David Hitt
@homesteading.space
Author. Engineer. Husband. Dad. Other stuff.
Three years ago was the night potential became visceral. The night years of toil permeated my bones through a roar that was less a sound than a force. www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...
November 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Three years ago was the night potential became visceral. The night years of toil permeated my bones through a roar that was less a sound than a force. www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...
ISS at 25: The Amazing Thing Is It's Not Amazing www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
ISS at 25: The Amazing Thing Is It's Not Amazing www.linkedin.com/posts/wdavid...
Make a movie better by adding one letter ... and a punctuation mark and a Roman numeral. (Having watched both Tron Ares and Ares I-X, they were both pretty enjoyable.)
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Make a movie better by adding one letter ... and a punctuation mark and a Roman numeral. (Having watched both Tron Ares and Ares I-X, they were both pretty enjoyable.)
Get your Christmas shopping done early. Both of my books (and lots of others) are half-price at @univnebpress.bsky.social through the end of October. Use code 6BB25 here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...
October 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Get your Christmas shopping done early. Both of my books (and lots of others) are half-price at @univnebpress.bsky.social through the end of October. Use code 6BB25 here: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...
When McDonald’s brings Monopoly back and your rocket is on the bag…
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
When McDonald’s brings Monopoly back and your rocket is on the bag…
Fly your name around the Moon on Artemis II!
Your name may not appear on the mission patch, but here is the next best thing: you can add yourself to the roster launching with Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen to the moon.
NASA wants to fly your name to the moon with Artemis II astronauts
You can now add yourself to the next crew to launch to the moon. As part of the preparations leading up to the Artemis II mission next year, NASA is inviting the public to join the flight's four astro...
www.collectspace.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Fly your name around the Moon on Artemis II!
Randomly discovered today my contract has the domain yeswearerocketscientists.com, which I gotta say is rather cool.
September 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Randomly discovered today my contract has the domain yeswearerocketscientists.com, which I gotta say is rather cool.
I've seen a lot of beautiful tributes in the last few days on the loss of Jim Lovell as an astronaut, explorer, hero, and space ambassador, but no one's talking about the loss of a brilliant McDonalds training advocate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm3...
McDonald's Employee Training Video - Countdown to Profitability! (1982)
YouTube video by Consumer Time Capsule
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I've seen a lot of beautiful tributes in the last few days on the loss of Jim Lovell as an astronaut, explorer, hero, and space ambassador, but no one's talking about the loss of a brilliant McDonalds training advocate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLm3...
TIL the first webpage is still online: info.cern.ch/hypertext/WW...
The World Wide Web project
info.cern.ch
August 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
TIL the first webpage is still online: info.cern.ch/hypertext/WW...
The latest @univnebpress.bsky.social #OutwardOdyssey book is now available for pre-order – and on sale! Pick up Born to explore for half price using code 6SUMM25 by 7/31: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Born to Explore - Nebraska Press
Once, there were giants in the heavens: billion-dollar machines of wonder and science that flew to the outermost planets and told us what secrets had been ly...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
July 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The latest @univnebpress.bsky.social #OutwardOdyssey book is now available for pre-order – and on sale! Pick up Born to explore for half price using code 6SUMM25 by 7/31: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Randomly recalled today that @NASA commissioned a song in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight, and it contained this line:
"Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space."
Prophetic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...
"Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space."
Prophetic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...
July 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Randomly recalled today that @NASA commissioned a song in 2003 to celebrate the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight, and it contained this line:
"Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space."
Prophetic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...
"Imagination, and amazing Grace, bring us closer to our home in space."
Prophetic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhmO...
Summer is time for summer reading, and my publisher is running a HALF-PRICE summer sale on their catalog, including the #OutwardOdyssey series on space history that includes my books. Use code 6SUMM25 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...
June 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Summer is time for summer reading, and my publisher is running a HALF-PRICE summer sale on their catalog, including the #OutwardOdyssey series on space history that includes my books. Use code 6SUMM25 at checkout. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/search-resul...
Happy 500th wedding anniversary of Martin and Katie Luther.
June 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Happy 500th wedding anniversary of Martin and Katie Luther.
