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[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

I enjoyed being at the CNBC event, but I wanted to clarify. The question was about the timing of the Moon Base and recent lunar rover awards. I was pointing out that those missions are not until 2028, which should be well within what is possible for pad recovery.

Blue Origin leadership has responded incredibly quickly, and NASA will do all we can to help with root cause analysis and accelerate pad recovery timeframes while staying extremely focused on progressing the lander.

[Dave Limp @davill]

Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.

I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.

We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

You’re completely retarded if you think people who merely read books are anywhere near as intelligent as those who can do this:

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

BOOSTER TOUCHDOWN! New Glenn returns to its blue origin.

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

Apologies for the TLDR, but when you step back, it is kind of wild what we’ve all lived through over the last five years. No wonder so many young people are anxious about the future—the ‘disturbance in the force’ feels stronger by the day.

I don’t have any grand takeaways other than this--the world could use an immediate course correction in the direction of boring--or we may really need those Mars rockets sooner than expected. One thing is for sure--Israel is making a compelling case for Golden Dome.

• A once-in-a-century pandemic shuts the world down. No matter how you view it in hindsight, both allies and adversaries were nearly unified in halting the global economy and banishing society to lockdowns and high-pressure mask & vaccination campaigns.

• We tried to print our way out of the system shock, triggering the most euphoric markets since the dot-com bubble—pre-revenue IPOs reappeared for some reason and people forgot that good companies generally don’t SPAC.

• The digital revolution kicked into overdrive—work-from-home, virtual education traumatized parents, Zoom cocktail parties, Peloton, DoorDash and MS Teams---probably the most painful development.

• Civil unrest emerged alongside deepening social and political divides.

• A disheartening end to the war in Afghanistan—trillions spent, thousands of lives lost and the Taliban is still running the show.

• Market euphoria gave way to historic inflation. Interest rates shot up to cool things down. The tide went out, and the “shitcos” failed. Centralized crypto exchanges gambled customer deposits. Hedge funds weren’t hedged. VC-heavy banks like SVB collapsed, triggering a temporary panic in the regional banking system. The big banks… got even bigger.

• For the first time since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a nuclear superpower launched a full-scale invasion of a neighboring country. The West isolates Russia, and we witness a new asymmetric dynamic in warfare--cheap drones, missile swarms, all playing out in real time on social media.

• The metaverse and Web3 died quickly as the “Magnificent Seven” lead a market rebound on the promise of AI.

• China closes gaps--and maybe pulls ahead--in some of the most strategically important technologies. They tolerate risk, aren’t afraid to steal good ideas and make them better--and operate with a culture that—for all its flaws—just goes out and does big things without dragging decades of baggage behind it.

• Hamas launches a surprise attack on Israeli civilians, takes hostages and triggers a war that pulls in Iranian proxies like the Houthis--disrupting global shipping lanes and igniting a politically charged humanitarian crisis.

• Political winds shift again. A former President—also the frontrunner—is shot in an assassination attempt, the first since Reagan. Thankfully, he survives and is now our 47th President.

• The Pakistani and Indian Air Forces engage in the largest air-to-air exchange in decades. China’s latest fighters and missiles see combat success against contemporary French aircraft—signaling what many already knew--China’s military is approaching peer status.

• Israel launches the most sophisticated and devastating air campaign since Desert Storm—targeting Iranian military and scientific leadership, degrading air defenses, missile systems and nuclear infrastructure..and the conflict may just be getting warmed up.

All in just five years...

Hopefully our defense and policy leaders are paying attention and making some course corrections. Congressional leadership is mostly well-intentioned, but often fights for expensive job programs--exactly the kind of thing an over-consolidated defense industry encourages--even as we stare down an unsustainable $36 trillion national debt. That’s how you end up holding a fleet of battleships during the advent of the aircraft carrier....

Only this time, the analogy breaks down--because as a nation have forgotten how to build ships. So instead, we will have $300 million fighter jets we can’t afford, arriving a decade too late, in quantities that may not even matter—disrupted by million-dollar, hypersonic, laser-equipped drones that our adversaries will likely produce at scale. Until, perhaps, the dark horse Skynet T-1000 shows up.

This is the time--especially in such a politically charged environment--when we need to be finding more ways to come together instead of moving farther apart. A time to be rooting for America and our leadership, not betting on the next Polymarket catastrophe. Because if the next five years look anything like the last, military parades and trade imbalances will be the least of our problems.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

Here we go—and our fully integrated launch vehicle is rolling out for its upcoming hotfire! #NewGlenn

[Juice @Hugo_Gonzalez_8]

@gaellkudo

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is the most power flying object ever created.

Currently over twice the thrust of Saturn V and, with future upgrades, three times the thrust (10,000 tons of force).

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Super Heavy has splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

Optimus Prime giving a speech with Linkin Park playing for the ending of Transformers(2007) was one of the greatest decisions in movie history😮‍💨

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship launches off the pad under the power of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy Booster

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Long duration test fire of Raptor while gimbaled 15 degrees

[Overkill Gaming @OverkillGame]

This Gaming PC Setup Giveaway is huge! Possibly the biggest in History! Two @SamsungUS ARK Monitors, a Gaming PC with two RTX 4080 GPUs, a @HermanMiller Embody, and @LogitechG peripherals! 👇🏼
https://t.co/qYIGhUkoCP

[Xavier Lopez Chabelo @chabelooficial]

Con el alma desgarrada y sabiendo que muchos y muchas personas lo han querido por muchos años y que sentirán su partida , les pedimos orar por su descanso y nos den oportunidad de pasar en paz el duelo que embarga a toda nuestra familia. Familia López Miranda

[Tim Ellis @thetimellis]

🚀🤯🥹😭🤘🌌 stunning and visceral first launch, what a first to witness

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Full duration

[LeBron History 🏀 @bronhistory]

Been a privilege to witness history throughout the years. More on the way.

Congrats @KingJames 👑

[Andy Lapsa @AndyLapsa]

Growing up it was @BillNye and Mr. Wizard who brought science down to everyday kids like me. Today those luminaries are @Erdayastronaut and @MarkRober. ...which makes this whole experience a complete honor. Thanks for helping tell our story @Erdayastronaut!

[Juice @Hugo_Gonzalez_8]

@gaellkudo @crou_tahon @saucysof Crazy how you can lie like that fr fr

[Juice @Hugo_Gonzalez_8]

@gaellkudo @crou_tahon @saucysof Ain’t no way you call me a bandwagon when you go for half the teams in the nba and nfl 🤡