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…
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 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
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...
#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
Before there was NASA, there was #NACA.
@NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915.
Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…
@NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915.
Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…
March 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Before there was NASA, there was #NACA.
@NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915.
Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…
@NASA was built in part on the foundation of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, founded #OTD in 1915.
Dr Orville Wright was on the committee for 28 years. history.nasa.gov/naca/overview.…
I've gotten used to Blue Origin flying celebrities on New Shepard, but I've gotta admit Katy Perry came at me like a dark horse. www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025...
March 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I've gotten used to Blue Origin flying celebrities on New Shepard, but I've gotta admit Katy Perry came at me like a dark horse. www.morningbrew.com/stories/2025...
The Salem Witch Trials started #OTD 333 years ago – half of 666!
Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv
Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv
March 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Salem Witch Trials started #OTD 333 years ago – half of 666!
Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv
Did you know Huntsville has its very own Salem Witch House? Check it out here: huntsville.org/blog/list/po... #HistoryHsv #iHeartHsv
"People have been looking up at the skies for 10,000 years, wondering and dreaming. I hope we always do." – John Glenn
On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.
On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.
February 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
"People have been looking up at the skies for 10,000 years, wondering and dreaming. I hope we always do." – John Glenn
On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.
On this day in 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth on the Friendship 7 Mercury mission.
Happy #Pluto Day! Everyone’s favorite Kuiper Belt Object was discovered #OTD in 1930.
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February 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Happy #Pluto Day! Everyone’s favorite Kuiper Belt Object was discovered #OTD in 1930.
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#OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless became the first person to make an untethered spacewalk (and Hoot Gibson photographed it).
The MMU "jetpack" was only used for a few months; the iconic image of a human being floating freely in the universe is timeless.
The MMU "jetpack" was only used for a few months; the iconic image of a human being floating freely in the universe is timeless.
February 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless became the first person to make an untethered spacewalk (and Hoot Gibson photographed it).
The MMU "jetpack" was only used for a few months; the iconic image of a human being floating freely in the universe is timeless.
The MMU "jetpack" was only used for a few months; the iconic image of a human being floating freely in the universe is timeless.
#OTD in 1994, the only astronaut from my high school alma mater, Huntsville’s own Jan Davis, launched on the first space shuttle mission to include a Russian cosmonaut! nasa.gov/mission_page...
February 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
#OTD in 1994, the only astronaut from my high school alma mater, Huntsville’s own Jan Davis, launched on the first space shuttle mission to include a Russian cosmonaut! nasa.gov/mission_page...
Twenty-two years ago today, Columbia and her crew were lost.
"The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.” #OTD #STS107 #HailColumbia
"The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.” #OTD #STS107 #HailColumbia
February 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Twenty-two years ago today, Columbia and her crew were lost.
"The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.” #OTD #STS107 #HailColumbia
"The cause in which they died will continue. Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.” #OTD #STS107 #HailColumbia
Today in space history:
1958 - Explorer I, the first US satellite is launched.
1961 – NASA launches Ham, the first chimpanzee in space.
1971 – Apollo 14 heads to the Moon, carrying the first person to play golf on the Moon.
1958 - Explorer I, the first US satellite is launched.
1961 – NASA launches Ham, the first chimpanzee in space.
1971 – Apollo 14 heads to the Moon, carrying the first person to play golf on the Moon.
January 31, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Today in space history:
1958 - Explorer I, the first US satellite is launched.
1961 – NASA launches Ham, the first chimpanzee in space.
1971 – Apollo 14 heads to the Moon, carrying the first person to play golf on the Moon.
1958 - Explorer I, the first US satellite is launched.
1961 – NASA launches Ham, the first chimpanzee in space.
1971 – Apollo 14 heads to the Moon, carrying the first person to play golf on the Moon.