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Charles Boyer

8 days

Liftoff of Galileo L13 this evening from the Cape. With a storm bearing down from the west, SpaceX launched into a beautiful sunset tonight.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

What if Boeing had taken this base design, crew-rated it and built THAT instead of Starliner? All this thing does is keep working.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

I saw this uncaptioned, uncredited photo on Pinterest, and did a reverse image search on Google to no result. Anyone have any idea of the provenance of this photo and what tests were being done?

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Charles Boyer

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4 months

Those days when you lift off and leave the first stage behind…they’re the worst. 😂

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Charles Boyer

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3 years

@StellaParton @NAPW Most Americans are of the "our poo don't stink" variety. Fact is, we treat women and minorities like trash and refuse to admit it's even happening.

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Charles Boyer

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7 months

3.3 Million people are watching SpaceX's stream. By comparison, that's more people than FOX or NBC got for any television show this week.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

Boeing technicians work inside the giant first stage of a Saturn V rocket. (Photo date unknown.)

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Charles Boyer

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11 months

People often look to Apollo 11 as the riskiest planned mission of the Apollo program, but I always reply that it was Apollo 8, commanded by Frank Borman: • First crewed flight to leave Earth orbit • First crewed flight of Saturn V • First flight of Saturn V after the

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Charles Boyer

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2 years

A closer view of #SpaceX 's #Starship tower rising over LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. Soon it will dominate the skyline out on the north end of the Cape.

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Charles Boyer

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4 years

@DJSnM @elonmusk @MachinePix I don't know, given the crappy job the humans in charge have done, maybe reporting to an AI would be an improvement.

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

Interesting: I seem to have caught #Space #Falcon9 entirely shrouded by vapor as it transitioned to supersonic this afternoon. There is only one frame that looks like this. The only processing I did was auto-tone and a wee bit of sharpening. Nikon Z8 for the win.

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Charles Boyer

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10 months

This hardly gets much mention, but the rate #SpaceX cranks out second stages for Falcon 9 is incredible. The booster gets all the glory but the folks back in the factory are putting in a good shift every day to produce a new 2nd stage for every flight. photo: Teslarati

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Charles Boyer

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1 month

The FAA's map of US spaceports.

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Charles Boyer

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19 days

Of all of my grandfather's memorabilia I think this is my favorite.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

Controversial opinion: #NASA should develop an original, new and awesome logo for the agency and use it during this era of exploration. The Meatball was the bootstrapping through the end of the Apollo era, then the worm in the first part of the Space Shuttle era, back to the

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

If you're looking to upgrade your astronomy rig, this might be the thing for you:

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7 years

@McJesse @lakakalo @Dustpiggies They are a loving family.

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1 year

@ChrisMartin1961 @CalltoActivism I think I know where that Subway is at. It's a heavily trafficked area by students and whatnot and they probably do that so they aren't just a rest stop for pedestrians and bikers.

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Charles Boyer

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20 days

If you're wondering why #PolarisDawn has major concerns with reentry weather, this should be a major clue:

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

Early SnapBridge look at the view of ⁦ @RocketLab ⁩’s Electron launch 🚀 from this morning.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

SpaceX's second stage issue last night is exactly why NASA wants dissimilar redundancy for crewed flight. Of course, SpaceX will be back better than ever, but the nation needs an equally reliable second system to take up any slack.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

@arlowhite Mainoo deserves a shout for going from "not selected" to "obvious starter" during the tournament. With a little experience and a bit of growth (he is still that young), that lad will be a bulwark.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@INiallAnderson @PopCrave Most likely a style and continuity photo. The movie was not shot in flat light like that.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@DJSnM I learned a long time ago as a journalist that sometimes you have to ask questions of an expert that you already know the answer to. They are an authoritative source.

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Charles Boyer

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3 years

#SpaceX #FalconLaunch from Playalinda Beach this afternoon. It was (still is) a beautiful day at the beach and a good crowd assembled to see the launch from Pad 39-A.

