I am beyond excited to announce that I was chosen as a crew member for dearMoon! This has already been an amazing adventure and there's lots more to come. I cannot wait to share it with you all! Read more about it here! #dearMoonCrew -
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@Erdayastronaut
Professional rocket orientation specialist, explainer of flamey stuff and rocket chaser. Bringing space down to Earth for everyday people 
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Perfect!!! The S1030A is so dope!!! And this hoodie almost never leaves my body, it’s so comfy! shop.everydayastronaut.com/products/space
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[In Case of Emergency]
⫻ Shuttle Ejection Escape Suit and the @Erdayastronaut hoodie-equivalent 
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It really is feeling close! Was just at the pad, things are looking much more put together than when I was here in November! Obviously the biggest milestone is still the 33 engine static fire (maybe next week?) Keep up with our milestones checklist here! everydayastronaut.com/starship-orbit
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What is working on might be one of the coolest, most innovative and exciting rocket systems to be developed… ever, in my opinion! I’m so excited to share an exclusive tour and interview with their CEO ! THIS. IS. AWESOME! 🔥
youtu.be/EY8nbSwjtEY
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Just under one hour until my new video drops!!! 🥳 An exciting, exclusive tour of and interview with their CEO ! Get your coffee ready, maybe a note pad and snacks, this rocket is incredible!!! 😍
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Now for my ultimate feature request… can username handles PLEASE be as long as they are on other platforms, like 20 characters, so I don’t have to be anymore 😂 PLEASE 🙏
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Curious if anyone has any helpful or superstitious-ish publishing habits? I avoid "Premieres" bc they tend to flop / confuse people from my experience. I manually hit "publish" (I don't schedule) out of fear 🙈
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One of the things that blew my mind about ’s Rocket… the actively regen cooled heat shield, powered by the same expander cycle pump that runs the main combustion chambers! Here’s a teaser of my nearly 1 hour video coming out tomorrow! 🙌 (Today for supporters)
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56 minutes of ground breaking technology, unique thinking and exclusive tour access of the exciting HQ and test site comes out Saturday!!! You’re going to LOVE this conversation with ! I had many “mind blown” learning moments with him! Stay tuned!
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This was an amazing conversation!!! Lex dove in deep and we got super nerdy!!! Enjoy!!!
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Here's my 5+ hour conversation with Tim Dodd (@Erdayastronaut) all about rocket engines, SpaceX, Starship, and the history & future of space travel. This was epic and super fun! youtube.com/watch?v=5eK5A_
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It's fun to see officially quoting an expendable mode for Starship which would potentially be an expendable upper stage. Don't forget, there will likely be many variations of Starship upper stages, and for some use cases (deep space), even an expendable one!
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I would love to know more about what exactly is being expended in expendable mode... are we talking an expended upper stage (does HLS count)? Expended Super Heavy? Both? I'd imagine if it's both, it'd be a lot more than 250 tonnes even 🤔 /
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Didn't know Starship will also fly in expendable mode?? @DJSnM @Erdayastronaut
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This tour and interview with is absolutely incredible! Not only do you get to see the test of their incredible upper stage engine, but there's SO many other amazing details and fun facts that I'm going to break down a bit to help explain! You'll LOVE it!
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I mentioned Rotation Detonation Engines during a convo w/ , but I thought they were experimental & conceptual at the time... This looks AMAZING!!! Substantial potential for performance increase!!! Would LOVE to see more of this, & not JUST because it's an aerospike 😉
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New rocket engine design, who’s this?
#NASAMarshall propulsion engineers designed the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) that may one day power both human landers and interplanetary vehicles to deep space destinations!
MORE: go.nasa.gov/3WDK2Mp
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Anyone have any info on that? I honestly can't even begin to imagine how that's possible! Incredible engineering!
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It occurred to me last night while chatting w/ about rocket engines that multi-chambered engines that have independently gimbaled nozzles (RD-180 / RD-171) have high pressure flexible pipes bc the movement is after the turbopump! Imagine a 275+ Bar flexible joint 🤯
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INCREDIBLE shots in this 😍
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On Oct 1, '22, Firefly made history. We successfully launched into orbit on our second attempt. As we ramp up for more Alpha launches in '23, let’s take a look back at some never-before-seen footage of FLTA002 developed in collaboration w/ @considercosmos. youtube.com/watch?v=lRtJog
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Sad I missed tonight’s Electron launch, but I just wrapped an incredible conversation with . Not gonna say it’s his longest episode ever, but it’s got to be close 😂
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This camera was clamped 80 feet up to the MARS water tower looking down at Electron!
It was placed before the rocket went vertical so it was mostly a guessing game on where exactly to point. Glad I guessed right!
