Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋

I got confirmation from @Leighton that he safely arrived at home in Melbourne🇦🇺. So the trip was a complete success. Lots of #avgeek / #spacegeek sights. Some national parks & monuments visited too. (More pics in this thread.) A great time had by both of us. Also for me it's a relief that my turn as guide in his USA trip worked as well as his turn as guide for my trip to Australia during their Summer. Thanks @hanscath for flying us on a Bay Tour. Thanks @JetCityStar for Seattle MoF tour. #travel

Patrick Coyle

Bills Introduced – 7-10-25 – 105 bills – HR 4344, PNT resiliency – S 2257, FY 2026 Legislative spending – S 2256, FY 2026 ARD spending – Space Geek: HR 4360 – MIP: S 2259 – tinyurl.com/3uvrture Subscription #Legislation #SpendingBills #SpaceGeek

Bills Introduced – 7-10-25

105 bills – HR 4344, PNT resiliency – S 2257, FY 2026…

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Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋

One of the last stops in California on our road trip is Sundial Bridge in Redding. The area was busily preparing for 4th of July fireworks. But looking much farther forward, I expect this will be a major attraction along the path of totality in the total solar eclipse of Aug 12, 2045. #travel #space #astronomy #spacegeek

Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋

Quick update on the travel, my turn to show @Leighton around after he was my guide on my Australia trip. Now finishing with California and on to Oregon. #avgeek #spacegeek #geology #travel

Jul 01, 2025, 15:41 · · · 2 · 0
Patrick Coyle

Short Takes – 6-25-25 – Space Geek Edition – AX-4 launched – Maxar persistent monitoring – Axion-Skyroot partnership – Private satellite imagery budget cuts – tinyurl.com/mvsmxzbj #SpaceGeek

Short Takes – 6-25-25 – Space Geek Edition

Fourth Axiom Space private astronaut mission launched…

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Patrick Coyle

Short Takes – 6-24-25 – Space Geek Edition – Private funding space missions – Another private re-entry craft tested – Varda 4 launch – Laser range finder problem – Artificial solar eclipse – tinyurl.com/4ayvuuyv #SpaceGeek

Short Takes – 6-24-25 – Space Geek Edition

Isaacman interested in privately funded science missions…

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Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋

Friends and followers probably remember that I went to Australia in Jan & Feb. My friend and fellow #pilot / #avgeek / #spacegeek @Leighton showed me around. Now it's my turn to be the host and guide. We started at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. (Here's a link to my Australia trip thread to refresh your memory. avgeek.social/@ikluft/11386860 ) #aviation #astronomy

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

The 1979 Moonraker movie showed a space shuttle launch from Vandenberg in California. In reality, #NASA had plans to launch shuttles from Vandenberg. The shuttle pad was at Space Launch Complex 6 (SLC6, pronounced "Slick 6"). At the time of the Challenger accident in 1986, Vandenberg was to be the site of the next shuttle launch. USAF then cancelled its plans for the shuttle and closed SLC6. No shuttle was ever launched from California. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandenbe #aviation #avgeek #space #spacegeek

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

Trivia: the Moonraker movie envisioned many space shuttles in orbit at the same time. In reality, #NASA never flew more than one orbiter at a time. The closest they got was after the Feb 2003 Columbia accident, at every shuttle launch the other pad had the next shuttle ready to go in case it might have been needed at a moment's notice for an on-orbit rescue mission. Construction of ISS was completed without ever needing that contingency plan. #aviation #avgeek #space #spacegeek #scifi

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

More info about Moonraker for those who didn't know about it or didn't remember... 46 years was a long time ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonrake #aviation #avgeek #space #spacegeek #scifi

Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

Poll: the upcoming week will be 46 years since the 1979 James Bond film "Moonraker" debuted in theaters. It made good money for Bond films of the time. But mixed reviews indicated expectations of spy thriller movies didn't mesh with science fiction in 1979. In hindsight, it was a good try at depicting space shuttles as special effects 2 years before STS-1. So how did it play for you depending whether or not you're an aviation & space geek? #aviation #avgeek #space #spacegeek #scifi

Patrick Coyle

Short Takes – 6-20-25 – Space Geek Edition – Axiom-4 delayed again – Another Chinese reusable rocket test – Orbital Reef user agreement – tinyurl.com/48pcu2y6 #SpaceGeek

Short Takes – 6-20-25 – Space Geek Edition

NASA Provides Latest Axiom Mission 4 Launch, Station…

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Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) ✅🚀🛰️

"Go inside the development of NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope with new 'Cosmic Dawn' documentary" by @Spacecom - New 90-minute documentary about the technical difficulty, launch and successful deployment of the #WebbSpaceTelescope🔭 can be viewed on NASA+ or various commercial video streaming services. space.com/astronomy/earth/go-i #NASA #astronomy #JWST #space #spacegeek

Go inside the development of NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope with new 'Cosmic Dawn' documentary

“There was nothing easy about Webb at all.”

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Ian Kluft :verified:✈️🎈🌋

@ai6yr I think I know which spot you're talking about. But I was there as a pedestrian. I took this photo Dec 29, 2017 when I flew for a day trip from SJC to LAX and hiked the "Endeavour Trail", approximately retracing the route Space Shuttle Endeavour was tugged through city streets from LAX to the California Science Center in downtown. 13 mile hike. #spacegeek #avgeek

Jun 15, 2025, 01:29 · · · 0 · 0
Patrick Coyle

Short Takes – 5-31-25 – Space Geek Edition – Blue Origin suborbital flight – Isaacman nomination pulled (3) – Starship to Mars 2026 – New trans-Neptune dwarf planet – tinyurl.com/57pt94p9 #SpaceGeek

Short Takes – 5-31-25 – Space Geek Edition

‘We did it!’ Globe-spanning travelers take a quick…

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Patrick Coyle

Short Takes – 5-27-25 – Space Geek Edition – Orbital transfer vehicle – Auora space plane – Starship 9 launch – Circumbinary planet – tinyurl.com/3mxc7bw6 #SpaceGeek

Short Takes – 5-27-25 – Space Geek Edition

Impulse Space to launch SES satellites . SpaceNews.com…

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