Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀

Yes I’m addicted to rockets, send help (or more launches) 🚀 | Starship lover | Failure analysis pro | PhD grind | NASA History buff | Space content regularly

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

Everyone has a duck in the front yard in my neighborhood and they all get dressed up differently. I just caught this one while walking the dog. 😍

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@drvrjay Have a great time! Send me pics!

[Dume @gietzschean]

>Be Elon
>Get bullied so badly as a kid that you end up in the hospital
>Escape into books
>Read more than 8hrs a day
>Teach yourself programming
>Sell a video game at 12
>Leave South Africa
>Sleep on couches
>Work odd jobs
>Get into America
>Build a startup
>Get fired from your own company
>Start over
>Build another company
>Merge it into PayPal
>Get removed as CEO
>Your company gets acquired
>Walk away with nearly $180 million
>Instead of retiring at 31, put almost all of it into three impossible ideas: Electric cars, Solar energy, Rockets
>People tell you you're insane
>Start a rocket company with no aerospace degree
>Learn rocket science from textbooks
>First rocket fails
>Second rocket fails
>Third rocket fails
>Divorce
>Public humiliation
>Cash running out
>One launch away from bankruptcy
>Launch anyway
>The fourth rocket reaches orbit
>NASA signs a contract
>Survive
>Tesla is weeks from collapse
>Save it at the last minute
>Get mocked for wanting reusable rockets.
>Land one.
>Then another.
>Then dozens.
>Turn science fiction into engineering
>Get mocked for betting on EVs
>Turn electric cars into status symbols
>Force the entire auto industry to follow
>Build the most valuable car company in history
>Launch astronauts into orbit
>Create a global satellite internet network.
>Buy Twitter
>Fire most of the staff
>Rename it X
>Walk into politics
>Risk your reputation
>Risk your companies
>Risk your fortune
>Become one of the most polarising people on Earth.
>Get attacked by the media, politicians, competitors, and activists
>Keep building anyway
>Become a TRILLIONAIRE

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@elonmusk @BrianRoemmele @iam_smx

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@DoctorJack16 They gave me 1 share

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@esherifftv I think news should be neutral by reporting both sides of the “issue”. That being said. I think both sides are reading WAY too much into this. Good grief. Can’t please anyone.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

Can’t win either way I guess.
- put a female on the crew and people complain it’s not merit based.
- don’t put a female on the crew and people complain it’s a boys club

Everyone just relax

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@therealdjflux Ya I hope Matt is one. He has some Mad photography skills.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@astrophilesz This crew won’t walk on the moon.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@esherifftv When’s the due date?

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk personally arranged a phone call with a 15 year old girl who was dying of cancer. When the call connected she was too exhausted to speak.

Her name was Olivia Perrotto. Everyone called her Liv. She had been fighting cancer for five years. She loved space more than anything. She designed a stuffed animal called Asteroid, a Shiba Inu in a spacesuit, and it was selected as the official zero gravity indicator for the Polaris Dawn mission. The most historic crewed spaceflight since Apollo.

Her plush toy went to space. It floated in zero gravity 1,400 kilometers above Earth during the first commercial spacewalk in history. A stuffed animal designed by a teenager who might not live to see it land.

Before the mission she wrote eight questions on a piece of paper for Elon. Things like have you been to Japan. What's your favorite anime. Do you like dogs. And the last one. Will you make Asteroid the official SpaceX mascot.

Elon tried to call her to answer the questions personally. But by the time the call was arranged she was too weak to talk. He sent flowers and a handwritten note instead. The questions stayed on her nightstand.

She passed away in January 2026 at fifteen years old.

Three months later Elon answered all eight questions publicly. He said yes to making Asteroid the official SpaceX mascot. It took him two days to respond because the decision had to be approved internally by SpaceX leadership.

The plush now sits in a permanent museum display at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center with a plaque that reads In Memory of Olivia Liv Perrotto.

Most people see Elon as the rocket guy or the richest man alive. But he sent flowers to a dying girl he never met because she loved his rockets. That's the part the headlines miss.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@esherifftv Done

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@esherifftv This really messes up the lunar timeline. Sadly.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@elonmusk @timdemeijer @visegrad24 These things can happen. Seems like a lot of propellant was loaded though. A large event.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

Root cause analysis will show what went wrong. Fixes will ensure this won’t happen again. Just part of it. That’s why testing is so important.

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

We experienced an anomaly during today's hotfire test. All personnel have been accounted for. We will provide updates as we learn more.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

It’s always cool to hear mission audio. Cooler when they talk about weird shit. 👽🛸
LISTEN: Pentagon Releases Audio Of Gemini 7 Mission Astronauts Encounter... https://t.co/FLSXMTfOmW

[Truthful🛰️ @Truthful_ast]

I’m noticing the “NASA fans” that are doubting Jared’s Moon Base plans have no idea about the existence of JAXA’s/Toyota’s Lunar Cruiser.

Lunar Cruiser is so absurdly large that it’s a mobile base in itself, this beast will do so much for humanity.

It will also be deployed before any base modules by Starship as it’s been in very good development for many years now

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@tobyliiiiiiiiii @satofishi Crypto bro killin it.
Please take me!!!

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@drvrjay They fix the thingy?

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@yatharthmann this is terrible. I am praying for the family of that young man.

[Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 @SpaceChickJen]

@DJSnM Wow. They are all incredibly lucky to have made it out of there.