David East

Showing up every day to lead The CrewFusion Academy on Skool. A lifelong student of Human Performance, Safety, and Leadership driving impact with passion & grit

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[David East @DavidEast51]

Only one word for it - INSANE!!!

Watch the noise.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

SpaceX launching cargo to the ISS, like FedEx, has become so reliable people forget how insane the sentence actually is.

Dragon just delivered another 6,500 pounds of research and supplies to orbit.

Microgravity medicine. Space weather science. Planetary formation studies.

All quietly moving through the SpaceX pipeline.

SpaceX basically turned orbital delivery into casual operational infrastructure.

@SpaceX

[David East @DavidEast51]

SpaceX - 22,000 people. More rockets than the rest of the world combined.

Boeing has 182,000 and can’t keep a door plug on.

This isn’t a people problem. It’s an organisational design problem.

Output per employee is the real metric. SpaceX just reset the ceiling. Throw the traditional way of getting stuff done in the bin. This is the way.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸SpaceX just revealed something that should make every legacy aerospace executive uncomfortable...

The company employed just over 22,000 people as of March 31, with none of them unionized.

For context, Boeing employs 182,000.

Lockheed Martin employs 123,000.

Northrop Grumman employs 95,000.

SpaceX is launching more rockets than the rest of the world combined while operating with roughly one-eighth the workforce of Boeing.

That kind of output per employee is not normal.

It is the result of an organizational design that prioritizes velocity, vertical integration, and ruthless prioritization, all of which trace back to Elon's operating philosophy.

Output per employee is the real metric in modern industry, and SpaceX is rewriting what the ceiling looks like.

Source: WSJ

[NASA Artemis @NASAArtemis]

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."

Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

[Oriana Pawlyk @Oriana0214]

As we talk about the crash at LaGuardia, wanted to re-up this piece from last year that looks at certain risks within the air travel system, with multiple underlying problems that have been building for years:

https://t.co/yvWJ1lfGpd

[David East @DavidEast51]

@TheCinesthetic I was a teenager in high school when this came out. All we were talking about was Luke’s Lightsaber. He lost it in his battle with Darth Vader and we weren’t sure how he was going to be a Jedi without it.
Then R2 shoot it across the Sarlacc Pit and there’s a brief pause So good

[David East @DavidEast51]

@perpetuoasombro Agreed. The Wild Weasle version was the jet that started my love for aviation as a young fella. That nose and the sick weapon load out 💪 💪 💪

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

He literally nailed life in a tweet.

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

Backing vocals sung before the main vocal was ingenious 🎤👏

[David East @DavidEast51]

This gives me so much hope for our future. This is what the world needs right now. Leadership that listens to the people and speaks for their righteousness.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🔥 BREAKING: The White House just said Marco Rubio's blockbuster speech in Munich is getting MASSIVE PRAISE worldwide, posting all 22 minutes of it

Rubio dropped some absolutely incredible quotes in front of Europe.

KEEP DEFENDING THE WEST, MARCO! 🇺🇸

[David East @DavidEast51]

Somebody just helped everything makes sense to me.

[John Ziegler @Zigmanfreud]

I generally hate AI, but this “Star Wars” takedown of Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper is tremendous…
😂

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Internet Breaks w/ Elon Musk's Insane New Plan

*** thanks to @DavidCarbutt_ and team for the edit.

[David East @DavidEast51]

@elonmusk You know that feeling when you’re a teenager and your mum or dad drop you at school. You don’t want to have anything to do with them because you’re embarrassed to be around them.
Yeah, that’s most of Australia right now

[David East @DavidEast51]

@otokyo Joe Pesci

[David East @DavidEast51]

@lady_valor_07 I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves!

I know a song that’ll get on your nerves, get on your nerves, get on your nerves!

Repeat until cops shoot the source of music.

[David East @DavidEast51]

@earthcurated There should be one god.
In Elon we trust.
Haha. That’s so funny to write. Can’t back it up with any serious argument that won’t get me kicked out of church

[David East @DavidEast51]

@TheCinesthetic

[David East @DavidEast51]

@Matt_Pinner