While Florida is looking to build more spaceports and increase our launch rate

California is looking to limit it because of NIMBY-ism and 'coastal community impact'

Deeply unserious state

'The Space Force is planning what could be the first military exercise in orbit'

Two comments on this headline

- Irrespective of your thoughts on Trump, setting up Space Force was a great call

- 16 yr old Delian would think THIS IS SO FKN COOL!!!!

arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/…

Wednesday night @ FF MIA

There is a chance Keith Rabois is correct about Miami

How is this a real place you can just live

V cold-emailed me when I was an associate

I flew out to Portugal the next week to do all of KV's diligence

The next week we invited him to fly to Menlo Park to present to our partnership

The next week we invested $5m @ $25m post

5 years later the company is worth $2b+

*chefs kiss*

you're telling me genetics can affect how a human performs?

that's crazy talk

A SECRET list of genetic variants that enable superhuman abilities?

I’m in. Here we go! ➡️➡️➡️

So who's here for Miami Tech Week. Reply if you're swinging through!

Guarantee you no other Mayor is kicking off their city's Tech Week

🔥🔥🔥

Hell ya Mayor Francis Suarez

In Miami from today until Sunday.

If you are building something exciting or want to meet up, drop me a line.

15 year old delian would be losing his fkn mind at this headline + headshot

So, I'm going to assume that the Gods of Pharma (New Jersey suburbs) were so excited by our Varda fundraise ($90m Series B), that they decided to give us a sign (Two Earthquakes)

Huge congrats to Delian and the Varda team!

Varda Space Industries has raised a $90M Series B round on the heels of the successful conclusion of its first mission, which demonstrated manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity and returning them Earth. spacenews.com/varda-space-in…

.Varda Space Industries brought their first pharma manufacturing capsule home in Feb. Now, they’re gearing up to do it again, and again, and again, and again…

techcrunch.com/2024/04/05/var…

Three years ago, we had a wild idea to expand manufacturing to space.

Today, after we've launched & reentered the first-ever commercial spacecraft to land on US soil, we're announcing the completion of a $90 million Series B funding round -- and we're just getting started.

I remember going to AMES when I was 19 to watch the Curiosity Rover Landing

I was in awe of their facility, and the audacity of the 'Six Minutes of Terror' and the 'sky crane'

Now, a decade later, Varda's capsule shows up on the entrance jumbotron. How cool.

We were thrilled to be able to introduce our W-1 capsule to colleagues at NASA Ames yesterday. Thank you for having us — this mission and Varda as a whole truly wouldn't be where it is without NASA Ames' support and partnership.