Rudy Siggs @rudyastro06 Twitter profile

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Rudy Siggs

8 days

This year’s latest revision of the astro rig is basically finished. Ironing out the last few issues before I start (hopefully) imaging tonight 🔭

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55 years from now

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You will see the dumbest takes of your life when spaceflight topics make it outside of space twitter

Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️‍🌈

@kennedytcooper

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Remember how letting capitalists control rocket design was supposed to make things more efficient?

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So is there any engine bay footage or is that not a thing anymore?

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Is it possible to have microphones onboard on IFT-5? Obviously you wouldn’t hear anything during the coast portion of the flight, but I’d love to know what reentry sounds like

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Boundless horizons await

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Cry about it. Do astrophotography better

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

@IBJIYONGI

3 months

That’s your night sky that a billionaire fucked up. As an astrophotographer, I can tell you, it’s very hard to get clean long exposure images of anything. 👎🏽

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SpaceX fans are cracked, this is the level of CG I aspire to reach one day

TheSpaceEngineer

@mcrs987

3 months

#Starship S29's flip and landing. A short CG recreation to better visualize how the Y+ FWD flap completely detached. More in the below thread

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2 months

Still insane to me that such a large percentage of the population has never even heard of the Artemis program. We’re literally going back to the Moon and people aren’t even aware of it

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GM Remember what we’re working towards

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This.

RAW EGG NATIONALIST

@Babygravy9

2 months

Serious question: What has humanity actually achieved since the 1960s?

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Blue Origin develops such cool stuff then they have to go and ruin it with shit like this. You have cracked engineers and unlimited funding, why are you behaving like this?

Space Sudoer

@spacesudoer

2 months

Blue Origin demands to cap the launch and landing of Starship from Cape Canaveral. Their main concern is "impact on local environment". @elonmusk

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@rudyastro06

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Major Shuttle vibes from this imo

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@SpaceX

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Slow motion view of Flight 5 Starship’s six Raptor engines during static fire

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@rudyastro06

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Watching the Ariane 6 stream with my little brother and he asks “where’s it going to land?” The young ones already see reuse as the norm

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2 months

Having now watched this - as usual, I’ve come away impressed, but not surprised, by how well Musk understands Starship inside and out. Anyone who claims he’s a businessman and not an engineer should watch these interviews, it’ll change your perspective

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

2 months

Join @elonmusk for a tour inside @SpaceX 's Starbase and the brand new Starfactory. This video was shot the day before Flight 4, on June 5th, 2024. Part 2 comes out next week!

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GM We’re going to flood Valles Marineris

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Soon as I saw this I thought ‘the conspiracy theorists will have a field day with this one’

Marcus House

@MarcusHouse

3 months

I didn't realise @elonmusk had @Copperfield involved in Flight 4. 🫣

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SLS is a beefed-up Shuttle successor. Starship is the true Saturn V successor

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@rudyastro06

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GM We’re not as far off as you think

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@rudyastro06

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Imagine looking up every night and seeing city lights on the Moon… If Artemis III happens to occur during lunar night time they should shine a big ass light towards Earth as a fat 🖕to all the flat earthers

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@rudyastro06

2 months

Worm logo clears the meatball and it’s not even close

Matt Haskell

@mhaskellphoto

2 months

Boy is it good to see the Worm making a bigger comeback. New logo on the walls of a building here at KSC!

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2 months

All jokes aside, I’m going to be sad seeing the ISS burn up. It’s the whole reason I got into spaceflight in the first place

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@rudyastro06

3 months

@TataOnMyTaTas Correct, it is the same picture. You should check the credits for that image on Wikipedia though 😉

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@rudyastro06

3 months

But I thought Starlink was losing money and that SpaceX would be bankrupt within the next year?

SpaceNews

@SpaceNews_Inc

3 months

Pentagon embracing SpaceX’s Starshield for future military satcom

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What should the first human Mars exploration program be called? To me the obvious choice is Ares - follows the theme of Apollo and Artemis. (also The Martian reference) Any other ideas?

