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GRU Space Founder & CEO and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman meet in Washington, DC.
GRU Space's mission is to build the foundational building blocks of NASA's Moon Base, brick by brick.
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Today was the day! I’ve been living full time in South Texas for almost 6 years on what I originally thought was going to be an 18 month rotation working towards what we got today, a Starship that delivers payload to orbit. I’ve worked on a reasonable number of rocket programs and there is something special about getting to orbit (and breaking free of the tyranny of Earth’s gravity).
I don’t feel like there’s any one team to recognize for this because many people worked for months and years to get to an operational Starship today. We have lots more excitement on the way with ship and booster catch to get right, but this feels like a big step and I’m excited that it went so well today.
It’s icing on the cake that this is 18 years to the day of making orbit on Falcon 1. I’ve been thinking back to that day this evening. It’s a different feeling than that because we had the whole company riding on one launch back then, but Starship feels like the beginning of a new chapter in what it can unlock that brings a similar amount of hope and excitement for the future.
Ad Astra! Thank you to all the SpaceXers and happy Orbit Day!
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Watch Starship Flight 14 x.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvvenMP…
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Starship’s 14th flight is set to launch on Monday, Sept 28. The 75-minute launch window opens at 7:15 a.m. CT. Live coverage of the mission starts ~35 minutes before launch → x.com/i/broadcasts/1qxvvenMP…
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Think Rocket Lab only operates in low Earth orbit? Think again.
When a spacecraft orbits the Moon, touches down on the lunar surface, or charts a course across deep space to Mars, there's a strong chance Rocket Lab technology helped it get there and deliver mission success.
Through our launch, spacecraft, solar power, separation systems, software, operations, and robotics solutions, we’re proud to support historic planetary exploration missions across the solar system. 🧵👇
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I’ve decided it’s time to have a little more fun on X this year! 😄⚡
I get to speak at some amazing events, meet fascinating people, hear great stories, and occasionally find myself in places I never expected to be. So I figured… why not share some of those moments here?
And there’s more!
I’m also excited to launch my new merch. A little Woz spirit, a little fun, and hopefully a few things bring a smile to your face.
This is just the beginning. More adventures, more stories, and more surprises to come!
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Honestly not gonna lie, I kind of saw this coming when the Mars Telecommunications Network contract went to Blue Origin. Based on what I know, @RocketLab doesn't do this kind of thing without a real reason, they don't waste time or credibility filing a formal GAO protest if it's not legit. Curious to see what NASA's actual source-selection reasoning was.
Rocket Lab has filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office challenging NASA’s award decision for the Mars Telecommunications Network.
NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria mandated by Congress. In addition, the agency’s punitive review of Rocket Lab's technical volume was inconsistent, making incorrect assertions and conclusions.
Procurement standards exist to ensure fair competition and protect public investment. We are pursuing this review to ensure those standards are upheld for critical infrastructure that will underpin American exploration at Mars for decades to come.
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Congrats @isaraerospace for reaching orbit with sats on your second flight — genuinely huge to be the first commercial European space company, and the first privately developed rocket to reach orbit from continental Europe. Real milestone for European spaceflight.
We made history. On just our second flight, we became the first commercial space company from Europe to deliver satellites into orbit. Mission 'Onward and Upward' successfully lifted off and deployed payloads into orbit. A new chapter for European spaceflight. More: isaraerospace.com/press/hist…
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Picture looks fire 🔥, I wish one day I get to see the Milky Way from that exact same place, with a Dobsonian reflector telescope in hand.
Two months ago I spend 4 days on planes to get this shot of Alpha Centauri (the target of @FermiExplorer) in the Milky Way. This was taken in the Atacama Desert, Chile, the best place in the world to see the Milky Way, on the best day of the year to see it. It was taken by astrophotographer, Alexis Trigo, with a 20-second exposure, July 14th, 2026.
The star I’m pointing to is Alpha Centauri and, in 3 years, we will launch the first spacecraft to travel there! 🚀
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I completely support this, the way you @rushilkukreja wrote it is lit 🔥. I’m actually trying to build and support exactly this kind of thinking myself. I try to learn as much as I possibly can outside what I’m currently studying. When I joined FSAE, I learned a ton about hardware, how to deal with it, how it operates, and how it actually works, and at the same time I tried getting high-level knowledge across a lot of other subjects too. Of course you need real depth in your core, but learning as much as you can beyond that helps you actually communicate with people who aren’t talking about your specific field. When you have basic knowledge across a lot of areas, you can start or keep productive conversations going with way more people. That’s what I’ve personally observed since I started trying to be a generalist myself.
