Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865).

The Apollo program - 1961-1972

Two Weeks after NASA's SLS rocket took off with the Artemis II Crew towards the moon, the Crawler Transporter has rolled back under the Mobile Launch 1 Tower ahead of rollback towards the Vehicle Assembly Building ahead of stacking of the SLS rocket for Artemis III.
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Earth crescent showing over the horizon of the moon.

The famously terse entry for “Earth” in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy was wrong in one important way.

There’s nothing “unremarkable” about our home.

Ah, I see what you were saying now!

Thank you @planetarysociety.bsky.social and @billnyetho.bsky.social

First Shuttle launch Columbia 1981 YouTube video by Bob Parker

45 years ago today the first space shuttle, Columbia, launched with Astronauts John Young and Bob Crippen on board.

It was the only time that the first flight of a spacecraft was with astronauts on board.

youtu.be/Pt6Bt1pZ4Is?...

Excellent opinion piece about the loss of NASA science funding and work.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff.

This explains it!

(IG: morganevelyncook)

That’s evangelicals, not Catholics.

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

The Cartwheel Galaxy from the James Webb Space Telescope.

As excited as we are (and should be) about Artemis II and returning astronauts to deep space, we should not lose sight of how much NASA has accomplished in the last 53 years.

Many probes, Hubble, the JWST, COBE, and so on...

#NASA #SpaceScience

A background image of a ranger looking out over a sunset. A large graphic of a jolly ranger with the words: resistance rangers is over a text box, that says, "This post is for the rangers who follow us thinking about the new “buyout”. (niche content alert! sorry the public, we love you anyways)"

Often we speak to the public, but today - we're talking to you, ranger friends. Another week, another (our third!) buy-out attempt, or "deferred resignation"/fork in the road email.

#ArtemisII has splashed down safely!

Coming in soon— welcome back home, crew.

The Orion capsule with the #Artemis II astronauts is now on its final trajectory for re-entry. Angle and trajectory all good. Hoping the re-entry goes smoothly!

Hooray!!

NASA NASA.gov brings you the latest news, images and videos from America's space agency, pioneering the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.

Splashdown coming soon! www.nasa.gov

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❓ What do you call it when Congress appropriates funds — and bureaucrats just… sit on the money instead of funding lifesaving HIV/AIDS programs?

🤔 Waste. Fraud. Abuse.

(Also known as: immoral assholery, if we’re being honest.)

Action: 5calls.org/issue/pepfar...

Thank you! Jupiter is stunning without AI

History will not be erased!! ❤️

Side-by-side meme format. Left panel labeled “How it started:” shows three news headlines on a dark background: “Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites” (404 Media, Feb 4, 2025); “NASA Websites No Longer Promote ‘First Woman’ on the Moon for Artemis” (Orlando Sentinel); and “NASA Wipes Vow to Land Woman on Moon from Website Amid Trump DEI Purge” (Axios, Mar 25, 2025). Right panel labeled “How it’s going:” shows a dramatic photo of an astronaut’s silhouette gazing at Earth through a spacecraft window.

Three black-and-white portrait photographs of Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson, African American mathematicians and engineers who made significant contributions to NASA's space program in the 1950s and 1960s.

NASA official portrait of astronaut Sally Ride in her blue flight suit (left), and a recent photograph of Tam O'Shaughnessy, Ride's life partner of 27 years, science educator, and co-founder of Sally Ride Science (right).

Astronaut Victor Glover gazes at Earth through a spacecraft window aboard Artemis II, his silhouette illuminated against the vivid blue and white curve of the planet below.

You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls

But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes

Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀

Image posted by astronomybot

Planetary nebula NGC 2899
Image date: 23 April 2025, 16:00


This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899. This object has a diagonal, bipolar, cylindrical outflow of gas. This is propelled by radiation and stellar winds from a nearly 22 000 deg...

Members of the International Space Station Expedition 74 (left) including ESA's Sophie Adenot (on right of first screen) and Artemis II crew (right) are seen on screens inside the Space Station flight control room in Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The two crews were connected in a 15-minute video call on 7 April 2026, while the Artemis II crew was on its way back from the Moon.

✅ #Artemis II update: Day 9, Orion travelling at 4944 km/h, 212 895 km from Earth and 227 844 km from the Moon. Image shows yesterday's ship-to-ship call with members of Space Station Expedition 74 (pic: NASA). Track at nasa.gov/missions/art...

@exploration.esa.int @fr.esa.int

Having a hard time correlating these two social media postings issued hours apart by the White House when it comes to humanity's readiness to expand outward and explore the cosmos. Just sayin' #AdAstra?

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medusaglare › Artemis I| 7h @ Threads i thought i stopped caring about space. turns out I was just sick of SpaceX, not NASA. • 18.3K Q145 G807ł → 143

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

Yes, unfortunately. The Goddard library is empty and locked. Currently the purging has stopped due to a lawsuit, but that’s not a win yet.

The Artemis II mission seems good because it is.

People seem excited by it because they are.

It looks like a testament to the value of teamwork because it needs many people working together to succeed, and it’s succeeding.

One of the best things about this is how straightforward it is. Authentic.

It’s really a 💩 situation.