Matthew Dominick @dominickmatthew Twitter profile

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

1/ I swung by the @NASA_Orion mission control room yesterday . . . I quipped “Are we there yet?” The flight director retorted back in his best Dad voice, “I’ll have you know we have a procedure to turn this spaceship around and GO back to earth right now!”

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2 years

100 booster landings in six years. Wow. What a time to be alive.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

Suni ( @Astro_Suni ) and I flew into @NASAKennedy with a view of this giant moon rocket on the pad. People from around the world worked to get this rocket on the pad and now they are working through the weekend to get this beast through final testing. #suniwasflyingwhileitookpics

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@dominickmatthew

2 years

Got caught finishing my coffee at sunset.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Was in space station toilet training the other day . . . surprisingly these two control panels are NOT all of the buttons and switches required to operate the system. There are more . . .

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Cool mechanical things . . . Here 17 mechanical latches are driven by a single crank to seal the hatch. Video viewer perspective is from inside the space station looking towards the Starliner as the hatch is closed by crew prior to departure for home.

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@dominickmatthew

3 years

This is only 1 day of 4 different days of space station food tasting and testing. Need a Thanksgiving day kind of nap after this.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

1/ I visited the engineering club at my old high school yesterday. After a brief talk, a student came up and asked me to sign a calculator. Other students saw it, loved her idea, and ran to their lockers to get their calculators so I could sign them.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

What a time to be alive. What was once a side booster (twice) now acts as the main booster. One would have likely been laughed out of the room a decade ago for suggesting the idea.

John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

2 years

Falcon 9 B1052, previously a Falcon Heavy side core for Arabsat 6A and STP-2, is slated to launch the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 mission at 6:11 p.m. EST tonight. The rocket's first stage will land at Landing Zone 1 shortly after launch.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

WB-57. A “frakenstein” aircraft for sure.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Starting the cheering section now from our earthly stadium. JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! JPL! @NASAJPL @NASAPersevere

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3 years

Acronyms! Learning how to work with a fancy freezer called MELFI on space station today. . . How cold is the freezer? No worries. It is in the acronym. See image.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

3/ I have swung by the Artemis Mission Control room between meetings a couple times since launch. Each time it has been amazing to see live views of Earth getting smaller and the moon getting bigger.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Starliner stacked on top of Centaur and Atlas V ( @ulalaunch ) in the VIF. We were able to crawl inside this spacecraft to check it out before it launches next week.

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@dominickmatthew

1 year

2/ The flight direct then added, “And for that matter we can also fly past the moon without slowing down and head back to Earth. You hear me!?”

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@dominickmatthew

3 years

Saw the SLS at the VAB with ⁦ @Astro_Suni ⁩. It is huge! Anyone want to do the math for me in model rocket engines? A model “A” rocket engine has a total impulse of 2.5 Ns, “B” is 5 Ns. Doubles every letter going up. What is a five segment SRB in model rocket engines letters?

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@dominickmatthew

2 years

Me: “Why are you licking the wrapped gifts?” Daughter: “We wanted to use ALL five senses to figure out what is inside.” Me: “Ok”

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

Lucas: NASA’s mail has been a little bogged down due to COVID. I just now got your letter. I’m sending you one back but wanted you to know we only have enough postage to mail a letter and not a spaceship. Hurry up and graduate so you can join us. We work on spaceships everyday!

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1 year

Good Morning!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

How many years are we away from people flying spacecraft to LEO and beyond without a mission control center? Maybe just with “space traffic controllers?”

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@ulalaunch @torybruno Having a tremendous time at the VIF today. Lots of folks curious about the floor numbers.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

Found the red team truck shortly after the launch. Thank you!

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Matthew Dominick

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3 years

Cool view peering out from ULA’s ( @ulalaunch ) vertical integration facility (VIF) where you can see BOTH commercial crew launch pads.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 months

@Astro_Andreas @Astro_Andreas We are some of the lucky few right now who BOTH know where you sleep AND can get to you shortly . . .

