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Charlie Garcia
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Vice President of Vehicle Engineering @reflectorbital
Formerly @agile_space and @spacex
Board Member @the_cosmosphere
Aero/Astro at @MIT
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- I prefer the comments of Elon Musk: "I'm the chief engineer, so I'd just like to say if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team. If it goes wrong, it's my fault."Great leaders take blame and pass along credit.
- Valerie Thomas was the director of the Landsat image processing programs. These are the satellites which revealed so much about the wonderful world we live on, and give us the tools to save lives and conserve wildlife more effectively. She retired in 1995 after 31 years @NASA
- An SLS vendor blocked me for asking why a cover was being milled from a multi-ton bit of aluminum when it could be [sheet metal/composite] part. I'm glad we're going back to the moon, but I'm worried it will be unsustainable until we deal with the skeletons of Apollo contractors."Senior agency officials have told us that at current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable and exceeds what NASA officials believe will be available for its Artemis missions." arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/…
- There's an entire generation of engineers shaped by the work SpaceX has done. The world has been changed for the better by the determination and grit of 0.0003% of people. Ad astra!18 years separate these two photos. Let that sink in.
- I guess since Ingenuity saw it's shadow we get 30 more days of Mars helicopter ops?
- Replying to @Astro_ChuckIn case anyone was curious this is the part -
- Elon's sentiments today are exactly right : "I'm the chief engineer of this thing so I'd just like to say that if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team, if it goes wrong, it's my fault." I wish this attitude was more common (and applied to situations like a pandemic)
- Don't run engine survival tests. Your engine should be ✨thriving✨
00:00 - 2 miles up, 2 miles down, two parachutes, and one very happy rocketeer!
- 20 SpaceX flights in production vs 20 ULA flights in production.
