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Ooooooof what an insane way to send 4 people and some gear to the moon

Who said Elon Musk 😭😭😭

We found this as well, the ARD project logo!

I think every nation that has any cooperation with the US feels the same. It's a huge risk.

Namibia's biggest salt pan, spanning roughly 130 km. In this Copernicus Sentinel-2 false-colour image of Etosha Pan, vegetation appears red and water in shades of blue. Look closely and you'll spot red patches on the salt pan itself, suggesting vegetation is present. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Have to agree with Derek here. SLS took Artemis I around Earth and to the Moon on its first try; New Glenn reached orbit on its first attempt. This is Starship's 14th flight. It's a milestone for the company, yes.

It’s honestly not even that amazing of an achievement. It took Starship 14 flights to accomplish the bare minimum expected of a launch vehicle, and even then it’s not exactly been a smooth flight.

I really wonder when the first starship will be stranded in orbit, becoming a ticking time bomb for everything down on earth. This rocket is gigantic and neither safe nor reliable.

🔭 Analemma over the Callanish Stones Image Credit & Copyright: Giuseppe Petricca ap260920

NASA released a bunch of 16 and 35mm film engineering footage of the Artemis II launch today. Naturally I knew what I had to do with it.

#NASARoman activated the Wide Field Instrument—a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow it to explore wide swaths of the cosmos quickly. This test image captures the very first photons of starlight to reach the instrument—taken as an initial performance assessment: https://go.nasa.gov/4rg4qEc

NASA celebrated its employee’s journey from living under a bridge to the agency. Later, her profile was erased, and 20 days later she was fired timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/spac... | Via Times of India

I cannot wait 👀

So... Can anybody explain why the second stage engine is getting spanked by cables?

I'm ready for quantum enabled interferometry 👀

#PPOD: A Snowy Day in the Atacama ❄️ Snow blankets Cerro Armazones in Chile’s normally dry Atacama Desert as low clouds surround the dome of ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope. A drone captured the unusual scene on August 19. 🧪 🔭

"later this year" I heard this almost every year since 2016... Maybe they should stop announcing launch dates until it's really ready.

Your advocacy works! Congress just passed a bill that delays a rule that would've fundamentally changed how science is done in the United States, by handing power over research funding to political appointees instead of scientists. Learn more and get updates: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

Yesterday @esa.int and ispace-EUROPE celebrated a key milestone for MAGPIE, set to become Europe's first rover on the Moon 🌕 Launching in 2029, the rover will investigate lunar resources which could support a sustained human presence on the Moon 💧👨‍🚀. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

That's a wrap! 🎬 Thanks for sharing this special moment with us. Stay tuned for more ESA adventures. #EuropeanSolarEclipse

#EuropeanSolarEclipse

It would be incredible to see this in a low orbit with our own eyes ✨

🔭 Barnards Loop over Twin Volcanoes Image Credit & Copyright: Gonzalo Laserna Vargas ap260728

It's very impressive what they are doing, but shall we keep in mind that this is being "sold" as a human rated fully and rapidly re-usable system ? Ie. few booster engines still didnt start during landing burn, smashing the booster into the ocean and Starship still has damaged TPS after landing.

"Day 139, orbit 2155 — 🤩 Watching this glowing green ribbon shimmer and dance, it's easy to lose yourself completely in the magic of the moment. Turn the sound on for the full experience 💚", says @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. #εpsilon 🎥 ESA/NASA

I, too, like coming up with mad ideas I can't afford

Funding: Everything else at NASA Goodbye science.

It's funny, we found 3 helicopters for the Skyfall mission ( something Planetary didn't ask for) BUT we could not find the money for Two helicopters for the Mars Sample Return Mission which IS something they wanted & was a Decadal Survey priority.

Mengzhou crew spacecraft airdrop test out of a Y-20 transport aircraft. The first orbital flight for Mengzhou could come later this year on the Long March 10A.

It's such a beautiful rocket! So minimalistic

Such a beautiful rocket 🚀

🧪Progress made in building a senescence atlas to help map #aging and develop strategies to combat the detrimental effects that contribute to disease and distinct natural aging. Are senolytics the answer, if senescence is a defence against cancer? @cellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Revised Artemis lunar lander plans take shape NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue Origin and SpaceX are taking to accelerate work on Artemis lunar landers....

I am sure that all the astronauts in the newly announced Artemis crew are eminently qualified and I don't in any way wish to detract from their accomplishments but I think it would have been a nice progression if the crews of each of the five Artemis missions included more women than the one before.

The Exploration Company has completed an initial drop test to validate the recovery system of its Nyx spacecraft ahead of a planned 2028 demonstration mission to the International Space Station. europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...

Update from Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp on the status of New Glenn: " We will fly by the end of this year." : x.com/davill/statu...

I'm just waiting until Elon convinces Trump to rename the Gulf of Mexico again, but this time to the Gulf of Mars. it's the only way starship will visit "Mars" anytime soon 👀

No, no... Let the billionaires fly around mars! According to musk we can fit up to 100 billionaires into one starship. With around 35 starships we can launch every billionaire on earth to mars and beyond! This is a goal I can get behind! ☺️

By classifying galaxy shapes, scientists can learn about a galaxy's history and understand more about how the Universe came to be the way it is. The more galaxies you help classify, the more we learn!🔭🧪 Get involved with science using Rubin data at www.zooniverse.org/projects/zoo...

📸 JUST IN: New images of the Smile mission launch, today, on Vega-C #VV29. (Pic: ESA - S. Corvaja, ESA-CNES-AVIO \ Optique Video de CSG P. Piron, J. Georget) @transport.esa.int @science.esa.int @cnes.fr

Is this Mars?

Yes. Apart from the clouds of Venus, Titan is the only place in the solar system that doesn't require pressure suits for human habitation. And on Titan you only need to worry about the temperature and not the risk of falling into acid clouds 👀

New Ultra-Black Coating Could Enable the Search for Life on Exoplanets science.nasa.gov/science-rese... via NASA

Fun to see some clear Hermes design influences... (Dassault being heavily involved with Hermes back in the day)