Excited to announce we flew our second mission, MicroBrew-2, on @SpaceX's Starfall Demo mission yesterday!
This launch carried a payload called the Brewery Archive Space Exposure Demonstrator which held dozens of different strains of brewing yeasts, distiller’s yeasts, and wine yeasts from around the world. (Hint: we miiiight be announcing some insanely cool new products soon...👀) We also included seeds from a bunch of native Texas plants, including Bluebonnets! Next we'll analyze the yeast strains and seeds to see how they adapted to the spaceflight environment.
This was the successor to our MicroBrew-1 and OASIS missions that were performed on the International Space Station last year. In MicroBrew-1, an astronaut combined wort and yeast (the same two ingredients using in brewing beer) so we could study alcohol fermentation in microgravity. The OASIS experiment successfully grew the first-ever crops in soil in space. Humanity is still in the early days of orbital manufacturing but we aim to stay at the forefront of it!
Huge shoutout to the SpaceX team for the incredible opportunity to fly on a new vehicle. And we have some more exciting announcements coming up related to this mission so stay tuned!
For the past two months I’ve been building a liquid rocket engine AND test stand as cheap as possible WITHOUT compromising safety, reliability, or quality. In total I’ve spent ~ $1,000 to build a remotely operated modular stand, and robust rocket engine. Fired 6x yesterday!
Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back.
Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: https://t.co/rzM1P0QbOl
Nominal translunar injection burn complete. The Artemis II crew is officially on the way to the Moon.
America is back in the business of sending astronauts to the Moon. This time, farther than ever before.
This is nature's periodic reminder that we are responsible for running arbitrarily operationally effective space programs.
The last time something this large didn't miss us by a whisker it ended the dinosaurs.
They didn't have a space program. We do, but ours can't even figure out how to get back to the Moon or return samples from Mars. It only just *saw* this colossal hypervelocity space mountain.
Until we have the operational capacity to nullify threats like this, we're in the dinosaur space program category.