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Robot vacuum repair ops today. 80% confident we return to full mission capability.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

Skeleton rocket fins. Happy Halloween! Sound on.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

You know you are at Cape Canaveral for a launch when you pickup your rental car and the previous person had set the clock to GMT (AKA Zulu time). GO Crew-6!!!!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

I tried to convince my daughter that the fastest way to complete her fraction homework was to color zero out of X parts in each group. She decided to only risk it on one since she is worried the teacher will mark it wrong . . . later I found a note attached to the assignment.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

My favorite part is the old school odometer to count uses.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Looks like @NASAJPL stepped up their hidden message game. Previous rover had JPL in Morse code in wheel tread pattern. Now more in the parachutes. Solid work in decoding it!

Maxence Abela

@FrenchTech_paf

3 years

@NASAPersevere @NASA My father and I found these three words hidden in the patterns of the lander's parachute !

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1 year

My 6 year old daughter and I were riding in the car together and she broke silence to announce a new thought: "Daddy, it is important to test everything really well before you use it." I have been developmental tester for years so you can imagine just how proud I was of her.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Trying different instant coffees for use on the ISS . . . using the hot water only feature of an espresso machine to make instant coffee just seems wrong.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@smartereveryday Respectfully request the units of effectiveness (e.g., information per unit time, energy expended per unit of information, etc)

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@joebarnard Your video mentioned 1.7 Mach. NASA uses two definitions of Mach. The “S” in NASA uses 1 Mach = 1000 ft/s. The first “A” in NASA uses 1 Mach = the speed of sound in local air which varies with air temperature. @joebarnard which Mach definition are you using?

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@dominickmatthew

4 years

@Cmdr_Hadfield Great call. Need to go outside and see the real world picture of the Group XXII class patch.

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@dominickmatthew

3 years

The coffee station that serves the flight control team in Mission Control Houston operated by the GC flight controllers has somehow evaded price inflation over decades of coffee operations.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Thinking more about the Rogers commission to keep history from repeating itself . . . Skipping testing for the near sighted sake of “saving schedule” will in the end negatively impact cost, schedule, AND performance because you don’t understand the hardware that has been built.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

2/ These students value hard work in engineering and science, and the whole experience made me feel like the future of the world will be in great hands.

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@dominickmatthew

1 year

@elonmusk My favorite 0.2% of that is the 4 humans on Dragon Crew-6.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

You all have given me so many great questions to ask in follow up toilet training. This class was only the initial overview . . .

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

5 months

So many solid memories of catapult shots from CVN-69.

Chowdah Hill

@ChowdahHill

5 months

It’s quite gorgeous to watch at night. Almost like a rocket launch. #USNavy

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@Erdayastronaut I was in the VAB 6+ months ago and am almost certain I was told during the tour that SLS gets the same test. Sometimes tried and true techniques just work.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

@joebarnard This video messed with me for at least twenty cycles of watching it loop. The rocket body ends up moving towards the “yeeted” motor. Visually is was confusing because I was expecting conservation of momentum to do what it always does. Turns out it did. Just not obvious at first.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

I’ve tried and failed many times to keep up with Mark in the gym. He is an animal. Incredibly mature and tough decision to “float” up in front of the world and make the right decision to push the EVA train to another day when we can do it at 100% in the future.

Mark T. Vande Hei

@Astro_Sabot

3 years

Thanks for everyone’s concern. I have a pinched nerve in my neck that caused us to reschedule today’s spacewalk. The support from family, friends, and NASA leadership has been fantastic. I’m looking forward to installing this IROSA Mod kit. Today just wasn't the right day.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Fast electric car chargers are like air start carts for the T-38N. They don’t exist at every exit/airport but there are enough spread out across the country such that you can string together a series of drives/flights to get where you want to go.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Maybe I’m seeing things but it looks like the bottom bird’s wings increase the angle of attack to hold the weight of the top bird. Especially when the top bird fully closes up its wings.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

My favorite alleyway.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

The vehicles (transports and station) themselves must be built with this concept in mind.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@joebarnard Subtractive manufacturing.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Studying the design of space capsules today. TIL that humans, electronics, and the DESICCANT that removes humidity from the cabin air all generate heat that has to be removed from the capsule. I was not expecting the desiccant as a heat source let alone a significant one.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Big fan of the the cold call before text. Sometimes even worth elevating it . . . with a video call before audio or text.