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Charles Boyer

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6 years

@_andrewcarter Your photo? It's fantastic.

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Charles Boyer

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7 months

In case you are wondering:

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

I haven't seen one of these in a while...a #SpaceX Falcon booster falling through the sky towards LZ-1. It's incredible watching them from the ground because they aren't slow.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

@oldenoughtosay It's a southern thing.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

RIP General Thomas Stafford. Deepest condolences to his family members, especially daughters Dionne and Karin in this difficult time. @NASA

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

Ooops. It's always a good idea to make sure your tripod is locked securely for long exposures.

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Charles Boyer

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9 months

@ADavidHaleJoint They lost to a UGA team that also had opt-outs and transfers -- 18 of them including Brock Bowers. They need to stop making excuses and just admit that their players quit on them.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

#SpaceX Falcon 9 blew a smoke ring as it rose towards space this afte noon.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@voxdotcom Christina Koch and Victor Glover have individually accomplished more in their careers than the author and the professor ever have or ever will, but they are reduced to being "tokens" in this putrid and quite frankly, asinine argument.

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Charles Boyer

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2 years

Falcon9 descending: you can see #SpaceX Falcon9 at the bottom of its contrail as it falls towards Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station this morning.

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Charles Boyer

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4 years

@HIGHLANDDRAGON @CNNPR @kirstiealley Bet you don't see this on OAN or Fox Elsie, so here it is:

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Charles Boyer

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2 years

If you wonder why #NASA is extremely careful during Wet Dress Rehearsals, this is one little part of the many reasons: March 20, 1981:

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Charles Boyer

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3 years

@nextspaceflight This thread is yet another example of this phenomena:

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

The world lost a truly innovative and accomplished aerospace engineer yesterday. RIP Dick Rutan.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

@rookisaacman @SciGuySpace SpaceX has not exhibited any meaningful monopolistic behavior. In fact, it has gone out of its way to aid ostensible competitors in their time of need: NG while NG/Firefly finishes Antarest 330 (NG-20 and NG-21 soon), as well as OneWeb.

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Charles Boyer

@TheOldManPar

9 months

Shout out to my late father and all of his brethren who worked on the first crewed launch of Saturn V 55 years ago today when Apollo 8 headed from the Cape to the moon. #NASA #Apollo8

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Charles Boyer

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7 years

@neiltyson "There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun." actual quote

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Charles Boyer

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4 years

@LadyTrashBag I just never got into the jam-band thing (Grateful Dead/Phish, et. al). I kept waiting for them to get to the point of the song, and instead, it just went on another direction. It's like trying to follow a butterfly.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@SciGuySpace I am once again convinced that Apollo would have never made it to the moon and back if there had been social media in the 1960's. Some of the reactions on Twitter and Facebook are truly sad.

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1 year

Mark my words on this: OceanGate and the lost submersible are a timid preview of the furor that will erupt after the first crewed commercial space accident. As much as I hope that never happens, it is a statistical inevitability.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

A Green Puff And The Fire Of Three #SpaceX 's Falcon 9 B1080.10's booster landing burn kicks off as the rocket comes in for its landing...

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Charles Boyer

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8 months

I spy with my little eye a booster getting ready to fly.

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Charles Boyer

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6 years

@_andrewcarter That was more than luck. There was a lot skill involved...well done!!

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3 months

@TakeThatClouds Thanks, that settles it!

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

I love the way the vapor cone wraps the entire booster as Falcon 9 blasts through it. Photo: mine

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5 months

It would be unfortunate if NASA allows Hubble to be lost to orbital decay rather than to allow the Polaris Program to at least try to boost it. I am sure that they'd do more than just try, I think they'd do a great job.

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@GaySpaceNerd69 @SunnyDfan4eva @jotajotahermes A study was performed and recommendations were made. That is really all I can say. Unfortunately, time is not on our side based on solar cycle and Hubble orbital decay.

