Max Fagin 🚀🔴🌐☄🌘
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Aerospace engineer, pilot & astronomer. Lunar systems / space resources at @BlueOrigin. Opinions my own, but call me out if I'm an asshole about them. He/him.
Seattle, WA
Joined October 2009
AP update: The council of pets voted to make Max the Thanksgiving meal this year. Beetlejuice 🦜, who was the deciding vote in favor of the plan, could not be reached for comment. "He was delicious" -The Puppies
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No other way to say it: This is pretty bad. But to log a prediction: Crew and cargo will be reshuffled to US providers (mostly Dragon) and Russia will continue as a partner nation. Because, to repeat: Nations backing out of the ISS is not technologically practical *by design*
Lots of implications for the Soyuz incident at Site 31 in in Kazakhstan, where one source told me the damage is "significant." https://t.co/hrHbKW36q1
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Happy Thanksgiving to all! Unfortunatelly, despite taking up weight lifting, Beetlejuice has not bulked up enough; so family will just be eating turkey again this year. Maybe next year. 🍗
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DeltaV was the best one of the series. Way better than Delta I through IV.
DeltaV was made up by big prop to sell more prop
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It's 4:30 AM on a Sunday & the AI agent knows enough to ask if the squishy computer it has been coding/debugging/soldering with for the last ~6 hours (i.e. my brain) wants to get some sleep or keep going. This right here is some damn good alignment. Good robot. And good night.
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Watching the team adapt while taking this vehicle through integration has been inspiring to watch. It's already taught the entire lunar program so much, and every lander that comes after it will be better for it 💙
The Blue Moon MK1 flight vehicle that will land near Shackleton crater. We’ll soon be doing fully integrated checkout tests. At over 26 feet tall (8 meters), it’s smaller than our MK2 human lander but larger than the historic Apollo lander.
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Get excited. Go ballistic.
We've built a full-scale deployable aerobrake unit showcasing technology that uses planetary atmospheres to slow spacecraft, saving significant mass and cost and enabling heavy cargo delivery from the Moon, to Mars, and point-to-point missions on Earth. Lighter and larger than
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Fun fact*: Those protrusions at the top of New Glenn aren't actually stage separators. They are a crown 👑
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Still running high. Voice still hoarse from cheering. And on Monday, it's back to making all of this happen again. Because it's a big solar system out there. And it's waiting for all of us. ✅️ High Earth Orbit ✅️ Mars ⬛️ Moon
From blue skies to the red horizons of Mars On Nov. 13, New Glenn launched @NASA’s ESCAPADE mission and landed its fully reusable first stage on Jacklyn in the Atlantic.
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It's been hours. And I still cannot stop grinning. Godamn do I love this 💙
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Apparently sleeping locations were shuffled to a better-shielded location of the station during the storm https://t.co/nBZeFaSPEg
Some communications with ISS regarding sleeping arrangement changes due to the solar storm:
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During the aurora last night, Astronauts on the ISS rode out the storm just fine. But for 5-6 orbits, every swing through high latitudes was briefly as intense as crossing the South Atlantic Anomaly (~few uGy/min, ~a dental x-ray every ~minute as long as they're in the region)
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Proposal: The error of sounding out acronyms that are supposed to be pronounced is called an ASWIPEE error. Acronym Spelled When It's Pronounced by Everyone Else (And it's pronounced ahs-wipee, obviously 😉) https://t.co/LcbdZnsJyb
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