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More anti-Starlink propaganda? As you can see from the dotted lines, a good amount of these lines are from aircraft. More importantly though, this kind of image is only produced by taking one ultra-long exposure, or by stacking exposures in a way that specifically preserves the

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School is officially over so I just got KSP. Now where the hell do I start???

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GM We shall green the rusted deserts

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@IterIntellectus Twitter makes you forget that the vast majority of the population doesn’t even know about this stuff

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@rudyastro06

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Hell yeah man they better have some HD cameras on those EVA suits. I’d love to see some POV footage

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@PolarisProgram

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We are targeting no earlier than July 31 for the launch of Polaris Dawn

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ScamX not only blowing up their own rockets but now the space station too. Ridiculous 😡 how is Musk allowed to do this

Scott Manley

@DJSnM

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SpaceX is going to destroy the International Space Station

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@rudyastro06

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Engineering exam today wish me luck

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@BasedNorthmathr RapeX ☠️ well at least rapex didn’t crash them in a fucking village and coat it in cancer-inducing hypergolics

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@rudyastro06

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Europe should absolutely engage in space activities but please, for the love of god, we need some reusable rockets

ArianeGroup

@ArianeGroup

2 months

Lots of people are talking on social media about how Europe should or should not engage in space activities. We strongly believe it is much more effective to take action to maintain this vital connection between Europeans and space. @ESA @CNES @Arianespace @EuropeSpacePort

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@McgregorJonryan Absolutely, SpaceX spoils us with the camera angles. Just the fact that we get any views at all during reentry is incredible

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@rudyastro06

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The UN does nothing except spread divisive propaganda. Useless organisation. spoiler alert: we can have *both*

UN Environment Programme

@UNEP

3 months

Humanity has made it all the way to the moon, but we can't forget that Earth is facing serious land degradation challenges. Each generation is different, but EVERYONE can be part of #GenerationRestoration for action on #WorldEnvironmentDay and every day:

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@rudyastro06

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Remember people, bankrupt by next year

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

2 months

SpaceX won an $843 million contract to develop a de-orbit vehicle to bring the International Space Station safely back to Earth.

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@deltaIV9250 Assuming total failure of the landing burn, if it hit the tower head-on it’s probably all toast. If it just fails to catch it but it still slows down significantly, might not be so bad

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@rudyastro06

2 months

Why does any SpaceX-NASA partnership turn into a social media shit show? The quotes on this are absolute cancer

NASA

@NASA

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We have selected @SpaceX to develop and deliver the U.S. Deorbit Vehicle and prepare for a safe and responsible deorbit of the @Space_Station after the end of its operational life in 2030. Learn more:

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This is incredibly rich considering Ariane’s maiden flight had a very similar issue

Andrew Parsonson

@AndrewParsonson

2 months

CNES technical expert takes a shot at EUMETSAT for its decision to ditch Ariane 6 for SpaceX after the Falcon 9 upper stage anomaly. Not sure this is remotely helpful. That being said, culture comes from the top and CNES chairman @PhBaptiste has set an example.

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If you’re going to call someone out you’d better know exactly what you’re talking about and have evidence to back it up

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This is funny because one of the common conspiracy theories was that Falcon landing footage was actually reversed launch footage. This proves how ridiculous that idea was

Prison Mitch

@MidnightMitch

2 months

BREAKING 🚨 🚨: Governor Ron DeSantis orders the Florida State Guard to launch surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at migrant boats trying to land in Key West. Do you support this type of military action to prevent a migrant invasion?

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We have entered a better timeline

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@spacesudoer

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Weird

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@rudyastro06

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“Who says we don’t know what we’re doing, and what have they done? It’s easy to be an armchair rocket engineer” 💯

Everyday Astronaut

@Erdayastronaut

2 months

PART 2 interview and tour with @elonmusk is HERE! Get up close and personal to a full stack of Starship / SuperHeavy on the Orbital Launch Mount at @SpaceX 's Starbase launch site. Then we hear how Starship Flight 4 went when we followed up with Elon after the launch!

