Tyler Gray
@TylerG1998
Followers
8,970
Following
330
Media
2,702
Statuses
22,751
Writer, reporter, & sometimes photographer @ NSF. Occasionally posts about sportsball. PFP courtesy of @_AstroGuy_ — Our destiny lies above us. 🚀🌌
Austin, TX
Joined April 2017
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Kyiv
• 352795 Tweets
HMP Wandsworth
• 171082 Tweets
#海のはじまり
• 91004 Tweets
Félicitations
• 81893 Tweets
Kiev
• 47815 Tweets
Good Monday
• 40117 Tweets
WELCOME HOME LIA
• 32382 Tweets
Greenwood
• 29865 Tweets
石丸構文
• 29692 Tweets
#マウンテンドクター
• 28629 Tweets
SULKING WITH MMTF
• 26176 Tweets
MIS TÍAS IS COMING
• 22582 Tweets
サブウェイ
• 18851 Tweets
進次郎構文
• 15890 Tweets
nerve
• 15446 Tweets
#MAPA_100MILLIONViews
• 15280 Tweets
海ちゃん
• 14874 Tweets
不起訴処分
• 14720 Tweets
弥生さん
• 14215 Tweets
不要不急
• 10657 Tweets
ナラバズ
• 10355 Tweets
しんちゃん
• 10134 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Prometheus stole fire from the gods & gave it to man.
For this, man would use it to propel themselves to the stars.
@NASASpaceflight
Get the rundown on
#FalconHeavy
/
#GOESU
:
4
40
343
Special delivery to the
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica production site: a Raptor Vacuum engine! 🦖🔥
@NASASpaceflight
Three of these engines will be used to power the
#Starship
vehicle through space during orbital flights. Is this an engine for Ship 20
@elonmusk
?
164
758
9K
NASA 905 carrying Space Shuttle Discovery back to KSC, c. 2009:
104
1K
8K
While doing flyovers of
#SpaceX
’s McGregor testing facility, NSF’s Gary Blair caught 2
#Raptor
engines on the test stand - one sea-level engine, one optimized for vacuum!
The size difference is astounding. 😮
Details in
@NASASpaceflight
’s newest article:
18
159
2K
What’s interesting is, in that first photo, you can see a lot of
#CrewDragon
’s nosecone hardware in great detail!
Red - Draco forward thrusters
Blue - electrical and data connections to ISS
Yellow - star trackers for attitude control
Green - LIDAR sensors
Purple - docking camera
Resilience welcomed her sibling Endeavor to the
@Space_Station
. Perfect docking and great to have 11 crew members on board. Welcome, Crew 2!
99
1K
14K
19
269
2K
42
29
2K
The
#Starship
/
#SuperHeavy
Orbital Launch Tower continues to get taller! Section
#6
was stacked this morning at the
#SpaceX
Starbase launch site. 🏗
2 more to go!
@NASASpaceflight
27
177
2K
Most successful launches by provider so far in 2021:
• 🇺🇸 SpaceX - 18
• 🇨🇳 CASC - 15
• 🇪🇺/🇷🇺 Arianespace/Starsem - 5
• 🇷🇺 Roscosmos - 4
• 🇺🇸 ULA - 2
• 🇺🇸 Rocket Lab - 2
• 🇺🇸 Northrop Grumman - 1
• 🇮🇳 ISRO - 1
• 🇺🇸 Virgin Orbit - 1
48
154
2K
The Event Horizon Telescope team has done it again. 🤯
This is a photo of Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It took several telescopes & 300 researchers from 80 institutes to make this possible.
Read more:
20
232
2K
A quick edit I made showing the progression between the amounts of heat shield tiles on
#Starship
SNs 8-11.
#SpaceX
has definitely been piling them on as of late!
And to think, we could soon see one with a full TPS layout. 👀
📸: Me,
@thejackbeyer
28
135
2K
Just a few minutes ago,
#Falcon9
core B1035 was lifted up and placed onto its display stands at
@SpaceCenterHou
, where it will remain for the foreseeable future.
Absolutely amazing stuff. 😍
40
163
2K
Quick comparison edit of
#Starship
’s TPS tile expansion - updated with SN15.
SN15 has, by far, the most TPS tiles of any prototype we’ve seen yet, with a substantial increase in number from its predecessor in SN11.
Photos by Mary (
@BocaChicaGal
); numbers by
@IanPineapple
.
