Molly McCormick

Engineer @ Vast

[Vast @vast]

Successful hot fire of Vast's first development hardware, a 150 Newton Gaseous Methane / Gaseous Ox Thruster!
Our team went from concept to 3D printed Inconel thruster in just a few months. This test will help us learn the right film cooling ratios for our flight designs. #vast

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

... and that's how it went!

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Finally relented and started an account. We'll see how it goes.

[Kyle Cothern @risknc]

If you want

to destroy my Twitter

Read this 🧵

as I walk away.

1/n

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Souvenirs from #ASGSR2022 include two keychains, multiple stickers… and COVID. :(

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Also keen to talk Extremely Big Interfaces—7-meter diameter behemoths for docking, berthing, and launching.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Headed to #ASGSR2022! No booth, but if you want to talk artificial gravity in general or opportunities to fly experiments at asteroid/Moon/Mars gravities in particular, come find me in the @vast shirt.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

@wikkit I’m sensing strong motorcycle apparel potential here.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

The worst peer review I ever got, circa 2013-ish, included within its 4-paragraph screed a complaint that I “tweeted about work” which he deemed “unprofessional.” That review has aged like a fine wine and I cherish it.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

It's preposterous how under-represented Black women have been in spaceflight to date. It is also encouraging that private spaceflight may open up more opportunities.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

@risknc It’s warning you to step back from that ledge my friend

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Also: we like watching videos of cool stuff just as much as you do. Even if something didn’t work perfectly, we want to see it.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Evergreen reminder for interns and recent grads: most of the commercial space companies you’re applying to are more far more interested in your project portfolio than your grades or classes. Many of us, myself included, were not A students, but nevertheless built some cool stuff.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

“I don’t understand the organizational relationship between [NASA Boss 1] and [NASA Boss 2].”
“They’re like Galadriel and Elrond.”
“That was… perfectly descriptive actually, thank you.”

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

@cariann Fortunately, my actual (slightly baffled) response worked nicely: “Well it should be useful in lots of places,” then walking away.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

I was at a trade show the other day and picked up a small branded-swag screwdriver. “Ah,” says the booth man, “that will be useful to keep in the kitchen!” Took me 24 hours to realize he was being sexist, not just weird and/or in possession of unusually small kitchen appliances.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

Said colleagues have now also recommended that, should it happen again, I should counter-insinuate that the items are actually for murder and/or corpse disposal. This sounds like excellent advice.

[Molly McCormick @Molliway]

I have polled my male colleagues and they have confirmed that at no point has anybody insinuated their hardware procurements were for kitchen purposes at any point in their career.