😮🌎🚀☄️ #EarthDay

#justrocketchaserthings 🚀😌

“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” — Sir Winston Churchill, c. 1941

Before… and After. Inspired by a post by Twitter user @atlonglastcz — “i want to see more photographers post before & after photos; people need to see how much intentionality goes into each edit.” 🚀✨📸

Enhance Details. 🔍 Throwback to this dramatic Moon image I took in March 2021 — one of the first lunar photos I took with my trusty Nikon P950. 2000mm, f6.5, 1/200s, ISO 100 #LookUp 🌔🔭

Back in the Fall, I had heard about a SpaceX worker who wrote on the company's intranet asking that Musk stop wearing company apparel at political rallies. After he posted that, he had his access shut off and was walked out of his office. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

What's better than 1 rocket launch? 2! What's better than 1 booster in a picture? 2! What's better than 1 streak shot? 2! First, the shuttle walkway leads the way to the successful launch of IM-2 from LC-39A Second, Starlink 12-13 launches from SLC-40 seen from the port

🎶 Fly me to the moon Let me play among the stars 🎶 The IM-2 lander along with three additional payloads are on the way to the moon and beyond after a successful launch of Falcon 9. @nasaspaceflight.com stream youtube.com/live/gi0cLW7J6

“Can you stop talking about space & rockets?” N 　 O 　　　 O 　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　　 o 　　　　 。 　　　 。 　　　 . 　　　 . 　　　 . 　　　　 .

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Good news: asteroid 2024 YR4 has dropped from 3 to 1 on the Torino scale, with impact risk now significantly reduced; source: cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/

SpaceX Crew-7 astronaut & former ISS commander Andreas Mogensen disputes Elon Musk’s assertion that Butch & Suni were “abandoned” on the ISS for political reasons. Musk’s response is absolutely appalling. This is what things have come to in the space community in 2025.

Our survival instinct is our greatest source of inspiration. 🧠🚀 📸 @nasaspaceflight.com

Into the Vast Unknown. ✨ Shot as a test frame in October 2024, while I was dialing in my new star tracker. 120mm, f4.8, 60 sec., ISO 400 #LookUp 🔭🌟

🤗♥️ #ValentinesDay

Ship 34 static fire test was incredible! WOW 🔥🔥🔥 📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF

Live now 🚀SpaceX Performs Static Fire with Ship 34 for Starship Flight 8 www.youtube.com/live/z2Exgpe...

Returning to Florida. On this day Shuttle Challenger became the first orbiter to use the SLF at KSC, concluding STS-41-B in 1984.

Starship Flight 8: Booster 15 returning to the production site following its Static Fire test. 🎥 nsf.live/starbase

Using JWST, scientists recently observed a protoplanetary disk and gas jets located around a newborn star. Furthermore, Webb was used to investigate "light echoes" traveling through interstellar material near Cassiopeia A. 📝 By Haygen Warren — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/webb...

Booster 15 has completed a static fire test of its Raptor engines. 🔥🔥🔥 📸 — Mary (BocaChicaGal) for NSF

STATIC FIRE! Starship Booster 15 fires up its engines for the first time, as teams continue with the pre-flight testing flow ahead of flight 8, pending regulatory approval @nasaspaceflight.com Testing stream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AozA... Starbase Live: nsf.live/starbase

🆕 This Week in Spaceflight! 🆕 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRTC...

SpaceX is making good progress with the second launch site at Starbase. 📝 By Ryan Weber — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/star...

Starship Flight 9: There's Ship 35 in Mega Bay 2. Ship 35 is flying after Ship 34 (upcoming Flight 8) and may be the first Ship to be caught. Meanwhile, work on Tower 2 is focusing on reeving the lines for the chopsticks. 🎥 nsf.live/starbase

2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ followers on Bluesky! Thanks a bunch, everyone! Bigger & better things to come. Onwards & upwards. 🦋🚀

7 years ago, SpaceX launched Falcon Heavy for the first time. The flight saw the two side boosters perform a spectacular simultaneous RTLS landing, while the upper stage sent Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster & a dummy named Starman to interplanetary space. 📺 youtu.be/A0FZIwabctw?...