39
169
1K
There was a party on the top floor of the High Bay tonight at
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica - most likely an early birthday party for
@elonmusk
. 🎉🎂
@NASASpaceflight
21
87
1K
I don’t think
#Starship
#SN10
will be able to fly so good with its top half gone. 🙃
Quite a hazy day in
#SpaceX
Boca Chica today!
@NASASpaceflight
37
47
1K
Currently on display in a glass case at the Mayborn Museum Complex in Waco, TX: a
#SpaceX
Merlin 1D center engine, taken from Falcon core B1023.
This engine was used to launch and land B1023 during the THAICOM 8 & FH demo flights.
@NASASpaceflight
13
88
1K
She really made the grade. 🥹
Welcome to space,
#Starship
28!
@NASASpaceflight
We’re live discussing the aftermath of liftoff & the next in-space activities:
13
140
1K
#Starship
Orbital Launch Tower section numero siete (
#7
) is now rolling down Highway 4 towards the launch site at
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica.
@NASASpaceflight
15
79
1K
On February 6, 2018, the world’s most powerful operational rocket made its debut, successfully launching
@elonmusk
’s Tesla Roadster into a Mars-crossing orbit & topping it off with a double booster landing at LZ-1 & LZ-2. 🔥
#FalconFriday
📸:
@TheFavoritist
for
@NASASpaceflight
19
134
1K
12
136
1K
Sunsets with
#Starship
#SN10
. 🌅
This could be the final day before its big flight test, which is currently slated to take place no earlier than tomorrow. If so, then Godspeed, SN10, and best of luck to the entire
#SpaceX
crew.
@NASASpaceflight
18
89
1K
#Starship
SN8 stands tall on her launch mount in Boca Chica, ready for another static fire before her 15km flight test later this week.
I can definitively say: she’s more beautiful in person. 🤩
28
73
1K
#SuperHeavy
Booster 3 tank sections in the High Bay at
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica. It appears that integration might be happening soon™️. 👀
@NASASpaceflight
8
65
1K
12
131
1K
Stop what you’re doing and remember this moment.
As of right now, the most famous comet in history, Halley’s Comet, is now past aphelion — its furthest point from the Sun — and has begun falling back towards the inner Solar System.
It will make its next apparition in July 2061.
33
144
1K
Staring Into Black Light.
7 frames, each showing different phases of annularity. It really is a spectacle unlike any other. 🤩
@NASASpaceflight
Relive the magic:
13
173
1K
We were on the verge of greatness. We were this close. 🤏
Today’s
#Starship
launch attempt has been scrubbed for the day due to a pressurization issue.
#SpaceX
will recycle and try again another day.
@NASASpaceflight
22
75
940
Liftoff of
#Starship
25 &
#SuperHeavy
Booster 9! 🚀
7:02 AM Central/13:02 UTC, Saturday, November 18, 2023
@NASASpaceflight
We’re still live discussing the aftermath:
4
104
904
#Starship
is enjoying what could be its final full day at the pad ahead of tomorrow’s launch attempt.
@NASASpaceflight
Tune in later today for an update via NSF Live from Boca Chica!
5
82
866
Elon Musk had hinted at some exciting announcements during his
#Starship
update on Thursday - I think we’ve got the first of many!
#Polaris
will partner with
#SpaceX
for 3 human spaceflight missions, with 2 Crew Dragon flights coming before the first crewed Starship mission.
We are proud to introduce the Polaris Program, a first-of-its-kind effort to rapidly advance human spaceflight capabilities while continuing to raise funds and awareness for important causes on Earth →
187
1K
7K
11
48
856
SO THERE’S THIS ROCKET CALLED SLS, RIGHT. IT’S GOT 4 ENGINES FROM THE SPACE SHUTTLE PROGRAM AND TWO BIG OL’ BOOSTERS, AND IT’S GONNA HAVE LIKE 8.8 MILLION POUNDS OF THRUST AT LIFTOFF. YOU SHOULD TOTALLY WATCH THE ARTEMIS I MISSION ON AUGUST 29, IT’S GONNA BE EPIC
9
140
834
The Old Glory ruffles in the early morning wind at
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca ChicaX with Ships 15 and 16 giving a closed-flap salute. 🇺🇸
@NASASpaceflight
8
60
784
Thought I would share some images of green flashes from rocket engines, in honor of
#StPatricksDay
, of course. 🙂☘️
📸: 1) Dante80/
@NASASpaceflight
forums, 2)
@Firefly_Space
, 3)
@thejackbeyer
, 4)
@NASA_Marshall
12
65
781
With today’s announcement, we now have *two* commercial lunar landers in concurrent development.
