Charles Boyer
@TheOldManPar
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NASA kid from Cocoa Beach, FL, born of Project Apollo. I'm a writer and photographer sharing the story of spaceflight from the Eastern Range here in Florida.
Cocoa Beach, FL
Joined May 2009
I'm no great writer, but I finally finished this handy guide for folks that come here to the Space Coast to photograph a launch from LC-39A (@SpaceX Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy.).
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Watching a rocket tear skyward from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center is a visceral thrill—one that most people will remember for the rest of their lives. If you are a photographer, the...
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NET July 31: CREW 11 heads to ISS aboard @SpaceX Crew Dragon. Launch is currently NET 12:06 PM ET (1606 UTC.)
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RT @PettitFrontier: Space jellyfish phenomena from China’s launch of Long March 7 this week. Incredible footage.
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It must be a rule in mass communications that a narrator with a posh English accent* is more authoritative than one with an American accent. 🤷♀️ Once you notice how many times that trope is used, you'll never miss it again. * not you, Cockney accent.
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The Parker Solar Probe returned some astounding views. @NASA put them on YouTube.
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On its record-breaking pass by the Sun in December 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning new images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. These newly...
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RT @davill: This will be an exciting mission for New Glenn and Mars exploration. ESCAPADE is not only New Glenn’s first interplanetary mis….
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RT @RussianSpaceWeb: 50 years ago today, Soviet and US spacecraft made a historic docking in space. To mark the anniversary, we start a ser….
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A Country Song In Russian for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. One of the most endearing stories of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Mission from 1975 is one also one that is largely forgotten: American country music superstar and all-time great re-recorded one of his biggest hits in Russian.
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RT @RocketLab: Our ESCAPADE twins, Blue & Gold, are currently undergoing routine checkups and testing as they get ready for their return to….
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2022 YS5, an asteroid,is set to fly past us at a staggering 13,980mph today. At its closest, it will be some 4.1 million miles from Earth.
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He took skydiving to a level not seen since Joe Kittenger. Out of the blue, into the black. RIP Felix Baumgartner.
Felix Baumgartner, who jumped from the stratosphere in 2012, has died in a paragliding accident in Italy. He was 56
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Next up for Blue's New Glenn are the ESCAPADE probes and Mars. Built by Rocketlab, the pair will measure the red planet's real-time response to space weather and long term changes to the Martian magnetosphere.
New Glenn’s second mission, NG-2, will send @NASA’s ESCAPADE to Mars. This launch will support ESCAPADE’s science objectives as the twin spacecraft progress on their journey to the Red Planet. Also onboard is a technology demonstration from @Viasat in support of @NASASpaceOps'
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RT @katlinegrey: A planned ISS orbit correction to maintain its orbit altitude was performed today at 14:45 UTC using the engines of #Progr….
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RT @BrianRoemmele: The Dresden High Magnetic Field Laboratory houses the world's largest capacitor bank. It stores fifty megajoules of powe….
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In other news: Delta is testing AI-driven dynamic pricing. Which means, they are trying to charge you the maximum the AI thinks you will pay. One has to wonder if they'll embed credit infor like credit card usage into the model.
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Delta Air Lines is taking a bold step to retool its fare-setting engine: by the end of 2025, AI will determine ticket prices on one out of every five domestic flights. And if that goes well…
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MatSci people: how much research has been done on aerographene as a potential radiation shield material in spacecraft? Its shielding capability is relatively well known, and is being developed by NanoEMI in Poland but I am thinking of it in aerospace applications.
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I can't describe to you adequately how crowded and excited people were around here on the Space Coast in the days leading up to this event. Some say as many as 1 million people came to see the launch. All I know is half hour drives turned into 4 hour journeys.
Liftoff on Apollo 11! On this day in 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin launched atop a massive Saturn V rocket on their historic journey to the Moon:
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