Thomas Burghardt

Our return is long overdue. Let’s go!

Starship deploying Starlink simulator sats during last night’s flight test. This is a glimpse into an exciting future of Starship payloads. I can’t wait till y’all see what’s cooking.

Congratulations are in order for every member of the Starship team!

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

This is a shocking executive order that undermines the very idea of open inquiry. It turns federal grants into dispensations, subject to arbitrary and capricious withdrawal should the recipient say or believe the wrong things.

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FAA says power outage forced postponement of SpaceX TRACERS launch The Federal Aviation Administration said a regional power outage disrupted telecommunications at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center, which forced postponing of the SpaceX Falcon 9 TRACERS launch on Tuesday.

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As astronomy capabilities get better and better, we might continue discovering more interstellar objects zipping through our solar system.

It would be so awesome to have a probe built and ready, just waiting for a target object to be discovered and a trajectory designed!

Left Coast Launchin

On NASA’s Day of Remembrance, we honor the brave explorers that didn’t come home. May we be relentless in our work every day, such that their sacrifice is not forgotten, in the pursuit of a better future for everyone.

Mach 2.0

Mach 2.3

Mach 3.3

Mach 25

The last time I saw Discovery was on April 5, 2010, when she began her penultimate trip to space.

This week, I finally saw her again!

And so the search for which space journalists are on another new app begins…