Last week Turion won the ACG Orange County & Inland Empire Startup Award.
It's great to see Turion's momentum recognized. Over the past few months, we closed our Series B, were selected for the Andromeda program, and were announced on the Space-Based Interceptor program in coordination with the broader Golden Dome architecture.
Shout-out to the 200+ strong Turion team for their tireless work.
Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.
I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.
We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.
“Men can have periods.”
“People with uteruses.”
“Birthing persons.”
“Menstruators.”
If you identify as the opposite sex, no matter how abnormally or impossibly, society grants you full linguistic and social recognition as that sex. You get the pronouns, the sports categories, the intimate spaces, and even the biological descriptors (“trans men get periods too”).
However, you are the sex you were born, especially if female, you get unpersoned. Your sex is erased from language. “Woman” becomes a dirty word, replaced by clumsy euphemisms that reduce you to body parts and functions. The normal, material reality of your sex is treated as offensive and unspeakable— UNLESS you are male.
In short:
1. Deviation from biological sex is rewarded with the highest status claim to the opposite sex.
2. Conformity to biological sex (particularly female) is punished with erasure of your sex.
This is a manufactured hierarchy inverted by ideology: the exception demands to redefine the rule, yet the rule is told it no longer exists.
A grand contradiction.
Biology is real, but language is being bent to deny it, and the costs fall hardest on the sex that actually experiences periods and pregnancy, with the physical realities being linguistically disappeared.
We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy.
Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead.
There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems.
We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes.
@NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible.
America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸
The hardest part of operating in orbit is what happens after you get there. Our next-generation Droids are built for precision control, agility on demand, and operational speed that keeps pace with the mission.