Lauren Lyons
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Building meaningful stuff with great people. Current: aerospace consultant and startup advisor. Past: Firefly / SpaceX / Blue Origin / JPL. Tweets sporadically.
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a SpaceX employee just did an EVA from a SpaceX designed, built, and operated spacecraft. I mean, we always knew was eventually gonna be a thing, but when that thing becomes real, it's still incredible and powerful to witness. Go
@Gillis_SarahE
! Go Polaris Dawn!
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Can we all just take (another) minute to appreciate Wally Funk?
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The time between these two images is 3 years and 8 months. Say whatever you want about green light schedule launch dates vs actual (btw, you pad a schedule with tons of margin, that’s how long it will take and then some), but tell me who could do it faster.
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Yaaaaassss! The brilliant, PhD-holding, lead planetary protection engineer for the mission,
@moogega
, co-hosting the
#Perseverance
launch webcast!
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The women of SpaceX Hawthorne taking a break from Dragons, Falcons, & making humanity multi-planetary to say Happy
#internationalwomensday
!
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Shout out to SpaceX avionics, ground segment, & marketing teams for normalizing transparency through live in-flight video vs. old school pre-made launch simulations and corporate press releases. Authenticity is what wins hearts & minds, even when the mission isn't 100% successful
Starship re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Views through the plasma
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Congrats to my SpaceX fam, what an incredible ride y’all are headed on. And to my National Team comrades, thank you for all your hard work. Regardless of this outcome, astronauts—including the first woman—are headed to the moon. And that is awesome.
NASA has selected Starship to land the first astronauts on the lunar surface since the Apollo program! We are humbled to help
@NASAArtemis
usher in a new era of human space exploration →
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I have to say it’s been a pretty epic first 2 1/2 weeks on the job. While we didn’t make it the whole way, there are still so many major milestones we hit, and the learnings are indispensable. So proud to be a part of this team.
#goFirefly
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This is what Starlink was about for me: helping underconnected communities provide a path to educational, health, & economic equity via reliable broadband internet. So proud of my former teammates at SpaceX, & happy you are able to see the powerful human impacts of your hard work
@TribeHoh
@WAStateCommerce
@GovInslee
@elonmusk
@SpaceX
WA Gov. Jay Inslee: "I just want to give a shout out to these efforts to extend broadband to the Hoh Tribe, with SpaceX and everybody working on this effort."
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A couple hours later, we ran an acceptance test on Lightning, our second stage vacuum engine. Just tested all five Alpha Flight 2 engines in one night. Nice work Fireflies!
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I’m in such a bubble. I thought that the early Starship test flights awakened people to the way that SpaceX does things. Agree with Eric’s take here, and it’s a reminder that this stuff still isn’t obvious to many, regardless of how low you set expectations in the comms.
The "but it exploded" take is fine. For the layperson who sees NASA at work, which can't afford to fail, this looks like failure. But for those who know a little bit more, and about iterative design, this was a tremendous success. SpaceX has 2-3 more rockets ready to go.
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History has been made. Let the acceleration towards a future with humanity amongst the cosmos begin.
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Docking complete! Dragon has made it to its new parking spot! Up next: prepping ISS and Dragon to open the hatches and welcome Bob and Doug to the lab.
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Honored to be joining this amazing team!
Firefly is pleased to announce that Lauren Lyons
@Laur_Ly
will join the team as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Lauren will lead the efforts in scaling the company’s production and operations as Firefly moves into commercial production.
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1/ Last weekend I spoke on a space career panel, which I nearly bailed on due to my insecurity about being between jobs. But I’m so glad I went & opened up about my funky career path in hopes of inspiring others (and myself!) to dgaf what others think & to embrace career audacity
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Having worked on the early Starlink UT prototypes and now witnessing from the outside this evolution in only a few short years, the progress is nothing short of remarkable. This is what happens when you don't use "but it's hard" as an excuse. So in awe of the Starlink team.
@Starlink
Mini with integrated WiFi (puppy not included). Ramping production and will be available in international markets soon.
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VICE PRESIDENT ELECT, KAMALA DEVI HARRIS. Having the sudden feeling that maybe anything is possible and I can be whatever I want to be my god this is what representation feels like
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Not only is SpaceX flying 2 employee astronauts (!), but they also happen to be rather badass.
