PI Daily, August 2022
By Lindy Elkins-Tanton Starting January 1, 2020…
a new series of daily mission activity Tweets from Psyche Principal Investigator (PI) Lindy Elkins-Tanton.
#PI_Daily
The goal? To share an inside look at the chores, challenges, tasks, assignments, duties, and more taken on by a NASA mission PI!
Follow along on @MissionToPsyche or below.
So right about the risks and benefits of the "aerospace cavalry"…so we are working extra hard on comms and support for the @MissionToPsyche team now, hoping to make us even stronger and better.
Thanks for the review of PORTRAIT, @jeff_foust! #PI_Daily https://t.co/HWAxhvW4SV pic.twitter.com/GcZ94me8K6— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 23, 2022
We've been trying, with #PI_Daily, to get some word out. And there are great books out there about missions. Also there are real mission Legos!
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 22, 2022
Thanks for a great all-team meeting this morning, @MissionToPsyche, with 210 people coming online to talk about communications and next steps. Go Psyche! #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/UNMMx1xKZZ
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 19, 2022
Check out our Psyche asteroid surface analogs! #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche https://t.co/TSFM6nxV36
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 17, 2022
I’m back at @NASAJPL for a week of reschedule/rebudget/restaff planning the @MissionToPsyche work to go for a possible (hoped for, not approved) launch next year. Here’s my favorite Arizona flowering bush, abundant after the recent rains. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/oj7sLDvP4S
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 15, 2022
Our beautiful @MissionToPsyche space bird is living in a quiet country place right now, down this verdant road. I’m flying back to Phoenix in the morning. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/C7eygFOlH1
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 12, 2022
What a gift to see our beautiful space bird and listen in on some system testing today at @NASAKennedy. #PI_Daily @MissionToPsyche pic.twitter.com/9NRC6JmgSK
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 10, 2022
Boarded for Orlando to visit the @MissionToPsyche ATLO team and our beautiful spacecraft.
Photo of a tree fortuitously catching the sunrise during my early jog this morning. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/Zy3RoYIOne
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 9, 2022
One last day in western MA, then back to AZ, on to FL to be with the @MissionToPsyche ATLO team, then to CA to work with the JPL part of the team. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/oAs1qhVSl5
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 6, 2022
Thank you @LaurieofMars for leading off our meeting with the @MissionToPsyche ATLO team in Florida, to cheer them on and answer their questions! What a beautiful spacecraft they are completing and getting ready to store right now. #PI_Daily pic.twitter.com/mSOCadyEuZ
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 4, 2022
Such good news for our sister mission @LucyMission! GO Lucy! #PI_Daily https://t.co/DAnWixANF8
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 4, 2022
Yesterday was tough for team @MissionToPsyche. Aug. 1 was the day we hoped our beautiful spacecraft would leave the Earth. We worked beyond exhaustion, trying to make it. So this is for you, @MissionToPsyche team! You are the best. And we're hoping for 2023. #PI_Daily
— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 2, 2022
186 ppl now for @MissionToPsyche's 2xweekly all-team.
– Completing spacecraft and validation & verification of the flight software (going well)
– Create a re-plan & re-org in hopes of approval for 2023 launch
– Support Independent Review Team
Keep the faith, go Psyche! #PI_Daily— Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins) August 1, 2022