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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 31/08/2026

The 6-year-old and I are reading the Catstronauts book series, and came across this lovely looking rocket. I love seeing Artemis-inspired images pop up in pop culture, and I'm a little jealous of a generation that's going to grow up thinking Moon landings are just a normal thing.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 02/08/2026

Today marks the 207th birthday of Herman Melville, the man who brought us both #Starbucks and the best parts of The Wrath of Khan. #OTD

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 26/07/2026

I'd like to think I know Rebecca's story about as well as anyone, and, even so, reading this article about her in Voyage Alabama, I was struck by how amazing she is. I'm honored to have this incredible woman – and Alabama hidden gem – as my wife! voyagealabama.com/interview/hi...

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Hidden Gems: Meet Rebecca Hitt of Rocket City Mom

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rebecca Hitt. Rebecca, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?I graduated from Auburn University with a de...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 21/07/2026

We had a great time tonight at the inaugural Rocket City Space Fest, featuring the state's largest drone show. It was a thrill to see Big Spring Park packed out with locals celebrating Huntsville's contributions to the first Moon landing ... and to the next one!

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 14/07/2026

Imma let you finish, but the Coen Brothers had the best Odyssey film adaptation of all time.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 04/07/2026

Happy 250th Independence Day!

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 13/06/2026

Hey! My LiveJournal turned 20 today! Not entirely sure how to celebrate that adequately.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 13/06/2026

Similiarly, the first mission to Venus will be all about Almond Joy. youtube.com/watch?v=vhp2...

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Almond Joy "Aliens" Commercial (1980s)

YouTube video by Dino Drac's Retro Commercials!

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 06/06/2026

I was excited to see my team featured in the SLS Program's Artemis II post-flight summary (pp 11-12). We were, literally, a small part of a giant effort, but had the privilege of being part of worldwide contributions by incredible international teams. www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Organizations interested in launching cubesats on any of the next three Artemis missions have until Monday, June 1, to reply to this RFI: sam.gov/workspace/co... NASA press release: www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

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NASA Seeks Interest for Artemis Mission CubeSats - NASA

Organizations interested in launching CubeSats on future Artemis missions should respond to NASA’s request for information (RFI) by Monday, June 1, for

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 30/01/2026

“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.” — TS Eliot

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 30/12/2025

Trying to figure out what to do with all your leftover Christmas money? Pop over to @univnebpress.bsky.social's end of year sale through tomorrow and buy my books (or others) for half-price. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/holiday-sale...

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Holiday Sale - University of Nebraska Press

Happy Holidays from the University of Nebraska Press! For the rest of the year, until December 31, 2025, our entire catalog is available for 50% OFF.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 16/11/2025

Three years ago was the night potential became visceral. The night years of toil permeated my bones through a roar that was less a sound than a force. www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 02/11/2025

ISS at 25: The Amazing Thing Is It's Not Amazing www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 18/10/2025

Make a movie better by adding one letter ... and a punctuation mark and a Roman numeral. (Having watched both Tron Ares and Ares I-X, they were both pretty enjoyable.)

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 11/10/2025

Get your Christmas shopping done early. Both of my books (and lots of others) are half-price at @univnebpress.bsky.social through the end of October. Use code 6BB25 here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 06/10/2025

When McDonald’s brings Monopoly back and your rocket is on the bag…

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 10/09/2025

Fly your name around the Moon on Artemis II!

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 09/09/2025

Randomly discovered today my contract has the domain yeswearerocketscientists.com, which I gotta say is rather cool.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 12/08/2025

I've seen a lot of beautiful tributes in the last few days on the loss of Jim Lovell as an astronaut, explorer, hero, and space ambassador, but no one's talking about the loss of a brilliant McDonalds training advocate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm3...

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McDonald's Employee Training Video - Countdown to Profitability! (1982)

YouTube video by Consumer Time Capsule

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 07/08/2025

TIL the first webpage is still online: info.cern.ch/hypertext/WW...

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The World Wide Web project

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 11/07/2025

Happy #Skylab reentry anniversary AND #Superman movie release day, as foreshadowed in a 1981 episode of Superfriends.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 04/07/2025

Randomly recalled today that @NASA commissioned a song in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight, and it contained this line: "Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space." Prophetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...

