Trent Smith
@trentmsmith
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Space Dork, father of two terrific kiddos, and husband to one very understanding, beautiful young lady. TWEETS are my own. He/Him
Kennedy Space Center
Joined April 2010
Adding a little spice to life in space! #TBT to this experiment which cultivated chile peppers aboard @Space_Station for the first time. This and our other plant studies provide insight into growing food crops for long-duration space missions! Learn more: https://t.co/IuFwF0BkDV
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.@NASA is requesting feedback from American companies about capabilities and operations for future commercial space stations. Learn more:
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NASA is requesting feedback from American companies about capabilities and operations for future commercial space stations. The agency has released two
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Doing long-distance (space travel) is hard 🚀💞 Space-grown crops could be key to long-duration missions as a source of fresh food and, as ongoing research explores, helping crew cope with isolation in space. More on how plants could be cosmic valentines: https://t.co/FdS6rQePao
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4️⃣2️⃣ = the meaning of life, the universe, and everything. 😮 Ingenuity completed Flight 42 this weekend! The #MarsHelicopter traveled 814 ft (248 m) across the Martian surface for 137.17 seconds at a max. altitude of 33 ft (10 m). https://t.co/1CXIWdYIAQ
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👋Meet @NASAArtemis Public Affairs Officer Tiffany Fairley! Tiffany is the lead for Kennedy's external communication team highlighting @NASA's #Artemis mission which will land the first woman and first person of color on the @NASAMoon. Learn more: https://t.co/XcyoCFbeel
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The Exp 68 crew is preparing to grow dwarf tomatoes on the station while gearing up for a spacewalk planned for this weekend.
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The Expedition 68 crew began installing a new space botany experiment today while gearing up for a spacewalk planned for this weekend. The orbital residents are also continuing their research into...
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This is RIGHT NOW. @NASA_Orion is looking back at Earth and the Moon from distant retrograde orbit. Watch the #Artemis I livestream: https://t.co/Qx1QFUdD08
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***JOB OPPORTUNITY*** NASA AST - Life Sciences Research Serves as a project scientist as an expert consultant with responsibility for NASA Space Biology payloads designed and built for space flight. https://t.co/bxUtoekxOH
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Subtropical Storm Nicole has formed in the southwest Atlantic. It is forecast to move towards Florida over the coming days. The main impacts will be poor marine conditions, beach erosion and coastal flooding, periods of heavy rain, and gusty winds.
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ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space led by @UniofAdelaide ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science led by @RMIT ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery led by @Swinburne
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The station now has 11 crew members with the arrival of the four @SpaceX #Crew5 members today. They'll work in space conducting @ISS_Research for the next several months. More... https://t.co/c1HjfHA6bQ
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#HurricaneIan was pictured from the space station on Sept. 26, 2022, as the storm was just south of Cuba gaining strength and heading toward Florida.
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Current conditions at the Southernmost Point tonight. Reminder, the Florida Keys are under a tropical storm warning, a storm surge watch, and a flood watch. #FloridaKeys #KeyWest #FLKeys #FLwx
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DART: But the collision is expected to provide enough energy to slightly change the moonlet's orbital velocity, reducing the time it takes to complete one trip around Didymos by up to 10 minutes, from a pre-impact period of 11h and 55m to around 11h 45m or thereabouts
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IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.
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Calling all #startups: Apply for our Reef Starter Innovation Challenge for an opportunity to launch new innovations in #space. Read more: https://t.co/rlxmib2BiF
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F9/Starlink 4-34: No update yet from SpaceX on plans to launch 54 Starlinks tonight from the Cape Canaveral SFS at 9:48pm EDT (0148 UTC); but heavy cloud cover, lightning and torrential rain in the area; enough for a catfish to try swimming across the street by our house!
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Grow an internship into a career! 🚀 NASA Pathways offers a multi-semester opportunity for college students to hone their skills and prepare for a career at NASA. Applications are open from Sept. 12-16. Get the details: https://t.co/6yCtBuZIua
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