It is the same jumper, and despite the tennis elbow it gave me, I’m still delighted with my own cleverness that it fits!

They’re a very good bunch, I couldn’t ask for better colleagues.

An iconic birthday card made by my colleagues, which is a collage of a picture of the Moon in the background, a picture of astronaut Christina Koch, and a picture of me. A speech bubble from Christina says “Happy Birthday Nina Cameron, I love your moon-themed Vans and you are a very talented craftsperson”, and a speech bubble from me says “OMG thank you Artemis II astronaut mission specialist Christina Koch”.

A commemorative Timex watch. On the face you have the Artemis logo at the 1200 position and the red NASA worm logo at the bottom.

There might be a theme to this year’s birthday celebrations…. #ArtemisII

PS, I highly recommend having the Gen Z’s at work make you a birthday card.

I will not sacrifice the Enterprise. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!

Oh, I think between you and @chrislintott.bsky.social, the space community has been perfectly eloquent this week!

Absolutely iconic stuff from @drspacejunk.bsky.social. And 100% true.

As you say, it’s just a technical term…

Vos and PFP in 2nd and 3rd, and THAT WIN from Wout? I swear to god, my brain doesn’t know what to do with this much serotonin.

My emotional support #ArtemisII astronauts have apparently deftly handed over to my emotional support cyclists, because what do you mean #VismaLeaseABike took 3 podium spots across the men’s and women’s Paris-Roubaix yesterday?

How are you feeling now the crew are home? I appreciate that’s a big ol’ question to be asking.

Is Vic wearing the NASA Vans? He looks like he’s wearing the NASA Vans.

And, as science communicators like myself are at pains to point out, the budget is not being blasted into space. The money is being spent on Earth, to pay people who contribute to taxes and local economies, and to create jobs.

You can be the (former) astronomer royal and still be wrong.

A view from the sofa in a living room. A small grey and white cat sporting a white bib and moustache, is sitting on my lap, which is covered by a blanket. Behind her on the TV, the Orion spacecraft approaches the Moon.

Another view from the same living room. This time, a large grey and white cat is lying on my lap, with his head turned away to watch the TV, on which a NASA livestream is about to start.

I do think the cats are looking forward to a return to a normal bedtime routine following the splashdown. Thanks to a lot of the #ArtemisII milestones happening at gone midnight, they have been deeply put out over the last ten days.

I truly don’t know what I’m going to do without my emotional support astronauts. #ArtemisII was such a bright spot while the world seems to be falling, or rather, being torn apart. I hope that the next time humans head to the Moon, the planet they launch from is less of a mess.

Reid: We have a great view of the moon out of window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday.

Jackie: Guess we’ll have to go back.

I am in no way ready for #ArtemisII to be over, but I am looking forward to having a normal sleep schedule again. There’s been altogether too many huge space milestones happening past my bedtime over the last ten days.

screengrab of live feed of Artemis II as it approaches Earth

Losing my mind over this. I have a machine in my lap on which I can periodically toggle over from something else I'm doing on the machine to watch a SPACESHIP return from THE MOON. Earlier I could hear the SPACESHIP'S PEOPLE as they talked to other people LOCATED ON MY PLANET BUT VERY FAR FROM ME.

God bless the NHS, but I could have done without discovering that the lightly acidic nature of my weird lump negates the effect of local anaesthetic while the doctor was rummaging about under my skin.

If someone could follow me for the next 10 days to remind me whenever I go to lift things, sit down too hard, or move too quickly, that I have stitches in my back, and will fuck myself up if I do any of the above, that would be great.

Further to that team, if you find a weird lump, get it checked.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” ― Edgar Mitchell Image: Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

This remains as funny on the 15m dome this morning as it was last night. #ArtemisII

That’s all of us. #ArtemisII

Watching the perfect crescent of the Earth setting behind the Moon and just openly sobbing. #ArtemisII

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

“Full Moon Joy” - if NASA don’t license merch with that on it, they’ve missed a trick. #ArtemisII

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

This is Peak Orange Cat.

i think this would stress me out more than being in a canned air bubble the size of a camper

Projected onto an enormous IMAX screen, you can see the white Orion spacecraft to the left approaching the grey ball of the Moon. Both are set against the blackness of space.

The same view of the Orion spacecraft approaching the Moon against the blackness of space.

It is completely wild to me that in November 2022, @andysaunders-1.bsky.social and I were in the IMAX at work setting up for his lecture, watching #ArtemisI approach the Moon, and today an actual crew aboard the spacecraft is getting much the same view. #ArtemisII

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.