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And today, a new record was made. World’s heaviest rocket!!! Think about that… more propellant mass (and enough thrust to lift it off the ground) = more potential work you can do! AKA: THIS IS A BIG, POWERFUL ROCKET THAT CAN DO MORE THAN ANYTHING EVER BEFORE! 🙌
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With Starship (HOPEFULLY) being fully loaded w/ liquid oxygen & liquid methane for the first time, I'm seeing a lot of questions comparing Starship & Falcon 9. I have a deep dive comparing the two, system by system. Perfect for a day like today! youtube.com/watch?v=-8p2JD
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This is a conversation I’m very much looking forward to! What topic do you think we should dive into specifically?
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I'm talking to Tim Dodd aka @Erdayastronaut all about space & rockets soon. If you have questions / topic suggestions, let me know.
I love space travel. It's the perfect mix of engineering, physics, biology, geopolitics, and philosophy.
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This is a real-time demo we’re showing here, but it’ll be super slow and the engine will zoom in and out to show you each step of the way. THIS is how I personally learn best, seeing things happen and getting to watch the changes. It will be awesome!
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A little teaser / preview of a big portion of our “How to start a rocket engine” video. We’re going to walk you through step by step showing you all the inner workings of the RS-25 during start up! Excited about these animations by and !
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(I should point out that the picture in the thumbnail IS NOT South Padre Island, it's the build site, but their other shot from the south has the beautiful views! Just didn't want to confuse anyone 😊
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It's a gorgeous morning at Starbase, from NSF's south camera, you can clearly see South Padre Island, it's a great shot! Hoping to see the entire vehicle get frosty today! If so, that'll be a BIG milestone to check off our checklist! everydayastronaut.com/starship-orbit
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Temba, his arms wide!
Chopsticks move away from Ship 24 ahead of WDR.
Live commentary: youtube.com/watch?v=F9zI9o
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The Pez Dispenser!!! This is going to be a big big deal when SpaceX can launch this much mass and volume on a single vehicle! 😳
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Here's @CosmicalChief's SpaceX Starlink v2 Satellite stack picture from Starbase, January 20th, with brightened Shadows for a clearer view of the stack!
I am counting 33 Starlink v2 Sats in this picture! Are any other estimates out there? 
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Our team is going to reach out to anyone who MAY have been affected to make sure they’ve been taken care of just to be safe. So again, thank you for your patience and understanding and I’m excited to have a more robust customer service experience in the future! 💪
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So if this happened to you, first off, I’m so sorry & I thank you for your patience. We had people reaching out to me often saying they hadn’t heard from the shop, which is so unusual. I’d reach out to the shop and they were like “we responded two days ago”, now we know why!
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But the good news is, we found the problem and the team is in the process of porting over to a new management system as we speak. This was a bigger issue than we realized and affected MANY responses.
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PROBLEM SOLVED!!! If you had problems receiving help or responses from our shop in the last two months, we found out there was an issue with Zendesk that was not properly sending emails. Our customer service was sending emails but they weren’t actually making it to customers
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Flight 1 L+7 Update
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Small change of plans... and I couldn't get the animations done (the most important part of this video) before he left town for a couple weeks. BUT... good news, I can now edit the incredible tour / interview instead! So that will be next!
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If you liked my previous deep dives, I think you're going to LOVE "How to start a rocket engine". We get SO DEEP into every little aspect of start up. The visuals on this one are TOP NOTCH, a lot of work is going into making it easy to follow! It'll be done “When It’s Done™”
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Absolutely ASTONISHING footage! Perhaps the best tracking footage I’ve ever seen, and for such a gorgeous launch!!! Blown away. Must watch!!!
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Here is my footage of Falcon Heavy from launch to landing in 4K! Thanks again to @LCS_Big_Mike for running the focuser and @RedsRhetoric for letting me use his static camera footage!
youtu.be/zLxlLslhGxU
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Incredible!!!
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Here's a highly compressed 1080p preview of my footage. This is easily the best launch footage I have ever captured, stay tuned for the full launch to landing in 4K! Big thanks to @LCS_Big_Mike for running the focuser for me!
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I'm LIVE to watch easily one of the coolest and most exciting rockets flying, #FalconHeavy! This one might be extra spectacular with the time of day, skies could be beautiful and we might get some awesome stage sep footage! COME SAY HI! -
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But I'm trying hard to get it done before I head down to Texas for Starship action (likely the end of the week???). If I don't wrap it up before then, it'll likely not come out for a few more weeks unfortunately due to our team being spread out and traveling.
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If you liked my previous deep dives, I think you're going to LOVE "How to start a rocket engine". We get SO DEEP into every little aspect of start up. The visuals on this one are TOP NOTCH, a lot of work is going into making it easy to follow! It'll be done “When It’s Done™”
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