In the name of competition, redundancy, and the ultimate goal of benefitting the human race as we work to go back to the Moon — and eventually, on to Mars.
📸:
#SpaceX
,
#BlueOrigin
34
76
790
It’s been a bit, so I thought I’d share some bonus shots from yesterday’s launch and landing of
#Starship
#SN10
.
What a spectacle this was to witness.
@NASASpaceflight
8
54
783
#Starship
#SN9
, with
#SpaceX
workers for scale.
There is another opportunity to get a static fire done today in advance of a flight later this weekend. Hopefully Snine’s new Raptors behave themselves.
@NASASpaceflight
15
58
773
One week ago, this happened.
Still in awe over it. Can’t wait for Flight 3!
@NASASpaceflight
4
43
775
#NewProfilePic
🙂🚀🚀
And with that, I bid
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica farewell for now! I had an incredible time filming the daily videos & keeping up with the latest for
@NASASpaceflight
, and I hope y’all had fun watching. It’s been an absolute blast!
Until next time. ✌️
22
17
760
A look at another crashed Long March 2F booster from the launch of the Shenzhou-12 mission.
If you haven’t seen, dropping spent boosters on land/near populated areas is a common problem with launches from China.
中共的邪惡邏輯：不管多有毒多危險是不是會砸死人，只要落在墻内領土，就屬於可防可控。😡😡😡
這是前幾天發射的神舟12號的固體助推器。不知道有沒有傷人。
143
806
2K
55
161
713
Words of wisdom from Yuri Gagarin, the first human to ever fly in space.
He flew on the Vostok 1 mission
#OTD
61 years ago.
“Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”
― Yuri Gagarin
55
633
3K
7
94
706
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica in its entirety, pre-BN2.1 rollback.
What a picturesque location. 📸
@NASASpaceflight
1
51
697
#BlueOrigin
’s latest bid to fight
#NASA
’s HLS contract decision has just been shot down in federal court:
Breaking: Federal judge rules against Blue Origin in its lawsuit to overturn SpaceX's moon lander contract.
28
167
1K
17
40
701
Behold: the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the surface of
#Mars
.
This was captured by
#NASA
’s
#Perseverance
rover, using its Mastcam-Z imaging system.
Watch the video:
19
136
687
OTD 11 years ago,
#SpaceX
launched their
#Falcon9
rocket for the first time, sending a boilerplate Dragon capsule to orbit.
Since then, there have been 120 Falcon 9 launches & 92 consecutive successes, with a 98.35% overall success rate. 🚀
#FalconFriday
📸:
@SpaceX
5
72
677
BREAKING: SpaceX finally unveils newest mega-rocket design details
14
449
688
Woot! The
@NASASpaceflight
YouTube channel has reached 400K subscribers! Thank you for the support, everyone. 🎉
We’re covering a potential Starship SN15 launch attempt today - hopefully she can go so we can have a proper celebration!
Watch LIVE >
15
31
674
Did you happen to know that 3 Space Shuttle missions launched on this day - 3 years in a row? Seriously.
STS-48 in 1991, STS-47 in 1992, and STS-51 in 1993, respectively.
Two flights for Discovery, one for Endeavour.
📸:
@NASA
12
87
659
Just had a quick peek at the
@NASAVoyager
website and saw that Voyager 1 has surpassed the 14 billion mile mark. That’s over 150 AU (Earth-Sun distances) from the Solar System!
It currently takes 21 hours (!) for sunlight to reach Voyager 1, which went interstellar in 2012.
12
85
668
24 hours remain until the opening of the 2-hour window for
#SLS
’s second
#GreenRun
hotfire test at Stennis Space Center.
#NASA
stands at the ready to support a firing NET tomorrow, weather pending.
Article by Philip Sloss for
@NASASpaceflight
—>
10
46
662
Good news for SpaceX: their
#HLS
contract award cannot be modified or terminated, via a revision made to the 2021
#NASA
Authorization Act.
If the act is passed by the Senate and House, the agency will select another provider - either Natl. Team or Dynetics - for a 2nd HLS award.
