One week later, incredible progress. It’s a 24/7 operation with a solid path forward to launch this year, helped by a lot of luck. @NASA and @USSpaceForce have both been extremely helpful.
This team. Never tell them the odds.
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.
Thank you for being here today. Your support means a lot to the whole team. We will get back to flight, and we will get to the Moon. Gradatim Ferociter.
All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.
“Critics praise billionaires when they give money away but condemn the process that made the money possible. That is backward.”
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Jeff Bezos on NYC spending:
"If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.
From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: It’s a quirk of American political thought that we revere rich athletes and entertainers. Yet when it comes to billionaires, whose skills are often exercised in invisible ways, many of us grow wary, writes @rkylesmith.
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BREAKING: The Washington Post wins Pulitzer for public service for its reporting on DOGE and its impact, including reporter Hannah Natanson who was at the center of the team effort.
Future lunar landings are taking shape right here at Johnson Space Center. 🌕
Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo lander recently completed environmental testing at @NASA's Johnson Space Center, preparing it to withstand the harsh, airless conditions modeling the vacuum of space and the extreme temperature conditions the spacecraft would experience during flight. Each test brings us closer to delivering science and technology to the Moon through @NASAArtemis. https://t.co/FduvZADHJW