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@rudyastro06

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“ruined ground-based astronomy” tell me, have you ever used a telescope?

spencer 🦈

@Unpop_Science

3 months

Basic broadband coverage for the entire world would require (3) geostationary satellites. Instead, billionaires have trashed low-earth orbit and ruined ground-based astronomy to sell a subscription model. This is a crime against the cosmos.

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It’s hard for me to accept that Starship hype will gradually drop off as more flights happen and we all get used to them

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@rudyastro06

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This is fascinating. People to think Mars is a boring desert but it actually has some really unique geological features, most of which we probably haven't even discovered yet

Bill Nelson

@SenBillNelson

1 month

An exciting new discovery by @MarsCuriosity ! While traversing the Gediz Vallis channel, our Mars rover found something never seen before on the Red Planet—rocks made of pure sulfur. This is a thrilling find in our search for ancient life.

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@mikusingularity Starship requires modern material science and advanced computing to control the various GNC systems (especially for the landing) so maybe the 2000s?

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Pro-Chinese space program moon landing deniers are something I didn’t know existed

JERRY GOODE

@MrJerryGoode

3 months

🚨STONE COLD TRUTH🚨🇨🇳🇺🇲: China successfully landed a spacecraft on the far side of the moon to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the never-explored region and the better-known near side of the moon. China planted its 5-star

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@Cosmic_Andrew1 Unproven allegations, which also have no bearing on SpaceX as a company

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L take, you can appreciate the beauty of Earth whilst also appreciating the wider Universe within which it resides

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@culpable_mink Damn Eastern Europe, how much harm can a few dropped boosters really do

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You are lying, and the fact that despite your post getting half a million impressions you only left two comments up (both agreeing with you) means people called out your nonsense and you didn’t like it. 1) there’s no such thing as “clean” data in astrophotography. All images

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

@IBJIYONGI

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So weird seeing astrophotogs in the QTs talking about how I’m lying when 1. We all know that “I can get it out in processing” means that it wasn’t clean!!! 2. This is a regular convo topic in our groups 3. IAU has literally developed a working group to address this problem

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@OliwierKwi11 Not exactly sure, but some kind of weird compression artifact from the stream

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@rudyastro06

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Made a version with the dust spots corrected if anyone’s interested

SpaceX

@SpaceX

3 months

Starship made a controlled reentry, successfully making it through the phases of peak heating and max aerodynamic pressure and demonstrating the ability to control the vehicle using its flaps while descending through the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds

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Finally, an engine I have the slightest chance of being able to understand

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Raptor 3, SN1

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@zhpurcell This is actually the Ship’s engine bay, so 3 raptors + 3 RVacs. Your point still stands though, it’s definitely crowded in there

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@Truthful_ast If it blows up it’s actually so over for Arianespace

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@peterrhague This is the last place I expected to see a saddam hussein meme

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@pintleinjector Astronomers can stop complaining too, I do astrophotography and not once have I had an image ruined by satellites. Planes are a bigger issue

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Does this mean a real tower catch attempt for IFT-5?

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@BSF42069 What the hell is the N1/Starship design? How’d he figure that out?

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This thing looks like a bad render haha

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@AJamesMcCarthy Nice shot Andrew, here’s my attempt from last night:

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Grok-2 is cool

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@xdNiBoR I’m quite fond of this one, although it doesn’t feature the entire station

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@Truthful_ast Yeah it ruined my shot too

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White Starship 🤍

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@TheRoughGo You have some reading to do

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As the New Glenn launch approaches, what’s the consensus on how successful it might be? Personally I think they’ll nail the launch but I’m less sure about the 1st stage landing. If they can pull it off first try I’ll be very impressed

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@supersonicflipz Again? He’s arguably more invested in Starship than anyone else

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Starlink is a net positive for the world

Austin Barnard🚀

@austinbarnard45

3 months

As I was driving through a small town in Washington, I stopped at a gas station. This older lady noticed my SpaceX shirt and we started chatting about starlink. She told me how after her husband died, she felt very alone and disconnected from the rest of her family.

