David Hitt

When McDonald’s brings Monopoly back and your rocket is on the bag…

Fly your name around the Moon on Artemis II!

Randomly discovered today my contract has the domain yeswearerocketscientists.com, which I gotta say is rather cool.

YouTube video by Consumer Time Capsule McDonald's Employee Training Video - Countdown to Profitability! (1982)

I've seen a lot of beautiful tributes in the last few days on the loss of Jim Lovell as an astronaut, explorer, hero, and space ambassador, but no one's talking about the loss of a brilliant McDonalds training advocate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm3...

TIL the first webpage is still online: info.cern.ch/hypertext/WW...

Born to Explore - Nebraska Press Once, there were giants in the heavens: billion-dollar machines of wonder and science that flew to the outermost planets and told us what secrets had been ly...

The latest @univnebpress.bsky.social #OutwardOdyssey book is now available for pre-order – and on sale! Pick up Born to explore for half price using code 6SUMM25 by 7/31: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Happy #Skylab reentry anniversary AND #Superman movie release day, as foreshadowed in a 1981 episode of Superfriends.

Randomly recalled today that @NASA commissioned a song in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight, and it contained this line:

"Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space."

Prophetic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...

Summer is time for summer reading, and my publisher is running a HALF-PRICE summer sale on their catalog, including the #OutwardOdyssey series on space history that includes my books. Use code 6SUMM25 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...

Happy 500th wedding anniversary of Martin and Katie Luther.

I wrote an article for Mud & Magnolias about how the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Parthenon are all easy day trips from northeast Mississippi, and the same is true for Huntsville. www.djournal.com/mudandmagnol...

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

This may just be because it's been over a decade since I published a book. I'll see if I can't fix it with the next one, which will be pretty much 10 percent semicolons and em dashes by mass. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

This week I got to visit my favorite rocket engine for the 16th anniversary of when we first "met" – engine 2059 that powered the first shuttle mission I ever saw is now in the VAB ready to launch #Artemis II.

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay

Today is #EncourageAYoungWriterDay.

My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great.

They got better.

Want to be a writer? Write.

If you like what you write, write more.

If you don’t, write twice as much.

#Write #Writer #writinglife

Nine missions patches have adorned the suits of NASA crews that have visited the Moon.

This will be the 10th.

Happy birthday to @rocketcenterusa.bsky.social, which turns 55 today!!

SPACE JOB – Someday in the not-too-distant future, a picture like this will be taken on the surface of the Moon. My contract is looking to hire a systems engineer that will be able to point to the equipment in that picture and say "I did that."
www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...

Two days ago

YouTube video by L3Harris Technologies Artemis: One Team, One Dream

"We are part of something incredibly special." #Artemis #WeAreGoing www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix7v...

#OTD in 1970, Richard Nixon outlined 6 goals for the future of space:

1) Moon
2) Mars
3) Reduce costs
4) Sustain human presence in space
5) Encourage spin-offs
6) Cooperate internationally.

To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…

A couple of humble suggestions for people who look forward to the day that the first word in #WorldBookDay is no longer singular. amzn.to/2F64tyE

It’s been three years getting to this point; I’m just glad to have the road forward to submission down to months or weeks. 😀

This is my first for a book

I hit a significant milestone on my next book tonight – I reached my publisher's max word count for the manuscript. From here out, for every word I write, I'll have to cut one later. Ouch. #AmWriting #KillYourDarlings

Before there was NASA, there was #NACA.

@NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915.

Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…

And extraterrestrial!

I've gotten used to Blue Origin flying celebrities on New Shepard, but I've gotta admit Katy Perry came at me like a dark horse. www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025...

The Salem Witch Trials started #OTD 333 years ago – half of 666!

Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv

"People have been looking up at the skies for 10,000 years, wondering and dreaming. I hope we always do." – John Glenn

On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.