NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

New at @nature.com: what the #ArtemisII crew will see as they fly past the Moon on Monday 🧪🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The things I felt when I realized this was the Earth and not the Moon

THE ARTEMIS II CREW IS NOW CLOSER TO THE MOON THAN THEY ARE TO EARTH!!

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

If this stands, then Trump has effectively dissolved Congress's budget authority, which is most of its authority.

Initial set of charts tracking some of the massive cuts from NASA's FY 2027 budget proposal are now posted at www.planetary.org/charts?imgke...

Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

the images of earth from artemis ii are absolutely gorgeous

Not only is this bad and awful in its own terms but it makes me sick that it's not even congressional appropriations, just executive fiat

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

TLI! Translunar injection complete, Artemis II apogee now over 400,000 km; they're heading to the Moon.

TLI burn complete! Artemis II is now on her way to the moon.

Kinda like statistics are meaningless if they don’t translate strategic outcomes

There is a predictable way that this ends and Hegseth owns it

A country where Flag Officers are dismissed on the whim of a president or a secretary of Defense -- and where it's tolerated by those in a position to stop it -- is a country in decline

Professor looks around at Trump and conservatives rounding up anyone who looks even vaguely Hispanic and regardless of whether they are citizens, documented, or undocumented, and thinks to himself "Why would the left do this?!?"

BREAKING: We're suing the Trump administration for issuing secret guidance instructing immigration agents to enter homes without a warrant. Sending masked, federal agents with military rifles and no judicial warrant to invade homes is a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

The single most important thing that has to happen is criminal, civil, and/or professional consequences (whichever their behavior warrants) for everyone who has participated in the horror show we've been watching for over a year now

One thing Trump has successfully done is cowed a lot of people into thinking they can't call for meaningful accountability for him and his cronies because it would be "revenge" or "political" and therefore illegitimate. Absolutely essential to reject that

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I went back to capture what the astronauts said in full when the clock was stopped at T-10 minutes and they were asked if they were go for launch: This is Victor. We are going for our families. This is Christina. We are going for our teammates. This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.

Hi there, I'm Barbara and I work on the Artemis II Lunar Science team. I'll be here for a couple hours while watching the preparations for launch and happy to take your questions! www.youtube.com/live/Tf_UjBM...

HOLY FUCK

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

Everyone keeps referencing the Kid Rock fly by but they also buzzed a peaceful protest multiple times, which might be worse

US military bases in the region have been hit hard. The Pentagon wasn’t prepared.

So clean on OSPEC that all you need is a WP subscription for collective intelligence

Telescopes are great but even binoculars are fantastic and many more people have those!

wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"

Jonathan's Space Report issue no. 854 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

She has the mandate of heaven.

BREAKING: At tonight’s NYC-DSA electoral forum, @aoc.bsky.social committed to voting against “any spending on arms for Israel, including so-called defensive capabilities.”

Happy Trans Day of Visibility

I also forgot the deployment of marines to LA and the use of troops as props at pseudo political rallies on military bases lol

And I say De-Prussiafication because letting this fester with zero accountability is how you get Ludendorff or Tojo

he thinks he’s a soldier’s soldier with his tats and endless tough-guy talk; he is far too stupid to realize he’s a celebrity dilettante who everyone knows spends 100% of his time getting his hair and suit ready for TV while he humiliates and endangers the entire institution he leads

John Roberts googling "does the chief justice have contempt powers"

Lol FAR Part 91.13 and 91.119 are for cucks I guess anyway Dems in Congress could make a stink about this (YES UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY ARE IN THE MINORITY SINCE THIS IS BLUESKY) but they won't because the troopies must be respected even when they're doing unauthorized flybys of kid rock's house

Between illegal boat strikes, illegal war with Iran, and who knows what else is coming down the road, clearly there is a institutional and cultural rot in the senior American officer corps that they refuse to fix themselves