Jay Friant

Optimist. Proud Dad & Husband! Rocket Engineer. Thoughts are my own. Retweets / Mentions / Favorites are not endorsements. Rocket Science, Yo.

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

Let us know if you see our missing ULA cameraman. This was the last photo we found on the roll… #Kuiper2 ⁦@ProjectKuiper⁩ (Just kidding)

[ARCHIVED: NASA Commercial Crew @Commercial_Crew]

Welcome back!

@NASA_Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived back at @NASAKennedy's Launch and Landing Facility aboard T-38 jets, ahead of the agency's @BoeingSpace Crew Flight Test.

[Boeing Space @BoeingSpace]

#Starliner has been securely integrated with the #AtlasV rocket, which will fly @Astro_Suni and Butch Wilmore to @Space_Station on the Crew Flight Test. Thanks to @ulalaunch for helping to accomplish this important step toward launch.

More: https://t.co/3iWmsPHJtO

📸: ULA

[ULA @ulalaunch]

Today and every day, we celebrate our #ULARocketStars! Thank you for your passion, dedication and commitment to launch success.

Happy #EmployeeAppreciationDay!

[ULA @ulalaunch]

Today we begin stacking the 100th #AtlasV, but this flight will be unlike any of the previous. This rocket will launch @NASA @Commercial_Crew astronauts Butch Wilmore & Suni Williams on the Crew Flight Test (#CFT) for @BoeingSpace’s #Starliner to the @Space_Station!

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Years of painstaking work pays off! #WeGotUsARocket! #ula #VulcanRocket

[ULA @ulalaunch]

You know Atlas & Delta, now meet Vulcan!

ULA's #VulcanRocket soared to historic heights on its #Cert1 flight test on Jan. 8, leaving Earth orbit & successfully charting a trajectory into deep space with bullseye accuracy & precision.

Read more: https://t.co/Vpe3jVpFt4

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Let’s GO!

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

Up, up, and away! #VulcanRocket. #CountdowntoVulcan. #Cert1

[ULA @ulalaunch]

Congratulations on success of the #ProjectKuiper Protoflight mission! We look forward to continuing this partnership.

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Why I do what I do! Inspiration from this man and several other service personnel like him, including my son, also a Naval Aviator. Hooyah!

[Boeing Space @BoeingSpace]

🎉Happy birthday, to the @BoeingSpace teammate who's done it all:

TOPGUN pilot ✈
U.S. Navy captain ⚓
NASA astronaut 👨🏻‍🚀
U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame✨

🥂Cheers to you, @astro_ferg! Thank you for your commitment to safety, quality and the advancement of humankind.

[ULA @ulalaunch]

LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS! 🚀🐉

On June 22 at 5:18 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-37, ULA launched the penultimate #DeltaIVHeavy with the #NROL68 mission for the @NatReconOfc and @SpaceForceDoD.

Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/3ZXOM1A13m

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Fire in the hole! #CountdownToVulcan

[ULA @ulalaunch]

🎥 FRF in slo-mo

#VulcanRocket #CountdownToVulcan

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Turns out space is hard. Who knew? The absolute world’s BEST launch vehicle team is up for the challenge! #CountdowntoVulcan #ULA

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

Outside of the test rig/ stand. Test article is inside (you can’t see it). Hydrogen leak. H2 accumulated inside the rig. Found an ignition source. Burned fast. Over pressure caved in our forward dome and damaged the rig.

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

I think you guys deserve a #ToryTimelapse. Enjoy #VulcanRocket 's trip to the pad, with my compliments.

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Let’s GO! …one step at a time, of course. #CountdowntoVulcan

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

The Centaur V on its way to the top of the booster. #CountdowntoVulcan

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

#Vulcan

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

#Vulcan has arrived.

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Fair winds and following seas V-001!

[ULA @ulalaunch]

Vulcan is on its way to the Cape! I repeat, #VulcanRocket is on its way to the Cape!

What an exciting milestone in the #CountdownToVulcan as our innovative rocket boarded #ULARocketShip and started its journey to the launch site!

Read more in our blog: https://t.co/gFKCu4sORs

[Jay Friant @RocketPlumbr]

Payload reentry with this inflatable heat shield/aeroshell coming to a planet near you (okeay, this one)! Oh and another NOAA satellite precisely placed into polar orbit, while we were at it. #JPSS2 #ula #AtlasV

[ULA @ulalaunch]

Let's look back at the @NASA_Technology #LOFTID separation from Centaur!

[ULA @ulalaunch]

MISSION SUCCESS!

A ULA #AtlasV rocket carrying the #JPSS2 mission for @NOAA and @NASA and @NASA_Technology's Bernard Kutter #LOFTID lifted off on Nov. 10 at 1:49 a.m. PST from SLC-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Success #155 for ULA!

Read more: https://t.co/kyaQpnEgtH

[Tory Bruno @torybruno]

BE4 is in the house!!

FE2 is on. FE1 will join it momentarily. #VulcanRocket #CountdownToVulcan #BE4 ⁦@blueorigin⁩

[ULA @ulalaunch]

It's an exciting day in Decatur as ULA broke ground on a facility for our #VulcanRocket to support the largest commercial launch contract in history and double our launch rate! #MadeinAL