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NASA Artemis Lunar Gateway Mission Design and Flight Dynamics. Pilot. Physicist. Nerd.
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Hey Bluesky. I think I may have just been selected to be the NASA Lunar Gateway Mission Design MER System Ops lead. :) (Basically mission design and flight dynamics engineering support for mission control). Yay!

If you're interested in being a part of preserving space history, this is *the* guy to do it!

A little blast from the past. One of my favorite video-game based movies, and it's on YouTube for free. :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9tQ...

Oof. Break-ups are hard. Especially if you're a rocket! spacenews.com/starship-upp...

"Can't say I remember no At Attin!" Only 5 episodes into #starwars #skeletoncrew, but I love it so far. If you want to feel like a kid again watching Star Wars, I highly recommend.

New hair. Who 'dis? 😆

I barely have a handle on GenZ slang. Now I'm trying to learn Gen Alpha slang so I can keep... slayin'?... with my gamer... peeps? I'm just going to throw random slang out there and hope it sticks and try not to sound like I'm getting to half a century old! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sgo...

Hometown Livermore and LLNL fusion hype! It's been decades since I interned at LLNL, but I still have fond memories during my first year there. www.npr.org/2024/11/15/g...

Tough day at work. But it involved laying some groundwork for Lunar NRHO operations, so it was pretty satisfying but tedious. I miss just doing pure physics, and those days are few and far between. Alas! At least I get to make up new orbit terms. If you see "P+" times, you know it was me. ;)

Just a little picture of my cat trying to brighten my day to brighten *your* day. Carry on, my space nerds!

Whoa. Woke up to see a bunch of new cool space people following me! Hi everybody! It's my honor to be your NASA Gateway Mission Design guy. 😄🖖 I haven't been able to share much on it, but hopefully as we get closer to launch there will be more opportunity to show some cool space stuff. 🚀👨‍🚀👩‍🚀🌕

Hello, bsky. I don't have a lot of followers or friends and family here, but I might start using this place a little more as my social media goto since other places are getting... challenging... to deal with. So I hope the few of you who see this likes random NASA/space stuff!

Númenor Margaritaville xkcd.com/2994

Sad space news. CLPS Peregrine Mission One, part of the series of CLPS missions under the Artemis Program and our first lander to return to the moon in 50 years, has suffered critical propellant loss. news.sky.com/story/peregr...

Just sat in a meeting with Dr. Sonny White, formally of advanced propulsion at NASA, now with Limitless. I've looked up to this guy since grad school! What an inspiration for the ideas of interstellar travel.

Redshift xkcd.com/2853

I decided to get an undercut. I think it turned out fine, but it was the first time I caught myself wondering if I was "too old" for something so cyberpunk (which was actually the inspiration). Then I thought, well, if I'm wondering if I'm too old for it, then I'm probably too old for it. LOL

By reading this post, you are contractually obligated to sing "Livin' on a Prayer" by screaming at the top of your lungs whenever you hear the song. [x] User agrees to the above terms.

The Sit-Com Friends, and Chandler, brought me through some really rough times in my life. He will be missed. www.npr.org/2023/10/28/1...

Houston has a pretty good view. 😀

Loving everything I'm hearing about the Bennu asteroid rocks so far! www.npr.org/2023/10/12/1...

If anyone is planning on observing the Oct. 14 eclipse, make sure your solar eclipse glasses are safe; and enjoy!

Had to do a double take when I received a spam message. At first I thought it was about coffee because... well, coffee! But it took a second to realize it was a MASSAGE. I... wha.... what? I don't know how I feel about this. But I'm definitely thirsty!

OSIRIS REX BABY! Asteroid return sample. The ultimate "boop" and back! One heck of a mission!

I estimate the OSIRIS REX reentry path passes over San Fran at about 0742 PDT (1442 UTC) at an altitude of around 120 km

Just randomly uploading a pic of Terra and me because I love her to bits. 😁

Any Mandalorian Fans using Google Chrome... type in "The Mandalorian" on Google Search then look in the lower right. Click without fear. You won't be sorry! 😆

The public wants what it wants, I guess!

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YES. Come get it, freebirths!!! 😄 I love, love, the Mech2 throwback!!! A shame that it won't be following Jade Falcon, but I am ALL IN.

Some of the NASA Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena report (UAP, which UFOs are a part of). Bill Nelson spoke very well on the issue, though I'd like to point out that the planets are not just the only place to look for extra-terrestrial life... moons too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=idJK...

I was so close to closing my Netflix account since Star Trek migrated to Paramount+, but then I discovered Mech Cadets. It is sooooo good so far! Highly recommended. Between #MechCadets, #Voltron, #DragonPrince and #ShadowAndBone, I guess there are a few gems here for me to stay for.

Wow. I've been doing a lot of Baldur-ing. 😵

Continually in awe of our current NASA interns. Just got through a FD meeting where their work was demoed for a NRHO-to-Heliocentric disposal where very tricky dynamics were required to target NRHO exits. They are definitely on a higher level of intelligence than I am!