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29 days

Just pushed a major update to my website! Now it's easier than ever to browse through some of my favorite launch photos! There may even be some new never before seen photos of your favorite rockets 👀 Check It Out!

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Can now confirm. 100% worth it

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Atomic level gap in rocket infrastructure: *exists* Hydrogen:

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The difference 53 years makes. Left: Apollo 10 Right: Artemis I 📸credit @NASA

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Holy shit watch the ocean. It just explodes with debris from the launch a few seconds after liftoff.

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Liftoff from Starbase

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:D

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54 years ago today, a Saturn V almost went down. As Apollo 6 rose into the sky, the vehicle began to experience violent pogo oscillations, ripping apart sections of the Spacecraft Lunar Module Adapter. However this was only the start of the problems.

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Every photographer has a photo that makes them go “Wow, I really took that?” What is yours?

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I’m sorry Fastest “acknowledged”? We just gonna ignore that or?

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Highway to The Danger Zone #RealTopGun The SR-71 Blackbird is still the fastest acknowledged crewed air-breathing jet aircraft. #Oscars

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2 years

Next launch to the International Space Station? It’s Starliner Baby! 📸 credit @NASA

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2 years

A lot of replies to this tweet are so disheartening. There are quite a few people actively rooting against a spacecraft and it just makes me so sad to see. Just… please try to be kind. This community is awesome when we lift each other up, and I want us to foster that kindness.

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Next launch to the International Space Station? It’s Starliner Baby! 📸 credit @NASA

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37 years ago at 11:38 AM, STS-51L lifted off from LC-39B. At 11:39 AM, Challenger was gone. The orbiter and her crew of seven were lost, not due to any direct issue with the vehicle, but due to negligence and knowingly flying outside of known tolerances.

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I did a thing

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2 years

I have taken many photos of rockets, but I think this one is officially my favorite.

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2 years

All spacecraft types that visit the ISS should have their portrait taken like this.

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2 years

Anyone interested in a 59.7 Megapixel photo of SLS? Because I made a 59.7 Megapixel photo of SLS. FULL RES : 📸me for @WeAreSpaceScout

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Cygnus free flying 📸credit @NASA

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Wanna know something crazy? Only 46 RS-25 powerheads have seen flight, however they have flown for a combined 409 times. Of those 409 flights, the engine has failed once. The failure? It was a faulty sensor that shut down the engine, the engine was fine and flew again.

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Terran 1, welcome to the space coast.

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After 57 years away, welcome back to Cape Canaveral the first stage of Gemini 5!

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The final views of Delta climbing away from the Space Coast.

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2 years

And then, there were four.

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11 months

That leg really decided to give a lot of folks a heart attack today huh

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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on Landing Zone 4, marking SpaceX’s 200th successful recovery of an orbital class rocket!

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2 years

Just a reminder that Ed Harris was an absolutely perfect cast for Gene Kranz in the Apollo 13 movie

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Shoutout to the time NASA rolled a 327 ft tall rocket to the pad with no major structural supports except for 4 large bolts at the bottom of it.

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Dream Chaser is getting ever so close to flight! DC-101, Tenacity, is slated to make its debut flight atop a Vulcan VC4L in 2023. It will be the 11th bespoke spacecraft to visit the ISS.

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There's just something about seeing a brand new proper X-Plane outside for the first time. Really hope we get to see the X-59 make a few runs out on the Space Coast. 📸Lockheed Martin/Garry Tice

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Wanna know something nuts? Crew Dragon reenters at ~17,000 mph and it takes about 10 minutes to get through reentry to drogue chute deployment. OSIRIS-REx will take 135 seconds. It will be going from 27,000 mph to 1,000 mph in just over two minutes, peaking at 31.8 G !!!

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Sometimes the NASA archive just hits you with an amazing photo without warning. This photo taken during Anton Shkaplerov (left of Prichal) and Pyotr Dubrov's (partially behind Prichal) spacewalk gives an excellent sense of scale for the new Nauka and Prichal modules on the ISS.

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This is one of those pictures that feels like it shouldn’t be real. This is probably less than a tenth of a second after the SRBs ignited.

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Tower is officially completed!

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8 months

Wow So the Saturn 1B that was being taken down in Alabama was coming down piece by piece. carefully. Until they dropped the first stage bringing it down. What an absolute disgraceful end to the story. There is now only one remaining Saturn 1B in the world.

