Brian 🚀🛩️

Manufacturing Engineer at Rocket Lab | YouTube Maker | Scuba Diver | Student Pilot | fmr NASA Intern #aspiringastronaut Tweets and opinions are my own

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Want to actually start posting here so here’s an intro. I’m an aerospace engineer, maker and aspiring astronaut. I’m a former NASA intern where I worked on the Roman Space Telescope (pictured). Now at Rocket Lab as a manufacturing engineer working on Neutron

[NASA @NASA]

Our @NASARoman space telescope is officially slated to launch on Aug. 30!

Get the details and follow Roman's journey on our new Roman Space Telescope blog: https://t.co/72iud38kMm

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

First hardware I worked on in my career has a launch date!!!

[Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope @NASARoman]

🚨 We have some BIG NEWS!

Roman is now scheduled to launch Aug 30 2026!

Learn more: https://t.co/RLRLNvW69q

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Anyone know how I can get my hands on “call for price” money?

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@astro_jaz Proof of the tape installing

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@sonichNik I’ve been saying this forever I can’t think of an application where a humanoid robot is the optimal shape

[Rocket Lab @RocketLab]

Sneak peek of our recent Archimedes engine fit check to Neutron's Stage 1 thrust structure.

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@davill @julia_bergeron Seems like a best case scenario!

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Non controversial opinion I am very pro T. Rex sized space telescopes

[Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope @NASARoman]

Celebrate National Dinosaur Day with our dino-sized observatory!
🦖Roman is both roughly as long and as massive as a T. rex. Prior to launch, the team will load it up with about 62 velociraptors worth of fuel (~2,500 pounds).

Learn more: https://t.co/nQ071tswND

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@N561VP I’m delusionaly thinking something like an F-5 or F-104

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Zero clue how I’ll pay for it but someday I want to buy an after burning jet and join the air show circuit

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@lars_2025 Only times I’ve had a tool fail they replaced it for free

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Very bad news for my wallet today (there’s a harbor freight opening down the street from my house)

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@astro_jaz Light pollution is depressingly bad in LA area for having moved here to work in the space industry

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@GlavnyKnstruktr Anything you’d need activate while in motion or quickly in a car should be a physical button

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@MattGialich Super useful (and fun) when you need to do a quick rework

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Anyone else just inspect and critique random welds when out and about?

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@chihuahuaverde1 I do need an anvil but this is one of the few tools I’d never buy from there

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

@willow_wwhimsy This is why engineers need to have lots of hands on experience so they don’t design things like this

[Brian 🚀🛩️ @TheSpacePlumber]

Gone swimming with the fishes and @tobyliiiiiiiiii