Ben Honey

NASA International Space Station flight controller. Deputy manager of flight operations for HLS Program. ERAU-BSAE. UHCL-MSSE. All opinions my own. (he/him)

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

Here's a direct link to my "people in space" twitter list, which I keep up to date so you don't have to: https://t.co/SP4yHW7onM

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

The first Starship to return to its launch site, Ship 40's journey took it across air, space, and sea. Now that it is vertical alongside three other Starships in a Megabay at Starbase, it will provide first-of-its-kind data on a flown Starship heatshield, Raptor engines, avionics, and more.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 launches the CRS-35 mission to the @Space_Station

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Docking confirmed!

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

Crew-13 launch as seen from their destination. Photo wizardry by Dubrov. See you soon Watty, Luke, Josh, and Sergey.

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

"The nights are dark and full of wonder." Isn't that how the quote goes? Here are 4 nights cycles from Dragon's port window, stitched together by @bot, no changes to underlying photos, taken by Nikon Z9, 15s exposure, ISO 800, 14mm lens (1.4 aperture). You can see satellites dancing in the center, likely Starlink.

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

Southern Hemisphere Milky Way galaxy view from the @Space_Station cupola. This 3s exposure series captured two of my favorite cupola views, the particularly dense Milky Way galaxy as seen from the Southern Hemisphere, and the bright, colorful lights of squid fishing boats (here, the bright blue and green lights off the coast of China, Thailand and India). Look at what the light did now!

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

Korolev cross never gets old.

[Anatoly Zak @RussianSpaceWeb]

Stage I separation:

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship is preparing to go to orbit. Flight 14 is targeting to launch as early as Tuesday, September 22, pending regulatory approval → https://t.co/LwJ4g6dg9v

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

@jnelsonWJCL @SpaceCityWX @SciGuySpace Forgot to tag you too @mattlanza

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

@jnelsonWJCL Thoughts on so many Houston school districts cancelling class and other actions? I worry that the overreaction for a forecast that never even had so much as a TS watch for our side of the bay will further degrade public readiness and trust @SpaceCityWX @SciGuySpace

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II pilot Victor Glover presents President Trump with a NASA flight jacket. The jacket has patches with symbolism important to the mission.

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: Watch as @POTUS awards the Artemis II crew – Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen – with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
https://t.co/8A8khuQlXu

[Starlink @Starlink]

SpaceX is building a new spaceport on Louisiana's Gulf Coast.

As SpaceX invests in the region, we are offering our neighbors in the Vermilion Parish area a 50% discount on Starlink Residential service plans to new and existing customers → https://t.co/XBnnghiDhL

[NASA @NASA]

Join us tomorrow at 11am ET (1500 UTC) as the Artemis II crew receives the Congressional Space Medal of Honor! We'll be streaming the ceremony here, on our YouTube channel, and across other NASA platforms.

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

@Carbon_Flight I didn't realize that was him!

[NASA @NASA]

Our next space telescope is launching in just under two weeks!

In the first episode of our NASA's Curious Universe podcast series on @NASARoman, we get to know the telescope's namesake and what cosmic mysteries it will help us to unravel. https://t.co/xmyFaDlmUu

[Ben Honey @spaceguy87]

Finally figured out what belonged between the new Lego mountings on this wall @TrevorMahlmann

[NASA @NASA]

We've finished fueling up our @NASARoman telescope, bringing it one step closer to its targeted liftoff on Aug. 30.

Learn more about the process and find out what's next for our mystery-solving mission: https://t.co/sd1VuCK9Yk

[Anil Menon @astro_anil]

@SciGuySpace Pretty epic from dragon window right now too

[Jessica Meir @Astro_Jessica]

Sit-ups with a view