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Doug Wheelock✓

@Astro_Wheels

Test Pilot; Astronaut: STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19, ISS Expedition 24/25; ISS Commander; Spacewalker; Proud Husband & Dad; Veteran; Poet; @NASA Artemis Project 🚀💫

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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: American aerospace deserves the biggest stage in the world. We’re building it right here at @NASAKennedy. MAX POWER is a preview of what’s ahead: extraordinary machines, the people who build them, and the next generation who will take us farther.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @DJSnM: After my session astronaut Doug Wheelock was there to talk about the work, he had a lot to say about it. He also invited me to join his exclusive club of 'People who crashed the HLS VMS simulator' - which at the time had only two members.
    Scott Manley @DJSnM
    Learning to fly a lunar lander in @NASAAmes Vertical Motion Simulator. This is arguably the worlds best flight simulator with 6DOF including 60 feet of vertical motion. Every space shuttle pilot trained on this simulator! It has had upgrades since then, in particular a fantastic new collimated display that allows multiple pilots to see the correct perspective from different parts of the cabin. This was running a generic lunar landing simulation, because this research is looking at more than just control of a specific vehicle, it's looking at things like interfaces, usability and controllability while the vehicle is in motion, something that's hard to do without actually doing it for real. I've got a full length video in the works, but for now here's a multi angle version showing a subset of what I recorded.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @DJSnM: Learning to fly a lunar lander in @NASAAmes Vertical Motion Simulator. This is arguably the worlds best flight simulator with 6DOF including 60 feet of vertical motion. Every space shuttle pilot trained on this simulator! It has had upgrades since then, in particular a fantastic new collimated display that allows multiple pilots to see the correct perspective from different parts of the cabin. This was running a generic lunar landing simulation, because this research is looking at more than just control of a specific vehicle, it's looking at things like interfaces, usability and controllability while the vehicle is in motion, something that's hard to do without actually doing it for real. I've got a full length video in the works, but for now here's a multi angle version showing a subset of what I recorded.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @DJSnM: I had a very interesting day yesterday at @NASAAmes - thanks to everyone that made this possible. Video will probably be out in a few weeks.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAmes: Last week, we welcomed NASA astronaut Douglas "Wheels" Wheelock to our Silicon Valley center! Wheelock became one of the first to pilot a newly integrated lunar lander simulation in our Vertical Motion Simulator, the world’s largest flight simulator for high-fidelity testing of new and experimental aircraft and spacecraft designs. The simulation will provide insights that will help shape the future of landing vehicles and crew controls for Artemis missions.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: Our @NASAJPL team brought a preview of Mars exploration to Huntington Beach with their SkyFall demo. Building on Ingenuity, SkyFall will deploy three helicopters in midair to Mars and use ground penetrating radar to search for subsurface ice. In addition to other scientific instruments, this effort will show how we could potentially identify landing sites for future Mars missions.  Fission powered spacecraft and helicopters exploring another planet to help prepare for Americans to follow. Hard not to get excited about this mission.
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    RT @NASAhistory: Happy 91st birthday to Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, the 10th man to walk on the Moon! 🎂 Duke was the CAPCOM in Mission Control as Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface on July 20, 1929. He said that his anxiety in Mission Control during the Apollo 11 landing was worse than that he experienced during the Apollo 16 landing. We wish him many happy landings in the days ahead!
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: Milt Windler was one of the great pioneers who showed the world what NASA is capable of during both the best and most challenging of days. As a Maroon Flight Director, he helped guide Apollo 8 around the Moon, played a critical role in bringing Apollo 13 safely home, and carried that same commitment through Skylab and beyond. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all those who had the privilege of working alongside him. His generation set the bar incredibly high. It is our responsibility to pick up and continue where they left off.
    collectSPACE @collectSPACE
    Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94:
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  9. collectSPACE✓@collectSPACE
    Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94:
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    RT @Astro_Kutryk: Leaving these three (plus one on the way) is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But that has always been the nature of exploration. Words from Fridtjof Nansen, describing his departure for the North Pole, resonate in my mind:
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAglenn: Did you spot us at the Cleveland @Browns stadium (or soaring overhead) yesterday? ✈️✨🏈 Football fans at the Sept. 27 game engaged with @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman, astronaut Doug Wheelock, and other team members from Glenn — Cleveland's very own @NASA center — to learn more about the future of flight and space exploration. During the national anthem, Glenn employees Greeta Thaikattil and Heather Brown took to the skies with Isaacman and his Freedom 250 F-5 team as they performed the Browns' first-ever NASA flyover.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: Hard to beat a Sunday flying an F-5 over a packed stadium! Thanks to the @NFL and @Browns for welcoming our Inspiration Tour. Enjoyed meeting fans alongside Doug Wheelock and our @NASAglenn team and sharing what’s ahead for America in space. A lot to look forward to, and we want you along for the ride.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @DanHanson: @NASAAdmin @NASA And I got to meet Astronaut Doug Wheelock and see an Apollo 15 Lunar Sample at the Artemis display!
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: Home teams are 2-for-2 when @NASA performs the flyover, which is technically a streak.
    NASA Spox @NASASpox
    .@NASAAdmin in the skies over Cleveland for today’s NASA flyover!
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @armstrongspace: Today we honor Neil Armstrong, who passed away on this day in 2012. Neil will forever be remembered for his work on Apollo 11. But beyond this, he should be remembered for his grace, humility, and amazing courage. Next time you look at the Moon, give a little wink for him.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: It was my pleasure to personally host NASA leadership in Montana to align around the Ignition priorities and make sure the team is focused and moving safely and urgently. Decisions of the past have made the second space race closer than it ever needed to be. Under @POTUS’ national space policy, and with the resources from the Working Family Tax Cut Act, we have the tools to accelerate Artemis, return American astronauts to the Moon, build the base, rebuild the X-plane portfolio, launch more missions of science and discovery, and get America underway on nuclear power in space so the third race will never be in question.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAhistory: …and many more! 🎂🎈🎉 We wish a very happy birthday to the incomparable Gene Kranz, a legendary flight director who served our human spaceflight program for 34 years! Kranz is best known for his leadership in Mission Control during Apollo 13, but his composure and determination still inspire us today.
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    Doug Wheelock
    RT @NASAAdmin: 68 years ago today, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. In the decades since, Americans have walked on the Moon, built the Space Shuttle, assembled the International Space Station, explored every planet in our solar system, transformed aviation, and expanded humanity’s understanding of Earth and the universe. Now we’re writing the next chapter. We’re returning to the Moon with Artemis, laying the foundation for a sustained lunar presence, preparing for the first human missions to Mars, accelerating scientific discovery, and partnering with industry to build a thriving space economy. In the next 68 years, we will continue to accomplish what many believe to be impossible.
    NASA History Office @NASAhistory
    Ever upward! 🚀 The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was signed into law 68 years ago today, authorizing the creation of a new civilian agency dedicated to the study and exploration of space. Three months later, @NASA was born!
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    Ever upward! 🚀 The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 was signed into law 68 years ago today, authorizing the creation of a new civilian agency dedicated to the study and exploration of space. Three months later, @NASA was born!
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    RT @armstrongspace: Today marks the 90th anniversary of Armstrong’s first flight! On this day in 1936, Neil and his father, Stephen, took to the sky in Warren, OH. That flight solidified a passion for aviation, setting Neil on the path that eventually made him the first person to walk on the Moon.
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    RT @EricLDaugh: 🚨 JUST IN: Artemis II pilot Victor Glover just gave this BEAUTIFUL Easter message "So far from Earth, looking at the BEAUTY of creation." “When I read the Bible and I look at all of the amazing things that were done for us...this amazing place." ❤️🙏🏻
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    RT @NASA: Can you see our Moon rocket lift off from your backyard? Skywatchers in Florida and southern Georgia will have a shot. Check out this map to see when you should look up! Artemis II is targeted to launch no earlier than April 1.
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