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🪖 Veteran. 🚀 Photographer. 📺 You Tube Contributor at What About It

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Joined June 2022
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Wondering when the next launch is from Florida? 🚀Here’s the next 4 from the Space Coast: 1. Nov 13— ULA Vulcan VC6L | Amazon Leo (LV-01) 40 broadband satellites | SLC-41 2. Late Nov — SpaceX Falcon 9 | Cygnus NG-25 ISS cargo resupply | SLC-40 Dates can and often do shift. Watch for updates! #SpaceCoast #RocketLaunch #Florida
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No excuses, go vote.
Off the planet and still showing up to vote 🇺🇸
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Happy Halloween 🎃
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What a massive amount of progress in such a short time frame! 🔥
Went off-roading yesterday. The four-million-pound launch bridge is being driven back into position today by self-propelled motorized transporters (SPMT). We placed dirt in the flame trench to provide a ramp for the SPMTs to gently set the bridge atop it.
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I'm going to Titan!
Your next trip: a flight to another world. 🪐 Send your name aboard NASA’s Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s largest moon Titan and get a personalized boarding pass for the journey. Become a Dragonflyer today: go.nasa.gov/dragonfly-names
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This makes me really sad 😢 🖖✨🌌
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🚁 THE GIGABAY AND BOTH MEGA BAYS FROM THE AIR From our Oct 23 flyover: the Gigabay rises behind the two Mega Bays at Starbase. Swipe for a close look at the Gigabay roof and the Mega Bays. 📷 @Jordanguidry6 - WAI Media
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Massive rockets at Massey's! IFT-15 soonish!
Starship 42 and Superheavy Booster 23 at Massey's together. Ship 42 completed 2 static fire tests in it's short stay at the testing site, and Booster 23 is expected to begin a second round of cryogenic testing. 🔥 🚀 Thanks to spihelicopters.com for the lift! 📸: @Jordanguidry6 For WAI Media
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The core stage of the Artemis III rocket is officially stacked.
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Where the road to Flight 15 stands this morning: ✅ Booster 22 static fire, all 33 engines ✅ Ship 42 rolled to Massey's ✅ Ship 42 single-engine static fire ⏳ FAA license 🎯 NET Nov 8 on an FAA planning slide
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Time to think bigger!
ISS is wearing out. I’ll be sad to see it go but it is time for the next LEO destinations to take over.
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Wish I was entering the workforce again!
Hey early career folks, you're not going to find your dream job doomscrolling in the comments section. But you might at the federal government's Oct 29 hiring fair. Join earlycareers.gov and be part of the 30,000+ early-career Americans to join the government this year!
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Full duration 33-engine static fire for the Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 15
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Awesome static fire footage!
🔥 BOOSTER 22 STATIC FIRE Here it is from our own Starbase camera. Flight 15's expected booster lit up Pad 2 this morning. 🎥 WAI Live
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🚨 BREAKING: BOOSTER 22 STATIC FIRE Flight 15's expected booster lit up Pad 2. 📷 Oct 24. @Jordanguidry6 - WAI Media
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🔥 BOOSTER 22 IS ON THE MOUNT Today could get loud. 📷 Pictured: rollout, Oct 24. @mymatrixplug - WAI Media
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If you missed yesterday’s Artemis 3 press briefing, here are the highlights: NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya, and Artemis Program Manager Jeremy Parsons briefed media at Kennedy Space Center on October 23, 2026, on progress accelerating the program. Artemis III (summer 2027 target) A 14-17 day crewed low-Earth-orbit demo with NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, and Andre Douglas plus ESA’s Luca Parmitano. It is designed as one of the most complex launch campaigns ever, coordinating three of the world’s most powerful rockets: - Blue Origin New Glenn launches first with a Blue Moon Mark 2 test article into LEO. - SLS launches Orion (with the crew) from Pad 39B. - SpaceX Starship test article (with docking adapter) launches later from Pad 39A. Orion docks with Blue Moon around Flight Day 3; the crew enters for ~2 days to check life support, systems, emergency procedures, and interoperability. After undocking, Orion docks with Starship for a shorter (~2-hour) demonstration—crew does not enter Starship. Remaining days cover suit evaluations, science/tech demos, and other risk-reduction work before a Pacific splashdown. Goal: validate procedures and hardware close to home before the lunar landing. SLS stacking is advancing well (boosters and engines in place; spacer instead of ICPS). A year-end tanking test is planned. The workforce has roughly halved assembly/integration time through efficiencies, and NASA is embedding experts with partners to address supply-chain issues (notably lander avionics). Officials noted an earlier ~90-day internal schedule slip but said the summer 2027 target remains achievable. Artemis IV and the 2028 lunar landing Targeted for 2028 as the first crewed landing near the lunar south pole since 1972. NASA is preserving optionality between SpaceX Starship and Blue Origin Blue Moon Mark 2; the choice of which goes first will be made later based on readiness. Both are planning 2028 landings, and uncrewed demos are required first. Architecture has been streamlined: no longer a near-rectilinear halo orbit rendezvous. Starship would dock with Orion in Earth orbit and push the stack toward the Moon; Blue Origin would use transfer stages to deliver its lander to an elliptical polar lunar orbit for Orion rendezvous. Surface ops are planned around two roughly 2-hour EVAs (sample collection and Axiom Sortie suit testing). The intent is a sustainable presence and Moon Base, not a flags-and-footprints return. Isaacman called the overall effort ambitious and extraordinarily difficult but an “achievable pathway,” citing resources, stakeholder support, and an energized workforce. Challenges (supply chain, technical integration, partner recovery) were acknowledged openly. More information at: nasa.gov/missions/artemis/na…
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Also in today's episode: NASA's Moon Base plan, one more Starship cargo contract for the Moon, Pad 2 getting ready for Flight 15, and Japan's MMX on its way to Phobos. Full episode on YouTube 👇
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Today we will get updated answers about the progress of Artemis 3 and landing on the moon!
🌕 NASA'S ARTEMIS UPDATE IS TODAY AT 2 PM ET NASA will lay out its progress on returning astronauts to the Moon by 2028, live from Kennedy Space Center. On the list: Artemis III, four astronauts in low Earth orbit next year to test systems for future landings.
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A dual catch! 👀😯
🚨 SPACEX WILL TRY TO CATCH BOTH STAGES ON FLIGHT 15 Elon Musk on SpaceX's Q3 call: "For Flight 15, which we expect to happen next month, we're going to attempt to catch both the booster and the ship."
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