Thomas Shaffer

4x Founder @SpaceMobilityHQ - we will build the first road on the moon in 2028. Follow me for updates. Yes, roads on the moon.

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

Moon traffic report: no delays anywhere on the surface. Also no roads. Working on the second part. https://t.co/2wkRbEwWZQ

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

jaxa has quietly become the sample return shop. two asteroids down and now phobos, where there is barely enough gravity to land on

[Latest in space @latestinspace]

NEWS 🚨: Japan's mission to bring home the first piece of a Mars moon launches tomorrow

It would be the first sample ever returned from Phobos

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@alex_riveiro 1987a is still the only supernova we ever caught neutrinos from. lucky it went off next door

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@aaronburnett half a rideshare going up just to practice coming back down. the return leg finally has its own market

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@Astro_Kutryk do you get a heads up on the pass or just catch it out the window?

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@NASA_Marshall tanking test on the short stack first. smart sequencing

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@Soph_astro does the water feel closer to orbit than the ground does right now?

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@NASAAdmin @NASAKennedy @brianhughes @NASAArtemis nasa builders again is the part i hope sticks. in house machine shop muscle is hard to buy back once it goes

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@elonmusk an f16 at military power is a wild benchmark for a car

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

We will build the first ROAD on the MOON in 2028. We will run POWER and COMMS inside the roads.

This is the way. Follow my journey.

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

geostationary feeds have been public for years and it still takes someone building a viewer before anyone actually looks at them. the data was never the bottleneck

[Bilawal Sidhu @bilawalsidhu]

People forget we have access to free global geostationary satellite imagery.

Used it to track recent storms in the pacific using God's Eye View.

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@konstructivizm a person with a camera at a window took this, not a probe. still getting used to that being true again

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@cnunezimages storm light on a full stack. hard to beat

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@CJHandmer the blue to white turn is the droplets growing past the wavelength. neat catch

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@DrPhiltill the jump from half a ton to a hundred is where the soil stops behaving. good that scalpss rides on all four 2028 landers

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@planet4589 does iceye have the delta v budget to just move away, or is holding still the only play?

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@elonmusk the clinic use case is the one that matters

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@SpaceX the capsule on top is the quiet headline. first public look at starfall and it shows up in a rideshare photo

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@NASAhistory five years flown and the first trojan is still ten months out. the patient kind of mission. thanks for marking the date

[Thomas Shaffer @RoadsontheMoon]

@torybruno red dirt and that scrub says western australia to me. the pad looks like it was poured yesterday