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Sherie LaPrade 🚀
@astrosherie.space
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🚀 Engineer @ NASA KSC - LSP
🛰️ MS Space Systems Mgmt '25 @ FIT
💜 Twin: @AtmoCheryl.space
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Sherie LaPrade 🚀 @astrosherie.space · Nov 19
Just over a month ago, NASA launched the Europa Clipper mission 🛰 It's a mission that I'd been following for years & while it's not "my" mission, it was my mentor's, so I was lucky enough to help along the fringes & see some pretty cool things! It was also my 1st time in the clean room! (1/4)
Me dress head to toe in a dark blue "bunny suit", hood, and surgical mask just after going to visit Europa Clipper in the clean room!
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atmocheryl.space
Starting my internship at Amentum today, working out at Kennedy Space Center, has me feeling a bit like this, honestly ... been waiting so long for today 🚀✨🤩
two astronauts are walking on the moon in a black and white photo .
ALT: two astronauts are walking on the moon in a black and white photo .
media.tenor.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
astrosherie.space
Raw confession time... the last three weeks have been the hardest of my life. I was diagnosed with Crohn's in July and had been on meds that kept me stable until the last few months. I knew it was common to fail your meds on Crohn's but I had no idea it would be so spectacular when I did. (1/2)
March 29, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
We live in an age when commercial spacecraft are flying around the Moon and we're getting views of our homeworld like this one.

Simply incredible.

View from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, scheduled to touch down Sunday in Mare Crisium on the Moon!

Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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cait.bsky.social
i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there
January 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Do yourself a favour and open up this photo.

Indulge in the absurd beauty of comets.

This is Comet C/2021 A1 Leonard, photographed by Michael Jäger in 2021. The tail, millions of km long, shows a region of greater density from when part of the comet nucleus disintegrated about 10 days before.
January 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
This is one of my most favourite photos of Saturn.

The small icy moon Mimas, floating in space above the giant planet itself, crossed by shadows of Saturn's vast ring system.

NASA Photojournal image PIA06176, taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 18 January 2005.
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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atmocheryl.space
Well, we finally let down our guard one too many times and after 2.5 years since my and @astrosherie.space's first round of COVID, it's finally caught us a second time ... really didn't miss feeling this sick 🤧🤒😫
a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket and a pillow .
ALT: a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket and a pillow .
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January 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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genejm1017.bsky.social
Here's a run down of the science instruments via #NASA on the #FireflySpace #BlueGhost1 Mission - science.nasa.gov/lunar-scienc...
TO19D Science Payloads - NASA Science
NASA's TO19D will deliver 10 NASA CLPS science payloads to Mare Crisium on the Moon aboard Firefly's Blue Ghost 1 lander.
science.nasa.gov
January 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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sungrazercomets.bsky.social
Truly a stunning tail on this comet, as seen by our @esa.int / NASA SOHO/LASCO camera! 😍☀️🔭☄️
dermuehle.bsky.social Wolfgang Muehle @dermuehle.bsky.social · Jan 13
Comet C_2024 G3 (ATLAS) orange filter from
33817929.fts 2025/01/13 08:42:12 C3
January 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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atmocheryl.space
After @astrosherie.space and I lost our beloved Katniss earlier this month, we decided to adopt this beautiful furbaby that we've named Katie...already now known as also Katie-Kat, Katie Cane, Katie the Koala & the Velveteen Rabbit (very soft)! She is scared but sweet & has claimed the linen closet!
Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old. Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old. Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old, curled up in the linen closet.
December 31, 2024 at 7:11 PM
astrosherie.space
Sadly, @atmocheryl.space & I had to say goodbye to our sweet, beautiful Katniss last night. She was 14 and battling recent lymphoma. She had the best purrs & adorable cheeps & saw us through 3 moves, our B.S. degrees & a million memories. She's completely irreplaceable & we will miss her forever! 🌈😇
A four grid layout of pictures of Katniss, a beautiful orange and white fluffy cat. In the top left she is laying on her heating mat, in the bottom left, she is sitting in the tube of a small cat tree with her white paws dangling out the front. In the top right she is sleeping, curled up on her heating mat with her white chin up. In the bottom right she is curled in a bun on her heating mat, staring up at the camera, her fluffy tail on full display!
December 17, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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atmocheryl.space
LOL love this so much! Here are my and @astrosherie.space's girls! Katniss on the left and Kenzie on the right - not a brain cell between the two of them (what did you expect, they're orange?!) #CatsOfBluesky ... Credit to @daralind.bsky.social ✨
4 quadrant cat political alignment chart that runs from "no crimes" on the left to "crimes" on the right and "brain" at the top to "no brain" at the bottom. Both kitties are at the bottom near "no brain" but Katniss is closer to "no crimes" and Kenzie is closer to "crimes"
December 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
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atmocheryl.space
Just for fun? What's the oldest song in your Christmas collection (if you listen to Christmas music)? @astrosherie.space & I listen to lots of modern songs but we do have several in our list from the 1950's, one of the oldest is Kay Starr's "The Man with the Bag" 🎅, still one of our very favorites!
a black and white photo of a man and woman holding a little girl .
Alt: a black and white scene from "It's a Wonderful Life" of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey holding their daughter, Zuzu, a little girl wearing a nightgown and holding an ornament
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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thegalacticgal.bsky.social
AHHHHH it’s finally time!!! I just published my exclusive interview with the one and only Dr. Jill Tarter, founder of @setiinstitute.bsky.social, renowned astronomer, and the inspiration behind Ellie Arroway’s character in Carl Sagan’s Contact 👽
Talking Aliens, Carl Sagan, and SETI's Future with Jill Tarter
YouTube video by Camille Bergin
youtu.be
December 14, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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spacemarschall.net
Lucy had a successful Earth Gravity Assist a few hours ago.
What does that mean? There's no turning back now; we are officially on our way to the Trojans! Next "stops" asteroid Donaldjohanson in Apr. 2025, and Trojan Eurybates in Aug. 2027.

