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Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀

@SpaceChickJen

Here to inspire through fun and informative content | Rocket chaser 🚀 | Starship lover | NASA History buff | engineer 👩🏻‍🔧 | PhD 👩🏻‍🎓

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Check out my article on the latest United States Space Academy update
MaxQ (@MaxQApp) profile pictureMaxQ
@MaxQAppNov 9
Lets train the next generation of engineers and astronauts!!🚀 Go read about the experience @SpaceChickJen had at @NASA Max Power listening to @NASADepAdmin Matt Anderson share about the Space Academy!! maxq.app/articles/a-new-door…
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Here we go again…
Space Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀 (@SpaceChickJen) profile pictureSpace Chick Jen 👩🏻‍🚀
@SpaceChickJenAug 26
🍀 Packing for a launch be like…
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I am beyond excited for Flight 15!! I always said there’s no way in hell I’m missing the first catch attempt of Ship. I was there for Flight 5 and the first Booster catch and that was the single most thrilling experience of my life. Maybe that’s lame, I don’t know. But as a hobby rocket chaser who has been following the development since the beginning it was so awesome. This will be a historic flight and I have a good feeling about it.
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Behold…the fleet leader Booster 1067 with a whopping 37 flights! 🚀🥇🏆
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I feel like a kid in a candy store here
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Frank Rubio will be launching on Artemis III early next year. It was pretty bright. Think I was blinking 😂
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MiG-29, RS-25, & @NASAAdmin interview. I’d say the MAX POWER air show today was a hit. Had lots of fun.
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These men will be on Artemis III. A mission I’m very much looking forward to as I stalk their comms for a couple weeks next year.
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Replying to @NASAAdmin
@NASAAdmin just another day at the office (with perfect hair having just jumped out of an airplane).
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POV: Your @NASAAdmin jumps out of an airplane, lands, then almost immediately enters stage right. Such an inspirational and exciting speech he gave. I’m glad to hear this MAX POWER air show is going to be a regular thing. It was a great day!
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Got quite the show from the Thunderbirds today at the Max Power event at NASA!
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Our NASA Administrator is a total badass
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On my way to the Max Power event at KSC!! So excited
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When I was growing up and had my hands on everything-Apollo I felt ripped off in life because I was born too late and didn’t get to experience the splendor and excitement of the space race. And here we are, I never thought this would happen…the chance to be alive during the frenzy of a spectacularly exciting space race! I feel blessed to even be just a spectator. A witness to history in the making. I avail myself of every opportunity to attend as many launches and events as I can because there’s no way in hell I’m missing a thing. This current environment, with SO MUCH going on is a reason to get up in the morning. Enjoy this! Get your kids into it! We need more future scientists and engineers.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center (@NASAKennedy) profile pictureNASA's Kennedy Space Center
@NASAKennedyOct 26
Big move, bigger mission! The Artemis III Space Launch System core stage moved to the transfer aisle at NASA Kennedy. Next up – teams will lift and integrate the massive 212-foot-rocket with the solid rocket boosters as we prepare for the next giant leap in lunar exploration.
The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

ALT The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

ALT The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

ALT The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

ALT The SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is horizontal in the transfer aisle of the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. The 212-foot rocket stage was lifted from High Bay 2 using a one-of-a kind lifting beam designed to lift the stage and will be joined vertically with the completed solid rocket booster motor segments in its short stack configuration.

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Since I finished my PhD 5 weeks ago, I have so much more personal time now! I have lost 8 lbs (clean cooking/eating, no alcohol, gym 5x a week, 7-10k steps a day), focused on reactivity training with my 18 month old German Shepherd, and have been working through the classics. I’m on my 4th book. I have been spending less time on X and social media in general and so I feel out of touch, but my mental health has been phenomenal. Like zero stress. Not even at work. I can’t remember a time in the last decade I’ve felt this well! I usually operate balls to the wall, overly loaded, and half-poisoned between shit food and booze. Time to slow down and focus on health in all aspects. What do you do to relax and decompress? What do you do for self care?
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I am just loving all the comments with people posting their photos of it 😍
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@NASAKennedyOct 13
Many of you are talking about the “space jellyfish” following this morning’s launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. More than 6,300 scientific investigations and cargo are on their way to the @Space_Station, as part of SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. A jellyfish happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape resembling a jellyfish. Show us where you captured the jellyfish?
A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

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Some friends that know me well send me Space Jelly Fish photos their grandson took. 😍 Falcon 9 launch from this morning. GORGEOUS!
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Who knew that a simple greasy burger patty (no bun) would wreck my world for two days with horrible abdominal stabbing pains? First cheat snack in 2 weeks of eating clean and I can’t express how much my gall bladder regrets that move. 😭 Missed two days of work and off to see a second doctor soon. Healthy eaters beware of sudden fatty meals!
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Congrats to my husband who also earned his PhD yesterday! Time for us to rest and relax more!
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*sometimes I feel completely invisible but am currently feeling flattered* The guy that literally wrote the book on plant maintenance planning and scheduling name dropped me at the SMRP conference today during lunch. We worked together briefly NINE years ago! Cannot believe he remembers me or even talks about the work we did. Buddy of mine over heard my name from a table over and told me about it. How random. Guess I made an impression.
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