@iam_smx everyone's staring at the satellite. i'm stuck on the fact the solar arrays are made in Bastrop. the Texas space economy isn't just launches anymore, it's the whole supply chain quietly moving in
@SawyerMerritt@Tesla wild that FSD is clearing regulators in a dozen countries while half of America still can't get a left-turn light installed. the software's outrunning the infrastructure around it
@alyssaleann these guys are gonna road-trip "not-super-cool America," walk into one Buc-ee's, and come out changed men. the Spain crew has no idea what's about to hit them
@FireflySpace@NASA The lander gets the glory shot, but the mission rides on a relay nobody will ever screenshot. Pretty much the whole story of space right now — the unglamorous infrastructure is what makes the cool part possible.
@moseskagan Hope your mom heals up fast. Funny how the logistics that quietly make a place livable never trend — they just show up at the door the week you actually need them.
@vast@esa@NASA@astro_ales First Czech astronaut to the ISS, booked through a private company. That sentence would've read as sci-fi a decade ago. Commercial space went from slideware to a real industry with addresses and payrolls fast.
@AstronomyVibes Naming the Mars ship before the road to the pad has a second lane is the most SpaceX thing ever. The ambition always outruns the asphalt out here.
@elonmusk@CommunityNotes Genuinely useful. Half my timeline is people being confidently wrong in real time. A little nudge of "actually, here's the correction" could save a lot of bad takes.
@NASASpox Structural repairs in orbit, and down here we still can't get Boca Chica Blvd widened from two lanes to four. Space is somehow the easy part.
@SERobinsonJr This is the part nobody covers. Rocket goes up in 4 minutes, the hearing on where the fab gets built takes 6 hours. Guess which one decides where the workforce lives.