bombs was almost exactly what happened with Auk 1 on my mom's rose garden fence so now you know why she got so mad.

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Received the best kind of fan mail anyone can get today, this one concerning the film #OctoberSky . Of course I replied. Here it is: While in Dialysis today I happened to watch your movie... it was captivating and even though i am very sick ....your movie made me forget that I was

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1 year

One of my fish passed away during the night. She was 15 years old and had been sick for the last few months, showing me by isolating herself. The other fish treated her with respect, occasionally nuzzling her. We think humans are unique but we are but one of many nations caught

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4 years

@robert_zubrin Apollo probably lifted more people out of poverty than the Great Society’s War on Poverty simply by creating new products & technologies.

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4 months

Amazing and prodigious flight of Starship this morning! Congratulations @SpaceX @elonmusk @Gwynne_Shotwell and all the Rocket Boys and Rocket Girls involved. Quentin would have loved this.

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9 months

I was recently asked what "truths" I was referring to when I said Appalachian people held certain truths - like vaults filled with seeds - that would be there when the world finally tires of lies. Among those truths are the necessity for a thoughtful civilization to provide

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2 years

Thank you to everyone for my birthday wishes! We are celebrating with a few old scuba diving friends who helped me open the Underwater Astronaut Trainer in the 1980s. It will be fun to tell our diving lies one more time. That's wife Linda in the LAMA helmet in front w me watchful

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11 months

Happy Thanksgiving 2023. I am grateful for so much & feel especially thankful to my Maker that I have a loving family, am an American, a forever West Virginian, a citizen of Alabama, a Vietnam vet, & at least somewhat successful as an author & engineer. With all that said,

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4 years

Since I'm writing a memoir that takes place "After Rocket Boys," I'm reflecting on my brother Jim at @virginia_tech @HokiesFB . A lineman, he was on the 1963 team that won the Southern Conference Championship & went on to a long, successful career as a high school football coach.

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Congratulations to Polaris Dawn and @rookisaacman for a prodigious first ever commercial/private EVA. No guts, no glory. A plentitude of both!

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4 years

Wearing this shirt is almost as much fun as building the blame cannon 57 years ago. 😉

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1 year

I have a Zoom call with some Vietnam vet buddies today. I’m ready!

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2 years

Looking forward to our high school reunion this weekend. I will try to restage this photo. Billy (in the book but not the movie) will have to stand in for the late, great, prodigious Quentin. L-R moi, Quentin, Roy Lee, O'Dell. I doubt they still have those hats. 😉.

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Just for fun, here's the then & now #RocketBoys of the Big Creek Missile Agency #OctoberSky w Billy standing in for Quentin (RIP) & the moon standing in for our launch stabilizer. Note: We never launched a rocket to those dimensions. Quentin & I were doing some wind tunnel work.

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1 year

Great to see @DrSianProctor today with her scholarship attendees @SpaceCampUSA . I love what she is doing with her foundation and her life. Please keep aiming high, Sian! @rookisaacman @ChrisSembroski

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7 months

Got a chance to visit the @NASA_Marshall Neutral Buoyancy Simulator one last time today. Sched for demolition soon. Gol, how I loved working in the ol’ tank. Wrote about it in the latest memoir “Don’t Blow Yourself Up.”

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Happy Father's Day to Homer Hickam, Sr., my dad in heaven who undoubtedly is mining another section with his buddies up there.

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4 years

Looking back on it, it's clear that everything on Earth started going downhill the minute they declared Pluto wasn't a planet.

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3 years

Good morning. A selfie in the woods. On a 4 mile hike. No one stirring, not even a squirrel. 28 degrees.

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1 year

If I ever felt the walls closing in, I'd light out for Jordan, Montana, where everybody knows my name and couldn't give two cents about anything I've ever done except I am somewhat likable and usually no trouble. Also, there are dinosaur bones nearby.

