Jacob Madalon

Purdue Boilermaker ‘16 & ‘23, NASA Artemis FDO and aspiring astronaut. He/him. Opinions are my own, and this is not an official NASA account

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

A small introduction for new followers! I’m Jacob, and I’m a flight dynamics engineer at NASA working in flight operations for NASA’s Artemis missions. I work in ascent and abort operations and aspire to be an astronaut one day!

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

@spacewordnerd Technically Artemis II is currently scheduled as the next crewed launch (though there are repeat flyers on it too 😉)

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@cIairer lol I haven’t watched it yet either

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

@cIairer Astounding lack of demon hunters

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@cIairer Well, that’s interesting

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@pattinsonphotos @he4vensnight @cIairer lol Edward not Jacob 😂😂😂

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@pattinsonphotos @he4vensnight @cIairer damn Jacob was alive a really long time ago apparently

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

Sorry, I have a shift on console that day

[NASA @NASA]

Want to see our Artemis II crew off on their trip around the Moon? Now is your chance!

We’re looking for social storytellers to attend our first crewed Artemis launch at @NASAKennedy. Apply to our #NASASocial by Monday, Nov. 24. https://t.co/rAYBkeeKSM

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

@cIairer Are you ready for no thanksgiving and Christmas holidays?

[Aneesh @aneeshswamy]

nobody gets to tell me, my family, or the tens of thousands of Purdue alumni who chose this tiny dot in a cornfield as home that we don't belong, or are any less worthy of America.

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@cIairer Gotta delete the tweet

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@cIairer These are the exact questions I ask Alexa about

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@cIairer I have to wait until Artemis II to see this movie??? Dang.

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@cknasaboy @NASA Congrats man. It looks like it’s been an incredible 10 years with some really crazy stuff to come

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@cIairer “Doggo” catching strays here

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Hey, I was part of this at JSC! Part of my role on the flight control team is monitoring and planning for aborts, so I was part of the team that informs rescue forces of where to go in scenarios like this

[ARCHIVED: NASA's Exploration Ground Systems @NASAGroundSys]

Firing rooms 1 and 2 were bustling last week!

Exploration Ground Systems teams completed cryogenic and term count simulations, along with gaseous oxygen loading onto @NASA_Orion. Teams also completed a two-part safety abort demonstration to practice recovery operations in the unlikely event of a pad or in-flight abort scenario.

Learn more about the safety abort demonstration here: https://t.co/4ttCSmVpiX

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

Not trying to create twitter beef but I think it’s important to be transparent about NASA standards

https://t.co/Ae3B8VKR2F

[Ken Kirtland IV @KenKirtland17]

@mhaskellphoto @IrateMaxwell No im not saying it’s not necessary. I’m saying it’s arbitrary. That’s just a fact.

There’s no threshold or metric a rocket surpasses to become “human rated”.

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@cIairer Pretty sure cardinals aren’t allowed to do that

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It’s crazy getting folks from the outside seeing and commenting on our off nominal training for the crew. If I had known I’d be getting to walk the Artemis II crew through aborts following scenarios like these, I wouldn’t have believed it!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

A minute of chaos in the simulator when a thrust vector malfunction sent us out of control during the perigee raise maneuver. The system handled it as expected, shutdown the engine, and allowed us to safely return to Earth.

[Jacob Madalon @JacobMadalon]

@cIairer That… took a turn

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