DocEther 🌌

25🦎’s in a trenchcoat ~ casual wallops launch guy ~ planting a garden on the moon ~ no f*cking kings ~ ad astra per aspera 🌠

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@FreddyLA7 @NASA @AstroAnnimal Freddy go see a rocket launch!!! It’s one of the peaks of American culture 🙌🏼

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@Echo5550 There is nothing better, you have absolutely smashed it 🙌🏼

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@FFairing Now that makes me want a BTS pic of someone in the suit with R3’s strapped to their feet and edited to make it look like they are lifting off the pad 😂

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

SPACEX ILL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK 😤😤 $SPCX

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

HOOOOOLD SPITTER, STAND YOUR GROUND 😤

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff! First $SPCX trade complete 🚀

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@astronomy1002 how i be seeing 100 msgs pop up within 15 minutes

[Kyle Henry @kyle_LTS]

HASTE launch coming out of wallops tomorrow night/Thursday morning! Unfortunately I won’t be able to make it down but definitely follow @EShoreSpaceflt for updates!

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

How close I am to losing my shit at work at any given point with any utterly minor inconvenience

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

Virginian Bruce McCandless jumpscare

[Association of Space Explorers @ASE_Astronauts]

Today, we remember ASE member Bruce McCandless II on his #birthday. McCandless flew to space twice between 1984 and 1990 (STS-41-B and STS-31). ✨

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@shanksteroflove Careful I hear at night he’s been seen missing from his cables

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

I have found the perfect solution to long term starship fuel deport boil-off 😤

[EasternShoreSpaceflight @EShoreSpaceflt]

Correction and update from earlier today — and the real story is actually better news.

What I initially thought was concrete construction activity on the VSA farmland near Arbuckle Neck Road turns out to be dredge spoil operations. Sloop Gut — the tidal channel providing access to the NASA North dock at Wallops Island — is finally being dredged.

This is a big deal. Rocket Lab has long cited Sloop Gut's shallow, tide-dependent access as a major logistical challenge for moving Neutron hardware by barge. The company filed a dredging application with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission specifically to address this bottleneck.

Salmons Incorporated is the contractor, operating May 4 through October 31, 2026, using an excavator, material barge, and pushed boat Gail Waring on the Chincoteague Channel and Sloop Gut.

The operation I witnessed today was dredge spoil — sediment from the channel bottom — being mixed with aggregate to stabilize the wet material, then transported to nearby VSA farmland for dewatering. Per VDEQ permits, approximately 55,000 cubic yards of dredge material will be spread across roughly 78 acres at 4-5 inches depth for up to 364 days.

A dredged Sloop Gut means reliable, tide-independent barge access to Wallops Island. That is exactly what Rocket Lab needs for Neutron.

Things are moving.

@NASASpaceflight

4K Video Here: https://t.co/dSYSW8XGNV

[Asher B. @asherbphotos]

Thank god everyone is safe.

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

Holy crap what does this mean for Artemis III and the moon program???

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

ANOMALY: @BlueOrigin have suffered a CATASTROPHIC EXPLOSION AT LAUNCH COMPLEX-36

📷 @NASASpaceflight/@JerryPikePhoto

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@thunderf00t when are we gonna start ignoring this insufferable idiot, he only does this for attention and will NEVER be satisfied.

presumably because he is such a whiny little bitch who can never be happy with his own life

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

Starship's 1st V3 flight vs 1st V2 flight be like:

[Zack Golden @CSI_Starbase]

Okay well that is a SICK VIEW of Superheavy aft section

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

@smmmmss2 SpaceX would DEFINITELY be the guys to turn their ship just for the sake of pure aura 😎 camera shots are gonna go crazy after pitch over

[DocEther 🌌 @ItsDocEther]

interesting how HLS is rotated 180 compared to the normal stack 🤔