Michael Baylor @MichaelBaylor_ Twitter profile

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Iterative development. It's the SpaceX way. - Starship SN8: Explosive landing - Starship SN9: Explosive landing - Starship SN10: Hard landing, post-flight explosion - Starship SN11: Explosive flip maneuver - Starship SN15:

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My Autotrack software captures the moment that Starship lost control. Excitement was very much guaranteed. Great first attempt by the SpaceX team! Tune in to hear our live reaction! @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Pretty wild comparison between Webb and Hubble from @NASAWebb . This is the Carina Nebula.

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Michael Baylor

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5 years

THE HOPPER HAS LANDED!!! #SpaceX #Starhopper

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2 years

Timelapse of SpaceX's first Starship stacking operation using the chopsticks in Starbase.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Incredible SpaceX drone footage of Starbase.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

6 years

CONFIRMED: #SpaceX "fairing" recovery vessel Mr. Steven is heading for YOUR MOM'S HOUSE. Yes, you read that right. @elonmusk has some explaining to do. Credit to @thechriswessel for the find.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

@elonmusk Video playback is horrible. Even on a great internet connection, it starts off at horrible bitrate and then becomes barely passable over time.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Timelapse video of NASA's DART spacecraft impacting an asteroid for science.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

Liftoff of Artemis I! The best remote video that I have ever captured! Stay tuned for a full video with additional angles on the @NASASpaceflight YouTube channel.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

One year ago today, the United States had not launched crew into orbit for nine years. Today, two Crew Dragon spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station. America's human spaceflight program is back in business.

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Michael Baylor

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5 years

"A Moon base will be incredibly exciting even if it's just a science base." - @elonmusk

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

SpaceX has successfully delivered Baby Yoda to the International Space Station along with four ride-alongs. 😜

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

Most powerful rocket ever vs my GoPro.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Fun Fact: Two rockets with more liftoff thrust than Saturn V have a legitimate chance of launching *this* year. Happy New Year! 📸 @NASA & @elonmusk

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

The furthest people from our planet are everyday people, not NASA astronauts, and they have the largest window ever flown in space.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Crew Dragon reentry over Starbase as seen on @NASASpaceflight Starbase Live.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

There is a fullstack in Starbase! Starship coverage continues on Starbase Live.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Timelapse of SpaceX lifting the world's most powerful rocket booster with Chopsticks for the first time.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

Cam checkouts complete. Clearing Starbase. Good luck Starship!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

11 months

After 5.5 years, today is my last with @NASASpaceflight . Thank you to the team and community for making an incredible journey possible. I will be moving on to an engineering role in the industry. This news also means that it is time for me to step aside from Next Spaceflight.…

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Michael Baylor

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4 years

SpaceX's current schedule for Sunday is absolute madness: - Starlink V1 L11 from LC-39A at 10:12 Eastern - SAOCOM 1B from SLC-40 at 19:19 Eastern - Starship SN6 150-meter hop from Boca Chica sometime after 09:00 Eastern That is two launches from the Cape in just over 9 hrs. 🤯

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Official: SpaceX's Starship is the only vehicle selected to move forward as the Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program, beating out Blue Origin and Dynetics. Starship will attempt to land the first humans on the Moon since 1972.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

NASA has released this photo of the deck of the SLS mobile launcher following the Artemis I launch.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Some fisherman got a big catch! #SpaceX

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

First in the field test of my semi-automated tracking software on a @KSpaceAcademy robot for the @NASASpaceflight livestream.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Blue Origin is doing its best to ensure that it will be remembered for delaying our return to the lunar surface and the "immensely complex and high risk" lander will be remembered for the opposite.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Current plan for SpaceX seems to be something like this: - Stack Ship 20 on Booster 4 for a fit check - Destack the vehicles - Uninstall Raptors - Proof testing of both vehicles - Begin Raptor reinstallation - Static fire campaign for both vehicles - Stack again - Launch

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Michael Baylor

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5 years

1 year ago, SpaceX was screwing around with carbon fiber and Boca Chica was a mound of dirt. This is the scene today ahead of @elonmusk 's latest presentation. Starship has transitioned from renders to reality. How it happened: 📸 @BocaChicaGal for NSF

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Mechazilla comes to life!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

SpaceX DART patch

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

I still cannot believe this.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Starship Orbital Launch Attempt details per FCC exhibit: - Staging 170 seconds into flight - Booster will splashdown in the Gulf 20 miles downrange - Starship will perform a soft landing 62 miles northwest of Kauai

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Hope to see Firefly back at the pad soon. It was an exciting launch for sure!

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

Falcon Heavy has been dethroned as the most powerful operational rocket. How long until SpaceX takes the title back?

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

The FAA has issued a mitigated Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for orbital Starship launches from Boca Chica, Texas – effectively giving an environmental green light to the SpaceX project. The decision could face legal disputes from environmental groups.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Starship SN9 did exactly what SN8 was expected to do.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

Launch of Starship! @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

😅

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

The GSE-4 test tank has popped!

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Does anyone know of any National Team infographics highlighting a rich supply of spaceflight hardware that does actually exist?

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

The Space Station as seen from SpaceX's Crew Dragon.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Apparently, Katy Perry has a new video that just played at the half time show of the National Championship game and...

