Adam Holt

Author of the Tully Harper Series. Teacher @kinkaidschool. Crowdfunding consultant for Restore Historic Mission Control. ✍🏻🏐 🚀

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

Thinking back to 2019 and consulting on the @kickstarter campaign to Restore Mission Control where my dad worked so many years. What a privilege to help out with this effort. And to 1969, when my dad wasn’t on console but back home w my mom, watching the first steps.

[Ben Feist @BenFeist]

On July 20, 2019, the surviving members of Gene Kranz's flight control team, who were on duty during the Apollo 11 landing, stood at their consoles in the restored mission control room exactly 50 years later and listened to their historic acheivement via https://t.co/PyMjtxWeRz

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@TheCriticalDri2 “I look forward to your first novel!” - Hugh Laurie

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@simongerman600 I'd be interested to ask the residents of the two cities what they prefer.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@CuriosityonX AI Pisa. Or PisAI.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

You’ve got England, France, Canada, China….the United States of America. This linguistic quirk is hilarious and surely stems from how we named ourselves.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@SportsVanessa @HoustonRockets Finally! Anything with dunkstronaut and I’m in.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@WilliamShatner No, I did not like him. I loved him.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

Well worth your ten minutes (or at least mine).

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

How to keep life from becoming a parody of itself – Simone de Beauvoir on the art of getting older https://t.co/2yl9SOIlOK

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@MichaelShanks The Expanse got itself uncancelled with fan support. Stargate can do that too.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@Lightenerrthang The holding him at gunpoint sequence just killed me.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

They thought he was going to burn the house down.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

My buddy built a Boba Fett costume with working flamethrower. I forgot I had this video of him getting kicked out of a costume contest. 😂

[Samuel Hume @DrSamuelBHume]

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen: a standing ovation for the full Daraxonrasib results

I feel inspired and energised, to put it mildly — we have a targeted therapy for pancreatic cancer now, and nothing is undruggable anymore

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

Les Miserables Unabridged. I was so sad that it was over and I could only read it once for the first time.

[G. F. Allen @AuthorGFAllen]

Ever read a book that made you cry?

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@patersonrj @arttavana He’s essential! Grievous was a noted collector of museum-worthy Jedi artifacts.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@patersonrj @arttavana He’s essential! Grievous was a noted collector of museum-worthy Jedi artifacts.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🚀 Space exploration timeline:

1903 — Tsiolkovsky publishes the rocket equation
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909 — Goddard writes first paper on liquid propellants as fuel for rockets
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914 — Goddard patents designs for a liquid-fueled rocket and a multi-stage rocket
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919 — Goddard publishes "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
1920
1921 — Goddard begins experiments with liquid oxygen and gasoline rocket engines
1922
1923 — Goddard successfully tests first liquid propellant engine
1924
1925
1926 — Goddard launches world's first liquid-fueled rocket
1927 — VfR (Society for Space Travel) founded in Germany; von Braun joins as a teenager
1928
1929 — Goddard launches rocket carrying first scientific payload (barometer & camera)
1930
1931 — Korolev co-founds GIRD (Group for Study of Reactive Motion) in Moscow
1932 — Von Braun becomes chief engineer of German Army rocket program
1933 — Korolev leads launch of USSR's first liquid-fueled rocket
1934 — Von Braun's A-2 rockets reach 2.4 km altitude
1935
1936 — Korolev designs RP-318, USSR's first rocket-powered aircraft
1937
1938
1939 — Von Braun's A-5 rocket reaches 8 km altitude
1940
1941
1942 — Von Braun's A-4 (V-2) rocket becomes first human-made object to reach space (100 km)
1943 — V-2 production begins; JPL formally established in USA
1944 — V-2 used as weapon against London and Antwerp; first ballistic missile attacks in history
1945 — USA recruits von Braun
1946 — USA and USSR independently begin reverse-engineering V-2
1947 — First animals (fruit flies) launched to space aboard a V-2
1948 — Korolev's R-1 rocket successfully launched
1949 — Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes first mammal in space aboard a US V-2 rocket
1950
1951
1952
1953 — Korolev begins design of R-7
1954 — Korolev writes letter to Moscow advocating for an orbital satellite program
1955 — USA announces Project Vanguard
1956 — Von Braun's Redstone rocket successfully tested; R-7 development nears completion
1957 — Korolev's R-7 becomes world's first ICBM; Sputnik 1 — first artificial satellite in orbit; Sputnik 2 carries Laika — first living creature in orbit
1958 — USA launches Explorer 1; NASA founded; first US attempt at Moon probe (Pioneer 0) fails
1959 — Luna 1 (USSR) — first spacecraft to escape Earth's gravity; Luna 2 — first human-made object to reach the Moon; Luna 3 — first photos of Moon's far side
1960 — First weather satellite (TIROS-1) launched by USA; first communications satellite (Echo 1); two Soviet dogs (Belka & Strelka) orbit Earth and return safely
1961 — Gagarin — first human in space, April 12; Alan Shepard — first American in space, May 5
1962 — Mariner 2 — first spacecraft to fly by another planet (Venus); Telstar 1 — first active communications satellite
1963 — Tereshkova — first woman in space
1964 — Ranger 7 — first close-up photographs of the Moon's surface
1965 — Leonov — first spacewalk; Mariner 4 — first close-up images of Mars
1966 — Luna 9 — first soft landing on the Moon; first orbital docking (Gemini 8); Surveyor 1 — first US soft Moon landing
1967 — Apollo 1 fire kills three astronauts; Venera 4 — first probe to enter another planet's atmosphere (Venus)
1968 — Apollo 8 — first crewed mission to orbit the Moon; famous Earthrise photograph
1969 — Apollo 11 — first humans on the Moon; Apollo 12 — second Moon landing
1970 — Apollo 13 — Moon mission aborted after explosion; Luna 16 — first robotic Moon sample return; Lunokhod 1 — first lunar rover
1971 — Salyut 1 (USSR) — first space station; Mariner 9 — first spacecraft to orbit another planet (Mars); Apollo 14 & 15 Moon landings
1972 — Apollo 16 & 17 — final Moon landings; Pioneer 10 launched toward Jupiter; last humans on the Moon
1973 — Pioneer 10 — first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter; Skylab — first US space station
1974 — Mariner 10 — first gravity assist maneuver; first flyby of Mercury

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@TheGunzShow Great idea. I watch at least one episode on Memorial Day although this year I watched an old war reel that had footage of my grandfather after he was shot down off Africa. I sure am blessed to be here at all. 🇺🇸

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@TheHoopCentral Spurs in 5.

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

@HaterReport That clip is so good.😂

[Adam Holt @adamholtwrites]

It’s national something nice about San Antonio day. I’ll for first: as a Houstonian, I loooooove the Riverwalk. #spurs