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Depending on how old these reservoirs are, does this mean there could have been life developing underground all along?

Latest in space

@latestinspace

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🚨 BREAKING: NASA has detected evidence of huge reservoirs of liquid water beneath the surface of Mars Scientists believe the amount of groundwater could cover the entirety planet to a depth of 1 mile (1.6 km) 🤯

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@Karmaycholera I would argue that politics are critical to improving civilisation

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@rudyastro06

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This was probably the best recap yet, and nice to have a confirmation they’re going for a catch on the next flight!

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The fourth flight of Starship brought us closer to a rapidly reusable future

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@BasedNorthmathr No need, LeCun already sounds angry and upset

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Can’t believe there are people celebrating this. Might be the stupidest way for a country to shoot itself in the foot

Disclose.tv

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NOW - Germany blows up the cooling towers of the Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, once a symbol of the country's energy independence.

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Best thing about the Starship program is having to wait increasingly less time between launches. Imagine how painful it would be if the delay between IFT-1 and IFT-2 happened every time!

Ellie in Space 🚀💫

@esherifftv

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Starship's flight cadence is about to EXPLODE!

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@Blobifi Same. Conditions outside might be too harsh for a microphone anyway

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Looks like Titan

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Unmodified picture of the Falcon launch

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More HLS. Gradually approaching photorealism, although I’m not sure my PC can handle the exponential increase in power needed to render more realistic scenes than this. Thoughts?

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@SheffdeParty The ISS needs to be deorbited, as sad as that is. It’s been in operation since 1998 and the components are aging. This is no way a sign of us giving up - you should check out the plans for Lunar Gateway and other projects. We’re only just getting started

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I think I have a new favourite astronaut

Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

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A quick behind the scenes look at how we setup portraits of ourselves peering out of a Dragon window into the stars from Starliner's cockpit window.

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Might be the best Elon pfp yet

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The UK is ideal for launching polar orbits… just sayin’ @elonmusk

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Fram2 will become the first human spaceflight mission to fly over and explore the Earth’s polar regions from orbit. Learn more about the @framonauts mission here →

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Real time views of a nebula 4000 light years away, beamed straight to my smartphone from a consumer-grade telescope in my backyard? What a splendid time to be alive

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What the hell happened here? I don’t remember having a dispute with the guy. Odd.

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@Truthful_ast You mean you didn’t upload it like that? 😂

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@sovereignofkent My fave poster

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Moving the goalposts is the hallmark of SpaceX critics

BSF 🇬🇧🐀

@BSF42069

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Iterative development doesn’t work though. It’s yet to make entry…oh wait It’s yet to make orbit. Doubtful it ever with all those leaks

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Painted Starship goes incredibly hard. I hope they decide to paint it despite the mass penalties. renders are also coming along nicely:

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If I fail to become an engineer at SpaceX, being a tech would be an honorable alternative

Jay Nagy

@juicyMcJay

2 months

One of our techs did an awesome job yesterday and I was like “Mars will remember you!” He tells me more seriously “no way man, nobody will remember the techs, not a soul, they only care about engineering” I hope everyone realizes that engineering doesn’t build these rockets.

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@SpaceXObserver Same. He was so confused 😭

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When will X come to smart TVs I wonder? Here’s my temporary solution

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Increasingly obsessed with creating CGI of Solar System bodies using image textures from NASA. Did you know you can download a 27K projected map of the entire Moon?

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To those complaining about the new flap positions - you’ll get used to it. We always do

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Initially thought he was trolling but he’s said it enough times now that I’m sure he’s dead serious. I just don’t get it though, what with the “incorporating SpaceX technology” thing too. Surely they’re not actually putting a rocket engine in this thing ?

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@pmarca The new Tesla Roadster can fly

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