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

My Autotrack software successfully tracked the entire ascent of Falcon 9 during the latest SpaceX launch. I was not at the launch in person. My home computer ran the software and set commands to the robot over the internet. Full video:

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

5 years

HOT FIRE!!! Raptor comes to life at the base of Starhopper as the vehicle performs a tethered hop at SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch facility. This is the first ever firing of a rocket engine at the launch site. #SpaceX #Starship @elonmusk Video via @LabPadre

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

Liftoff of Terran 1! Methalox is here to stay. 📸Relativity / Michael Baylor

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Additional shots of the Firefly Alpha anomaly. @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

I'm sure it's fine.

Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

Most powerful rocket ever vs my GoPro.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

I think Starship is going to orbit soon.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

Starship is just about stacked for launch!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Orbital launch tower lift is underway!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Alpha to orbit! @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Clear skies for Starship SN16 or I am deleting my account.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

This is not full zoom.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Starship is grade A entertainment. Nothing comes close.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Timelapse of Ship 24 being stacked onto Booster 7 for the first time.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

SpaceX mission control is erupting with emotion following the record-setting 10th flight of an orbital class rocket booster.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Starship stacking at dusk.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Decent chance Starship SN9 flies this month by the way. #SpaceX

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Falcon first stage returning to SLC-4 after a successful launch of Sentinel 6 from Vandenberg, Calif. #SpaceX I will be adding this to my list of top five best remote camera images. 😁 Support my work:

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

SpaceX crews are working hard to get Starship ready.

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

For the first time ever, Starship is scheduled to launch to orbit in the current month.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

All five layers of Webb's sunshield are fully tensioned!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Today NASA formally acknowledged that a fully reusable Starship/Super Heavy launch system is possible. This stamp of approval should send shockwaves through the launch industry. It is time to focus on competing with Starship, not Falcon 9.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

5 months

The shockwaves. 😍

SpaceX

@SpaceX

5 months

Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting second integrated flight test of Starship! Starship successfully lifted off under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster and made it through stage separation

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Timelapse of Booster 4's cryogenic proof test on Wednesday.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

4 years

Coming soon to Pad 39A with SpaceX's NSSL award: - Mobile Service Tower - Extended Falcon Heavy payload fairing

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

1 year

A look at the aftermath from the first Starship integrated flight test. Lots of data to inform future Stage 0 designs! @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

SpaceX will have to conduct a test landing of Starship on the Moon before landing humans.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

5 years

"We need things that make us excited to be alive. Be glad to wake up in the morning...Being out there among the stars is one of those things that make me glad to be alive." - @elonmusk

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

2021 was an incredible year for @NASASpaceflight livestreams! Some highlights:

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

Wenhop? The earliest possible Starship SN9 launch attempt is now Tuesday. We will hopefully have a better idea this evening on if teams are going to go for it or not. In the best-case scenario, SpaceX or Musk will provide official confirmation.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed – completing the biggest orbital launch in decades.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

The top priority of the new NASA administrator must be upgrading NASA TV to 1080p.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

whydoesspacexgetsomuchcoverage.jpg

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Booster 3 is fully stacked in the High Bay!

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Probably the coolest new visual released today. Raptor 2 is so clean!

SpaceX

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2 years

Raptor 2 generates more than 230 tons of thrust at sea level, up from Raptor 1’s 185 tons

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Thank you to @Astra for letting the NASASpaceflight team cover the LV0006 test flight and for being willing to fail in front of a live audience. Not all companies have streamed launches before they have reached orbit for the first time.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

3 years

The Boca Chica Village area (part of Cameron County) will be incorporated as Starbase, Texas.

Elon Musk

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3 years

Creating the city of Starbase, Texas

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Launch of the final best coast Delta IV Heavy. @NASASpaceflight

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

@elonmusk Will ASOG be fully automated? No tug boat required?

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

4 years

ULA has said that you need to refly a booster ten times for the economics of reusability to make sense. SpaceX is now up to six with Falcon 9.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

SpaceX has been awarded a $50 million contract from NASA for an "on-orbit large scale cryogenic propellant management and transfer demonstration." Contract is estimated to be completed by the end of 2022.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

The @NASASpaceflight community has raised over $100k towards the @inspiration4x fundraiser for @StJude . Congrats on an epic launch to @rookisaacman , @DrSianProctor , @ArceneauxHayley , and @ChrisSembroski !

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

That booster saved SpaceX from a seagull barbeque public relations nightmare. B1059-6 was an honorable sacrifice.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

Forever immortal.

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Michael Baylor

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3 years

One year ago today, SpaceX and NASA ended the gap and continued the dream.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

This is how the chopsticks move up and down the launch tower in Starbase.

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Michael Baylor

@MichaelBaylor_

2 years

Blue Origin HLS protest results: - Substantial damage to Blue's reputation - Guaranteed endless supply of immensely complex memes if Starship lands on the moon - Stopped NASA's work on returning humans to the moon for several months - Blue still does not have an HLS award

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Michael Baylor

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4 months

How the past 24 hours went

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Michael Baylor

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1 year

Space Station will do a burn at the top of the hour to evade Harry Kane's penalty kick.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

SpaceX conducted two ignitor tests with Booster 4 this evening.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

I suspect Webb's $10 billion price tag is going to be forgotten pretty quickly.

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Michael Baylor

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2 years

Ship 24's common dome has been sleeved and there is no methane header tank included. Will it be moved to the nosecone @elonmusk ? View via @BocaChicaGal