Luke Hecht

Efficiency is key. | Purdue AAE ‘22

[Disc Golf Pro Tour @DiscGolfProTour]

NOTHING BUT CHAINS!!! Gannon Buhr ACES the blind 528' hole 1 at Toboggan to kick off Round 2 at the PDGA Pro World Championships! 🤯

#SCTop10

[Rocketdyne @_Rocketdyne]

Launch day is almost here!🚀Rocketdyne thrusters aboard @NASARoman will help guide the observatory once in space, enabling it to see 100x more sky than Hubble and explore dark energy, exoplanets & beyond. What a mission to be part of!

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Never Stop Chasing the movie premieres in Dolby theaters on AUGUST 21!

We just had our first screening of the best storm chasing movie ever created and Team #Dominator is blown away.

The movie is called NEVER STOP CHASING and captures how it feels being i Dominator 3 during #tornado intercept mode.

Our idols Tim Samaras, Gizmo, Dr Howie Bluestein and Dr Josh Wurman and the DOWs are featured.

The May 3, 1999 F5 tornado, El Reno mega wedge never before seen footage through the Greenfield tornado intercept.

This is a must-see movie for all weather and storm chasing enthusiasts and normal people.

We could not have done amy of this without Team Dominator and a commitment to the scientific method

https://t.co/U908qK6CdQ premieres in theaters on August 21!

KEN COLE’s best work yet - this is a masterpiece

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.

[Jeff Piotrowski @Jeff_Piotrowski]

Breaking Weather: The OTUS Project team first ever 360 drone video inside of the Wyoming IA tornado today! Contact me via DM to license the footage. #iawx #WyomingTornado

[Red Vox @redvoxband]

Hell finally froze over I guess, we're going on a limited tour later this year! https://t.co/z6CDeqn6cc

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[NASA @NASA]

Next stop: lunar flyby.

The Orion spacecraft recently ignited its main engine on the service module for about six minutes to provide about 6,000 pounds of thrust. This maneuver not only sets the Artemis II astronauts on the path to the Moon. It also puts the crew in a free return trajectory, which will allow them to use Moon's gravity to return to Earth. https://t.co/P3PlcEIF7U

[NASA @NASA]

“I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

Mission specialists like @Astro_Christina train for all roles so they can jump in wherever they’re needed. Sometimes that means fixing vital machinery, like the spacecraft toilet.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Artemis II: Crew walkout.

[Shane Ross @RossDynamicsLab]

What if a spacecraft could cycle between Earth and Moon orbits, performing multiple circuits of each, naturally and indefinitely, with zero propulsion?

We’ve discovered a new class of stable, prograde, low-energy cycler orbits that do just that.

Why these orbits matter:

Ballistic → fuel-free
Stable → long-term ready
Near-chaotic → agile with low ΔV
Low-energy → access to Earth/Moon, Lagrange points, Sun–Earth L1/L2, even heliocentric space

At the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston next week, I’ll present on a new family of ballistic Earth-Moon cycler orbits that are stable, prograde, and mission agile—unlike any cyclers in the current literature.

The example below is shown in both the Earth-Moon rotating frame and inertial frame.

Conference Paper: https://t.co/v3VDPIT0X4

[Hoover Institution @HooverInst]

In an interview recorded yesterday, Hoover Senior Fellow Thomas Sowell criticizes the tariffs President Trump instituted earlier today. Watch the complete interview with Dr. Sowell on @UncKnowledge with Peter Robinson (@P_M_Robinson) on April 15th, 2025.

[GameStop @gamestop]

An update from Nintendo

[Team Fortress 2 @TeamFortress]

After just 2901 days, Team Fortress Comics comes to a close with Issue #7. Read it here: https://t.co/FIGWiIduPN

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

A new spin on orbital video.

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

Hurricane Milton has now intensified into a CATEGORY 5 #hurricane with minimum pressure down to 925 mb just northwest of the Yucatan!

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

And here’s the Bullseye plot. #CERT2 #VulcanRocket