Grant Tremblay
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Grant Tremblay
@astrogrant
Personal account. All views are 💯% my own and do not represent those of any institutions I'm affiliated with. No tweets here are newsworthy 😬
Joined February 2009
- I was at PWM in Portland ME with my mom, we were going on a college tour trip. Idiot 17 year old me forgot to bring my ID. Counter lady laughs and says “no problem honey”, and I board the plane. I think there was one metal detector for security. This was a month before 9/11.I simply don't believe anything I hear about pre-9/11 america it doesn't sound like a real place
- Emergency crews in Spain are fighting to shield NASA’s Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex from wildfires. Robledo de Chavela is 1 of only 3 sites in NASA’s Deep Space Network that provides 24/7 global coverage for spacecraft & tool the 1st image of earth from the apollo 11
- This is the Madrid DSN station right now 😫 We interact with this wonderful Madrid team nearly every week and we hope everyone is safe ! @dsn_status
- Happy birthday you beautiful bird. An *exquisitely* engineered spacecraft. Honored to have been the Project Scientist for her high resolution camera, one of the highlights of my career. Chandra is returning best-of-mission science w/ absurd Webb (and soon Roman!) synergy. <3Today in 1999, @chandraxray was placed in orbit. It has been exploring our universe, detecting x-rays from hot, turbulent regions of space, ever since. Learn more on our AirSpace podcast: s.si.edu/44IAGGs
