David King

Mississippi State '18

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/caRB1thMlg

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

On track for today’s Starship flight test. The launch window is from 5:30 p.m. CT – 7 p.m. CT and live coverage starts ~45 minutes before launch

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The 90-minute test window opens at 5:30 p.m. CT with live coverage starting ~45 minutes before liftoff. Weather is currently 55% favorable for liftoff → https://t.co/2gZQUxS6mm

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/wxna6dy4Lh

[NASA @NASA]

Orion's main parachute has deployed. The spacecraft has a system of 11 chutes that will slow it down from around 300 mph to 20 mph for splashdown.

Get more updates on the Artemis II blog: https://t.co/7gicm7DWBt

[NASA @NASA]

Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶

The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

The Artemis II crew has successfully completed the proximity operations demonstration! This test allows the astronauts to practice piloting Orion similarly to how they would if they were docking with another spacecraft — an important early test objective for the mission.

[Lockheed Martin Space @LMSpace]

The crew have successfully flown and controlled the Orion spacecraft, demonstrating the capabilities needed for docking with human landing systems.

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

Signal acquired! 📡

Engineers at @NASAJPL have confirmed that the Orion spacecraft is communicating with the Deep Space Network. For the first time in over 50 years, we’re receiving a signal from a spacecraft carrying humans toward the Moon.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

America’s next leap is underway..
Godspeed Artemis II 🇺🇸

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time in over 50 years, humans are Moonbound.

At 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 UTC) NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. https://t.co/0Q9ZB4IWVI

[NASA @NASA]

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

[NASA @NASA]

The countdown begins.

Teams at @NASAKennedy have arrived to their stations at the Launch Control Center. We are about 48 hours from the launch of the Artemis II mission around the Moon. https://t.co/PqaR8eyxu4

[Everyday Astronaut @Erdayastronaut]

I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

[NASA @NASA]

Due to weather, we now plan to fuel our Artemis II Moon rocket on Monday, Feb. 2, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With this adjustment, the earliest possible launch date is Sunday, Feb. 8. A launch date will be set after teams have reviewed the results of the wet dress rehearsal. Read more: https://t.co/eNxx6YcGbv

[NASA @NASA]

Our @NASAArtemis Moon rocket is ready to roll! We’re targeting no earlier than 7am ET (1200 UTC) on Saturday, Jan. 17, to begin the rocket's journey at @NASAKennedy from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. https://t.co/HEMM8BMH2O

[David King @DaOneKing]

RT @LMSpace: Tomorrow, we ROLL! 🚀

@NASA is planning on rolling the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket from the Vehicle Assembly Building to L…

[DOW Rapid Response @DOWResponse]

.@SECWAR “We need to be blunt here: WE CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO WAIT A DECADE for our legacy primes to deliver the next ‘perfect system’… only to find that it is delivered years behind schedule and costs ten times what it should.

Winning requires a new playbook. Elon wrote it with his algorithm: question every requirement, delete the dumb ones, and accelerate like hell.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

@MattGialich I love Dragonfly..An autonomous ~1,000-pound, radioisotope-powered octocopter flying for years in −290°F temps on Titan is exactly the kind of near-impossible science mission NASA exists to achieve.

[NASA @NASA]

Today, Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) was sworn in as NASA’s 15th Administrator. At a time of intense competition across the last frontier, he will lead the most talented minds in the nation to ignite the orbital economy, usher in world-changing scientific discovery, and return American astronauts to the Moon – this time, to stay.

America’s historic mission in space continues. 🚀 https://t.co/zbSZLTZFiv