I wrote an article for Mud & Magnolias about how the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Parthenon are all easy day trips from northeast Mississippi, and the same is true for Huntsville. www.djournal.com/mudandmagnol...
May 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I wrote an article for Mud & Magnolias about how the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty and Parthenon are all easy day trips from northeast Mississippi, and the same is true for Huntsville. www.djournal.com/mudandmagnol...
This may just be because it's been over a decade since I published a book. I'll see if I can't fix it with the next one, which will be pretty much 10 percent semicolons and em dashes by mass. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This may just be because it's been over a decade since I published a book. I'll see if I can't fix it with the next one, which will be pretty much 10 percent semicolons and em dashes by mass. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
This week I got to visit my favorite rocket engine for the 16th anniversary of when we first "met" – engine 2059 that powered the first shuttle mission I ever saw is now in the VAB ready to launch #Artemis II.
May 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This week I got to visit my favorite rocket engine for the 16th anniversary of when we first "met" – engine 2059 that powered the first shuttle mission I ever saw is now in the VAB ready to launch #Artemis II.
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay
Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay
April 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay
Happy birthday (and death day) to William Shakespeare. Everyone who has written in English for the last four centuries is living in his shadow. #ShakespeareDay
Today is #EncourageAYoungWriterDay.
My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great.
They got better.
Want to be a writer? Write.
If you like what you write, write more.
If you don’t, write twice as much.
#Write #Writer #writinglife
My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great.
They got better.
Want to be a writer? Write.
If you like what you write, write more.
If you don’t, write twice as much.
#Write #Writer #writinglife
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Today is #EncourageAYoungWriterDay.
My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great.
They got better.
Want to be a writer? Write.
If you like what you write, write more.
If you don’t, write twice as much.
#Write #Writer #writinglife
My first “Space Story” wasn’t all that great.
They got better.
Want to be a writer? Write.
If you like what you write, write more.
If you don’t, write twice as much.
#Write #Writer #writinglife
Nine missions patches have adorned the suits of NASA crews that have visited the Moon.
This will be the 10th.
This will be the 10th.
NASA celebrating the launch of the official Artemis II patch with a sunset presentation on the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.
nsf.live/spacecoast
nsf.live/spacecoast
April 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Nine missions patches have adorned the suits of NASA crews that have visited the Moon.
This will be the 10th.
This will be the 10th.
Happy birthday to @rocketcenterusa.bsky.social, which turns 55 today!!
March 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Happy birthday to @rocketcenterusa.bsky.social, which turns 55 today!!
SPACE JOB – Someday in the not-too-distant future, a picture like this will be taken on the surface of the Moon. My contract is looking to hire a systems engineer that will be able to point to the equipment in that picture and say "I did that."
www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...
www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...
March 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
SPACE JOB – Someday in the not-too-distant future, a picture like this will be taken on the surface of the Moon. My contract is looking to hire a systems engineer that will be able to point to the equipment in that picture and say "I did that."
www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...
www.amentumcareers.com/jobs/payload...
Artemis: One Team, One Dream
YouTube video by L3Harris Technologies
www.youtube.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:05 AM
#OTD in 1970, Richard Nixon outlined 6 goals for the future of space:
1) Moon
2) Mars
3) Reduce costs
4) Sustain human presence in space
5) Encourage spin-offs
6) Cooperate internationally.
To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…
1) Moon
2) Mars
3) Reduce costs
4) Sustain human presence in space
5) Encourage spin-offs
6) Cooperate internationally.
To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…
March 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#OTD in 1970, Richard Nixon outlined 6 goals for the future of space:
1) Moon
2) Mars
3) Reduce costs
4) Sustain human presence in space
5) Encourage spin-offs
6) Cooperate internationally.
To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…
1) Moon
2) Mars
3) Reduce costs
4) Sustain human presence in space
5) Encourage spin-offs
6) Cooperate internationally.
To this day, human spaceflight basically follows the Nixon plan. spacecoastdaily.com/2017/03/nasa-h…
A couple of humble suggestions for people who look forward to the day that the first word in #WorldBookDay is no longer singular. amzn.to/2F64tyE
March 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A couple of humble suggestions for people who look forward to the day that the first word in #WorldBookDay is no longer singular. amzn.to/2F64tyE