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Ethan Eicher - E t h y r - 👨🏿🚀
@DrunknAstronaut · Jun 25, 2019
Hey Elon, any plans for botanical centers on board the Starship?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Yes! I love botanical gardens. This is my favorite:
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 25, 2019
Brownsville also desperately needs one. It’s hard to get out to Boca Chica and back a few times with no real charger. The next closest is McAllen which chews up 45 miles just getting back.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Absolutely
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Steel Sully
@SteelSully · Jun 25, 2019
Build one at @ExploreSpaceKSC - it’s our pilgrimage site!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Yeah, that sounds ideal! I love the KSC rocket garden. Spent many days there looking at rocket design details.
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Just A. Tinker
@John_Gardi · Jun 25, 2019
You CRUSHED your own website!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Uh oh
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Anner J. Bonilla 🇵🇷🛩️🔋🔧
@annerajb · Jun 25, 2019
Can we get a supercharger in Titusville badly needed for those visiting from afar
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Ok
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 23, 2019
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
On Mars, I like to drink my coffee in this mug
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Replying to @kickber
Chomsky is the Iago of socio-economic theory & Piketty is his docile puppet
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Matthew Nolan
@Matthew_Nolan1 · Jun 25, 2019
Any chance you can get Austin to a launch?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Starship will do orbital launches from Boca Chica (near Brownsville) & Cape
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@StevenHardison · Jun 25, 2019
You have to watch it on a BIG screen with BIG sound. You must have quite a home theater, right? The clarity is amazing.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
At Cape for launch, so watched on hotel screen, but still so beautiful …
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Austin Barnard🚀
@austinbarnard45 · Jun 25, 2019
If you ever get the chance, watch this Elon. It is honestly the most beautiful, Neil Armstrong tribute I have ever seen. I shed a tear the first time I saw it, I just wanted to share this masterpiece with you❤️🚀🌕
youtu.be/QvvIGvh7dk4
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Just watched it from your link ♥️♥️
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
Replying to @Game_Overlord98
Yeah
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 25, 2019
♥️🚀 Apollo 11 🚀♥️
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Renata Konkoly
@RenataKonkoly · Jun 24, 2019
Did SpaceX make any modifications to Octagrabber?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
Yes, the droids can now hold down the center core
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TESLARATI
@Teslarati · Jun 24, 2019
SpaceX set for Falcon Heavy triple booster landing, fastest center core recovery ever
teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
Odds of center core surviving are about 50% imo, as it’s coming in about 4 times faster than a rifle bullet
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Robert Scoble
@Scobleizer · Jun 24, 2019
My @Tesla Model 3 updated again last night. Damn @elonmusk is getting his programmers to ship amazing updates every few weeks. I've never seen another company, or product, like it. Got better at driving on city streets and added a cool new video game. @teslaownersSV you get it?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
🖤 Tesla Software Engineering 🖤
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
Falcon Heavy on LC-39A
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Everyday Astronaut
@Erdayastronaut · Jun 24, 2019
Woah what?!?! I assume just some would be used that can’t throttle and some that can (like the landing engines)? What’s the last liquid fueled engine that couldn’t throttle? That’s crazy! But if simple and effect, awesome.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
All Raptors have slight throttle range by adjusting flow to ox & fuel turbines, but deep throttling imposes limitations on injector stiffness & needs extra hardware. Swear these are legit technical terms 🤗
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Some1gee
@Some1gee · Jun 24, 2019
Is this why you pursued FFSC for Raptor?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
It’s a factor. Main reason is that FFSC is the ultimate architecture for converting propellant into rocket velocity.
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Piotr Szmigielski
@Elthiryel · Jun 24, 2019
What about Raptor turbines, they are designed to mitigate that issue?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
Yes, they run at *much* higher pressure, but lower temperature. Thermal shock & strain are what fatigue Merlin turbine blades. Solvable for high reusability, but better to apply that engineering to Raptor.
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Anthony Iemole 🇺🇦
@SpaceXFan97 · Jun 24, 2019
Whats the highest thrust that Raptor has achieved so far? Any closer to hitting 300 bar?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · Jun 24, 2019
Same as last time, although we made a design improvement that could yield about 7 bar more
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