Tyler Gray

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#EarthDay

#justrocketchaserthings 🚀😌

“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”

— Sir Winston Churchill, c. 1941

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Before… and After.

Inspired by a post by Twitter user @atlonglastcz — “i want to see more photographers post before & after photos; people need to see how much intentionality goes into each edit.” 🚀✨📸

(First post in a while, how goes it)

Enhance Details. 🔍

Throwback to this dramatic Moon image I took in March 2021 — one of the first lunar photos I took with my trusty Nikon P950.

2000mm, f6.5, 1/200s, ISO 100

#LookUp 🌔🔭

NYT excerpt that reads: This fall, a SpaceX employee was fired after writing on an internal message board that he hoped Mr. Musk would stop wearing company apparel during his campaign appearances for Mr. Trump, three people familiar with incident said. During an October rally in Butler, Pa., for example, Mr. Musk wore an “Occupy Mars” T-shirt — which SpaceX sells in its company store — as he jumped up and down onstage. The employee wrote that it wouldn’t be appropriate for workers to wear political clothing to the office and, therefore, that company apparel should not be worn at campaign events. A few days after his post, the company revoked the employee’s access to internal systems, though it later reinstated the employee after determining there was no violation of company policies, the people said. The employee resigned weeks later. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Back in the Fall, I had heard about a SpaceX worker who wrote on the company's intranet asking that Musk stop wearing company apparel at political rallies.

After he posted that, he had his access shut off and was walked out of his office.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

What's better than 1 rocket launch? 2!
What's better than 1 booster in a picture? 2!
What's better than 1 streak shot? 2!

First, the shuttle walkway leads the way to the successful launch of IM-2 from LC-39A

Second, Starlink 12-13 launches from SLC-40 seen from the port

🎶 Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars 🎶

The IM-2 lander along with three additional payloads are on the way to the moon and beyond after a successful launch of Falcon 9.

@nasaspaceflight.com
stream
youtube.com/live/gi0cLW7J6

“Can you stop talking about space & rockets?”

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Though wise men at their end know dark is right,

Because their words had forked no lightning they

Do not go gentle into that good night;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The image shows a screen grab from the Sentry site at CNEOS, with the line for asteroid 2024 YR4 highlighted - the impact probability has significantly dropped.

Good news: asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 3 to 1 on the Torino scale, with impact risk now significantly reduced; source: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

Yeah. To me, Starship is still cool, and I don’t necessarily wish it to fail — it just really really sucks that this is what’s associated with it.

SpaceX Crew-7 astronaut & former ISS commander Andreas Mogensen disputes Elon Musk’s assertion that Butch & Suni were “abandoned” on the ISS for political reasons.

Musk’s response is absolutely appalling.

This is what things have come to in the space community in 2025.

Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration. 🧠🚀

📸 @nasaspaceflight.com

Into the Vast Unknown. ✨

Shot as a test frame in October 2024, while I was dialing in my new star tracker.

120mm, f4.8, 60 sec., ISO 400

#LookUp 🔭🌟

🤗♥️ #ValentinesDay

Ship 34 static fire test was incredible! WOW 🔥🔥🔥

📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF

🚀SpaceX Performs Static Fire with Ship 34 for Starship Flight 8 YouTube video by NASASpaceflight

Live now
🚀SpaceX Performs Static Fire with Ship 34 for Starship Flight 8
www.youtube.com/live/z2Exgpe...

Returning to Florida. On this day Shuttle Challenger became the first orbiter to use the SLF at KSC, concluding STS-41-B in 1984.

Starship Flight 8: Booster 15 returning to the production site following its Static Fire test.

🎥 nsf.live/starbase

Left: Webb image of HH 30 and its surrounding protoplanetary disk. (Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/Tazaki et al.) Right: Webb image of the light echo moving through interstellar material. (Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/J. Jencson (Caltech/IPAC))

Using JWST, scientists recently observed a protoplanetary disk and gas jets located around a newborn star.

Furthermore, Webb was used to investigate "light echoes" traveling through interstellar material near Cassiopeia A.

📝 By Haygen Warren — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/webb...

Booster 15 has completed a static fire test of its Raptor engines. 🔥🔥🔥

📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF

STATIC FIRE!
Starship Booster 15 fires up its engines for the first time, as teams continue with the pre-flight testing flow ahead of flight 8, pending regulatory approval
@nasaspaceflight.com
Testing stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozA...
Starbase Live: nsf.live/starbase

🆕 This Week in Spaceflight! 🆕

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTC...

Aerial view of the Launch Site at Starbase in Cameron County, Texas. (Credit: Mary @BocaChicaGal for NSF)

SpaceX is making good progress with the second launch site at Starbase.

📝 By Ryan Weber — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/star...