Smarter Every Day

@smartereveryday

3 years

I realize for some calling before texting is a complete violation of 2020’s social etiquette. Sometimes I roll the dice anyways.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

11 months

GO Crew-7!!!

Jasmin Moghbeli

@AstroJaws

11 months

Posing for some photos while trying on my @SpaceX spacesuit recently. Tailoring the suit for fit and function in a variety of nominal and off-nominal scenarios is not trivial. Seeing my name sewn on the side was also a nice reminder of how close we are to launch! 🚀 @NASA #Crew7 …

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@DJSnM @neiltyson @NASA @Space_Station I have seen two definitions of Mach at NASA. The first A in NASA uses the classic definition of Mach (speed of sound in an atmosphere) and the S in NASA uses 1 Mach = 1000 ft/s both in and out of the atmosphere.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

FEELING BAD THAT I FORGOT TO HONOR MY CAPS LOCK KEY YESTERDAY ON INTL CAPS LOCK DAY. SO TODAY I WILL GIVE MY CAPS LOCK KEY THE DAY OFF. TODAY SHIFT CARRIES THE LOAD! (Who comes up with all these days?)

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

After my daughter went to bed last night, I reviewed her homework. Her solution to this problem made me happy.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

The hatch can be opened by a crank on either side. Here you see me closing and locking the hatch from the Starliner side but the crank on the space station side moves with it.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Unnecessary Deep Thoughts: I’ve never met a bag of microwave popcorn that recommends using the “popcorn button” on the microwave. Interesting systems integration problem/failure. Why so many options on microwaves that people never use or that do not work in practice?

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@joebarnard Nothin’ Few days off road trippin’

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

@joebarnard Just two weeks away . . .

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

It is crazy to me that this little locking latch is also controlled on both sides of the hatch and the mechanism to do it crosses through a hole that has to maintain a seal so as not to vent the air to space. At the end of the video it is locked from the other side.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@elonmusk @JonErlichman Crewed spacecraft without traditional mission control centers.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

Incredible test point. A legitimate mission representative test right at max Q with a real capsule that was originally slated for the crewed Demo-2 mission.

BRANDON M. WYNN

@BrandonMWynn

2 years

2 years ago today, @SpaceX preformed a one-of-a kind test of their Crew-Dragon spacecraft’s In-Flight Abort capabilities, prior to flying American Astronauts ( @AstroBehnken & @Astro_Doug ) for the very first time… #SpaceX #Dragon #OTD @elonmusk 📸 - Me /

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

Update 13ish months later. Better signage and inflation has occurred. Still a great deal for coffee in Mission Control Houston.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Hazzaa helped with the suit up process before an NBL run this week. Thank you! We train both suiting up ourselves as well as suiting up others in preparation for ISS space walks.

Hazzaa AlMansoori

@astro_hazzaa

3 years

… نقترب من إنهاء تدريبنا في مركز جونسون للفضاء… هذا الأسبوع ، قمنا بمساعدة رائدا الفضاء ريد وايزمان و ماثيو دومنك على إرتداء بدلة الفضاء قبل قضاء 6 ساعات تحت الماء في مختبر الطفو المحايد.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

3 minutes to go!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@Ascii211 “Enhance” . . . “Enhance” . . . “Enhance”

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

At the end of the video at the base of the crank handle you see a little latch flip. The little latch is a lock that keeps someone from bumping the crank handle and opening the hatch to space.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

For those with the classic childhood road trip question “James Webb Space Telescope are we there yet?” in percent to the 10,000th place. @NASA @csa_asc @esa @NASAWebb

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Holiday lights and some spare drainage pipe are keeping the supply side of our sprinkler supply pipe warm. Houston is not designed for long periods of time below 0 C.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Hardware rich may seem expensive upfront but it pays for itself in the long run.

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@dominickmatthew

3 years

Small train stop hidden amongst the woods near звездный городок. I think it is named for the first person to derive the rocket equation (1903).

