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Rusty @NASA_Rusty

Dad, Husband, Dog person. Navy veteran. Attack Bari player. Flight Director at NASA Ames Research Center: LCROSS, LADEE, VIPER. Finding the Water on the Moon.

Joined January 2012
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
30 Jun 2023
Really enjoying getting the word out about this great mission. @nasaames abc7news.com/nasa-viper-rove…

NASA's first robotic moon rover test drives in Silicon Valley

NASA's VIPER rover is a water-hunting robot that will explore the Moon's South Pole as it collects ice samples, all while being remotely navigated from the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley....

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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
28 Jun 2023
Okay this turned out not so bad. It’s pretty fun getting to talk about the mission. instagram.com/tv/CuC6dsJBN-9…

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NASA History Office
@NASAhistory
16 Jun 2023
This weekend we're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sally Ride's trailblazing flight on STS-7! 🎉🌟 As the 1st American woman in space, she ignited the imagination of millions and paved the way for future generations of space explorers. #ShineLikeSally go.nasa.gov/3p804U6
s07-31-1603 (June 24, 1983) --- NASA astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, is seen sitting in the aft flight deck during deorbit preparations. Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. Photo credit: NASA

ALT s07-31-1603 (June 24, 1983) --- NASA astronaut Sally K. Ride, STS-7 mission specialist, is seen sitting in the aft flight deck during deorbit preparations. Ride became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983. Photo credit: NASA

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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
21 Apr 2023
What a great success. And cool. Lasers! Pew! Pew!
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
19 Apr 2023
This.
Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589
19 Apr 2023
I miss the days when NASA PAO didn't talk while space-to-ground comms were going on.
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
19 Apr 2023
They can’t stop. They seem to feel any dead air space is a personal and professional failure.
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
14 Mar 2023
This is getting real!
NASA Ames
@NASAAmes
14 Mar 2023
And so, it begins. We've officially started the final build of VIPER, @NASA’s first robotic Moon rover. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3ZEQ8OR
A view from beneath of the chassis, a base component for the VIPER Moon rover. Its a metallic shape with cutouts and a combination of sharp and curved edges. It is placed atop a pedastal in the VIPER clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA

ALT A view from beneath of the chassis, a base component for the VIPER Moon rover. Its a metallic shape with cutouts and a combination of sharp and curved edges. It is placed atop a pedastal in the VIPER clean room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Credit: NASA
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
16 Feb 2023
Proud to be part of @NASA and #VIPER, honoring the awesome humans who came before us.
NASA
@NASA
15 Feb 2023
Melba Roy Mouton—a NASA mathematician and key figure in the Apollo era—is being honored with the naming of a mountain on the Moon’s South Pole. Mons Mouton is the future landing site of VIPER, our rover set to explore the lunar surface for Artemis: go.nasa.gov/3xo4mHd #BHM
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NASA Ames
@NASAAmes
19 Jan 2023
Today, @POTUS was greeted by NASA and California state leaders at Moffett Federal Airfield on his way to visit storm-damaged regions in the state. Learn how our research could help predict extreme climate-related weather events: go.nasa.gov/3QTHngj
U.S. President Biden exits Air Force One and descends from the top of the stairs at Moffett Federal Airfield, located near NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. Credit: NASA/ Dominic Hart

ALT U.S. President Biden exits Air Force One and descends from the top of the stairs at Moffett Federal Airfield, located near NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California. Credit: NASA/ Dominic Hart

David Korsmeyer, associate center director for research and technology at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, left, President Joe Biden, U.S. Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo, and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla gather in front of Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield, located near Ames, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart

ALT David Korsmeyer, associate center director for research and technology at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, left, President Joe Biden, U.S. Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo, and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla gather in front of Air Force One at Moffett Federal Airfield, located near Ames, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart

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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
8 Jan 2023
I feel affirmed.
Chris Anderson
@chr1sa
8 Jan 2023
The goal of all tinkering men is to gradually accumulate an entire hardware store & electronics store in their home workshop Eventually they die. Their survivors have no idea what to do with all of this stuff, so they have a garage sale visited by tinkerers & the cycle continues
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
23 Dec 2022
a Hitchhiker's Guide reference?
Latest in space
@latestinspace
21 Dec 2022
BREAKING 🚨: NASA’s InSight lander is no longer responding. Its final message was “My power’s really low. Don’t worry about me though…”
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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
17 Dec 2022
Rusty is a dog name. 🐶🟦⬜⬜⬜⬜😃 In a stadium of 100,000 people and 100,000 dogs, 126 dogs and 5 people would be named Rusty. What about your name? washingtonpost.com/business/…

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Rusty@NASA_Rusty
17 Dec 2022
A stadium with 100,000 people and 100,000 dogs would be awesome.
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NASA Ames
@NASAAmes
13 Dec 2022
Our VIPER Moon rover prototype endured testing to the max to help prepare us for the build stage next year! VIPER will be the first-ever resource mapping mission in some of the coldest spots of our solar system at the Moon’s South Pole! go.nasa.gov/3hqM57Y

ALT GIF of the VIPER Moon rover prototype turning its four metal wheels in simulated lunar soil. Credit: NASA

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NASA Ames
@NASAAmes
9 Dec 2022
25,000 mph ➡️ 20 mph During descent through Earth’s atmosphere, @NASA_Orion must slow to a relatively gentle 20 mph for splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Parachutes tested at our Silicon Valley center will help it do just that! See how to tune in: go.nasa.gov/3hatU6u
ORION PARACHUTE test in the Ames 80-by-120-foot wind tunnel. Creator: Dominic Hart

ALT ORION PARACHUTE test in the Ames 80-by-120-foot wind tunnel. Creator: Dominic Hart

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sigfig@sigfig
22 Nov 2022
lots of people getting worked up about spacecraft trajectory design. listen, it’s not magic. it’s just an extremely artisinal and creative field of applied math that no one can really explain to non-specialists and sometimes occult rituals are involved
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Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589
16 Nov 2022
SLS flight 1 on the Artemis 1 mission now heading skyward; SRBs and RS-25s firing
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Has SLS launched yet?@SLSstatus
16 Nov 2022
Yes.
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Jenna Kay 💙@jennakaycosmic
28 Sep 2022
VIPER is massively underrated
Rocket Wrangler@BestCoastBrian
28 Sep 2022
VIPER is currently my favorite unlaunched mission
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NASA
@NASA
31 Jul 2022
We celebrate the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what was possible. She partnered with us to recruit some of the first women and minority astronauts, and inspired generations to reach for the stars.
View of Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols in the CAPCOM area of the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1977. Image taken during filming of promotional movie designed to aid in recruiting minorities as candidates for Space Shuttle Astronaut positions.

ALT View of Star Trek actor Nichelle Nichols in the CAPCOM area of the Mission Control Center at NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1977. Image taken during filming of promotional movie designed to aid in recruiting minorities as candidates for Space Shuttle Astronaut positions.

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