I’ve heard several times that “a jack of all trades is a master of none.” What people often omit is the rest of the quote: “but oftentimes better than a master of one.”
That omitted half is increasingly becoming the important half. My belief (that many may not agree with) is that deep specialization is now often a liability. For generations, we rewarded the person who spent 10,000 hours mastering one craft, because execution was scarce. But now, AI is commoditizing execution. Even the world’s best AI companies, like OpenAI, have 100% of their code written by AI itself.
Judgment across boundaries, on the other hand, can’t be commoditized. For example, evaluating a space company requires orbital mechanics, government procurement, manufacturing, unit economics, and founder psychology. Five fields, but no PhD in any of them. The specialist builds a perfect model of the wrong world, whereas the generalist asks questions the model can’t answer.
I don’t believe expertise is becoming irrelevant. But the advantage is shifting increasingly toward people who can cultivate depth when necessary while remaining relentlessly curious across an array of fields. In today’s AI-enabled world, breadth is increasingly what makes expertise useful.
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Cybercab genuinely looks like we’re living in the future already. Hoping one day every single car on the highways and roads looks like this, feels like something out of a movie every time. The design is honestly indistinguishable from art at this point. Really waiting for a 5-seat version, like a Cybercab-style Model Y, and Roadster’s probably cooking right behind it 🔥
The future of transport is safer, more enjoyable & gives you more time back
With theater, music & gaming apps on a 22" touchscreen, Cybercab offers you a space to be productive or unwind
Soon to be equipped with V5 Starlink hardware, too, for complete connectivity
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Crazy attempt, @PhilipJohnston and partners. This makes me realize you guys actually care about advancing humanity to the next level, it feels genuinely exciting reading through the Fermi mission. One day, when that spacecraft finally reaches Alpha Centauri, it’ll look back at you guys, and you’ll be remembered forever for doing this. Doing all of this on a $15M budget is probably one of the most efficient things happening in this entire space right now.
Did you know that humanity has never launched a spacecraft to another star? That is about to change! I'm super excited to share that my cofounders, @AdiOltean, @EzraFeilden, and I, have created a non-profit to attempt to send humanity’s 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿… and we need your help!
We have formed a non-profit called The @FermiExplorer Mission with the goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years. We hope it will be both the first spacecraft to leave Earth for another star, and the last to arrive, as per this concept video!
The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real, and to encourage more people to confront one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions when we look beyond our planet: "Where is everybody?" (the Fermi Paradox)
The mission has four high-level objectives:
- Aim: To launch the first spacecraft to another star. It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80,000 years.
- Payload: It should have at least a 1kg, 10x10x10 cm payload.
- Schedule: It should launch before the end of 2029
- Cost: It should cost less than $15M to design, build, launch, and operate.
The mission was planned with the help of the folks at @astrodigitalgeo, @MattGialich and the folks at @AstroForge, and @alexwg+@matthew_pines physical AI lab PSI, who devised the final mission profile. The mission will be executed by full-time program manager @GarrettJameson, who joins us after 10 years as a US Air Force Officer, in collaboration with a US bus manufacturing partner that will be selected over the coming months.
We will need your help to complete the mission, so if the idea of the mission excites you, please check out the Fermi Explorer website in the comments to find out more about why we are doing the mission and how to get involved!
Thanks to London Studio @ZeroOneCreative and @ashkan01C for producing the concept video 🙏🙏
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Good to see 11 turbines actually powered down, and investing more in emission control tech is a real step forward too. Hope the local community that’s been dealing with this finally gets some relief. Hoping the NAACP lawsuit gets resolved fairly soon as well.
11 turbines successfully powered down at our Southaven facility. SpaceXAI remains committed to being a responsible neighbor and we’ll continue to rapidly remove the temporary, mobile turbines over the next year as our new 1.2 GW power plant comes online under the Clean Air Act permit.
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Amrit__ retweeted
I woke up this morning to my company being featured on BBC's @sciencefocus magazine.
We're on an unchartered mission to change the course of human history very soon. Come join us.
GRU Space's featured on BBC @sciencefocus news.
"The race to establish the first Moon base is on."
GRU Space will make the world's first bricks on the Moon.
cc @rookisaacman @NASAAdmin @NASA
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Really hoping this mission uncovers a lot of new galaxies, exoplanets, and maybe even signs of life with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Genuinely excited to see what it ends up finding. The best part is that all the data will be public and open, meaning individual researchers and anyone who studies the universe on their own can actually use it, and probably discover new things even before big institutions. Really looking forward to seeing what this telescope can do. Thanks to @Erdayastronaut for the great explainer on Roman, link below.
youtu.be/nUlUa2zJXh4
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