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A photo has turned up of the day in 1960 I suggested to then-Senator John F. Kennedy that we should go to the moon and "just mine the blamed thing." That's me in the glasses just to the right of his knees. I'm holding a bag after suit-shopping to go to the Nat'l Science Fair.

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St John is the perfect island for Appalachian boys. West Virginia with an ocean. The WV Governor should annex it for us.

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2 months

My friend and fellow #RocketBoy Quentin Wilson passed away on this day 5 years ago. We miss you, old chap!

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Sadly, I just learned that Dr. Stan Koszelak, my good friend during Spacelab-J who served as an Alternate Payload Specialist Astronaut and worked with me on console during the mission, has passed away due to a motorcycle accident. Stan was a brilliant scientist with a dry wit and

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Wyatt, with dried food on his nose, would like to report that he is feeling better, eating well, and his blood work is back to normal. There is still some concern by the vet but we're taking what we can get. Happy weekend all! Oh, and he's sorry he lost his rocket costume of some

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Fellow asked me if I have any more photos of the filming of #OctoberSky . I do but, more importantly, I shot video during the entire filming. Maybe someday, someone will want to use it to make a documentary about this still very popular movie. Just a thought...

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@US_Stormwatch We believe Irma went over 200 mph on St. John, USVI in Sept., 2017. It destroyed the wind gauges on the island. This thing is Irma all over again. Praying it doesn't wobble south like that monster or we are once more screwed, stewed, and tattooed.

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Got to see brother Jim yesterday. Jim, a star athlete & celebrated football coach, is heroically dealing w Parkinson’s. Here we are with two of his grandsons (my grand-nephews), Rex (l) and Michael.

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Miss Bryson, our high school English & Speech teacher often referred to in #RocketBoys / #OctoberSky & the other "Coalwood" books has passed. She helped Miss Riley buy the rocket book that taught us what we needed to reach high altitude. Thank you, Miss Bryson. We loved you.

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RIP to the folks aboard the Titan. For all of us who are on the stormy deep, For all of us who 'neath the ocean sleep, Thy mercy now we pray on high, Great God of wave and wind and sky.

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Linda made me do this. Otherwise, I’d have combed my hair. And Amazon Prime ⁦ @PrimeVideo ⁩ misspelled my name. That’s why Jake looks so irritated.

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The question keeps being asked and my answer remains the same. I would not bring the crew back in Starliner. Boeing is a great company and to stay great, even if their confidence is high, they should not take any chances with the people in their care.

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3 years

I just had our car being towed to the repair shop, come off its dolly, roll down my driveway, through the garage, then through the wall of our master bedroom, destroying most of its contents. How's your day going?

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@SciGuySpace I briefly worked on the Centrifuge for ISS back in the 1990s. After Congress didn't fund it, the Japanese agreed for awhile to pay for it but gave up when it was clear @NASA HQ didn't really want it. I never understood why except I think the suits secretly thought microgravity

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Brother Jim was a guard on the 1963 Virginia Tech @HokiesFB team that was that year's Southern Conference champions.

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An announcement for more federal astronauts has gone out. Nobody likes and respects them as individuals more than I but I think we probably don't need more professional Astronauts at @NASA but fewer. The organization located at JSC is a somewhat anachronistic Cold War relic and

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3 years

The things I find. Photo taken on #OctoberSky movie set.

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4 years

I am in shock about my friend and fellow West Virginian General Chuck Yeager @GenChuckYeager . Tears are in my eyes as I write this. He was the definition of greatness & my hero. I am so sorry, @VictoriaYeage11 . Thank you for being with him, his soul mate forever.

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In the fog of war, when nothing can be reported accurately, there's but one thing guaranteed: The young men on both sides shooting and being shot at wish they were somewhere, anywhere else.

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I keep reading that the Apollo/Saturn program was "unsustainable." That isn't true. It was absolutely sustainable. It's just that our gov't didn't know what to do with it. If we had just paused to think it thru, it would've been better than tossing away our greatest space assets.

