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astroagro.bsky.social
Professor of 🚀🛰️🌠 Engineering. Planetary science PhD. Former NASA guy. 🌘🪐 Firefighter, Paramedic, Trombonist. 🚒🚑🎵 Inspired by nature and technology. 🌿💾 ADHD. 🐿️ Taking the road less traveled, and it has made all the difference. 🧭
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As a Gen-Xer, I wholly endorse the use of the word "radical" in regular conversation. As in, I believe that we should be having regular conversations how Radical Empathy can create "a more perfect union".

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One of my favorite country songs is the one where Toby Keith sings about all the diversity that makes his bar special. #WeAreAllDEI

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

For all my NASA friends tomorrow.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

As I frantically edit 3 students' applications/abstracts for scholarships/conferences, due at the same time, I suddenly understand why so many professors are present at conferences as co-authors instead of primary authors.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Found while browsing the local used bookstore, Last Exit. This text describes what came to be known as the Aldrin Cycler, an interplanetary ferry that would use a periodic, minimal energy orbit between Earth and Mars, to move astronauts and supplies between the two worlds in a sustainable(ish) way.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My PhD advisor warned me that missions are a lot of work. But this is the fun kind of work, and I'm really proud of our effort to put a student-built satellite in orbit!

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The use of federal services for archiving research grant data suddenly seems very questionable. Turns out, "on my department server" might not have been such a bad idea after all.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Another week of indoctrinating young minds to the radical oblate, spheroid Earth theory.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Very proud of this student team for diving right in to the hard work of designing and building an actual satellite! I stole a couple minutes at the beginning to establish one major rule: Anyone must be empowered to throw the BS flag. Groupthink is a huge threat to success, and sadly, pervasive.

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Downtown #Cleveland on a cold, misty January evening. Cathedral of St. John the Apostle.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

When you need to fix a Mansfield toilet tank fill valve and don't have time for Prime shipping.

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The Kent AEB is getting some sun this morning!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

The upper midwest's silver lining of a long winter freeze... a good maple syrup season is coming!

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Spotted Wall-E's cousin working as a food runner in an Albuquerque hotel!

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