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Elon Musk

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@SpaceX We need to replace a grid fin actuator, so launch is postponed to Saturday

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2 years

Can we talk about the fact this tank withstood 260% flight loads for over FIVE HOURS before failing? NASA designed the SLS core stage with long term upgradability in mind, so the question is, what will be so powerful it needs to use some of that margin 👀

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2 years

Everyone better give @NASAGroundSys a massive applause, because they understood the assignment for photos 😎

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2 years

I genuinely can not wait for next year in spaceflight, just look at the list of rockets planned to fly from the US in 2022. Alpha Antares Atlas V Delta IV Heavy Electron Falcon Falcon Heavy Launcher One New Glenn Rocket 3 Rocket 4 RS1 SLS Superheavy Terran 1 Vulcan

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1:110 is a great model scale if you ask me…

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Hmm…

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It’s honestly incredible how much SpaceX’s pr campaign has made many entirely discount literally all of NASA’s history and accomplishments, particularly in relation to the fleet of heavy lift reusable crewed spacecraft…

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1 year

@SciGuySpace When Hubble was launched, "Reusability" was not in NASA's lexicon

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It’s pretty crazy how much new stuff there is going on in the US Space Industry right now, and it isn’t just renders or ideas, but real hardware.

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2 years

It's time to end the discourse of Meatball vs Worm vs Wormball Because the true solution is here. The Meatcube

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9 months

You never know what you're going to see watching a Roscosmos stream of a Progress launch. But truly I never expected this

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So. Just making sure I’m on the right page here. SLIM had a nozzle fall off during descent, and then STILL LANDED WITH A ~10M ACCURACY? And then not only did it land, it somehow managed to land softly with the engines pointing *up*. What a ridiculous series of events. 📸:JAXA

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If you've been debating about whether or not you should get this set. Let me just help you out. You should. It's awesome.

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1 year

If Dearmoon launches in 2023 I will eat multiple hats.

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NEWS: The first civilian mission to the Moon is planned to take place in 2023 on SpaceX's Starship rocket, and now the crew who is going has been announced:

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Feel the power of the first Vulcan Centaur launch. 📸 me for @WeAreSpaceScout

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NASA brought out the big cameras this week with Psyche, and they captured some incredible imagery of launch and landing! The full set of 4K Videos are available on . Before you go though, take a moment and watch this insane view of landing! 📸NASA

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Did you know, that in the entirety of US Spaceflight history, only 33 spacecraft have flown crews above the Karman line? 6 Mercury Capsules 1 X-15 10 Gemini Capsules 15 Apollo Capsules 5 Space Shuttles 1 SpaceShipOne 4 Dragons 1 New Shepard

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Well we may not have seen much, but the Sonic Booms were always a pleasure… and had a weird bonus

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Horizontally Integrated Saturn V isn't real, it can't hurt you. Horizontally Integrated Saturn V:

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Don’t look directly into the sun today. Do look directly into this trailer. Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum star in Fly Me to the Moon, a charming, romantic throwback to technicolor classics. Coming to theaters this July.

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This is by far one of my favorite pictures of Vulcan in existence. The two BE-4 engines just inches off of the ground as the first stage undergoes testing. 📸: @NASA / @ulalaunch

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THE RS-25S DONT EVEN LOOK LIKE THEY'RE ON

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2 years

Coming soon to a launch pad near you. 📸: @NASA

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Is it still ITAR if it’s lego?

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True to its nature, the final Delta IV Heavy made its ascent on fire the whole way up.

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So when is @NASAGroundSys breaking out the drone to get this shot of SLS 👀

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2 years

Boom! 1:110 LEGO Falcon 9 completed!

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2 years

You know, it might not be too far fetched to say this is the most important fuel tank of the 2020s.

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The ISS really did have a weird phase didnt it...

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SLS: Skips final WDR before launch attempt and then scrubs Starship: Skips final WDR before launch attempt and then scrubs Maybe we just shouldn’t skip final WDRs for SHLV rockets 😅

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So no ones going to talk about the Raptor that exploded on the test stand yesterday huh?

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Look, Cybertruck towing around a Raptor engine is definitely pretty neat. But the Toyota Tundra still has it beat.

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Uhhh… not sure they thought the box art for this one through…

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The Mega Moon Rocket

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I jokingly said yesterday my camera wasn’t going anywhere unless the fence went with it… So uh… yeah

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This is the location for the remote camera setup, you can see multiple railings blown over. I'd be amazed if those cameras survived

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Spaceflight in September 2022

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It's still kind of nuts that CECE (an RL-10 demonstrator engine) could throttle between 67 kN and 6.7 kN.

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This pleases me... This pleases me greatly. 📸credit @NASA

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So Raptor is rocking an 88% survival rate on a less than 3 second long test… That’s… fun

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2 years

Stop leaking straight through solid Aluminum you problematic liquid.

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Met some guy out here at Starbase. He seemed pretty excited about the launch!