Aircraft carriers are HUGE! Here's an approximate visualization of a Starship stack on ex-John F. Kennedy as it entered the Port of Brownsville for scrapping. ~408ft vs ~1,106ft Apologies (or you're welcome) for the Ship 26 style stack @nasaspaceflight.com

Starship Flight 8: SpaceX just performed a nitrogen purge of the Booster QD (Quick Disconnect) & Raptor QDs on Pad A for the first time since Flight 7. nsf.live/starbase This usually means that the pad is nearly ready to host a static fire, so we should be on the lookout for B15 rollout closures.

2025 is kicking off with huge developments at the Space Coast! SpaceX’s Roberts Road expansion is officially confirmed for Starship production, Blue Origin's New Glenn reached orbit for the first time, & NASA, ULA, & Relativity continue their work across the Cape. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y6c...

How long until we see two full stack Starships out on the Starbase pads? From the latest summary vid. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e87...

This week at Starbase, Pad B takes a giant leap forward with the installation of the chopsticks, the digging of the flame trench, & the tank farm coming together. Meanwhile, B15 & S34 near testing, & Massey’s sees preparations for Block 2 hardware. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vt...

This week’s launch manifest is quite diverse: Rocket Lab is gearing up for Electron’s first launch of the year from New Zealand, & Blue Origin’s New Shepard will simulate the Moon’s gravity from just beyond the Kármán line. 📝 By Aaron McCrea — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/02/laun...

A lot of future ship parts can be seen when peeking in the Starfactory windows. In this Starbase Summary, we track Starbase from the ground & the air. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nru...

Dynamic Duo. 🙌 The 16%-illuminated crescent Moon & -4.48 mag. Venus snuggle close together in the sky on a wonderfully clear night. 300mm, f8, 30 sec., ISO 100 — shot using a MSM Nomad tracker. #LookUp 🔭✨

Remembering the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia today, 22 years after we lost them. I was closest with Ilan Ramon and miss him very much but it is the pilot, Willie McCool, who I see most days because this photo of him taken by his wife, Lani, hangs on the wall of my study. Farewell Columbia.

🆕 This Week in Spaceflight with Elysia Segal! 🆕 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzg0...

Scientists announced this week that OSIRIS-REx's samples of asteroid 101955 Bennu contained organic "building blocks" for life. Meanwhile, a newly discovered asteroid could threaten Earth in December 2032. 📝 by Justin Davenport — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/benn...

#FBF — #Starship SN9 on the Suborbital Pad B at SpaceX Starbase, waiting to conduct its high-altitude flight test. c. January 2021.

You know the saying: "Work Continues On The Pad B OLM". The Chopsticks were installed on Tower 2 at Starbase, & flame diverter construction continued for Pad B. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rska...

#SpaceX is preparing for #Starship Flight 8, pending Flight 7 Ship 33 investigation and launch vehicle/pad readiness. 📝 by Ryan Weber — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/foll...

#NASA Statement on Butch and Suni: “NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions.”

This week at Starbase, the action centers on repairs at Pad A after Flight 7, major progress at Pad B, & ongoing development of future #Starship vehicles. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxow...

Latest Starbase Summary, with a focus on chopsticks for Tower 2 - with humans for scale. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFO...

Commercial providers are gearing up to deliver cargo to the lunar surface, with over a dozen uncrewed lunar missions planned for launch in the coming years. 📝 by Martijn Luinstra — www.nasaspaceflight.com/2025/01/luna...

Wallpaper check? Wallpaper check. Lemme see yours down below 📱⬇️

Incoming! Super Heavy Booster 14 navigates its way down towards Mechazilla during its final descent. 📸 @nasaspaceflight.com 📺 youtu.be/nT6jXu-Yx9w?...