Charlie Garcia (@Astro

Charlie Garcia

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Charlie Garcia

@Astro_Chuck

Vice President of Vehicle Engineering @reflectorbital Formerly @agile_space and @spacex Board Member @the_cosmosphere Aero/Astro at @MIT 🇵🇷

Los Angeles, CA, Earth

Joined May 2012

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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Apr 29, 2023
My job is to stress fluids out. 😎
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Aug 5, 2020
I prefer the comments of Elon Musk: "I'm the chief engineer, so I'd just like to say if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team. If it goes wrong, it's my fault."
Scott Kelly
@StationCDRKelly
Aug 5, 2020
Great leaders take blame and pass along credit.
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Jun 8, 2020
Valerie Thomas was the director of the Landsat image processing programs. These are the satellites which revealed so much about the wonderful world we live on, and give us the tools to save lives and conserve wildlife more effectively. She retired in 1995 after 31 years @NASA
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Sep 7, 2023
An SLS vendor blocked me for asking why a cover was being milled from a multi-ton bit of aluminum when it could be [sheet metal/composite] part. I'm glad we're going back to the moon, but I'm worried it will be unsustainable until we deal with the skeletons of Apollo contractors.
Eric Berger
@SciGuySpace
Sep 7, 2023
"Senior agency officials have told us that at current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable and exceeds what NASA officials believe will be available for its Artemis missions." arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/…
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Sep 12, 2024
There's an entire generation of engineers shaped by the work SpaceX has done. The world has been changed for the better by the determination and grit of 0.0003% of people. Ad astra!
LMadgit
@LMadgit
Sep 12, 2024
18 years separate these two photos. Let that sink in.
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Apr 4, 2021
I'm so grateful for amazing friends and cool rockets
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Apr 30, 2021
I guess since Ingenuity saw it's shadow we get 30 more days of Mars helicopter ops?
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Sep 8, 2023
Replying to @Astro_Chuck
In case anyone was curious this is the part -
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Apr 3, 2021
In the game of parachutes, you win or you die
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
May 27, 2020
Elon's sentiments today are exactly right : "I'm the chief engineer of this thing so I'd just like to say that if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team, if it goes wrong, it's my fault." I wish this attitude was more common (and applied to situations like a pandemic)
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Mar 1, 2021
Don't run engine survival tests. Your engine should be ✨thriving✨
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Apr 9, 2021
Just a little emergency recovery engineering.
Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
Jan 21, 2023
2 miles up, 2 miles down, two parachutes, and one very happy rocketeer!
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Charlie Garcia
@Astro_Chuck
May 22, 2024
20 SpaceX flights in production vs 20 ULA flights in production.
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