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@haleykesparza Just a couple more flights before CYAL8R becomes one of many options.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@StarshipFairing For LEO we use a rule of thumb when cross checking what the computer calculates for a burn. For every 1 m/s of delta V in a burn, perigee is raised about 3.5 km.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

Fly Navy!

Josh Cassada

@astro_josh

1 year

“Join the Navy and see the world,” they said. I guess we’ll give ‘em that one.

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Matthew Dominick

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2 years

Yikes!

Jerry Pike

@JerryPikePhoto

2 years

The SLS lightning strike slowed down

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Reading Appendix F of the Rogers Commission this morning . . . “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” - R. P. Feynman

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Dentist chair thoughts . . . Mars and earth are aligned every ~780 days in an optimum way for sending spacecraft. Mars Hope, Tianwen-1, and Perseverance all launched close together. Does that mean right now 3 spaceships are in close formation in route to Mars? @NASAJPL help?

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@TJ_Cooney We did not get that far. This class was only the initial overview. Must be in the 400 series courses.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@TJ_Cooney So close. Actual reaction. 1. Why am I getting so many notifications? 2. Who is @TJ_Cooney ? 3. What does BTS stand for? (Asked my wife: Behind the scenes) Wilco on BTS photos.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@joebarnard Nice simulation. Thank you.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

@SciGuySpace Analog variant. We are here. (Not to scale)

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@johnkrausphotos @torybruno Probably weather is go for launch.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

4 years

@joebarnard We do not have the mapping resolution to have picked out the exact spot yet. The @LRO_NASA narrow angle camera has 1 m resolution. A 1 m boulder could really screw up landing legs. @NASA is working with 3 commercial partners rIght now on solutions to make the landing possible!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Unlike toast that always seems to land jelly side down . . . masks always seem to land outside down. Win! Positive pandemic thoughts.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

Thought: I hope their exploration spirit increases in sophistication with age. Need to be on the lookout for the harmful tech phases. Imagining them discovering an old shoe fitting fluoroscope on eBay and repurposing for packages.

Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

We need more hatch mechanism videos . . . I remembered last night that @zenanaut has a cool video of the ISS hatch mechanism. @zenanaut can you post it here?

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

Does anyone use this button?

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@bps_space Can you get some interns to build multiple copies of the rocket so you can have multiple attempts? Meh. Probably better to just have coffee when you need it.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

“Super Flower Blood Moon” . . . The trend in naming various lunar events over the past few years is entertaining.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Point of clarification. I wrote Ns for impulse in Newton*Seconds. Not Newtons

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

Seven minutes after launch I closed my eyes and I could still see the image of the SRBs burned into my retina. It was SO bright. What an amazing launch.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

Back at it again. Robot vacuum repair operations. New failure mode. This time printing replacement gear . . . Maybe doubling the hairy pets in our home pushed it too far.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

@bps_space I am always ready to watch both the “ups and downs” of trying to land rockets on solids. Bring it!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

@joebarnard Support with data please.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 months

@ea1dr @Astro_Jeanette @issfanclub @AmsatSpain @ARISS_Intl @NASA_es @AMSAT This evening was @lunarloral and I. We were happy to make some QSOs over North America and Europe in a short time. @Astro_Jeanette will be on another night!

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@joebarnard @johnkrausphotos @NASASpaceflight @TheFavoritist Violating Notice to Mariners might be cheaper per night than NOTAMS (Notice to Air Mission).

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

1 year

@DJSnM The magnitude of the velocities and ranges combined with the short time periods still blows my mind. Entry interface (EI) is 4433 nautical miles of range from the runway where a soft touch down will occur with rubber tires 32ish minutes later.

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

2 years

@SenMarkKelly @astro_megan introduced me to a subtle tribute. Whenever we fly the T-38 into Amarillo we use the full name of the airfield when we call tower. “Rick Husband Tower, NASA 917, three down and locked for the full stop.”

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Matthew Dominick

@dominickmatthew

3 years

Printing toys for the holidays . . . Santa’s workshop is well versed in additive manufacturing.

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