SpaceX HLS Contract Gets Protection in Revised Senate Bill
8
49
319
24
60
667
Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that Super Heavy BN1 will be scrapped after being stacked in the High Bay.
So
#Starship
SN15 will be the next vehicle to head to the launch pad. Super Heavy BN2 to the orbital pad NET next month if everything goes well.
@Adamklotz_
@SpaceX
BN1 is a manufacturing pathfinder, so will be scrapped. We learned a lot, but have already changed design to BN2.
Goal is to get BN2 with engines on orbital pad before end of April. It might even be orbit-capable if we are lucky.
148
419
6K
10
45
651
4
59
643
Boca Chica Highway 4: the Road to Mars.
#SpaceX
’s newest
#Starship
prototype,
#SN10
, stands at the ready to perform a high-altitude up-and-down flight test, much like its predecessors in SN8 & SN9. A safe landing is the main objective this time around.
@NASASpaceflight
12
56
639
3
29
620
You may remember Lauren from her time at SpaceX (senior engineer) and Blue Origin (National Team HLS cert team leader) - now, she’s joined
#Firefly
as their COO!
This is a key hire for the company as they aim to reach orbit with their
#Alpha
rocket later this year.
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.
50
87
1K
12
19
622
OTD 3 years ago,
#Falcon9
B1039.2 launched the Dragon C110.2 capsule to the ISS as part of
#SpaceX
’s 14th cargo resupply mission for NASA.
CRS-14 saw the 3rd reuse of a Dragon vehicle & the 50th successful Falcon 9 flight.
#FalconFriday
📸:
@TheFavoritist
for
@NASASpaceflight
7
50
580
Paradise, 24/7. 🚀🌴
@NASASpaceflight
#SpaceX
is currently targeting NET ~8 AM CDT (13:00 UTC) for the launch of
#Starship
. Make sure to pregame it with our marathon stream, which starts at midnight CDT —>
3
56
597
TIL:
#NASA
spacecraft have a tendency to spin angrily when threatened, so be sure to keep your distance if you happen to provoke one.
Quite ferocious specimens.
11
77
569
Double
#Starship
Sunset: a sight which can only be seen at Starbase/Boca Chica, TX. 🚀🌅
@NASASpaceflight
5
40
575
No, you were not dreaming.
At this exact moment one week ago, this magnificent beast took flight in South Texas.
@NASASpaceflight
12
27
572
#NASA
astronauts share a photo with historic
#Falcon9
booster B1058, which launched the Demo-2 mission & has since flown 8 times.
She’s quite a sooty beast.
Also: ❤️🪱
I just realized…this flight-proven Falcon9 rocket matches my hair color. 😕
#salt
&pepper
#thathappenedfast
#washme
10
38
703
3
28
569
#NASA
is now targeting NET Sunday, April 11 for the
#Ingenuity
helicopter’s first flight on Mars.
#WenHop
Come fly with us.
#MarsHelicopter
is preparing to do something that's never been done: controlled, powered flight on another planet. Takeoff is now slated for no earlier than April 11, with data arriving on Earth on April 12.
224
3K
13K
13
45
550
9
85
564
9 years ago - February 15, 2013.
An asteroid fell through the Earth’s atmosphere over the Chelyabinsk Oblast in southern Russia, resulting in a meteor air burst that created sonic booms and a bright flash that rivaled the then-rising Sun. (1/14)
📸: Alex Alishevskikh
7
85
541
Fair to say, the ISS is getting a bit crowded now. 😄
FYI - 11 astros is a lot, but still not quite the record! That was set back in July 2009, when 13 humans were on the ISS at the same time (Endeavour/STS-127 & two Soyuz spacecraft).
We are happy eleven on
#ISS
! Welcome back to home away from home for 6 months!!!!!!
#crew1
#crew2
#soyuzms18
193
3K
21K
8
33
549
Ukraine now has another batch of
#Starlink
terminals in their possession, thanks to the work of Elon Musk and the
#SpaceX
team:
Received the second shipment of Starlink stations!
@elonmusk
keeps his word! Thank you for supporting Ukraine and peace in the entire world!
@OMarkarova
thanks!
553
5K
40K
3
38
540
After undergoing a series of cryo proof tests at the launch site, the
#SuperHeavy
BN2.1 test tank has joined Starships 15 and 16 in retirement at the
#SpaceX
Starbase/Boca Chica production facility. 🚀
@NASASpaceflight
6
39
528