*sigh* A 🧵Ok here we go, In May of 2024, remembering the lessons of the past and understanding they now had options with crew safety in this case, NASA made the conservative call to bring the Starliner spacecraft home without crew after the craft experienced a set of thruster issues. 1/

Sam & Max Hit the Road (1993)

Well, big news. I am planning to move the Space Library to a new home. And I need some help - in 35 years I've never asked for funding, donations or subscriptions for my Space Report, to keep it independent, but now I need to raise some additional funds. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-jonat...

So long and thanks for all the stars.

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

a special shoutout to everyone who "works with computers" and therefore is required to fix the electronics of their entire extended family over the holidays

There are two things I miss from the other place: lots of space nerdery and doggos. The former is improving and the latter… well… thank you, Ned

I loved this and wanted to create a little comic for it. This is how I imagined the exchange going. I hope you like it @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com ☺️