Introducing the crew of Polaris Dawn:
Jared “Rook” Isaacman, Mission Commander
Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Mission Pilot
Sarah Gillis, Mission Specialist
Anna Menon, Mission Specialist & Medical Officer
Full biographies →
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My favorite views from today. Still in awe. Looking forward to Dragon docking tomorrow (it’s a great op to watch), as well as seeing Bob and Doug floating through the top hatch and into the ISS tomorrow. Maybe they’ll run into Little Earth up there 🌍?
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Up next, we Launch 🚀
Yesterday Firefly performed a static fire test of the Alpha launch vehicle on its Vandenberg launch pad. The fully-fueled, flight-ready vehicle fired its first stage engines for fifteen seconds.
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Invisible co-stars of the show: the ECLSS team, and all the valves and tubes and seals and ducers and filters required to make all this work. Exposing the cabin to vacuum is no joke.
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I used to write a lot. This week, with our brightest light and darkest sins simultaneously in focus, I wondered if I should start again. Then I realized I’d already written the words, only 5 1/2 years ago:
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Having participated in and led FAA mishap investigations myself at multiple orgs, this is correct, and I share Abhi’s annoyance at all the internet brouhaha. There’s usually way less conflict and drama than people want to read into.
I've seen dozens of "Twitter experts" misunderstand this (often time by adding "Breaking..." to their post for extra clicks) so let me reiterate and further explain what Chris details below.
SpaceX LEADS the investigation. SpaceX issues the corrective actions. They pre-write a
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Remember those days where the droneship footage would cut out and you’d wait for the video link to close and see if the rocket was standing, in the ocean, or a big fireball? Now a successful stage 1 secondary mission is the status quo. Rad.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, marking the 100th successful landing of an orbital class rocket booster!
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Hearing her cheer throughout the flight was just the best. So happy to see the world giving Wally her flowers 🚀
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The brilliant women of SpaceX Hawthorne, next to booster 1019 on
#InternationWomensDay
2019.
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Back at it.
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Look at that smile!
@AstroVicGlover
’s joy is making my day. Thank you for letting us vicariously share in the giddiness of being in Space for the first time.
"All for one, Crew-1 for all!"
@Astro_illini
has just given
@AstroVicGlover
a gold pin in honor of Victor's first time crossing the 100 km (62 mi) mark above Earth.
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Damn NASA is good.
After a journey of nearly 3.9 billion miles, the
#OSIRISREx
asteroid sample return capsule is back on Earth. Teams perform the initial safety assessment—the first persons to come into contact with this hardware since it was on the other side of the solar system.
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Yeah, maybe there are too many launch companies, but there are not nearly enough trying to do something truly different rather than just nibble at F9’s ankles. These folks are the real deal, and have a serious shot at greatness. Congrats team Stoke! 🔥
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What a perfect trajectory. I still remember my first meeting with Anil when I was at SpaceX, and thinking how smart and kind he was, and how lucky we were to have him. Now after putting others in space, he gets to go, too! Congratulations Anil!
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This is fantastic news. Kathy has been brilliant heading up the Commercial Crew Program: she is technically on point, decisive, and a great leader. 👩🏾🚀 🚀
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Looks straight out of a sci-fi dream. A brief glimpse of the future to come, and a reminder that we will become a spacefaring civilization in my lifetime...chills
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I remember when this was only a 3D animation. Congrats to the Dragon(s) teams for getting to this point! 🐉 🐉
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I remember the precise moment during a factory tour where spouting stats on booster and engine build rate no longer felt super relevant. Changed my talking points to pointing out sooty interstages and fairings. Congrats to the F9 team on this milestone and on a new life leader!
Falcon 9 launches 58 Starlink satellites and 3
@planetlabs
SkySats – the first time a booster has completed six flights to and from orbit. More photos →
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Hear hear! They were fantastic. Hopefully we have officially left behind boring, stiff, talking heads for launch webcasts and are leaning hard into putting the people close to the product at the desk! Very well done.
Congratulations to
@relativityspace
! Wow! While others are mentioning the blue flame, which was extremely impressive, I want to give a shout out to these two ladies for their amazing performance x 3. Rocket science isn’t easy, but neither is broadcasting to the world! 🚀
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Let us apply the same clarity of purpose we put into launching humans to space for the 1st time in nearly a decade during a global pandemic into dismantling the systems of oppression and inequity we live in, lest we repeat our same failures on Mars.
