Excerpts from a NASA public info publication in my collection. This one, published by NASA in 1972, features the distinctive artwork of Robert McCall. Pre-Internet, these were a major means by which NASA informed the public. I post one of these in its entirety on my Patreon every Sunday.

Meanwhile at NASA JSC, Blue Origin MK1 lunar lander, has entered Chamber A for approximately 11 days of TVAC Source: David Limp on the other site.

I revisited my parallel IK system for the first time in awhile to make some ergonomic improvements & got perf improved by over 50% in some cases 🦾🤖 I still have some more improvements in mind, though, when I have some more time. Repo link below 👇 #threejs #webgl #robotics

Blue Origin halts New Shepard flights Blue Origin announced Jan. 30 that it will halt flights of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle for at least two years as it shifts its focus to human lunar exploration.

Still no date for WDR or launch, but Artemis II crew is getting ready. Entered quarantine on Friday in Houston. Pending outcome of WDR or other operations considerations they can come out and reenter 14 days before any launch date, flying to KSC 6 days before launch. www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

NASA Selects Participants to Track Artemis II Mission. www.nasa.gov/technology/s...

Estes and Blue Origin have been cooking! 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 estesrockets.com/products/new...

Good chance for #Aurora tonight! I’ll be somewhere in Angeles Forest with cameras ready.

We're going back.

In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren. - Arthur C. Clarke

Happy Perihelion Day! Today Earth reaches the closest point to the Sun in its orbit. Here are two images I took of the Sun last year showing that the Sun does indeed look a bit bigger in January when we are closest to the Sun than it does in July when we are farthest. 🔭

Highlights from my space-related endeavors of 2025. New job (same company), observed Supernova SN2025rbs & Comet 3I-ATLAS, & co-discovered a near-Earth object with my kids. Not shown: countless hours developing a telescope dome control system & hunting for asteroids ☄️ #astrophotography 🔭 🧪

Happy holidays from Stony Ridge Observatory! #Astrophotography 🔭 🧪

I have been neglecting Uranus system for a long time now. So I decided to change that. Here's Uranus and Miranda visible above the canyons of Ariel. #SciArt #spaceart #astronomy #solarsystem #Uranus

Caught the faintest, brief glimpse of #aurora tonight. It was barely detectable by camera for 5 minutes and wasn’t much to look at, but I’m counting it. This was my 5th sighting from Los Angeles County, at 34N latitude. Observed at 6:30 PST (2:30 UTC, Dec 11, 2025), looking NNE. 🔭 🧪

Amazing 3-D effect in this JWST image of the tip of HH 49/50. The dusty tip of this nearby "cosmic tornado" is so thin that it allows a more distant spiral galaxy to shine through (science.nasa.gov/asset/webb/h...) More info in this Sci-Am story: www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosm...

This is a spectacular view of the fiery descent and failed landing attempt of the Zhuque-3 first stage. m.weibo.cn/detail/52397...

NASA has completed the construction of #NASARoman! Last month, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the observatory in Maryland. After final testing, Roman will move to the launch site at the Kennedy Space Center for launch preparations in summer 2026: https://go.nasa.gov/48EqnE8 🔭 🧪

Astronaut photography is published to eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/ where you can search and download the images. They also have a search API at eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... If you'd like to automate stuff. The API doesn't do downloading though, especially not for the RAW files.

#OTD 3️⃣0️⃣ years ago, 2 December 1995, launch of the joint ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Originally designed for a two-year mission to study the Sun, it was extended multiple times and is still operational 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... @science.esa.int @americaspace.bsky.social

Absolutely insane photo from the ISS this week. Cygnus was temporarily released from the station and held in place by Canadarm2 to provide more clearance for the Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft to dock to the ISS.