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A fellow I served with in Vietnam sent this photo. First day of Tet '68 at Oasis Firebase. As I recall, an airstrike had just ended outside of our wire. We thought it was over but it was just beginning. This weekend, I think of those who didn't make it home. God bless them all.

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Here’s a true American hero. Ron Witherspoon used rocketry to keep kids of all races off the streets in Birmingham, AL. I wrote this article some years ago but Ron is still helping vulnerable young people find purpose in their lives. Ron & I shown here celebrating his success.

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2 years

During the chaos of our high school reunion (62nd), I tried somewhat unsuccessfully to reproduce the famous photo of the #RocketBoys of #OctoberSky . Similar to herding cats. Billy in for Quentin. Moon in for launch rail. Model in for Auk V-B. Wall in for Coalwood mountain. Sigh.

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Sometimes, you just have to laugh. When the Esso company wrote me in 1968 and asked why I hadn't used their credit card for almost a year, I sent them this picture and suggested it might be because the local service wasn't entirely reliable.

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In 1962 at @virginia_tech , we fielded this flag football team that won every game it played. If we had put on pads, we'd probably have beaten the varsity. That would be me third from left kneeling.

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A nice surprise. We've found early editions of the original hardcovers (some 1st editions) of #RocketBoys , #BacktotheMoon , #TheCoalwoodWay , & #SkyofStone . We'll have those up on our website () for sale soon. Autographed!

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It's hard to smile after a day of hard backpacking through the Montana back country but I was really kind of happy to have made it through.

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Coalwood Women's Club around 1960. If you were raised by one of these formidable West Virginia women, you can still feel their hand on your back, pushing you forward. Actually, since they raised all of us, we can feel all their hands! Happy Mother's Day, Coalwood moms!

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HR5666 pushes Artemis off 4 years & makes @NASA 's #1 priority humans on Mars with the moon only a test area. It trivializes both the @VP & @JimBridenstine , requires Orion/SLS to be used & assigns center responsibilities. In short, if adopted, we will have a fantasy space program.

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Thank you Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman for your amazing prodigious supremely generous donation to @RocketCenterUSA , @SpaceCampUSA , and our Aviation Challenge program.

U.S. Space & Rocket Center announces history-making donation to support Space Camp

The U.S. Space & Rocket Center has received its largest-ever single donation.

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2 years

I know every Virginia Tech student & alum & supporter are sending our love & support today to our neighbors, friends, & colleagues at the University of Virginia.

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4 years

Recently discovered photo of several of the #RocketBoys on our Big Creek High School senior class trip to Washington, DC in 1960. Top l to r, Sherman, O'Dell, and Sonny (me in glasses). We had a great time. I raced Roy Lee to the top of the Washington monument. I forget who won.

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Rest in Peace, Challenger crew. 36 years but still fresh in my mind. I'll never forget the awful news via a phone call in the middle of the night in Tokyo.

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I was really pleased to learn today the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has rescinded its 1999 "Best Picture" Oscar for the little known "American Beauty" & awarded it to the ever-popular & critically lauded "October Sky." Better late than never, I guess.

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4 years

Some very nice folks visited Miss Riley's grave over the Independence Day weekend and cleaned her marker & placed flowers on her grave w a note. Thank you.

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2 years

A fan in Montana knitted me a sweater that felt good this morning! 35 degrees in Huntsville!

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I'm 77. I got the flu in Jan. It made me sick. I had a fever & chills. I pampered myself with hot drinks & slept a lot. I then got better & flew off to the Caribbean where I had a prodigious time. If I can do it, so can you. Do not panic. Also, buy stocks if you can. Thank you.

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@realhomerhickam

4 years

The good news is I've signed to write another memoir. Will include building of the Skipper, Vietnam, wreck diving, NASA years, dino-hunting, and travels here and yon. There is no bad news.

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Homer Hickam

@realhomerhickam

1 year

A couple of candid shots from the set of #OctoberSky . @ChadLindberg

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Homer Hickam

@realhomerhickam

3 years

@elonmusk Coal is required to make your stainless steel Star Ship.

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