Cheryl LaPrade ✨
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Cheryl LaPrade ✨
@atmocheryl.space
🚀 Safety Engineer, Amentum @ NASA KSC (COMET)
🛰️ MS Space Systems Management '26 @ Florida Tech
💜 Twin: @AstroSherie.space
https://linktr.ee/AtmoCheryl
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!
December 31, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?
December 29, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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
December 15, 2024 at 9:48 PM
I absolutely LOVE reading these Annual Reports that #NASAKennedy publishes - full of their accomplishments, lots of gorgeous photos, & interesting articles 🤩 If you've never read one before, I highly recommend taking a look at the new 2024 edition! Download at this link: www.nasa.gov/kennedy/abou...
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Yes, VERY different... but still very cool! These photos were taken at KSC's Family Day last year, that my sister @astrosherie.space so nicely invited me and our parents to! #NASAKennedy
December 7, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Happy #Caturday from Kenzie, who still acts like a kitten even though she's 12 years old! How could you not love this face!? 🧡 #CatsOfBluesky #BlueCats
December 7, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Planning to be near the Space Coast on December 12? Join me and @astrosherie.space at the Cape AIAA Winter Dinner - 'Artemis Behind the Scenes: Why SLS & Orion?' featuring Dan Dumbacher, former NASA Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems. 🚀✨ Get tix here: tinyurl.com/capeaiaa-artem…
December 4, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Originally posted by @NASAKennedy on X:
"It's TWINS! 🚀🚀 The first two of 10 booster segments to be stacked for @NASA_SLS, the boosters will provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust during liftoff at Launch Pad 39B for the @NASAArtemis II mission." #BlueSpace #NASA
December 1, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Happy #Caturday to all who celebrate! 🧡🐾 Here's a short video of Kenzie cleaning her paw (because it's never clean enough)! #CatsOfBluesky
November 30, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Finally got the professional photos of @astrosherie.space and I from Reinvented Magazine's Space Gala and we love them so much!! 🤩 Such a great night! Can't wait to do it again next year! ✨ #SpaceGala #SpaceCoast #WomenInSTEM
November 29, 2024 at 1:47 PM
In addition to providing critical atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic, and climate data via the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) and the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM), GOES-19 also has the ability to detect and monitor solar and space data with a suite of instruments. (6/8)
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
The first step was reaching geostationary orbit, which GOES-U did on July 7 and was then renamed GOES-19. About a month after its launch, it arrived at what's called the 'checkout' location at 89.5 degrees W, where it underwent activation and started the post-launch testing phase. (2/8)
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
On June 25 this year I witnessed the launch of the new GOES-U satellite as part of the NASA Social event at Kennedy Space Center! It was a beautiful, successful launch (despite the heat & approaching storms)! If you're like me, you might be wondering what's happened since launch & what's next? (1/8)
November 27, 2024 at 2:38 PM
I know it's before Thanksgiving, but given the state of things, @astrosherie.space & I needed some light + joy in the house so all our holiday decorations are up already! ✨🎄 If you've already decorated too (regardless of which holiday), please share a photo or 2, we'd love to see it! #HappyHolidays
November 25, 2024 at 12:08 PM
Had an incredible time helping to host Space Happy Hour with @astrosherie.bsky.social, Hunter Hatchell, & Ali Jenkins on Thursday night at the Space Bar in Titusville! Had a great turn out despite the chilly weather (by Florida standards 😂). We're breaking for the holidays, but will be back in Jan!!
November 23, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Why not post another photo of my orange cat (Kenzie), it is Caturday after all!! 🧡 She wishes she could help you find the brain cell, but she's not currently using it! 😉
November 23, 2024 at 7:02 PM
You'd never know this absolute dumpling of a cat spends a good part of the day running around like a little T-Rex, biting Christmas trees, and meowing at the top of her lungs for attention lol - she acts more like 3 than 12 years old 😂 #CatsOfBlueSky #Kenzie
November 23, 2024 at 3:16 AM
If you're on the Space Coast, Space Happy Hour's next event is tomorrow (Thurs. Nov 21) at The Space Bar in Titusville! 🍻 Registration, a printable flyer for your company's break room, and all details on the event are on the website at the URL in the image. See you there!
#spaceindustry #networking
November 20, 2024 at 10:37 PM
This little kitty really loves Christmas... (she also loves to bite the fake branches and then make an icky mess on the floor afterwards, but that's a different story lol) ... and I really love her 🧡🐾
November 18, 2024 at 2:04 AM
These groups have not yet migrated to BlueSky, but if you want to find them, they are 'give her...SPACE' (on LinkedIn), AIAA Cape Canaveral (on Insta/X/FB), and Space Happy Hour - Space Coast (on Insta/X/FB). I've you're local to the Space Coast, hopefully we'll see you at an event soon!
November 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
...and since everything I'm doing lately revolves around the aerospace industry, I'm now volunteering with 3 awesome groups along with my twin sister @astrosherie.bsky.social and having so much fun! Here are a few photos from some of the fun events I've participated in recently!
November 17, 2024 at 8:33 PM
If you're a woman in (or want to be in) aerospace & looking for a great group of women to share your career highs and lows with, you should join 'give her...SPACE!' ✨ a group of women looking to support other women in an industry that's traditionally male dominated.
www.linkedin.com/groups/13123...
November 16, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Oh, what I wouldn't give to be 12 years old again for a day living back in the northwestern hills of Rhode Island - these were the type of storms I lived for as a kid! ❄️ ☃️
February 12, 2024 at 2:08 PM
FYI, for anyone planning to apply for the next round of the NASA Pathways program (for positions starting in Fall) - NASA has posted that applications will be open from Feb 26th - Mar 1st! Be sure to update your resume on www.usajobs.gov - I'll be applying, too!! 🚀✨ More details in the next post...
February 12, 2024 at 1:06 AM
This profile would not be complete without an adorable photo of my fuzzy, rolly-polly, green-eyed best friend, Kenzie! She's turning 12 in about 4 months - crazy! 🐾 😻
February 11, 2024 at 9:12 PM