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Dwayne Day

@kennen11.bsky.social

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Historian of military and civil space programs and policy. In my day job I direct studies for NASA on space and aeronautics subjects including planetary science, astrophysics, and Earth science. Work at the National Academy of Science. Trekkie. Dogs.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 1d

Over the weekend I tried watching "Jaws 3D." I got about halfway through it before turning it off. It's bad. At times it felt like a slasher film. Teenagers running around in the dark getting killed. The actors were doing a lot of cocaine, which may have contributed to the raunchy goofiness.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 1d

Good to know nothing has changed.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 1d

So what you're saying is that it's an alien spaceship? And we're doomed?

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Bill Krause @admiralbuck.bsky.social · 1d

Low and Slow.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

And this article, with Harry Stranger:
thespacereview.com/article/5075/1

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

New article:
thespacereview.com/article/5072/1

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Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek.bsky.social · 2d

[Taps the sign.]

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

My Space Review article with Harry is not yet posted, but it deals with this:

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

I had not realized how hard that ship was used during Vietnam. It lost a propeller twice.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

The weird thing about that image is it was taken in July. What looks like ice on the water is just different ways the sun is reflecting off the water.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 2d

USS Oriskany, USS Ranger, and USS Enterprise, from space, and from an aircraft, early 1970s. My article with Harry Stranger about this will appear in The Space Review in a few hours.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 3d

I have two articles in this-week's Space Review. This is the subject of one of them:

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 3d

This is also the subject of my Space Review article with Harry Stranger.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 3d

My new article with Harry Stranger will also deal with this:

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 3d

If you put it next to one of your models, it will look like it is much further away...

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 3d

I will have two articles in this week's Space Review. This is the topic of one of them, with Harry Stranger.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 5d

There's a neat little story in Glen Swanson's new book on Star Trek about how they sought out the new TRW aerospace campus to film "Operation Annihilate!" It was futuristic, but had not yet appeared in other TV shows. LA was growing fast.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 5d

I know a lot of people got really enthusiastic the last time. If they really have something, they could/should put out a few clips. Otherwise, we should remain really skeptical.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 5d

I'm not a big Dr. Who fan, but we've seen this story before. There was a lot of excitement about 7-8 years ago when somebody claimed to have found a bunch of episodes in South Africa. And then nothing happened. People either need to demonstrate that they have them, or keep quiet.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 7d

Vantor and Lanteris sound like alien names from "Plan 9 From Outer Space."

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 7d

I believe that next year SpaceX is launching 5 missions to Mars. And in 2033, they will launch 500 missions to Mars. This seems entirely feasible, and not the kind of idea dreamed up by somebody on drugs.

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, Sept 29. Happened on Monday.

Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 7d

Happened Sept 30: spaceflightnow.com/2025/09/30/g...

Ground testing anomaly destroys Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha booster intended for next flight – Spaceflight Now

spaceflightnow.com

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Dwayne Day @kennen11.bsky.social · 8d

You need to create a menu.