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Ed Walters

@qldriver

Father, husband, fracture mechanics testing guy, building rockets in Los Angeles. Ex-pat Englishman. Comments and opinions are mine alone.

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Some more incredible views of the #SpaceX CRS-24 Cargo Dragon capaule as it performed departure burns from the International Space Station on Sunday, January 23, 2021. Credit: ESA/NASA-M.Maurer

Some more incredible views of the #SpaceX CRS-24 Cargo Dragon capaule as it performed departure burns from the International Space Station on Sunday, January 23, 2021. Credit: ESA/NASA-M.Maurer
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Today we celebrate the founding of SpaceX and 20 years of accomplishments by this incredible team—here’s to creating a future that we can all get excited about

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Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas → spacex.com/launches

Targeting as soon as Monday, April 17 for the first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Starbase in Texas → spacex.com/launches
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Three years ago this week we launched our first human spaceflight mission to orbit. Thank you to NASA, Inspiration4, Axiom Space, and the 38 astronauts from all around the world for flying SpaceX!

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FALCON HEAVY TRANSITS THE MOON: Tonight’s launch of the USSF-52 mission with seventh mission of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane.

FALCON HEAVY TRANSITS THE MOON: Tonight’s launch of the USSF-52 mission with seventh mission of the Space Force’s X-37B spaceplane.
Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For as chaotic as the world can be, it seems like the last few years have been extraordinarily unhealthy. The world faced a wild pandemic that attempted to truly shut down most aspects of normal life. The measures taken to stave off economic ruin induced the most extreme euphoria

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Nitpick alert! On Marketplace, Kai Ryssdal mentioned that the unemployment rate of 4.25% rounded to 4.3%. I suspect there was a third decimal place that caused that because in statistical settings typically you “round half to even” to prevent bias. See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding

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HARMONY OF RESILIENCE: Recorded in space and sent to Earth via SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, Polaris Dawn crewmember and violinist Sarah Gillis invites you to enjoy this music moment in support of St. Jude & @ElSistemaUSA → polarisprogram.com/music

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Not the best photo… but fun anyway. A gauge 1 live steam locomotive that I built (from a kit!) with Falcon 9 Stage 2 for Starlink 11-3, which I supported the build of, flying above the trees.

Not the best photo… but fun anyway. A gauge 1 live steam locomotive that I built (from a kit!) with Falcon 9 Stage 2 for Starlink 11-3, which I supported the build of, flying above the trees.
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If you are an organization or agency responding to the LA wildfires and can use free Starlink kits and service, please send me a private message.