Folding it up like a Mad Magazine fold-in to read “Ben Smith War Criminal”

"And the last item's for Jack. Jack, preliminary indications are that you can get a 60-day extension on your - filing your income tax if you're out of the country." CAPCOM: Apollo 13, April 12, 1970 at 06:43 PM

Context

NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating - NASA Science On April 17, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands to shut down an instrument aboard Voyager 1 called the

NASA shuts down Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1 to keep the nuclear-powered spacecraft operating, nearly 49 years after launch.
science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

Happy birthday and congratulations on the milestone!

The Lovecraft Investigations podcast: excellent audio drama (also on BBC Sounds, if you have it). S1 - Charles Dexter Ward, S2 - Whisperer in the Darkness, S3 - Shadow Over Innsmouth, S4 - Haunter of the Dark. Then sign up to back this.

Bermuda Triangle, it’s even geographically opposite

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

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 🧪🔭

Direct Descent Earth has become a library planet for thousands of year…

Now reading.

Eight thousand years in the future, the hollowed-out planet Earth is filled with a colossal archive (descended from the Library of Congress).

*angularfish

As Rocket Launches Increase, They May Be Polluting the Skies Research suggests that rocket exhaust and debris could be threatening the ozone layer, though many uncertainties persist.

The exhaust from numerous rocket launches could soon affect the precariously recovering ozone layer. And spacecraft pollute more when they’re done and burn up in the atmosphere. Read all about it in my new piece for Undark magazine: undark.org/2026/04/06/a...

Apparently the Artemis II crew have done a waste-water dump .... so there'll be lots of little yellow ice crystals on the way to the Moon! #SpaceJunk 🧪 #SpaceArchaeology

Soviet Zond 1 spacecraft

#OTD in 1964, Zond 1, Soviet attempted mission to Venus, was launched. Due to the pressure leak the Soviets did not reveal Venus as the target, merely announcing that the mission was a deep space engineering test. The last contact with Earth was on May 25, 1964.

2001: A Space Odyssey | The Moon Monolith | Warner Classics YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered 58 years ago today.

"An Epic Drama of Adventure and Exploration". 👌

Cinema was no longer the same.

COLD STORAGE | Official Trailer | STUDIOCANAL YouTube video by STUDIOCANAL

Bumping this up the watchlist because debris from Skylab is the source of the infection ...

What We Can Know A quest, a literary thriller and a love story, What We …

"Tom Metcalfe, a scholar at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain's remaining archipelagos, pores over the archives of the early twenty-first century ..."

Two archaeologists stand in a trench looking at an unearthed, fossilised, time machine and a tyrannosaurus skull in whose jaws is a human skeleton holding an aerosol can. One says: “These fossils would appear to suggest that, while Professor Cooper's time machine was a great success, his dinosaur repellent formula was not.”

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Bad Batch Archaeodeath The fascist Galactic Empire takes over from the Republic and the mutant clones of Clone Force 99 seek to evade their grasp and fight back. In the storyline and multi-world landscapes of Star Wars: …

"Phee emerges as a determined, experienced and intelligent explorer of the galaxy’s past – an almost-archaeologist"

The archaeology of Star Wars: The Bad Batch by @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social

Blue text over a stylised moon says Many Problems One Solution Blow Up The Moon.

ah yes, as per that one long-defunct A Softer World shirt

Art by David Bergen for Shipwreck by Charles Logan (Panther, 1977)

A space junk bestiary: yo-yo de-spin weights Among the oldest pieces of space junk in Earth orbit are de-spin weights from the US series of TIROS weather and TV satellites. I've been no...

Space junk isn't all the same. Here I look at an uncommon type of mission-related debris, the yo-yo de-spin weight.
#SpaceJunk #SpaceHeritage 🧪 🔭 🏺

If you're feeling weird or uneasy today don't worry it's just an echo of the worldwide uptick in mental disturbance triggered by Cthulhu's momentary awakening 101 years ago on March 22, 1925

I would still really like to know by what right NASA might remove Discovery from the Air and Space Museum, since it no longer holds title to the shuttle

This dude is trying to pass off Jason Colavito’s scholarship from 22 years ago as his own. After he published a 2004 article, “Charioteer of the Gods,” in Skeptic magazine, Jason published a whole book on this in 2005.

“We're Too Close to the Debris”: How SpaceX Rockets Put Passenger Planes at Risk The FAA predicted Elon Musk's Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.

One plane forced to reroute because of a SpaceX explosion last year was running low on fuel, prompting the pilot to declare an emergency and fly the jet and its 283 passengers through a designated debris zone to reach an airport.

(Published Jan.)