NASA OIG is literaly gospel if they are analysing ML-2/EUS/SLS and are hyperbolic uninformed accountants if its about any commercial program.
It is just too transparent from the berg
Just as Artemis placed her companion Orion in the sky, so too did a man named Reid to make his love immortal.
Given how we use them, the team just refers to the solar arrays as selfie sticks.
The SLS rocket climbs away into a near cloudless sky with a nearly 600 foot long tail of fire from the twin solid rocket boosters.
8.8 Million pounds of thrust thundering into the evening sky as NASA's Artemis II mission lifts off from Launch Complex 39B.
The SLS rocket soared in a seemingly flawless climb to orbit, with the core stage placing Orion and the ICPS on their way to their initial checkout orbit in High Earth Orbit.
how it'll feel when tomodachi comes out and everybody posts their version of the same character
I realize this is not a universally held preference, but I just want to point out that For $10 billion we could have orbiters and probes to both Uranus and Neptune, and they would likely succeed at that price tag, unlike this venture
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
By 2040, ~40% of the images from Hubble Space Telescope, and more than 96% from new and future space telescopes like SPHEREx, ARRAKIHS, and Xuntian will be contaminated by internet satellite constellations.
Read our new NASA article in Nature:
nature.com/articles/s4158…
#OPAG Will be sitting in on some of the sessions today NASA HQ will not be presenting despite the shutdown ending. It will take them a little time to gear up since the US Govt shutdown has now concluded. There is a discussion going on about the core values of all of the AGs in general.
#OPAG - #Dragonfly Flight systems recent accomplishments. Some of the team is at NASA Langley testing the aerodynamics of the rotors
#OPAG - #Dragonfly Milestones accomplished
A flag pole at Rothera Research Station flies two flags: the progress pride flag and the UK flag. They are set against the distant landscape of snow-covered mountains.
Happy Polar Pride Day! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Today is a special day in the international polar science and operations community when we celebrate the contributions of our LGBTQ+ colleagues.
Polar science is the ultimate teamwork environment - and making sure everyone feels included and welcome is crucial.
or anyone else at airbus you could direct me to regarding support or even a potential sponsorship?
Hiya @johnchinner.bsky.social , I'm starting an electric propulsion student group at my uni however one big problem we're facing is funding.
I was wondering if in your position as head of outreach at airbus there would be anything you'd be able to do,
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with a tree in the foreground standing on some grassy ridge.
#APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) captured from Slovenia about a week ago.
Credit: Uroš Fink www.urosfink.com
www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a... 🔭🧪
Reading this article emphasizes to me how much Isaacman clearly was in over his head. No understanding of the HQ/Center structure, savior mindset (I'll pay for the launch...), lack of Congressional experience, ... aviationweek.com/space/budget...
A starship in a suit and tie refuses a gum named Orbit. Not my image.
China's crewed Moon plans: China's human spaceflight agency plans both a pad abort test and an in-flight escape test at Max-Q for the Mengzhou crew spacecraft in 2025. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kfKIn_Bpz-...
A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.
fuck yeah! congrats!
Eric Berger @SciGuySpace · 16m A likely disaster for NASA. There were two final choices for admin six months ago. One was a budget cutter. The other was Jared.
SpaceX's PR team at Ars Technica seems pretty upset about this development
A promotional image from Boeing's 100 year anniversary. The text on the image says "The Next 100 years". The image background contains SLS and its mobile launch tower at the pad before Artemis 1.
Edit of the Onion article to include the Space Launch System which says "Well Well well not so easy to find a booster that doesn't suck shit, huh?"
Approved for immediate release in all media
wearing this with blazer and jeans
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
Giant frog trading card
What’s your favorite bit of weird Passover lore? @kaijupoet and I are doing a Passover podcast and have a ton of fun ideas. The giant frog!🐸 The angel of death! ☠️ The immortal Serach bat Asher and Joseph’s⚰️But we want to know your fav’s! We’ll do our best to include them!
oh yeah? did the simpsons predict THIS? [blows my brains out with a snubnose .38]
