Brad Tucker
@btucker22
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Astrophysicist/Cosmologist - loves exploding stars, high-altitude balloons, and talking about all things science and space
Canberra, ACT, Australia, Planet III
Joined June 2009
RT @planet4589: Starlink-2382 reentered at 1929 UTC Aug 27 over France, Switzerland and N Italy; also seen from Germany
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RT @steveslater1987: This is the restored video of Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon 55 years ago today which we used for the @NASA_…
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RT @planet4589: The discovery of @SpaceX Dragon trunk debris from the Crew-7 mission in North Carolina, following debris from the Ax-3 trun…
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RT @Marco_Langbroek: A pass of the Russian satellite #Kosmos 2553 (in the news currently because some think it is an unarmed prototype for…
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@DoUBelieveInDog @AstroLauraD @AstroKatie I think that is just a unique angle of an airplane? You can see the two contrails for the engines. Too slow and not the right brightness for space junk, really really too slow for a meteor
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RT @CanberraDSN: Happy anniversary Deep Space Station 43, celebrating 51 years of your achievements.📡🥳🎂 Tracking the Apollo 17 mission in D…
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RT @DrGrahams: Keen to study a Master of Science Communication #scicomm @ANU_CPAS @scienceANU @ourANU? These generous @AustraliaAwards scho…
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Come join us at King O’Malleys on the 23rd!
My last night in Australia next month promises to be a lot of fun.. we'll be reliving the quarantine procedures implemented after the Apollo 11 mission and looking at some amazing archive footage. @btucker22 and Emma Tucker will be discussing the threat of alien contamination.. is it real or imagined? 👽 April 23rd, 5.30pm at @KingOMalleys ...🍺 Event organised by @USwithAUS
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RT @steveslater1987: I'm delighted to be the keynote speaker for next month's @ASVAstronomyVic #astrotalk on April 10th, 8pm in the Mueller…
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Congratulations to all my colleagues and friends at @SpaceMachinesCo for the launch of their Optimus satellite. It is the largest private-built satellite ever built in Australia! The photos are when it was tested at the National Space Test Facility up @StromloANU
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Sometimes traffic up where I work at @StromloANU is a bit different. I had to wait for the echidna traffic to ease before I could make it the rest of the way up the mountain!
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RT @StromloANU: Come join us for a special screening of the award winning films Apollo 11 and Apollo 11 Quarantine with producer @steveslat…
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Yeah!!!!!!
After troubleshooting communications, flight controllers have confirmed Odysseus is upright and starting to send data. Right now, we are working to downlink the first images from the lunar surface.
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RT @StromloANU: And next Friday, we'll be screening the movie Apollo 11 and the short film based on their return to Earth with a exclusive…
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RT @StromloANU: Congrats to Intuitive Machines, becoming the first company to land on the Moon! Join us tonight at 7pm to hear about Aust…
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Congrats to Intuitive Machines, successfully landing their Nova-C lander on the Moon! The Nova-C lander is operating and communicating with Earth. For the first time, a private company has landed on the Moon! Soon the experiments can start operating on the Moon.
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Join @steveslater1987, Mike Dinn, and myself at @StromloANU on Friday. Dive into humanity's first trip beyond Earth, Apollo 8. Plus, see some awesome never before seen footage of Apollo 8!
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