In Texas with the Kent State student team for the International Rocket Engineering Competition, and now I've experienced my first thunderduststorm!
6x timelapse from my hotel window.

More progress on the satellite assembly cleanroom. Therval-vacuum oven training/commissioning next week. Helmholtz cage control system work this summer. 6U cubesat chassis in-house fabrication starts next week.

Spacecraft Design Lab getting a cleanroom addition! Hallway passersby will be able to look in and see the hardware we're assembling (soon, Kent State's FlashSat-1 student-built satellite.)

Well happy spring to you too, Ohio.

Class prop catastrophe!
"KHHHAAANNNNnnnnn!!!"

I would have gone with, "Trinity" for the center one.

And now it's... not?

Found while browsing the local used bookstore, Last Exit. This text describes what came to be known as the Aldrin Cycler, an interplanetary ferry that would use a periodic, minimal energy orbit between Earth and Mars, to move astronauts and supplies between the two worlds in a sustainable(ish) way.

Very proud of this student team for diving right in to the hard work of designing and building an actual satellite!
I stole a couple minutes at the beginning to establish one major rule:
Anyone must be empowered to throw the BS flag. Groupthink is a huge threat to success, and sadly, pervasive.

Downtown #Cleveland on a cold, misty January evening. Cathedral of St. John the Apostle.

When you need to fix a Mansfield toilet tank fill valve and don't have time for Prime shipping.

The Kent AEB is getting some sun this morning!

Spotted Wall-E's cousin working as a food runner in an Albuquerque hotel!