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For those expecting Polaris Dawn to launch tomorrow, neither @SpaceX nor @PolarisProgram have announced a launch date of tomorrow. Launch scheduling sites often rely on placeholder NOTAMS, etc. which are just that: placeholders. Wait for official announcements.

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Charles Boyer

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6 years

@Toure @xeni Botham Jean was, by all accounts, a good man. Full stop. Pay no attention to those who are trying to smear his reputation.

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@SciGuySpace Will Boeing need to conduct another flight test, and will it be uncrewed or crewed prior to Starliner 1? And...who will pay for it?

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7 months

I'm curious about how things are going for Gaganyaan, whose first crewed launch is planned for 2025. I know @isro successfully completed the TV-D1 abort testing and some parachute testing, but overall, here in the US it is difficult to find good info about the program.

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Charles Boyer

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8 months

I wonder how many astronauts drank Tang on the moon…

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4 years

@AshaRangappa_ If she does not get a longer sentence than Reality Winner, there is no justice in this country.

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Charles Boyer

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7 months

I spy with my little eye a Delta IV getting ready to fly…

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Charles Boyer

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4 months

#SpaceX Starlink 6059 straight from the camera...

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

Some folks love to share photos of car engines. Me, I like rocket engines, and to be sure, these are two powerful ones. Four RS-25s make up the power unit for the #Artemis II Core Stage, which is now in the VAB @NASAKennedy .

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@DJSnM One-half mile (804 m) across and 8 feet (2.43 m) deep according to the National Park Service. Atomic Heritage Foundation says 1000 feet by 8 feet. There's still a depression there today, I saw that for myself in April.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

Found this in a drawer a while ago. It’s probably my grandfather’s.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

“I want to make it very clear that Butch and Suni are not stranded in space,” Steve Stich, @NASA 's @Commercial_Crew program manager said today. “We’re not in any rush to come home.”

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

The moment when a passion for spaceflight begins: a little boy sitting on his father's shoulders watches a #SpaceX Falcon 9 lifting of from Pad LC-39A on Saturday, March 30, 2024. If that young man was not a rocket lover before today, I bet he is one now.

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Charles Boyer

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5 years

@DanWolken Speaking as an NC State fan, it was the Wolfpack's job to stop them, especially after they put in reserves. They didn't. That's on NC State's players, not Clemson's coaches.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

If I recall correctly, Elon Musk has said that Falcon 9 boosters could fly up to 25 missions. Bill Gerstenmaier, said last May that engineers were certifying Falcon 9 boosters for up to 20 flights for Starlink missions. Tonight is B1062's 20th mission. Will it fly 21?

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Charles Boyer

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1 month

Current state of the Shuttle External Tank Test Article in Green Cove, Springs.

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Charles Boyer

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4 months

@Lori_Garver Without a task order, Boeing won't move a pencil from one side of a desk to another. They are not particularly innovative or entrepreneurial anymore; that died when MDD acquired them. So, no. Dinosaurs go extinct.

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Charles Boyer

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7 months

Range of trajectories that Starship might take from Cape Canaveral, from the official Environmental Impact Study public handout: #SpaceX #Starship

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

Straight from the camera.📷 #SpaceX NG-21 punching through Max Q.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

@TheRealBuzz When I was a kid, I wondered where in my town (Cocoa Beach) their house was.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

#SpaceX Falcon 9 punching the core this morning.

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1 year

@pete_piccolo @ChrisMartin1961 @CalltoActivism Agreed. It's not like a little girl is a drunk person hootin' and hollerin'....

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Charles Boyer

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8 months

If you follow me here, you may remember my mentioning a conversation about getting a rocket engine to put out in our lanai....welllll, as luck would have it....

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Charles Boyer

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7 years

@neiltyson But they are rare over my house.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

@SpaceBoss_Flash No, you'd have the X-37C.

