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Not being on anyone's short list for this role is exactly why I'm getting in the fight. D.C. insiders are calling the shots and we've ended up with chaos and corruption on one side and ineffective leadership on the other.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
Former Astronaut Launches Texas Senate Run by Hitting Both Parties
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Not being on anyone's short list for this role is exactly why I'm getting in the fight. D.C. insiders are calling the shots and we've ended up with chaos and corruption on one side and ineffective leadership on the other.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/u...
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i want to emphasize how these themes — that government should be a force for good, that huge teams of people working together are necessary to make it work, and that being part of one of those teams is incredibly meaningful — are universal in every conversation i've had for this series.
March 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i want to emphasize how these themes — that government should be a force for good, that huge teams of people working together are necessary to make it work, and that being part of one of those teams is incredibly meaningful — are universal in every conversation i've had for this series.
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Using public data, I've found 40 NASA contracts totaling $42M canceled in the past few days, impacting climate science, DEI, education, and administration activities. $25.2M was already paid out, so resulting savings is $17 million. Running list of cancelations here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
March 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Using public data, I've found 40 NASA contracts totaling $42M canceled in the past few days, impacting climate science, DEI, education, and administration activities. $25.2M was already paid out, so resulting savings is $17 million. Running list of cancelations here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Beautiful shot captured yesterday by Curiosity in the canyon between Gould Mesa and Texoli Butte
#Mars Mar. 18, 2025 (Sol 4484) 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
#Mars Mar. 18, 2025 (Sol 4484) 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
March 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Beautiful shot captured yesterday by Curiosity in the canyon between Gould Mesa and Texoli Butte
#Mars Mar. 18, 2025 (Sol 4484) 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
#Mars Mar. 18, 2025 (Sol 4484) 🧪🔭
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
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The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
March 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey.
I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...
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March 17, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
March 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon.
At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous).
And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.
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One more--this is just so cool:
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
March 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One more--this is just so cool:
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪
fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...
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The nominated NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman does not appear positioned to fight for the agency.
"People shouldn't waste heartbeats on rumor and speculation." followed just 2 days later by the exact rumors coming to fruition with the agency not even trying to fight back.
"People shouldn't waste heartbeats on rumor and speculation." followed just 2 days later by the exact rumors coming to fruition with the agency not even trying to fight back.
March 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The nominated NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman does not appear positioned to fight for the agency.
"People shouldn't waste heartbeats on rumor and speculation." followed just 2 days later by the exact rumors coming to fruition with the agency not even trying to fight back.
"People shouldn't waste heartbeats on rumor and speculation." followed just 2 days later by the exact rumors coming to fruition with the agency not even trying to fight back.
Tesla is currently experiencing a RIF in valuation
March 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tesla is currently experiencing a RIF in valuation
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Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.
February 27, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.
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This is what the surface of a comet looks like.
February 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This is what the surface of a comet looks like.
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An important part of our job as NASA Astronauts is to inspire our next generation of space explorers. We can't accomplish that mission if we can only connect with a fraction of the kids in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/s...
NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I. (Gift Article)
The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump administration.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 3:07 PM
An important part of our job as NASA Astronauts is to inspire our next generation of space explorers. We can't accomplish that mission if we can only connect with a fraction of the kids in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/s...
So long Twitter, and good riddance
February 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So long Twitter, and good riddance
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The other reason most likely is that they are not sure if Endurance will be ready in time. There were doubts about this from the beginning, hence the references to spacecraft readiness, FRR in first announcement. Some internal mission ops voices apparently said "April" without cutting corners...
NASA has backed off from plans to hold a pair of news briefings Monday for the upcoming Exp. 73 missions to the ISS, with the Crew-10 mission briefing delayed to at least March 7. No reason given, but maybe NASA doesn't want to talk about the ISS right now…
February 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The other reason most likely is that they are not sure if Endurance will be ready in time. There were doubts about this from the beginning, hence the references to spacecraft readiness, FRR in first announcement. Some internal mission ops voices apparently said "April" without cutting corners...
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I was the Commander of the @ISS when Andy, @Astro_Andreas flew his first space mission. He is one of the most competent, trustworthy, and honest people I’ve ever met. This rhetoric is beyond the pale but, sadly, not surprising. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect.
February 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
I was the Commander of the @ISS when Andy, @Astro_Andreas flew his first space mission. He is one of the most competent, trustworthy, and honest people I’ve ever met. This rhetoric is beyond the pale but, sadly, not surprising. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect.
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Lucky shot on my way home from the National Portrait Gallery: the Washington Monument with the crescent moon (my fave phase!) right next to Venus. I’m choosing to see this as a good omen from the universe (🤞).
February 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Lucky shot on my way home from the National Portrait Gallery: the Washington Monument with the crescent moon (my fave phase!) right next to Venus. I’m choosing to see this as a good omen from the universe (🤞).
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Friends, I've been thinking about this for a few years now, but the events this week have made it clear that now is the time.
It's time to work to establish a professional planetary science society in the United States.
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It's time to work to establish a professional planetary science society in the United States.
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February 1, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Friends, I've been thinking about this for a few years now, but the events this week have made it clear that now is the time.
It's time to work to establish a professional planetary science society in the United States.
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It's time to work to establish a professional planetary science society in the United States.
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Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its way to the Moon just took this pretty awesome Blue Marble image of Earth.
January 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its way to the Moon just took this pretty awesome Blue Marble image of Earth.
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Looks like Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS’s days may be numbered… the comet has faded & may have broken up post-perihelion as the nucleus fades from view, leaving a ‘tail-less wonder’ crossing the sky. Here's a great parting view w/ESO’s Paranal Observatory by Yuri Beletsky: www.instagram.com/p/DFF3LKtpIz4/
January 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Looks like Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS’s days may be numbered… the comet has faded & may have broken up post-perihelion as the nucleus fades from view, leaving a ‘tail-less wonder’ crossing the sky. Here's a great parting view w/ESO’s Paranal Observatory by Yuri Beletsky: www.instagram.com/p/DFF3LKtpIz4/
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Just don't expect this in four years. This is long been the objective of the #Artemis program, going to the Moon to work out technology in getting to Mars, despite what a certain billionaire thinks, humanity hasn't been interplanetary in 50+ yrs. Mars is a bigger nut to crack than the Moon.
"We will pursue our manifest detinty into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars." President Trump in his inaugural address just now.
January 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Just don't expect this in four years. This is long been the objective of the #Artemis program, going to the Moon to work out technology in getting to Mars, despite what a certain billionaire thinks, humanity hasn't been interplanetary in 50+ yrs. Mars is a bigger nut to crack than the Moon.
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a reminder that in his first term he said the US would put astronauts on the Moon in 2024 and we are still years away
President Trump vowed to send American astronauts to the planet Mars in his inaugural address, envisioning a moment when the U.S. flag is planted on Martian soil
Trump Vows to Send American Astronauts to Mars
President Trump vowed to send American astronauts to the planet Mars in his inaugural address, envisioning a moment when the U.S. flag is planted on Martian soil. “We will pursue our manifest destiny…
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
a reminder that in his first term he said the US would put astronauts on the Moon in 2024 and we are still years away
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The idea is to have choices, and not put our heavy lift booster eggs in one boosters basket. I'd also argue that the US taxpayer deserves its own heavy lift booster and not have it's space program be at the mercy of the billionaire class. ( Ugly truth but there it is.)
January 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The idea is to have choices, and not put our heavy lift booster eggs in one boosters basket. I'd also argue that the US taxpayer deserves its own heavy lift booster and not have it's space program be at the mercy of the billionaire class. ( Ugly truth but there it is.)