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This place was just flat out not ready to support a launch… this is *bad*

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Orbital launch mount after Starship’s first flight: toasty.

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The very sudden shift of the launch market from medium to heavy lift is going to leave a massive void to be filled. Terran R and Neutron are poised to jump on this opening real quick.

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An article from @WSJ included this photo from the factory floor at Blue Origin. Multiple New Glenn rockets are in build as it prepares for its maiden flight in 2024. 📸 Blue Origin via @WSJ

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Hey @ArianeGroup , you've recovered a few Ariane 5 SRBs in the past. Do any of these still exist, and if so would you consider donating them to a museum for display?

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The Space Shuttle program when operating at full capacity was truly something to behold.

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UM HELLO???? I LIVE IN FLORIDA WHY IS THE AURORA BOREALIS HERE????

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I know that the physics behind this make complete and total sense. But what the actual hell

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L-SAM ABM Kill Vehicle maneuvering

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Nic I hate to do this to you because you were a pleasure to be around when we talked at Artemis... But the way this is edited the dust cloud looks exactly like fried chicken

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Bringing the HEAT 🔥 - @NASASpaceflight

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Chaotic but cool picture

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31:40 in to this presentation "Flight 3 would be around 40 or 50 tons to orbit with the current design" You built the largest rocket in the world and *might* be able to do slightly over half of what SLS can do?

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At Starbase, @ElonMusk provided an update on the company’s plans to send humanity to Mars, the best destination to begin making life multiplanetary

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Oh my god I just found color video footage of Bumper 7 I just found actual color video of the second ever launch from Cape Canaveral Not remastered or colorized, actual color video footage. Unbelievable

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There may be practical limitations for aerospike engines as of now... but they still look absolutely awesome when firing. 📸Lockheed Martin/NASA

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Hey @NASAGroundSys , bit of an odd request here, but any chance you could get video/audio of starting up/turning on the Crawler's Engines?

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40 years ago today, the shuttle took to the sky with its iconic orange tank for the first time.

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There are some very large rockets in this building yall, stay tuned 👀

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Wanna see something crazy? This is what LC-39A looked like after a Saturn V launch (Specifically Apollo 9)... the place was absolutely wrecked

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I spent like way too long making sure I had as much of what happened during the flight correct as I could. Only to then realize after I posted that I'm bad at math and this was 56 years ago, not 54.

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That looks like a New Glenn first stage nearly completed 👀

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I had the chance to meet and hang out with @JeffBezos . He is a great human being, and is super fun to talk to in part because he is extremely knowledgeable about every aspect of rocket engineering & manufacturing, but also because of his humility and thoughtfulness. He gave me a

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Earlier today @Astra gave us our first look at the Rocket 4 vehicle. This specific article will be used for testing and validation of the vehicle on the ground with the first flight vehicle planned for later this year.

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NASA: Hey Aerojet! We love the RL-10, but do you think you could make a new and better engine to replace it? Aerojet: Ok Sure! NASA 1 year later: So Aerojet! What did you come up with? Aerojet: So... funny thing NASA: You built another RL1- Aerojet: We built another RL10

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I... I don't even know what to say about this? This might officially be the single most ridiculous rocket I've ever seen... AND IT WORKED????

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Drone view of the launch. via

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So how much of an Elon time curve are we thinking? My money is on Feb-March for IFT-3

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@johnkrausphotos @SpaceX Starship Flight 3 hardware should be ready to fly in 3 to 4 weeks. There are three ships in final production in the high bay (as can be seen from the highway).

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So @ulalaunch has just released an update on their BE4 recovery program and there is some interesting information regarding the program. However the most notable part to me is the speed of their reentry… (1/3)

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I’m trying not to think about the large amounts of plutonium that was at one point inside of this engine.

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NASA Has uploaded a set of Isolated Launch Views from Vulcan CERT-1 to and let me tell you... they are pretty sweet Watch them all: 📸credit NASA/ULA

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Expendable Center Core Falcon Heavy for the upcoming X-37B launch. The last time an X-37B flew with SpaceX it was on an RTLS Falcon 9 Block 4…

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Falcon Heavy in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A in Florida

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I’d just like to point out that because of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, there is currently a fully stacked SLS, Starship, and Saturn V right now.

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Here's an interesting bit of info. Falcon Heavy's average disclosed purchase cost is 199 Million dollars. Vulcan Centaur's average disclosed purchase cost is 120 Million dollars.

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The Saturn V is always show to lumber off the pad in movies/documentaries but in reality despite the Saturn V’s lower TWR compared to previous crewed rockets, it was still a fairly sporty liftoff. Check out this realtime footage of the Apollo 11 launch from the National Archive!

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