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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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 · 28/01/2025

#OTD 39 years ago, the 51L crew of #Challenger was lost during ascent into the void. They lost their lives in their dedication to a mission to explore, to learn, to inspire. We honor their memory not by merely remembering their mission, but by continuing it.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 27/01/2025

#OTD in 1967, NASA lost the crew of Apollo 1 in a fire on the launch pad during a test. In exploration, risk is a key ingredient for achieving great things. But so also is diligence, and in even greater measure. #NeverForget #NASARemembers

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 24/01/2025

“Hello. I’m Macintosh.” #OTD 41 years ago, Steve Jobs revealed the #Macintosh, and put a dent in the universe. youtu.be/2B-XwPjn9YY #Apple #SteveJobs

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 20/01/2025

Why were NASA's Apollo-era engineers no fun at the playground? They had too many slide rules.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 19/01/2025

I grew up with the original #StarTrek telling me we might be able to talk to computers in three centuries or so. My son thinks nothing of wandering around the house getting #Alexa to play random songs for him. We live in interesting times. #AI

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 10/01/2025

There are few things on this Earth that can literally be stacked so high they’ll reach the Moon. You’re looking at two of them. The #Artemis II boosters are both now two segments tall, and rising. www.facebook.com/NASAGroundSy...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 10/01/2025

Sixty-two years ago today, NASA announced plans to build the Saturn V, the rocket that would put the first humans on the Moon during #Apollo and loft America's first space station, #Skylab. Even as new super-heavy lift rocket are coming online, it remains iconic. #OTD #SaturnV

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 02/01/2025

Happy 105th birthday to the late Isaac Asimov, aka that guy that in a few years we're going to realize we really probably should have listened to about AI. #IsaacAsimov #OTD #AI

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

"And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been." – Rainer Maria Rilke #NewYear #NewYear2025

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 30/12/2024

Two more days to get the best spaceflight history series ever for half-price! For the rest of 2024, my publisher is offering 50 percent off its catalog, including the #OutwardOdyssey series (like my two books!). Use code 6HLW24 at checkout. nebraskapress.unl.edu/series/outwa...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 30/12/2024

#OTD in 1957, Wernher von Braun proposed the Saturn-class launch vehicles. “OK, guys, imagine a *really* big rocket...” "...no, bigger.” “...bigger.” “...bigger.” “...” “...no, *bigger*”

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 29/12/2024

My son asked what my favorite dinosaur is. I said me. He said I’m not a dinosaur. I pointed out I used one of these on a regular basis.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 30/11/2024

#OTD 42 years ago, Challenger rolled out to the launch pad for the first time, Thriller hit record stores, ET was number one in theaters, and the Soviet Union performed an underground test of a nuclear bomb. November 30, 1982, may have been the single most '80s day there was.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 20/11/2024

Earlier this year, John Mulnix invited me, @emilycarney.bsky.social & Dwight Steven-Boniecki to talk about Skylab for his Space Shot podcast, and now you can hear it! I had so much fun recording this; space history conversations should always be so rollicking. #Skylab thespaceshot.fireside.fm/441

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 17/11/2024

"And that, as much as anything, is why I write these books. It's important to me to preserve the history. ... But it's also important to me to be a part of those one-more-evening's." #amwriting homesteading.space/an-evening-w...

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 14/10/2024

I’m not able to be in Florida for the #EuropaClipper launch, but I’m wearing my lucky launch day shirt to ensure it goes today. Godspeed, Clipper!

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 10/09/2024

I met James Earl Jones 31 years ago at @OleMiss. Of course I asked about Star Wars. He told me the rumors were true about prequels. I was elated. He's now gone, but characters he brought to life will last forever. I'm grateful for my brief encounter with a truly enduring voice.

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 23/08/2024

Thruster issues as a spacecraft neared the space station. After docking, another leak. A big decision for NASA – bring the crew home in the spacecraft they'd launched in, or send another to rescue them. And it all happened over half a century ago. linkedin.com/pulse/maroon...

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