#blacklivesmatter
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See you soon Vandy!
Nominal 40 second hot fire. Alpha Stage 1 successfully completes ATP. Next stop: Vandenberg Space Force Base.
@SLDelta30
#makingspaceforeveryone
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Congrats to the
@NASA_TESS
team! Launching this spacecraft is one of the main reasons I joined SpaceX and was the first mission I worked on here. It was an honor to give TESS a ride. Great people. And great science to come. Onwards to discovery!
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Another (un)friendly reminder to stay paranoid. Glad the capsule escape system did its job, and I hope the Blue team has the telemetry and other evidence they need to get to root cause, fix it, and return to the pad soon.
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Super excited to support this program!
One of our Patti Grace Smith Fellows will be mentored by
@Laur_Ly
! Ms. Lyons is the
@blueorigin
Human Landing Systems National Team Systems Lead for Requirements, Verification, Validation, and Certification.
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And an Oxford comma to boot!
Though seriously, epic shot.
Night sky, just before dawn from
@Space_Station
.
Stars, cities, spaceships, and a comet!
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I find this thing to be so cool — first powered flight test on another planet. Fingers crossed for a launch tomorrow!
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Dragon is approaching ISS! Up next: manual piloting demo → autonomously fly even closer to station → docking → Bob and Doug board the Space Station
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Marvelous things don’t have to come from outer space; sometimes they are dreamt up right in our own backyards.
#spacex
#IridiumNEXT
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Excitement: ✅
And you know what's great? Vertical integration and a culture of fast iteration means the next one isn't going to be a year from now. Congrats to the team for getting a bunch a data a sim can't tell you. One step closer to the Moon. One step closer to Mars.
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"150th and 151st successful landing of an orbital class rocket." -Tice
Also what a flex — a less than 30 minute long, one-host webcast for the biggest launch of the year (so far).
🍀on the rest of the mission!
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Hear hear! My time working on this program was some of the most exciting and fulfilling of my career. What a spaceship. What a team.
You did good Dragon 1, you did real good. Thanks for all the memories and enjoy retirement!
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It’s been cool seeing my feed full of friends and colleagues working at multiple different companies big and small, new and less new, from all across the globe celebrating their satellites launching to orbit yesterday
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Just ❤️
Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth,
@AstroBehnken
and
@Astro_Doug
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18/ And that’s my $0.02. Take what resonates, discard the rest. I may not have a big fancy job title anymore, and I certainly haven’t figured out what’s next, but I’m taking my own advice and remembering that’s ok. 💕LL
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The old school engineering & production SaaS tools don’t work for the new school way of getting complex hardware built fast. And the people on the ground with the problem tend to be the best at solving it. Props to Stoke for deciding early to not let traceability be a bottleneck!
Super excited to unveil Fusion by Stoke Space. We needed a tool that lets us build complex hardware before we know what the final product looks like. And the best news is that now everyone can have it!
@stokefusion
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We are GO for a recycle attempt. New T-0 is 01:59 UTC / 18:59 local time.
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A year ago yesterday, we launched (and landed) the world’s first reused orbital class booster. Number 11 flies on Monday, launching the 3rd flight-proven Dragon. Amazing what can change in only a year.
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Time to bring the Dads back home!
Crew Dragon’s flight back to Earth with
@AstroBehnken
and
@Astro_Doug
remains on track; targeting splashdown off the coast of Pensacola, Florida in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:48 p.m. EDT today
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Though it’s clearly not just the general public; many in the industry still have this mentality. The rate at which humanity needs to execute to solve our most pressing challenges requires us to not be afraid of fireballs. Build orgs that can recover fast, iterate, and try again.
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To whomever is running Astrobotic's external comms
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Often times engineers are artists, too ❤️
HARMONY OF RESILIENCE: Recorded in space and sent to Earth via
@SpaceX
’s
@Starlink
constellation, Polaris Dawn crewmember and violinist
@Gillis_SarahE
invites you to enjoy this music moment in support of
@StJude
&
@ElSistemaUSA
→
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@HansKoenigsmann
is the absolute best. It was a career honor to work for someone so brilliant, supportive, and committed to the mission & people on his team. I’m sure SpaceX will miss him terribly, but fortunately they’re keeping him close. Happy retirement Hans, you deserve it!