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Way Up There (NASA's "Centennial Of Flight" Theme Song)

YouTube video by Patti LaBelle - Topic

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 19/06/2025

Summer is time for summer reading, and my publisher is running a HALF-PRICE summer sale on their catalog, including the #OutwardOdyssey series on space history that includes my books. Use code 6SUMM25 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 14/06/2025

Happy 500th wedding anniversary of Martin and Katie Luther.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 26/05/2025

I wrote an article for Mud & Magnolias about how the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Parthenon are all easy day trips from northeast Mississippi, and the same is true for Huntsville. www.djournal.com/mudandmagnol...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 24/05/2025

This may just be because it's been over a decade since I published a book. I'll see if I can't fix it with the next one, which will be pretty much 10 percent semicolons and em dashes by mass. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 19/05/2025

This week I got to visit my favorite rocket engine for the 16th anniversary of when we first "met" – engine 2059 that powered the first shuttle mission I ever saw is now in the VAB ready to launch #Artemis II.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 23/04/2025

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 10/04/2025

Today is #EncourageAYoungWriterDay. My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great. They got better. Want to be a writer? Write. If you like what you write, write more. If you don’t, write twice as much. #Write #Writer #writinglife

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 04/04/2025

Nine missions patches have adorned the suits of NASA crews that have visited the Moon. This will be the 10th.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 13/03/2025

SPACE JOB – Someday in the not-too-distant future, a picture like this will be taken on the surface of the Moon. My contract is looking to hire a systems engineer that will be able to point to the equipment in that picture and say "I did that." www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 07/03/2025

#OTD in 1970, Richard Nixon outlined 6 goals for the future of space: 1) Moon 2) Mars 3) Reduce costs 4) Sustain human presence in space 5) Encourage spin-offs 6) Cooperate internationally. To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 06/03/2025

A couple of humble suggestions for people who look forward to the day that the first word in #WorldBookDay is no longer singular. amzn.to/2F64tyE

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 05/03/2025

I hit a significant milestone on my next book tonight – I reached my publisher's max word count for the manuscript. From here out, for every word I write, I'll have to cut one later. Ouch. #AmWriting #KillYourDarlings

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 03/03/2025

Before there was NASA, there was #NACA. @NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915. Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 01/03/2025

I've gotten used to Blue Origin flying celebrities on New Shepard, but I've gotta admit Katy Perry came at me like a dark horse. www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 01/03/2025

The Salem Witch Trials started #OTD 333 years ago – half of 666! Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 20/02/2025

"People have been looking up at the skies for 10,000 years, wondering and dreaming. I hope we always do." – John Glenn On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 18/02/2025

Happy #Pluto Day! Everyone’s favorite Kuiper Belt Object was discovered #OTD in 1930. x.com/davidhitt/st...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 07/02/2025

#OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless became the first person to make an untethered spacewalk (and Hoot Gibson photographed it). The MMU "jetpack" was only used for a few months; the iconic image of a human being floating freely in the universe is timeless.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 04/02/2025

See, here's The Thing about Huntsville...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 03/02/2025

#OTD in 1994, the only astronaut from my high school alma mater, Huntsville’s own Jan Davis, launched on the first space shuttle mission to include a Russian cosmonaut! nasa.gov/mission_page...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 02/02/2025

Twenty-two years ago today, Columbia and her crew were lost. "The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.” #OTD #STS107 #HailColumbia

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 31/01/2025

Thank you, @emilycarney.bsky.social, for the kind words about my book Homesteading Space on the This Week in Space podcast, and congratulations again to you and Bruce McCandless on the success of Star Bound, a great addition to the #OutwardOdyssey series! twit.tv/shows/this-w...

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We're Star Bound! | TWiT.TV

This week, we're talking to the authors of a new book about spaceflight called 'Star Bound: A Beginner's Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard's Rockets to

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 31/01/2025

Today in space history: 1958 - Explorer I, the first US satellite is launched. 1961 – NASA launches Ham, the first chimpanzee in space. 1971 – Apollo 14 heads to the Moon, carrying the first person to play golf on the Moon.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 29/01/2025

It's always exciting to see Peggy Whitson getting recognized for her awesomeness. She's made incredible contributions to human spaceflight, and she's the reason I once found myself bouncing M&Ms off my face. www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...

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David Hitt on LinkedIn: It's always exciting to see Peggy Whitson getting recognized for her…

It's always exciting to see Peggy Whitson getting recognized for her awesomeness. She's made incredible contributions to human spaceflight, she was the only…

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