Jeff Foust
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Jeff Foust
@jeff_foust
Senior writer, @SpaceNews_Inc. Tips? DMs open, email [email protected], or on Signal: jfoust.58. Also @jfoust.bsky.social.
- Fact check: - NASA was neither closed nor dead at the start of the current administration. - Many recent NASA successes have their origins in prior administrations. - The Starship test the president is retweeting has nothing to do with NASA; it’s a private effort by SpaceX.NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again. Now it is the most vibrant place of its kind on the Planet...And we have Space Force to go along with it. We have accomplished more than any Administration in first 3 1/2 years. Sorry, but it all doesn’t happen with Sleepy Joe!
- Subcommittee chairman Cruz: pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space, hence need for a Space Force.
- I didn’t have a Twitter spat between a former NASA astronaut and the current head of Roscosmos on my bingo card for 2022, and yet here we are.
- NASA’s Kathy Lueders said at a Spaceport Summit panel that the LOX prevalve issue that delayed the SLS core stage Green Run test is because engineers “had a hard time getting it to be fully open.” No update on when the test might be rescheduled.
- I wonder if the airlines that had to reroute planes to avoid the debris feel entertained.Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed! ✨
- The U.S. Space Force flag joins those of the other services at the inaugural.
- Updated with some comments from another committee meeting today by SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier, who said the previous Super Heavy landed in the ocean "with half a centimeter accuracy," giving confidence for the upcoming catch attempt.NASA “really looking forward” to next Starship test flight spacenews.com/nasa-really-lo…
- Musk’s response to the Blue Origin GAO protest is… in character.
- Layer 5 is now fully tensioned. Deployment of JWST’s sunshield is complete.
- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson says DART successfully changed the orbit of Dimorphos, decreasing its orbital period around Didymos from 11hrs 55 mins to 11hrs 23mins, a 32-minute change.
