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Using public data, I've found 40 NASA contracts totaling $42M canceled in the past few days, impacting climate science, DEI, education, and administration activities. $25.2M was already paid out, so resulting savings is $17 million. Running list of cancelations here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

Beautiful shot captured yesterday by Curiosity in the canyon between Gould Mesa and Texoli Butte #Mars Mar. 18, 2025 (Sol 4484) 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

submitted 81 days ago • 10 comments

The new EULICD data release is AMAZING! 🔭 Here's a before / after of a random galaxy I found in one of the new images, comparing against the Digitized Sky Survey. I highly recommend taking a look around on ESA Sky - it's fun! Link: sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ...

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

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submitted 83 days ago • 4 comments

This is what Firefly's Blue Ghost lander saw as the Sun set on Sunday. The Sun is the bright lightsource at the horizon. At top is Earth (you can't quite tell it's gibbous). And that bright star between the two is Venus. I have never seen a photo of Venus from the surface of the Moon before.

submitted 82 days ago • 10 comments

One more--this is just so cool: Firefly Aerospace has released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world. 🧪 fireflyspace.com/news/blue-gh...

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

The nominated NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman does not appear positioned to fight for the agency. "People shouldn't waste heartbeats on rumor and speculation." followed just 2 days later by the exact rumors coming to fruition with the agency not even trying to fight back.

submitted 90 days ago • 5 comments

Tesla is currently experiencing a RIF in valuation

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Fox News just said the U.S. doesn't have anything like China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is hilarious. We did. It was called USAID.

submitted 101 days ago • 65 comments

This is what the surface of a comet looks like.

submitted 100 days ago • 12 comments

An important part of our job as NASA Astronauts is to inspire our next generation of space explorers. We can't accomplish that mission if we can only connect with a fraction of the kids in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/s...

submitted 125 days ago • 3 comments

So long Twitter, and good riddance

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

The other reason most likely is that they are not sure if Endurance will be ready in time. There were doubts about this from the beginning, hence the references to spacecraft readiness, FRR in first announcement. Some internal mission ops voices apparently said "April" without cutting corners...

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

I was the Commander of the @ISS when Andy, @Astro_Andreas flew his first space mission. He is one of the most competent, trustworthy, and honest people I’ve ever met. This rhetoric is beyond the pale but, sadly, not surprising. He does not deserve this kind of disrespect.

submitted 107 days ago • 27 comments

Lucky shot on my way home from the National Portrait Gallery: the Washington Monument with the crescent moon (my fave phase!) right next to Venus. I’m choosing to see this as a good omen from the universe (🤞).

submitted 126 days ago • 3 comments

Friends, I've been thinking about this for a few years now, but the events this week have made it clear that now is the time. It's time to work to establish a professional planetary science society in the United States. A 🧵

submitted 127 days ago • 17 comments

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

submitted 134 days ago • 1254 comments

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander on its way to the Moon just took this pretty awesome Blue Marble image of Earth.

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like Comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS’s days may be numbered… the comet has faded & may have broken up post-perihelion as the nucleus fades from view, leaving a ‘tail-less wonder’ crossing the sky. Here's a great parting view w/ESO’s Paranal Observatory by Yuri Beletsky: www.instagram.com/p/DFF3LKtpIz4/

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Just don't expect this in four years. This is long been the objective of the #Artemis program, going to the Moon to work out technology in getting to Mars, despite what a certain billionaire thinks, humanity hasn't been interplanetary in 50+ yrs. Mars is a bigger nut to crack than the Moon.

submitted 138 days ago • 3 comments

a reminder that in his first term he said the US would put astronauts on the Moon in 2024 and we are still years away

submitted 139 days ago • 5 comments

The physics of a spinning dreidel is quite a bit different in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station, as demonstrated by astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli. 🧪

submitted 164 days ago • 16 comments

Falcon 9 aborted launch, 21 December 2024 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsSs...

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Earlier today, NASA teams lifted the SLS Core Stage into its new vertical work facility in High Bay 2 of the VAB. Here it will begin its final outfitting before moving to High Bay 3 to join the twin Solid Rocket Boosters. 📸NASA EGS

submitted 179 days ago • 1 comment

It’s gonna be an exciting 7 days for Artemis 👀🤫😄

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

We could see a future where Lunar South Pole power stations are mobile and flexible based on these vertical solar array demonstrations!

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

Artemis - Lockheed Martin dévoile un prototype de panneau solaire déployable jusqu’à 20 m de hauteur : le Lunar Vertical Solar Array Technology (LVSAT).

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

I was today years old when I learned these are real spiders and not some magical creature from Harry Potter 🤯

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

JWST just dropped a new photo of sombrero Galaxy

submitted 195 days ago • 94 comments

Black hole with pseudo-C64 aesthetics.

submitted 194 days ago • 93 comments

heavy breathing

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submitted 214 days ago • 66 comments

yesterday afternoon and through the evening, I binge-watched NOVA's new series 'Solar System' — it is soooo good, I learned a lot, the graphics are great, the scientists interviewed are great communicators — I highly recommend www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/se...

submitted 213 days ago • 1 comment

Some neat pictures I found of the NASA Railroad from the 1990s from the NASA online photo library.

submitted 237 days ago • 0 comments

Blue Sky, may I introduce you to Johnson Space Center’s Space Deer?

submitted 279 days ago • 0 comments