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Mike Kube-McDowell

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Best-selling author of Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis, Vectors, Exile, The Trigger (with Arthur C. Clarke), The Quiet Pools, Alternities, and more.

#LaunchAmerica Ad astra, #CrewDragon. I watched every televised US crewed mission launch from #Mercury through #Apollo and deep into the Space Shuttle era, and I was at #KSC with press credentials for STS-4. Eager to see us reclaim some lost ground today w/new crew-rated stack!


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The charge that the impeachment inquiry is being run in a non-transparent manner would have more weight if the people making that charge also criticized the WH for not handing over documents, refusing to allow witnesses to testify, and, basically, defying congressional oversight


This was the most beautiful thing I've seen in a long time.

Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.

SpaceX's tweet image. Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2.


What a crazywonderful sight. Hats off to #SpaceX--expanding the envelope once again with #FalconHeavy. Brilliant!

alternities's tweet image. What a crazywonderful sight. Hats off to #SpaceX--expanding the envelope once again with #FalconHeavy. Brilliant!

Gorgeous launch & first-stage landing by #SpaceX of the #falcon9 carrying KOREASAT-5A just minutes ago. Engineering for the win. #RoundEarth


Big day for Big Science! Neutron star collision observed--gravity waves, gamma-ray bursts, gold/platinum creation. npr.org/sections/thetw…


Happy #NationalComingOutDay to every color of the rainbow. Let's keep building a safer, more accepting, more loving community for all. #NCOD


...to ignore. Or too unreal, rather. 🤨I seem to be stuck in a reactive mode for now. I look forward to a different focus when events allow.


I apologize if you followed this account thinking I'd be talking about science & science fiction. Current events have been too real...


Iceberg A68 is the size of the state of Delaware. Effects of climate change most readily visible at the poles.

No longer under the cloak of 2017 polar night, scientists get 1st sunlit view of the iceberg from Larsen C ice shelf go.nasa.gov/2yhRfLk

NASA's tweet image. No longer under the cloak of 2017 polar night, scientists get 1st sunlit view of the iceberg from Larsen C ice shelf go.nasa.gov/2yhRfLk


Many memories, most joyful, some painful, across the years. Some wonderful things have been accomplished under that logo.


No surprise here.

Trump hands 80 percent of proposed tax cut to top 1 percent ow.ly/X2fk30fxMmw



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No water, no food, and no help. "They have forgotten about us," Jorge Díaz Rivera said. nyti.ms/2fyPw99


70% of #NFL players are black. No surprise @realDonaldTrump chose a podium in Alabama to try to bully them into silent conformity. Big fail!

A necessary reminder: White Americans largely disapproved of the civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s wapo.st/2jBNZQv

markberman's tweet image. A necessary reminder: White Americans largely disapproved of the civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s wapo.st/2jBNZQv


#FreedomOfSpeech isn't just for people and opinions we agree with. Protest that challenges us to live up to our ideals is patriotic. #NFL


Trump is trying very hard to make Kim Jong Un sound like the reasonable one.

North Korean leader on Trump: "I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire" wapo.st/2xyQBIb



Sharing some thoughts about Jerry Pournelle, who passed away September 8. facebook.com/alternities/po…


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