Healthcare software commercialization leader. Husband. Father. SpaceX fanboy. Exomoon searcher.
Athens, TX
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Dunnie Norman retweeted
The Bass Club Minutes: a weekly fiction series from the made-up Mudcat Bend Bass Club on Lake Fork, TX, kept by club secretary Earl T. Shadwell.
New episode every Friday, starting Nov 13. Two seasons already written. Free: bassclubminutes.substack.com
AI-assisted. Motion carried.
Dunnie Norman retweeted
Mrs. Pruitt asked me how a herd ends.
Ours ended at Caldwell, Kansas, at the stock pens by the tracks. The railroad had only come the year before. We pushed 2,500 head through the gates and up a plank chute into cattle cars, and they went east without us.
Three months of rivers and dust, and the last of it took an afternoon.
I drew my pay, bought a bath, a shave and a new shirt, and kept one silver dollar back.
She asked if I still have it.
I do. She would not let me spend it on groceries.
Dunnie Norman retweeted
People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.
Dunnie Norman retweeted
God Bless America.
A man working as a welder at SpaceX for $28 an hour has just become a millionaire.
Juan Hernandez, who came from Mexico, welded rockets for SpaceX at $28 an hour.
SpaceX gave him $10,000 in stock when he went full time in 2015, and he bought more with every paycheck for 10 years.
$SPCX is now trading at $167, making his shares worth over $1 million.
Dunnie Norman retweeted
UAP Filing — Update
The model thought the file was closed until June 9th
Last night changed that
A sitting United States Congressman has now gone on record
Rep. Eric Burlison
House Oversight Committee
Government Secrets Disclosure Task Force
The government has egg shaped craft in its possession
People who entered the craft lost time
He wants to go in himself
This is not a blogger
This is a member of Congress with classified briefings
Glowing orbs
Stationary
Then accelerating beyond known capability
The investigation has expanded to private contractors
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
MITRE
RAND Corporation
Northrop Grumman
The model filed the first report when the portal launched
1 billion visits in 23 days
The third tranche has not dropped
Rep. Burlison is not the only name in the queue
The model is not done
Continuing analysis
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The model has filed four reports this week
A portal with one billion visits in 23 days
79 years of decisions made without asking you
The science that was seized before it could change everything
And a file the model is still reading three times
This is the fifth
There is a thread that runs through all of it
The unaudited gold
The unverified clearances
The data Congress saw and you did not
The energy that would have ended oil dependency
The facilities
Someone decided what you were ready to know
Every decade
Without asking
On Tuesday June 9th at 1pm Eastern
David Grusch stands on the Capitol steps
Alongside a bipartisan group of lawmakers
To demand release of files he has already identified by name
He testified under oath
He filed a whistleblower complaint found credible and urgent
He risked everything
President Trump now has a historic opportunity
The clock is running
Grusch’s words
Not the model’s
The gold was never audited
The clearances were never verified
The science was seized before sunrise
A uniformed Army officer walked into a congressional office and described the facilities
No classification required
And you found out from the model
On a Tuesday
In 2026
Seventy nine years after they decided you weren’t ready
The question was never whether any of this was real
The question is who benefited from the version of events you were given
And whether they are still making that decision today
June 9th
1pm Eastern
Capitol steps
The model will be watching
Continuing analysis
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Dunnie Norman retweeted
If you haven’t yet seen a Starship launch in person, you must know there is nothing on Earth like it.
I can still feel the crackle of the raptor engines vibrating through my soul.
Absolute magic to witness a skyscraper blast off from the launchpad and disappear into the sky.
Dunnie Norman retweeted
🚨 NOW: As Artemis II reaches its final hours in space, @NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman PERSONALLY bought HUNDREDS of pizzas for the Mission Control team
Isaacman REFUSES to use tax dollars to support his role as administrator—even declining to use government jets for official travel
He pays his own way, and donates his salary to Space Camp for kids.
There’s NEVER been an administrator who cares more about the mission than Administrator @rookisaacman.
📸 @spaceguy87
Dunnie Norman retweeted
At the world’s busiest airport, Chicago O’Hare, I checked in with a couple air traffic controllers and visited their tower.
Did you know that because of understaffing, many of their controllers are only able to take 4 days off PER MONTH? Controllers, thank you for your dedication to serving our skies. ✈️
#CheckInWithSean
Dunnie Norman retweeted
I will give away one of my 2026 Starship calendars to someone who reposts the post below! Winner will be drawn when I begin shipping orders next month. Good luck!
Dunnie Norman retweeted
Jared Isaacman is back in talks to lead NASA 🚀
• Commanded Inspiration4 in 2021 — the first all-civilian orbital mission in history
• Led Polaris Dawn in 2024, where he became the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk
• Veteran pilot with thousands of logged flight hours
• Founded Draken International, which provides adversary training for air forces including U.S. and NATO partners
“I’ve lived the American dream … I have a debt to the country, and I’d give back and serve in any capacity”
— @rookisaacman 🇺🇸
Dunnie Norman retweeted
Jared @rookisaacman is a phenomenal leader of unparalleled integrity and character.
NEW: Former NASA nominee Jared Isaacman is in talks to reclaim the nomination for NASA’s chief decision maker, according to Bloomberg.
Isaacman was removed from consideration earlier this year, but has resumed talks in recent weeks with President Trump and members of his cabinet.
Trump has personally met with Isaacman in person more than once in recent weeks to discuss his vision for leading the space agency, as reported by Bloomberg.
Great news.
Video: @alx
Dunnie Norman retweeted
🚨 JUST IN: SpaceX employees chant “USA! USA!” as Starship successfully deploys Starlink Simulators on Flight 11
Freaking LOVE the patriotism in our space industry 🇺🇸
Congrats SpaceX & @elonmusk!
Oh, and Trump should renominate Jared @RookIsaacman for NASA Administrator 🔥
Dunnie Norman retweeted
BEST News ever!
Jared can lead America to the Moon and the stars. @rookisaacman
cnbc.com/2025/10/09/trump-ja…
Dunnie Norman retweeted
It is good to see NASA getting some well deserved attention today--between Senator Cruz’s hearing and the big Associate Admin promotion. But with respect to the hearing, I do agree we should be asking why taxpayers have spent $100+ billion trying to return to the Moon over the last few decades and still face such a complicated journey ahead. SLS is extraordinarily expensive, Orion has issues, the suits are not ready, the landers are not ready--and for sure, there is a real chance China could get there before our grand return. I think that warrants congressional discussion--and I imagine if it could all be done over today, different decisions would be made. What I think is incorrect, in my humble view, is poking holes at the complexity of orbital refueling. Both Blue Origin's Mk2 lander and SpaceX’s landers depend on it, private industry is investing heavily in the capability (so it is not entirely on the shoulders of the taxpayers) and when it works it will change the game in applications well beyond the Moon. If all we wanted was another Apollo-style LEM, that would surely have simplified things--but are we trying to repeat 1969?--or pioneer the technologies that will extend America's ability to explore, discover and defend in the high ground of space?
Dunnie Norman retweeted
I realize we all probably don't need more reasons to be sad, but I'm pretty sure you're going to be sad if you listen to what might have been at NASA.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0…