I can't describe how excited I am! 🥳🧪🔭🚀🛰️
whereislucy.space
Top-down view on the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Earth. The trajectory of Lucy is drawn in solid red. The future trajectory in dashed red. It shows the path from the Earth through the Main Asteroid Belt to the L4 Trojans of Jupiter. Source: https://blogs.nasa.gov/lucy/
December 13, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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hbhammel.bsky.social
HUGE congrats to the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Telescope team on achieving a Major Milestone: the Instrument Payload Assembly (IPA) is complete! Screen grab from twitter - and here's the official NASA link for more details: go.nasa.gov/3DdTRfV
Screen grab from twitter showing an announcement and several pictures of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope spacecraft and hardware in the High Bay at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, after the team completed a major milestone: completing the assembly of the Instrument payload, including the wide field camera and the coronograph.
December 12, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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stim3on.bsky.social
After several months of climbing up the steep slopes of the Jezero crater rim, Perseverance has reached the top!
The afternoon sun provides a spectacular view on landscape which the rover will explore soon! 🔭

Full panorama: www.360cities.net/image/marsro...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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geoshanz.bsky.social
New #NASA press release on the investigation into Ingenuity’s 🚁 final flight and what may have caused the damage:

🧪 #PlanetaryScience
NASA Performs First Aircraft Accident Investigation on Another World - NASA
The review takes a close look the final flight of the agency’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which was the first aircraft to fly on another world.
www.nasa.gov
December 12, 2024 at 1:19 AM
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atmocheryl.space
Got to see the launch of this cool mission in 2021 w/ @astrosherie.space - awesome to see it swing back around again!

At 11:15 pm, Dec 12, Lucy will make its closest approach... about 220 miles above the ocean west of CA... and will streak over N. America in only 7 minutes!
youtu.be/lIhF82kVjzk?...
Lucy Spacecraft’s Second Slingshot of Earth
YouTube video by NASA Goddard
youtu.be
December 11, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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stuartatkinson.bsky.social
It looks like Perseverance has reached the top of the rim of Jezero Crater. Look at that gorgeous view...! Images Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S Atkinson
View from the top of one section of the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, taken by the Mars rover Perseverance. View from the top of one section of the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, taken by the Mars rover Perseverance. View from the top of one section of the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars, taken by the Mars rover Perseverance.
December 11, 2024 at 9:58 AM
astrosherie.space
obsessed with NCIS Origins... It's darker, broodier, and digging into all the right places, this 1 episode per week thing is killing @atmocheryl.space and I though
Mariel Molino as Cecilia “Lala” Dominguez and Austin Stowell as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in NCIS Origins Robert Voets/CBS ©2024 CBS Broadcasting, Inc.
December 11, 2024 at 2:26 AM
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amyraehill.bsky.social
Bam! 💥
Inside of kiln showing dusty white bisque before firing. This shows two stacks of shelves. Inside of kiln showing colorful space ceramics after firing. This shows two stacks of shelves. Inside of kiln showing dusty white bisque before firing. This shows the bottom layer of pottery. Inside of kiln showing colorful space ceramics after firing. This shows the bottom layer of pottery.
December 10, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
A new JWST deep field.

All the eight-sided features are local stars in the Milky Way.

Everything else is a galaxy.

EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY.
December 10, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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timosbornclim.bsky.social
A reminder that liking a post on bsky doesn't make it appear on your followers feed in the same way that it did on X.

If you think your followers may be interested in a post, then please do re-post it don't just like it.
December 10, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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morgandenman.bsky.social
Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar
The iconic Mars exploration duo, Perseverance and Ingenuity 🧡

#sciart #spaceart
A vertically oriented rectangular mission patch with a thick, saturated red-orange border and a thin black inner border. The patch shows a linear illustration of the Perseverance Rover toward the bottom center in shades of white, green, orange, and blue. The ingenuity mars helicopter is shown at the top center of the patch and illustrated in the same style and colors. Behind the illustrations of Perseverance and Ingenuity are concentric triangles expanding from the center toward the outside of the patch, with the tip of the triangles coming together at the bottom of the ingenuity helicopter. From the outer triangle to the inner triangle, the colors of the triangles are red-orange, yellow-orange, green, and blue. Behind that are concentric circles, starting at the bottom of the patch and expanding upward. From bottom to top, the circles are yellow-orange, white, green, then blue.
December 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM