Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹

Father, Husband, First aid tutor, boardgamer, fan of good food.
Ex ILS Paramedic, SADF Ops Medic, fire fighter, first responder

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's twelfth flight test https://t.co/caRB1thMlg

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Full duration static fire of all 33 Raptor engines on the Super Heavy booster ahead of Starship's next flight test

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

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@garphillgames

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

@deesnider Crazy, but I've never experienced a cold Christmas! Grew up in South Africa and z
Christmas is hot! Now I live in New Zealand, so summer is still in summer.. hot and humid 🥵
I still want to experience a winter Christmas

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Achievement unlocked - apogee 1,400.7 km

Forward bulkhead Draco firing during burn 🔥

[Polaris @PolarisProgram]

Polaris Dawn Flight Day 1 Update

The Polaris Dawn crew completed their first day on-orbit, also known as Flight Day 1. After a successful launch by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:23 a.m. ET, the crew took off their spacesuits and began their multi-day mission.

Shortly after liftoff, the crew began a two-day pre-breathe protocol in preparation for their anticipated spacewalk on Thursday, September 12 (Flight Day 3). During this time, Dragon’s pressure slowly lowers while oxygen levels inside the cabin increase, helping purge nitrogen from the crew’s bloodstreams. This will help lower the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) during all spacewalk operations.

About two hours into Flight Day 1, the crew enjoyed their first on-orbit meals before engaging in the mission’s first science and research block and testing Starlink, which lasted about 3.5 hours.

Dragon made its first pass through the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), a region where Earth’s magnetic field is weaker, allowing more high-energy particles from space to penetrate closer to Earth. Mission control operators and the crew worked closely to monitor and respond to the vehicle’s systems across all high-apogee phases of flight, particularly through the SAA region.

Mid-day, the crew settled in for their first sleep period in space, during which Dragon will perform its first apogee raising burn. Orbiting Earth higher than any humans in over 50 years, the crew will rest for about eight hours ahead of a busy day on Flight Day 2.

Most excitingly, during its first orbit, Dragon reached an apogee of approximately 1,216 kilometers, making Polaris Dawn the highest Dragon mission flown to date. Following a healthy systems checkout, the crew and mission control will monitor the spacecraft ahead of the vehicle raising itself to an elliptical orbit of 190 x 1,400 kilometers at the start of Flight Day 2.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Polaris Dawn and Dragon at 1,400 km above Earth – the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Falcon 9 launch 20 @Starlink satellites to orbit from California, including 13 with Direct to Cell capabilities https://t.co/UYd5Afh3rU

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

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Please help my friend make his book a reality!

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made)

I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

[Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom @PeakyBlindersVR]

Win a #PeakyBlinders Funko Bundle! 👥

Celebrating the launch of #PeakyBlindersVR Complete Edition, @Maze_Theory and @FunkoEurope have teamed up to give away an amazing bundle of prizes, including 7 Funko Pop! Peaky Blinders vinyl figures!

Enter now: https://t.co/w9R6iB2SNR

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

@elonmusk Mine too. Brilliant image of a remarkable machine. Well done

[Queen @QueenWillRock]

Happy 72nd Birthday John Deacon 🎸🎈

📷 Credit: Neal Preston © Queen Productions Ltd

[Radio X @RadioX]

Happy birthday to John Deacon! 🙌 Today the @queenwillrock bassist turns 72 years old - what is your favourite Queen baseline?

📷: Getty

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

Sunset at Waikanae beach looking toward Kapiti Island. New Zealand

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

Low and slow pork butt for pulled pork 😍

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Vented interstage and heat shield installed atop Booster 9. Starship and Super Heavy are being upgraded to use a separation method called hot-staging, where Starship’s second stage engines will ignite to push the ship away from the booster

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship Supersonic

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship Liftoff

[Rodney Franzoi 🇿🇦🇳🇿🇮🇹 @RodneyFranzoi]

@elonmusk Congratulations on the launch! Absolutely fantastic to see. Best thing I've done in ages at 1:30am! Can't wait to see it go all that way.