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SwiftUI apps for space and beyond.
Mission Orion 2 is live on Apple’s AppStore.

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December 16, 2025 at 6:22 AM
MissionOrion 2 was approved by Apple's AppStore reviewers this morning at 10:35 AM, or 18 hours after it was submitted for review. Thank you, Apple!

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December 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
MissionOrion 2 submitted to the AppStore, so here's hoping all goes well. 😅
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MissionOrion 2
MissionOrion 2 is where you can fly NASA’s Orion spacecraft. You can start by learning how to fly a spacecraft in space. You can free-fly in a direct retrograde lunar orbit, just like the Art…
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December 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
MissionOrion 2 AppStore preview movie
December 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Almost ready for submission to Apple’s AppStore. Loading AppStore assets. This is one of the App Previews.
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 AM
“Like so many space projects, DRACO started with a bang but ended with a whimper.” Jeff Foust

Both House and Senate CJS Approps Sbcmtes disagree that DRACO is dead. Instead, DRACO and NEP are funded at $110 M, as they have been for years.

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Senate Appropriators Join House in Opposing Trump’s NASA Cuts
Posted: July 20, 2025 2:57 pm ET | Last Updated: July 22, 2025 8:08 am ET | The Senate appropriations committee is in overall agreement with its House counterpart to keep NASA funded at its current le...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Let's try and fix some stuff, or get frustrated and end the stream early... youtube.com/live/8f1lygt...
LIVE: Fixing More Classic Mac Stuff!
YouTube video by Mac84
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July 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Very excited to share our new work out today @cellpress.bsky.social. Here, we propose that meningeal mast cells regulate brain inflammation after stroke by coordinating immune infiltration from the skull bone marrow, through the meninges, and into the brain!

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A mast cell receptor mediates post-stroke brain inflammation via a dural-brain axis
Meningeal mast cells, via the receptor Mrgprb2/X2, orchestrate brain inflammation after stroke by recruiting and promoting the transfer of skull bone marrow neutrophils into the brain, highlighting th...
www.cell.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Target spacecraft added for translation flight training.
March 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
After Mission Orion 2 is released, there will be three other apps released shortly afterwards that helped make this possible: an astrodynamics app, one for visualizing quaternion rotations, and one for visualizing integrating of quaternion-based orientation changes.
May 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Where we’ve gone since Apple introduced the iPhone 17 years ago leaves me looking forward to where we’ll be with visionOS in that same time.
May 15, 2024 at 7:34 AM
3D work on Orion interior are coming together. The new instrument panel is as close as possible. Next up is adding astronauts. And then an instructional on how to fly a spacecraft.
May 15, 2024 at 7:22 AM
I was born with moderate strabismus, but I’m wally-eyed to be sure. So when I put an Apple VisionPro on, I didn’t expect that the eye tracking would work very well. I mean, which eye does it track? Apple VisionPro has worked like a flawlessly! Amazing!!!

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February 10, 2024 at 4:23 AM
A project is lake casting-off on a long sailing voyage. Initially exciting, as the days grind-on to weeks, or longer, you begin to question what you’re doing. But you gotta finish the voyage, regardless of whether it makes sense.
December 21, 2023 at 7:42 AM
Progress on MissionOrion has sometimes been slow but it is getting there.
November 26, 2023 at 6:23 AM
On Sept. 30, 2022, Phil Paxton
followed Google Maps instructions across a bridge on Snow Creek in NE Hickory, NC that was washed-out years ago, resulting in his death. Apple Maps shows that the bridge no longer exists. Apps and data have consequences.

www.wcnc.com/amp/article/...
September 21, 2023 at 4:52 PM
Unity’s new “per-install” pricing is an act of just breathtakingly bad faith. I’m sure glad the years I’ve invested weren’t with Unity. arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/...
September 13, 2023 at 11:36 PM
@seanallen.bsky.social Seems a bummer that the Swift dev community seems so quiet on BlueSky
August 31, 2023 at 4:18 AM