Today on the ISS, for the first time ever, all 8 available Visiting Vehicle ports (x4 on Russian Segment, x2 berthing and x2 docking on US Segment) are in use simultaneously! (Image credit: orbital-velocity.com)

From Copernicus: This shows how the expected date for breaching 1.5C has been creeping ever closer in recent years. The orange date shows the baseline for the extrapolation; the red date shows when 1.5C is breached based on the trend...

Next up this evening. ISS passes over Europe. A nice long overhead pass for viewers in France and Italy. For viewers in UK, Belgium, Germany and Austria a chance to view ISS occulting Saturn... For times and maps, view skycalpro.com #Astronomy #ISS

Nice panoramic Mastcam mosaic incoming from Perseverance marslife.org #Mars Nov. 25, 2025 - Sol 1694 🧪🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/ASU/MarsLife

Introduce yourself with four spaceships

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

One thing photos don't capture is the awesome immensity of these structures filling the sky, bridging the boundary between Earth and space.

'Light Fantastic' 21,837 images across 18 time-lapse sequences photographed by Don Pettit & Butch Wilmore are repaired, remastered and retimed to create 3x real time video footage. Credit: Butch Wilmore / Don Pettit / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cKk...

Perseverance rover looks back after long drive to the southwest during November 17, 2025 (Sol 1686). The traverse distance was 285m (936ft), with a climb of 8.7m (28ft), drive duration was 220 minutes. Attached is a roughly processed tiled NavCam and the drive […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

LET’S GOOOO!!!!! 🚀🌖 Next stop: the Moon!!!

Ha! It looks like Avi Loeb silently edited his Medium post about the Perseverance Navcam images, after being called out for his wrong interpretation. While he previously claimed the image was of 3I/Atlas, he now says the claim came from "social media". 🔭

For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️

Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

Short clip of that aurora outburst at 8:53p PST as seen at MWO www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Prq...

Stony Ridge Observatory, Los Angeles County, 34N latitude. #Aurora kicked into overdrive around 8:30 pm PST (4:30 UTC). It was easily naked eye visible for about 1 hr as pink glow.

Not the prettiest view with all these clouds, but #Aurora is visible from Los Angeles county, 34N latitude.

New Glenn is fueling up for launch at 2:45 pm EST (11:45 an PST). 🥜 🍀 🤞 🚀

Majestic scene in Angeles National Forest last night, lit only by the moon 🌕.

These must’ve been fun drives! Relatively high tilt on loose regolith with differentially articulated suspension.. rover planners would’ve been a little nervous here, but definitely earned their pay.

One of my all-time fave images. See the bright star just to the upper right of the cluster? That's Sher 25 and it will explode in <40,000 years. You can see a ring and wisps of gas on either side of it; it's the same kind of star with the same structure that blew up to become Supernova 1987A.

Isaac Roberts captured the Great Andromeda “Nebula” in 1888. A 105 minute exposure of Andromeda, using a 20 inch "silver on glass" reflector (and 7" guide scope) mounted on a custom clockwork equatorial mount. Pictured in his observatory and on display at the Science Museum in London #Astronomy

Remember, if you see someone stealing groceries...no you didn't.

Since @rkinnett.bsky.social just posted the Heart of the Heart Nebula, bringing back my version. Ryan, my 10" RC doesn't have quite the resolution of that 30", but I shot dual narrowband and got more dust and O[III] LOL. 🔭

My latest astrophoto, Melotte-15 within the Heart Nebula, imaged last weekend from Stony Ridge Observatory. 1 hr integration 🔭 30” f/6. #Astrophotography

Los Angeles peeps: Trans Pride in Long Beach tomorrow (Sunday 10/19) is looking for volunteers.

Shout out to spacecraft signals analyst (among other talents) Scott Tilley @coastal8049.bsky.social for spotting these potentially illegal signals from spacex’ Starshield sats. Skip the article and see the whitepaper he linked in reply to NPR. Also, follow Scott ☑️

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 16 - Parachute The parachute of Huygens on Titan

grand finale #spaceart #saturn #cassini