Reid Wiseman just dropped this photo on his Instagram page. It's our homeworld, looking at the nightside, taken from inside the Artemis II Orion spacecraft through one of the windows. There's something so casual about it, about the reflections in the window, but outside IS A WHOLE PLANET HOLY SHIT

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Epic launch! Can't wait to see the Artemis 2 crew fly around the Moon in 6 days!

NASA's recap of a whirlwind day

Pour one out for a space reporter today. We're getting a lot of info all at once and trying to translate it concisely in an understandable way.

Ben Fiest, the man behind the "Apollo in Real Time " project, has launched for the International Space Station's 25th Anniversary. "ISS in Real Time" issinrealtime.org #ISS #ISS25 #ISSInRealTime

HTV-X1 was captured and berthed to ISS today! There are now 7 vehicles docked/berthed to Station (tied record from 2024). If schedules hold, when Soyuz MS-28 docks in late November, all 8 available ports will be occupied for the first time -- a new record!

Great to see HTV-X arrive at the ISS (and by my count, this is the last ever time we'll see a brand new type of Visiting Vehicle arrive at the ISS).

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

These “agents” like doing this. They want to do this because it’s a legal way to feed their worst compulsions. And they’ve been given full authority to do it - verbatim - by Stephen Miller and President Trump.

Check out this video on the International Space Station Truss and how NASA built it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvhd... The Jared Owen Animations team did a phenomenal job on this one. It was a joy to help create this video, and a trip down memory lane for ISS construction!

The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail The White House’s FY 2026 budget request for NASA proposes a radical shift in the agency’s direction, proposing extinction-level cuts to space science, severe cuts in other program areas and a dramatic pivot of human spaceflight focus to Mars.

“I have friends everywhere.” 🙌

The latest video for Jared Owen Animations is out! It's about Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket! The team did a fantastic job on this one. Each of our names (and others) show up on the New Shepard screens. Let me know if you spot my name. :D 🚀 youtu.be/O9E0Ljd2ML8?...

As the world contemplates NASA's reliance on SpaceX

I’ve worked for NASA since the Reagan administration, and I can’t recall a similar situation.

Following the inspiration of @ohdearz.bsky.social @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social here’s the NASA fleet with the proposed budget cuts. Red X’s will be fully defunded, green X’s will lose all NASA funding but have other funding sources, and exclamation point means >50% cuts

Musk spent $292M on Trump's campaign, became a scapegoat for killing thousands of African children to save a few $B for billionaire tax cuts and all he gets at the end is hate for the destruction of NASA's science program under his watch. Drugs destroyed his mind and made him Howard Hughes V-2.

Trump has pulled Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be head of NASA. He wants a NASA wrecker instead. This is a disaster for America.

Time to start learning Mandarin, I guess...

Jared 'Rook' Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator is being withdrawn. This is bad news for NASA but maybe a good thing for Jared himself though, since being NASA head right now is a bit of a Kobayashi Maru scenario. Rumour is he will be replaced by someone more gungho about slashing NASA

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

There's also a line from this movie: The Enterprise is dead in space, the Klingons ready to destroy the ship Kirk was informed his son has been killed. The no win situation is here. Kirk gets up and tells his team "I swear to you, we're not finished yet." Neither are we.

We're going to learn some tough stuff today about the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026—including what they have in mind for NASA. I'll share what I hear, but remember: CONGRESS decides how much money NASA gets, not the White House. So whatever happens today, the fight continues.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate. Bloodbath is right.

The text on here heavily sounds like the budget people were in bed with Elon. It can't be a coincidence that they wrote that shit, with Elon announcing a near term starship Mars test yesterday. NASA is compromised.

What is the fastest way to make China Great In Space? Simple: just do this one thing to the #NASA budget. #Slash

Rose deserves better. I’m grateful she trusted me To tell her story.

Despite Musk's rhetoric that ISS is nearing the end of its life, that's far from the truth IMO - the US Segment has many years of life left I think. Its modular nature has allowed it to be upgraded over the years – for example, it has a fully upgraded system of batteries and solar arrays.

In 2011, when Shuttle retired, NASA found itself dependent upon and beholden to a partner (Russia) whose behaviour was increasingly becoming belligerent and erratic. The irony is, nearly 15 years later, NASA now finds itself in exactly the same position - only this time the "partner" is Elon Musk.

So, as expected, Trump's FY26 budget proposal effectively guts NASA and turns it into the SpaceX Contracting Agency. You know, it's almost as if Elon wrote the budget himself....

Imagine being the press officer being asked to spin $6bn of budget cuts into a ‘good news’ story. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Political journalists are learning what those who cover the space and automotive industries have long known.

And an update from NASA regarding Don Petit. He is doing as expected after landing, so likely feeling some of the ill effects of returning to 1G but not in any particularly severe way.

Soyuz MS-26/72S: All 3 Soyuz fliers have now been carried to a nearby medical tent, normal procedure for returning crews before they begin their trips home; we saw no additional shots of Pettit, who we assume was having a bit of difficulty re-adjusting to gravity

Soyuz MS-26/72S: While we've seen plenty of shots of Ovchinin and Vagner, but we haven't yet seen any such views of Pettit. We briefly saw him as he was carried out of the descent module, raising his helmet visor, but he then tilted his head back and closed his eyes, making no additional movements

NASA celebrating the launch of the official Artemis II patch with a sunset presentation on the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. nsf.live/spacecoast

I know many people are tuning out of spaceflight because of Elon Musk, however instead of turning away entirely, I encourage you to look beyond SpaceX at the rest of a truly incredible industry. So much of what is done here benefits everyone, and I hope you look to that instead of look away.

This advice to students from Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb. We are truly entering a very dark age www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

The purge of the disloyal has begun at NASA I thought my predictions for NASA under trump would take a year to multiple years to play out and they are speed running its doom. Janet refuses to stand up for civil workers doing good work and research.

Leadership at NASA is rolling over and letting the agency get gutted. Janet Petro's "Embrace The Challenge" is a massively tone deaf statement to those who have dedicated their lives to studying the universe, only to be let go under the guise of "efficiency"

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.

Today started out as a promising day for space but ended up like Groundhog Day. SpaceX did catch the booster for the 3rd time, but lost Starship at nearly the same point in the trajectory as last time. And the IM Athena moon lander touched down softly but likely tipped over, similar to last time.

The NYT has an interesting story today about how Elon Musk has been planning his "takeover of the federal bureaucracy" since 2023. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

F9/IM-2: Data packets are now coming in; not yet clear what caused the delay making contact, but Athena is sending data while controllers double check the comms configuration