Wernher von Braun
@DrVonBraun
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I pioneered a generation of Space Exploration. I built the Rockets that took us to the Moon. And now I tweet.
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Humanity has about six months to purchase 8 billion ape costumes for the ultimate prank.
Boeing Starliner astronauts stranded in space for 80 days will not return home until 2025
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We both do it. Nobody wants to give up the game. Planet of the Apes origin story confirmed.
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I’ve seen a lot of rocket pics. But timing the position of your photo so that it aligns the Moon with the launch of NG-14 is insane. Absolutely insane.
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"Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen/oxygen fueled system in the world - knowing they are going to light the bottom - and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation." - John Young
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This is your daily reminder that test pilot Joseph A. Walker twice flew an X-15 higher than Jeff Bezos’ planned rocket flight.
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Two months after the assassination of President Kennedy, Dr Von Braun wrote this letter to Jackie Kennedy.
#JFK60
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The number of people who believe yesterday's launch was the first time we've had the capability to launch an automobile into space is staggering.
Now that your non-space friends are finally engaged, this might be the perfect time for a teachable moment.
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President Bush's family had an internal code word to quietly share the news of his passing.
CAVU: Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited
An aviator to the end.
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"Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me." - Gene Cernan
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Day 31. No NASA.
Last night the Moon almost disappeared.
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What Twitter would've looked like on July 20th, 1969.
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Alan Shepard proved this wrong in ‘71.
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Marvel: "Infinity War" is the most ambitious crossover in history.
Me:
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It will forever be that a man from West Virginia would be the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Chuck Yeager was built of nothing but The Right Stuff. Godspeed.
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Today is a curl up inside the belly of the Saturn V with a blanket and a hot cup of cocoa kind of day.
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Oh, to be Starman... Up there, all alone in the cosmos, never having to hear about Bitcoin again.
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If you can pose with a gold 1969 Corvette Stingray, and still be the coolest part of the photo, you've lived an excellent life.
#DickGordon
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Need help creating your own impossible-sounding
@ElonMusk
tweets? Then use my handy "Elon Musk Promise Generator!"
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I just awoke from the most feverish dream. There was an electric car, David Bowie, an--- OH. MY. GOD. YOU MANIACS!
#FalconHeavy
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How Twitter would have looked during the first Moon landing, 43 years ago today:
http://t.co/NOOHYLZU
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In early 1977, President Ford awarded a terminally ill and bedridden Dr Von Braun, the "President's National Medal of Science."
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If people had the same passion for science as they did for
#BlackFriday
, we'd have shopping malls on the Moon by now.
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The Nixon Library has the phone used to call Neil and Buzz on the Moon. It's like an iPhone, but important.
#NixonDay
http://t.co/TWj2ZHn3eN
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In celebration of Easter, I present a beautiful photo of the "shock egg" created by an Ares Rocket.
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Sorry, I was microwaving a Pizza Pocket, what'd I miss?
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If you’re into the Saturn V (and I mean who isn’t?) - then you need to watch
@SmarterEveryday
’s newest video.
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I went Christmas caroling tonight. Good thing I have perfect yaw. Or is it pitch? Either way, I'm was on a roll!
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As is my Easter tradition, I present a beautiful photo of the "shock egg" created by the Ares Rocket.
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This weekend 1000s of adults lost their minds when McDonalds ran out of a dipping sauce.
We're never going back to the Moon, are we?
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Without the AN-225, how are we going to transport Zelenskyy’s enormous balls?
Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs confirming the news the world’s largest cargo aircraft, the Antonov
#AN225
, has been destroyed at Hostomel Airport outside Kyiv.
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Day 17. No NASA.
Tried building homemade rocket with baking soda and vinegar. Ineffective. Drank the result to ease the pain. Also ineffective.
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"Anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen/oxygen fueled system in the world - knowing they are going to light the bottom - and doesn't get a little worried, does not fully understand the situation." - John Young
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Happy Birthday Walt Disney! Working with Walt was the only time I've been the LEAST creative person in a room.
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Telstar, the first comm satellite, launched 60 years ago today.
Most people don’t realize how tiny it was. Only 165lbs, and the antenna on top was only 8” in diameter. It handled 400 phone calls in its 9 months and broadcast just a single TV channel.
But it changed everything.
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Party like it’s 1969!
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As is my Easter tradition, I present a beautiful photo of the "shock egg" created by the Ares Rocket.
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When an astronaut performing your music on a space station is the LEAST interesting thing about your life.
#DavidBowie
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If you're alone on Valentines Day, just remember you’ll never be Michael-Collins-orbiting-the-Moon-in-a-tin-can-by-himself alone.
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Does it ever strike anyone else that 97 year-old
@GenChuckYeager
has one of the best Twitter accounts, and we all just act like that’s normal?
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French astrophysicist Jean Pierre Luminet used a 1960s IBM computer to calculate the shape of a black hole using punch cards. The results were then hand plotted.
How am I just seeing this image from 1978 for the first time?
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What Twitter would've looked like on July 20th, 1969.
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When the aliens discover Elon's convertible, how are we going to explain "mid-life crisis" to them?
#FalconHeavy
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As is my Easter tradition, I present a beautiful photo of the "shock egg" created by the Ares Rocket.
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How Twitter would've looked when
#Apollo11
landed on July 20th, 1969.
http://t.co/2nAibK6rZ2
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60 years ago today, I launched America's first satellite: Explorer 1. "We finally put one on the scoreboard!" I said.
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Forget groundhogs. I look to Mars for superstitious prognostications. If the shadows in Cydonia form a face, then 6 more weeks of funding!
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I went Christmas caroling last night. Good thing I have perfect yaw. Or is it pitch? Either way, I was on a roll!
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Forty-nine years ago today, a man walked on the Moon. Yes, you may buy me a drink.
#Apollo11
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Don’t worry, I promise to punch someone at Yuri’s Night.
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61 years ago today, I launched America's first satellite, Explorer 1.
"We finally put one on the scoreboard!" I said.
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Yes.
Will humanity ever produce something like this again?
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Kentucky Derby: 20 horses traveling 1.25 miles.
Saturn V: 190 million horses traveling 230,000 miles.
#CheckmateVonBraun
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Marrying a woman that watched you walk on the Moon in grammar school is the ultimate flex.
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45 years ago this week, Apollo 15 landed on the Moon. NASA called it "The most successful human flight ever achieved." I called it "Monday."
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41 years ago today, Wernher Von Braun was buried at Ivy Hill in Alexandria, VA. The public was not informed of his death until after the ceremony.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of the first Saturn V launch. It flew the first time, every time, thirteen times. Behold the glory!
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If you're alone on Valentines Day, just remember: You'll never be Michael-Collins-orbiting-the-Moon-in-a-tin-can-by-himself alone.
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As is my Easter tradition, I present a beautiful photo of the "shock egg" created by the Ares Rocket.
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1. Create Space Corps
2. Train Space Marines
3. Invade Alien Homeworld(s)
4. ?
5. Make Space Great Again
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What the hell are "CubeSats"? Back in my day satellites were round, had spikes, and beeped. I just don't understand this generation.
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If you're alone on Valentines Day just remember, you’ll never be Michael-Collins-orbiting-the-Moon-in-a-tin-can-by-himself alone.
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This afternoon we hold a Memorial Service for John Glenn, while also remembering two other Ohioans who learned to fly on this day in 1903.
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This reminds me of that one time I shoved a whole pack of Juicy Fruit into my mouth.
#FalconHeavy
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“From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
- Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14
#280characters
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Just wait until the Jehovah’s Witnesses find out about that door on Mars.
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