NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Koch, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, April 10 at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here

he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor

and still, they threw him out

and you know what? they did it by voting

don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

That’s what this lady next to me is doing too!

It’s very sad when you are about to hop on a 5 hour flight and when you open your AirPod case the little buds ARENT INSIDE 😭

I’ve made lots of progress made on my cozy building game:

🌳🏡Island Architect🏡🌳.

Therefor time for a new gameplay collage for #screenshotsaturday!

#indiegame #gamedev #indiegamedev

portland commute

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

huge thank you to everyone involved in this mission for reminding us of the best of humanity and I am tremendously glad it all went off as planned

space is pretty cool and so, in many cases, are people

The start of the pandemic overlapped with the the huge protests and unrest in 2019-2020 so they are quite entangled.

Oh my. I checked. It's real.

Japanese media attempts to explain Taco 🌮 Trump.

Photograph of bluebells in the forest. Hallerbos, near Brussels.

Photograph of bluebells in the forest. Hallerbos, near Brussels.

Photograph of bluebells in the forest. Hallerbos, near Brussels.

Photograph of bluebells in the forest. Hallerbos, near Brussels.

More enchantment from Belgium's Blue Forest.

This is Chewy. He loves to help his grandma garden. She can’t kneel down to dig holes anymore, but that’s his favorite part, so they're a perfect team. 14/10 (TT: chewythenewfie)

a joyful golden retriever mid-sprint through green grass under a canopy of pink cherry blossoms

i feel like you all need this

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Beautiful

Spectacular images taken by the Artemis II crew of earthset and the eclipse. Just incredible. NASA posts them here and it’s free to access: images.nasa.gov

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

There is something about seeing our planet as a literal tiny speck in space that viscerally shifts one’s perspective, us know? We are all we’ve got

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

This disproves a lot of right wing ideas about the causes of the decline in marriage rates

A tub of Nutella floating around the capsule. Thanks to Artemis II that's the furthest a tub of Nutella has been from Earth. #Artemisii #Artemis

Right? I didn't know about his personal story and just looked it up. She didn't want him to give up his dream when she got diagnosed. Gosh.

Nothing more human than crying with the astronauts as they name a moon crater Carroll after the commander's wife (who was lost to cancer a few years ago), just before they surpass the record for furthest any human has been from Earth.

A chart from al Jazeera showing the crew of the Artemis II (and the ROCKET itself). They are Reid Wiseman, 50. Victor glover, 49. Christina Koch, 47. Jeremy Hansen, 50.

People wanna say you're washed up by middle age, but the YOUNGEST person on this moon mission is 47.

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

Red tulips at RoozenGaarde in Mt Vernon, about an hour north of Seattle

Closeup of red tulips with a white edge that looks more like a peony at RoozenGaarde in Mt Vernon, about an hour north of Seattle

Yellow tulips (foxy trot) at RoozenGaarde in Mt Vernon, about an hour north of Seattle

Multi color collection of a planted tulip display garden at RoozenGaarde in Mt Vernon, about an hour north of Seattle

It’s tulip 🌷season in the Seattle area! Couldn’t ask for a more beautiful day at RoozenGaarde.

I love how stoked they are to be in space.

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