Video from NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman shows an "Earthset" while he and the rest of the Artemis II crew performed their historic flyby of the moon.

Fellowship of the Ring

They Thought What? Unpacking the history (and present) of science

". . . turning a blind eye to science’s potential for harm tends to harm marginalized people the most."

I second LibraryThing! It works for my purposes so far.

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I LOATHE endnotes. They are inimical to narrative experience. Nothing is quite so calculated to derail & destroy one's train of thought – and hence the author's delicate construction of their argument – than having to flip through pages to find the supplementary information, then find one's way back

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Like, this started with that guy who painted Trump standing on top of a snake in like nearly every photo & it’s progressed to this, where he’s doing Jesus cosplay. If putting himself into the place of Jesus somehow does not count as being antichrist, then someone better explain that theology to me

This is quite beastly and has been so for some time.

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NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, right, pose for a group photo after viewing 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. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

First group photo of the Artemis II astronauts after arriving back to Earth:

(Pic via NASAArtemis)

The 'kin' of ‘napkin’ means "little."

‘Nap’ comes from ‘nape,' which means “tablecloth.”

So a napkin is a little tablecloth.

10/10, no notes.

Wait, do engineers not see themselves as being in the broad realm of the sciences?

Artemis II Return NASA's Orion spacecraft carrying Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, along with Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency), splashes down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, California, at 5:07 p.m. PDT, (8:07 p.m. EDT) on Friday, April 10, 2026. The Artemis II test flight launched on Wednesday, April 1, from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin its 10-day journey around the Moon for scientific discovery, economic benefits, and to build on our foundation for the first crewed missions to Mars. NASA’s Landing and Recovery team and the U.S. military are coordinating efforts to extract the Artemis II crew from the Orion spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Josh Valcarcel

What a great photo just added on the NASA Johnson Flickr page www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Meet Rob Navias: Public Affairs Officer and Mission Commentator   - NASA Editor's note: This interview was conducted in October 2023.

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I'm struck by the number of modes of transit these astronauts will experience today.

1. Slicing through the Earth's atmosphere in a spaceship
2. An inflatable raft
3. A rope swing
4. Helicopter
5 Aircraft carrier
6. Airplane.
7. Van.

Child in a space suit costume cheers with arms outstretched amidst a crowd watching the return of the astronauts to Earth

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.”

Photo by Sandy Huffaker

And there's Reid Wiseman! The commander has left his vehicle and all of them are out on the front porch.

Three crewmembers!

On the livestream, you can hear the people at mission control applauding as they each emerge. This is one of the things about a NASA mission, compared to a commercial one. The commercial flights applaud everything.

NASA only applauds when people are safe.

Thumbs-up! Here comes the first astronaut.

They'll go into a vest to get hoisted up to the helicopter, which will take them to the aircraft carrier. All of this is pretty much exactly what happened with the Apollo missions. The main difference is that the capsule is larger.

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Sailors standing in a flat inflatable device next to the spacecraft

Sailor just gave a thumbs up.

Emergence of the astronauts is imminent.

I'm moonscrolling

Apparently the currents are causing some issues getting the capsule stabilization and exit inflatables deployed. It’s not a problem — there’s plenty of time to get the crew out — but there is a bit of a delay.

One thing to think about is that this is the astronauts' first smell of Earth. Sea air and burning hydrocarbons.

There's a breeze that they'll be feeling after days in a capsule. There are fans there, because without fans CO2 will build up around you. But not a breeze like off the ocean.

The side hatch is open! That means we're going to see some astronauts soon.

The first thing they'll do is make sure the capsule is stable and then they'll go in to do a check to make sure everyone is healthy.

Let’s toast those astronauts.

Then let’s wake up tomorrow and remind every American of what we all stand to lose to this regime.

🧪🔭

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.

Before re-entry the flight surgeon mentioned that astronauts do frequently experience nausea and vomiting when they return to Earth. Hopefully these folks will do okay! But what they’ve just experienced is a lot.