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Pommers

@Pommers

Astrophysist, IT manager, sometimes distance runner and classic car enthusiast. Of Apollo and shuttle generation but greatly inspired by SpaceX innovation.

Joined May 2008
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Congratulations Huda Al-Zuhairi, Luis Bres Castro, Francisco Llamas, Sara Sharifi, Andrea Pelayo Carvajal and Richard Pomeroy! 🎉 👏🏼
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SpaceX
@SpaceX27 Aug 2025
Liftoff of Super Heavy, the most powerful launch vehicle in history, on Starship’s tenth flight test
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🚀🍺🚀🍺🚀🍺 In the infinite reaches of space ... it’s 5 o’clock somewhere! Join MISSION: BEER FOR A YEAR to win 3,456 ounces of delicious space beer from @StarbaseBrewing–official brewery of Mars: bit.ly/3ZV5Gkw #craftbeer #beerlover #spacebeer #beergeek #freebeer #space #mars
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Awesome job SpaceX!
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) profile pictureElon Musk
@elonmusk19 Sep 2022
Replying to @NASASpaceflight
Chamber pressure looked good on all 7 engines
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The day she wore an opinion.
Image from Paul the Jack #RejoinEU 🚐🚭🐈👋🇪🇺🇬🇧 (@paul_redfearn)
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First full colour images from JWST will be revealed tomorrow! Exciting times
NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) profile pictureNASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb11 Jul 2022
The wait is almost over! 🌟 The full set of Webb's first images & data will be revealed in less than 2 days. On July 12, watch our broadcast LIVE at 10:30 am ET (14:30 UTC) on any of @NASA’s streaming platforms, including Twitter. Count down with us: webb.nasa.gov/countdown

Webb Telescope Broadcast Trailer: First Images

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

I’ve watched this 60,000 times today
Aaron Fritschner (@Fritschner) profile pictureAaron Fritschner@Fritschner7 Jul 2022
Hugh Grant tweeted a request at activists protesting outside Westminster to play the Benny Hill theme on their loudspeakers; when they did it became the soundtrack for street interviews with leading Tories trying explain the situation to the British people
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SpaceX Ship 24 heading to the launch site for its prime test campaign in Boca Chica!
Nic Ansuini (@NicAnsuini) profile pictureNic Ansuini
@NicAnsuini5 Jul 2022
S24 is ready for some serious action! -@NASASpaceflight
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Wes Streeting destroying every single thing about Boris Johnson & his value brand Conservative party in under 2 minutes 🔥🔥🔥 #bbcqt #ToryIncompetence
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Look carefully. Really carefully. What do you see?
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The ‘imperial measures’ Brexit ‘win’ has to be the most tragically little-English-regressive-small-minded-pathetic-unglobal-idiotic-nostalgia-soaked-irrelevant-humiliatingly-twatty-old-fart bullshit ever to have emerged from this festering pile of utter failure.
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Happening at 1400 (BST) / 1300 (GMT)... EHT Announces Major Black Hole Discovery youtu.be/SiGtKIH6GRU via @YouTube

REPLAY! EHT Announces Major Black Hole Discovery

REPLAY! EHT to Announce Groundbreaking Milky Way Black Hole Discove...

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Astronomers using Hubble were on the hunt for one medium-sized black hole at the heart of a globular cluster, which is a spherical group of stars bound by gravity. Instead, they found a concentration of smaller black holes! Read more: go.nasa.gov/3gitV58 #BlackHoleWeek
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Alignment of the James Webb Space Telescope is now complete!👏 These new engineering images of sharply focused stars in the field of view of each instrument demonstrate that #Webb is fully aligned and in focus. Learn more here: blogs.nasa.gov/webb/2022/04/… 📷 : NASA/STScI
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STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS MOMENT FROM THE ONE SHOW
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RIP - Devastating loss 😢
BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) profile pictureBBC Breaking News
@BBCBreaking26 Mar 2022
Drummer with US rock group Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins, dies aged 50, band announces bbc.in/3JGZkuc
Taylor Hawkins: Foo Fighters' drummer dies aged 50

Taylor Hawkins: Foo Fighters' drummer dies aged 50

The band said they were "devastated" by the loss of Hawkins, who has drummed with them since 1997.

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In France and Germany they're seizing super-yachts. In London... nothing
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Sir Gavin. Seriously? He really must have something on @borisjohnson…
BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) profile pictureBBC Politics
@BBCPolitics3 Mar 2022
Former education secretary Gavin Williamson, who was sacked last year, to get knighthood bit.ly/35Og8Ao
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