Scoop — SpaceX VP Hans Koenigsmann, who was Elon Musk's 4th technical hire in 2002, is retiring.
He's begun transitioning his role leading SpaceX's reliability team to Bill Gerstenmaier, according to a memo obtained by CNBC.
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Skylab remains one of the most badass things NASA has ever done.
#50YearsAgo
today, the Skylab 2 crew began to activate Skylab, moving into the Orbital Workshop (OWS), where it was about 55°C (130°F). It took hours to assemble and deploy the parasol through the scientific airlock.
Once deployed, the OWS's temperature began to drop.
#Skylab50
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2/ But first, my funky (and *super* lucky) path for context: Mars robotics intern → factory assembly line worker → medical device engineer → policy grad student → dating startup founder → science writer → spacecraft engineer → rocket company COO → ???
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Check out what we’ve been up to with launch, lunar landers, and in-space transportation. Some great behind the scenes footage and team interviews, too!
Take a look inside
@Firefly_Space
as the company prepares for its second orbital launch attempt — CNBC sat down with a number of people, including CEO Tom Markusic and COO
@Laur_Ly
, to talk about their plans.
Watch here:
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15/ There is no prototype for a successful space industry career in 2022.
Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you. Period. No one knows what they are doing! We’re quite literally building the future, how on earth can someone claim to have the future figured out?
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Read the educational resources being circulated, donate to the funds that support the victims’ families, raise your children not to be “color blind,” but instead staunchly anti-racist, and stand up for people who look like me both when it’s easy and when it’s hard.
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Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
! Considering a career in space exploration? APPLY TODAY! Think you need to know someone? False! APPLY TODAY! Fear you’re not qualified? I bet you actually are, APPLY TODAY! Ain’t nobody got time for imposter syndrome on Mars.
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1/ While journaling today I recalled my freshman undergrad engineering advisor telling me in our very first meeting that I should not study engineering and to do something else. Despite building robots in high school, going to space camp, & explicitly wanting to study robotics.
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Webcast host: “LOOK AT THAT BLUE FIIIIIIIRRRE!!” Congrats to the
@relativityspace
space team on this first launch, and clearing MaxQ and stage sep —two nail nail-bitingly dramatic and hard phases of flight. New rockets are never EVER boring. Can’t wait for flight 2!
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7/ Define your own metrics.
I’ve been lucky to work at places where I could try different roles. Some argued that slowed my career growth; but they measured growth in depth and titles, and I measured it in breadth and bliss. We not even playing the same game, bruh.
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One year ago today a big rocket did a big thing. And is was one of my favorite days at work ever.
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From SpaceX to Blue, the impact Paul had on both communities is clear in the shock and heartache we all feel. His kindness, positivity, grit, uncompromising integrity, & commitment to excellence in everything he did — in space and on earth — will stay with me. What a huge loss.
An incredible loss today with the passing of Paul Tompkins. He was an explorer, a mentor, and a friend. He made huge enduring contributions to
@NASA
@SpaceX
and
@blueorigin
. His never ending optimism and infectious laugh inspired us all. He will be missed but never forgotten.
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Congratulations to the
@inspiration4x
crew, their friends & families, and the team
@SpaceX
who worked so hard to make this record breaking mission happen. 🐉 continues to get the job done!
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We got a shiny new website y’all! Have a visit and learn all about Crew Dragon, Starship, Falcon Heavy, and so so much more.
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4/ You are not alone.
I bet 90% of career anxiety comes from feeling you’re the only one struggling with this. But lots of people are contemplating moves and feel a bit lost right now. Including your's truly.
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And now we enter the age of reusable payload fairings. Hopefully soon this will be commonplace; until then, WOOOHOO WE CAUGHT IT!
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Great to see a new visiting vehicle docked to Station! Still a lot more to do on this test flight, but congrats to the Boeing, ISS, and Commercial Crew teams on this milestone.
See
#Starliner
successfully, autonomously rendezvous and dock with
@Space_Station
during
#OFT2
. Through the combined work of
@NASA
and Starliner teams, the spacecraft connected to the Boeing-built International Docking Adapter at 7:28 p.m. CT.
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