Lauren Lyons
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Lauren Lyons
@Laur_Ly
Space and Hardware.
a SpaceX employee just did an EVA from a SpaceX designed, built, and operated spacecraft. I mean, we always knew was eventually gonna be a thing, but when that thing becomes real, it's still incredible and powerful to witness. Go @Gillis_SarahE! Go Polaris Dawn!- It wasn't that long ago that a lot of rather smart people thought this was crazy. At some point it will sink in that it's foolish to bet against these folks.Starship is coasting in space
00:00 - The time between these two images is 3 years and 8 months. Say whatever you want about green light schedule launch dates vs actual (btw, you pad a schedule with tons of margin, that’s how long it will take and then some), but tell me who could do it faster.how it started: how it's going:
- Yaaaaassss! The brilliant, PhD-holding, lead planetary protection engineer for the mission, @moogega, co-hosting the #Perseverance launch webcast!
- The women of SpaceX Hawthorne taking a break from Dragons, Falcons, & making humanity multi-planetary to say Happy #internationalwomensday!
- Shout out to SpaceX avionics, ground segment, & marketing teams for normalizing transparency through live in-flight video vs. old school pre-made launch simulations and corporate press releases. Authenticity is what wins hearts & minds, even when the mission isn't 100% successfulStarship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma
00:00 - Congrats to my SpaceX fam, what an incredible ride y’all are headed on. And to my National Team comrades, thank you for all your hard work. Regardless of this outcome, astronauts—including the first woman—are headed to the moon. And that is awesome.NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help @NASAArtemis usher in a new era of human space exploration → go.nasa.gov/3tur510
- I have to say it’s been a pretty epic first 2 1/2 weeks on the job. While we didn’t make it the whole way, there are still so many major milestones we hit, and the learnings are indispensable. So proud to be a part of this team. #goFireflyOfficial Statement of our First Test Flight
- This is what Starlink was about for me: helping underconnected communities provide a path to educational, health, & economic equity via reliable broadband internet. So proud of my former teammates at SpaceX, & happy you are able to see the powerful human impacts of your hard workReplying to @thesheetztweetz @TribeHoh and 3 othersWA Gov. Jay Inslee: "I just want to give a shout out to these efforts to extend broadband to the Hoh Tribe, with SpaceX and everybody working on this effort."
00:00 - A couple hours later, we ran an acceptance test on Lightning, our second stage vacuum engine. Just tested all five Alpha Flight 2 engines in one night. Nice work Fireflies!
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