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Charles Boyer

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9 months

Timelapse from last night of Falcon Heavy's last few seconds before the side boosters were expended and began their journey back to Cape Canaveral.

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Charles Boyer

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1 year

Remember The Scarecrow's song from from The Wizard of Oz? (click to read the whole thing...it gets even dumber)

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

# SpaceX sent a good one to a proper Viking funeral tonight. Pour one out for Booster B1060.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

SpaceX #Starlink 6-42 partial streak from a few minutes ago. I arrived 2 minutes before T-0, watched too much basketball...oops. Anyway, local residents know Scruffy The Tugboat on the Indian River / 528 W. @FloridaMediaNow @TalkOTitusville

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Charles Boyer

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2 years

In the blue light of the gloaming, #SpaceX had a by-the-book beautiful launch of #CRS25 from LC-39A of Kennedy Space Center.

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Charles Boyer

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2 months

Straight from the camera,📸 #SpaceX Falcon 9 Booster B1080.10 landing at LZ-1 a few minutes ago.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

DELTA IV Heavy is coming out to play today. @ulalaunch

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

#Starliner CFT now slated for NET May 17, after a valve repair to the Centaur upper stage. Keep in mind that no one remembers delays after a while, but no one would ever forget a preventable disaster. Fixing the problem before launching is always the right call.

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

@peterrhague Elon's technique fit right in with the early web. He basically embedded a web daemon into his code. It was not unusual for larger projects to do so back then.

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

In monochrome, detail really stands out.

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Charles Boyer

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9 months

Falcon Heavy side boosters jettisoning from the core and starting their return to the Cape last night. #SpaceX #FalconHeavy #USSF52

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

#Falcon9 almost split the moon from our point-of-view today. There will be many far better shots than what I took (I zoomed out too far), but it was pretty cool nonetheless.

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Charles Boyer

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Earlier today, SpaceX was finishing up repairs to Falcon 9's Helium QD. The people in the shot really help describe how big this 22-story rocket is.

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Charles Boyer

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3 months

Straight out of the camera, no edits except a slight crop. @SpaceX Turksat-6A lifts off from Cape Canaveral at 7:30 PM EDT.

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

#SpaceX Starlink 6-55's flight path as seen from Cocoa Beach this evening.

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Charles Boyer

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3 years

@elonmusk I think it would be awesome if "Broomstick" was painted on the side of the next crewed Falcon 9 launch.

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Charles Boyer

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4 years

@AOC One would have thought after Obama's first campaign and its effective use of digital that Democrats would have taken and expanded the blueprint. They didn't, despite an enormous grassroots presence in all digital media. That is, frankly, incompetent leadership.

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Charles Boyer

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2 years

@StellaParton @RonFilipkowski One would think that he'd fly NetJets at a minimum, given his wealth. One would also think that he's smart enough to know that berating gate agents is about as useful as yelling at clouds.

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Charles Boyer

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7 months

This Why SpaceX Does Static Firing Tests @NASA 's Steve Stich in today's press conference: "We did see an indication on Engine Six; on one of the components that was a little out of family with what we had seen in previous flights. So we swapped out that component. The component

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Charles Boyer

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6 months

Up, up and away: #SpaceX Falcon 9 rises as beach goers watch. I heard seven distinct languages this afternoon and the tourists at Playalinda really enjoyed what may be for many the only launch they ever see live. On to 9pm and Starlink 6-45. @FloridaMediaNow @TalkOTitusville

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Charles Boyer

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@johnkrausphotos One day soon, we will look back at this new record and think it quaint. It's still an accomplishment, but with permanently crewed LEO commercial stations and hopefully a permanent lunar base, we can easily triple or quadruple that.

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Charles Boyer

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3 years

@JPeregoyIII Mississippi State fans are for the most really good people. Wolfpack fans and the Bulldogs have a great deal in common.

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Charles Boyer

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5 months

After much investigation, I think I have discovered the source of the valve problems that have recently arisen on launch pads:

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