Tyler Gray
@tylergray-nsf.bsky.social
Writer, reporter, & sometimes photographer @ NSF (NASASpaceflight.com). Occasionally posts about sportsball. Our destiny lies above us. 🚀🌌 Other socials: Twitter/X — @TylerG1998 Instagram — tyler.gray_nsf
“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” — Sir Winston Churchill, c. 1941
Before… and After. Inspired by a post by Twitter user @atlonglastcz — “i want to see more photographers post before & after photos; people need to see how much intentionality goes into each edit.” 🚀✨📸
Enhance Details. 🔍 Throwback to this dramatic Moon image I took in March 2021 — one of the first lunar photos I took with my trusty Nikon P950. 2000mm, f6.5, 1/200s, ISO 100 #LookUp 🌔🔭
Back in the Fall, I had heard about a SpaceX worker who wrote on the company's intranet asking that Musk stop wearing company apparel at political rallies. After he posted that, he had his access shut off and was walked out of his office. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...
What's better than 1 rocket launch? 2! What's better than 1 booster in a picture? 2! What's better than 1 streak shot? 2! First, the shuttle walkway leads the way to the successful launch of IM-2 from LC-39A Second, Starlink 12-13 launches from SLC-40 seen from the port
🎶 Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars 🎶 The IM-2 lander along with three additional payloads are on the way to the moon and beyond after a successful launch of Falcon 9. @nasaspaceflight.com stream youtube.com/live/gi0cLW7J6
“Can you stop talking about space & rockets?” N O O o o o o 。 。 . . . .
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Good news: asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 3 to 1 on the Torino scale, with impact risk now significantly reduced; source: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/
SpaceX Crew-7 astronaut & former ISS commander Andreas Mogensen disputes Elon Musk’s assertion that Butch & Suni were “abandoned” on the ISS for political reasons. Musk’s response is absolutely appalling. This is what things have come to in the space community in 2025.
Into the Vast Unknown. ✨ Shot as a test frame in October 2024, while I was dialing in my new star tracker. 120mm, f4.8, 60 sec., ISO 400 #LookUp 🔭🌟
Ship 34 static fire test was incredible! WOW 🔥🔥🔥 📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF
Live now 🚀SpaceX Performs Static Fire with Ship 34 for Starship Flight 8 www.youtube.com/live/z2Exgpe...
🚀SpaceX Performs Static Fire with Ship 34 for Starship Flight 8
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Returning to Florida. On this day Shuttle Challenger became the first orbiter to use the SLF at KSC, concluding STS-41-B in 1984.
Starship Flight 8: Booster 15 returning to the production site following its Static Fire test. 🎥 nsf.live/starbase
Using JWST, scientists recently observed a protoplanetary disk and gas jets located around a newborn star. Furthermore, Webb was used to investigate "light echoes" traveling through interstellar material near Cassiopeia A. 📝 By Haygen Warren — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/webb...
Booster 15 has completed a static fire test of its Raptor engines. 🔥🔥🔥 📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF
STATIC FIRE! Starship Booster 15 fires up its engines for the first time, as teams continue with the pre-flight testing flow ahead of flight 8, pending regulatory approval @nasaspaceflight.com Testing stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozA... Starbase Live: nsf.live/starbase
🆕 This Week in Spaceflight! 🆕 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTC...
SpaceX is making good progress with the second launch site at Starbase. 📝 By Ryan Weber — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/star...
Starship Flight 9: There's Ship 35 in Mega Bay 2. Ship 35 is flying after Ship 34 (upcoming Flight 8) and may be the first Ship to be caught. Meanwhile, work on Tower 2 is focusing on reeving the lines for the chopsticks. 🎥 nsf.live/starbase
2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ followers on Bluesky! Thanks a bunch, everyone! Bigger & better things to come. Onwards & upwards. 🦋🚀
7 years ago, SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy for the first time. The flight saw the two side boosters perform a spectacular simultaneous RTLS landing, while the upper stage sent Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster & a dummy named Starman to interplanetary space. 📺 youtu.be/A0FZIwabctw?...
Aircraft carriers are HUGE! Here's an approximate visualization of a Starship stack on ex-John F. Kennedy as it entered the Port of Brownsville for scrapping. ~408ft vs ~1,106ft Apologies (or you're welcome) for the Ship 26 style stack @nasaspaceflight.com