Congrats to Luca, a well deserved recognition for this astronaut veteran!

Artemis III news incoming. Good, bad or neutral? We'll see...

KSA devs touch grass.

Remmeber when I asked for vehicle collisions in Kitten Space Agency? Well, you can see how that looks like thanks to the latest build of the game. New video about that right here: youtu.be/vozlM1cDhW0

Taken today, this Planet satellite imagery gives us the first full optical overview of Blue Origin's LC-36 follow the New Glenn explosion a few days ago. Full image with before/after comparison: spacefromspace.com/spaceport-im...

More images from the New Glenn static fire mishap.

Massive destination during New Glenn static fire test. Severe damage to the launch infrastructure. It took SpaceX a year to fix the pad after a Falcon 9 has a similar RUD. A big setback for Blue Origin.

The sycophancy is getting people hooked on AI chatbots. Congratulations, we have created a software based drug.

I think people should be very, very careful when leaning ChatGPT or any bot for help navigating relationship issues or any other interpersonal conflict/crisis: futurism.com/chatgpt-marr... futurism.com/artificial-i...

Here's @mattlowne.bsky.social with a very sensible take on Starship Flight 2. The replies are to be expected from the sycophantic cess pool that former Twitter has become. It really annoys me that almost all space creators still keep posting over there despite knowing how terrible the platform is.

Congrats to the KSA team and @deanhall.bsky.social!

I've been looking a bit more in detail what enables the Kitten Space Agency developers to make their game look as great as it does. And one thing is that they rely on actual scientific models for light to render their environments. It's fascinating stuff, check it out here: youtu.be/i_4-Btc1flk

Instead of working on my next video I am stuck in Microsoft support hell to recover my son's account after a compromised Minecraft mod gave some assholes from India control over his account. Some schmuck is now playing Minecraft with the money I paid for it. And I have no recourse.

That's a really encouraging development.

Do you use orcaslicer for your 3D printer? A developer who made a fork of it is being attacked by Bambu Lab for using AGPL open source code! Louis Rossmann pledged 10,000 USD to fight this. I chimed in as well. Drop a comment on the video if you would help! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLLV... 1/

How many kittens is enough? How about infinite kittens? In today's video we look at the latest build of KSA and discover some cool new stuff. youtu.be/D1duLIdBa_o

Is this the Kitten Space Agency equivalent of the Kraken in KSP? @deanhall.bsky.social @ahwoo-official.bsky.social

A sneak peek into this week's upcoming video. You'll never guess what it is about. Tune in on Friday!

Things are chugging along for KSA!

Ever since the Artemis II mission, KSP has seen a significant uptick in player count. I thought it would be a good idea to show all these new or returning players how to make their game look fantastic. youtu.be/lF6aYBTOQ_s

So, the US admin wants space spectacle, not space exploration. Because you need robust science for the latter. And you get that by exciting young people to go into STEM research. Is this admin even aware most astronauts have PhDs? And Isaacman? Says the billionaire: "We can do more with less." Ugh.

Sure, YouTube, offer up a 4K/60 playback version for videos and then always fail to deliver it without buffering ever 10 seconds. And you want people to turn off adblockers and pay for Premium?

It looks like NASA was ransacked before Jared Isaacman's tenure began. Can he fix the damage? Or has he already started to do so? The fight against the next PBR trying to gut NASA's science projects is also on the horizon.

Now that the #Artemis2 mission is over, I had some time to reflect on why I switched from "meh" to "this is awesome!" Here are my thoughts: youtu.be/IHZUqN6YhbY

Alright, let's add new lyrics to the "Ode to joy": Something something "Oh Canada!"

I cannot articulate enough how much I hate YouTube's auto-translation features! First off: my language is set to English, so WHY?!?. Second: translating band names (Angine de Poitrine) proves your "AI" is anything but intelligent. Are the "Rolling Stones" now the "rollende Steine" in German?

🎉#Artemis II update: Integrity is back on Earth! At 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST, Orion and its crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. 🚀Our European Service Module propelled Orion over 1 million km through deep space, before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, its job complete 🔥 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

NASA's live stream for the return of Artemis II. Let's hope everything goes well! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD...

Artemis II splashdown in less than 12 hours from now. I won't be able to watch it live since it is planned for roughly 2:00am my time.

I love the pictures from Artemis II, but NASA's image website is incredibly bad for filtering down to just the current images from the Moon. And the Artemis II album doesn't include all imaged. Really frustrating to navigate this! images.nasa.gov

If you enjoy open source software, make sure you support them with more than just likes on a social media site.

Mission control actually responded with "Amaze, Amaze, Amaze!" 🤣 I love this mission.

The crew of Artemis II naming a so far unnamed crater 'Carroll' to honor Reid Wiseman's wife who passed in 2020. Beautiful moment, indeed.

I've been busy, but so have NASA, the @ahwoo-official.bsky.social/KSA devs and modders (shoutout to @arthomnix.dev for this! Check this out: you can now track Artemis II in Kitten Space Agency using real NASA orbital data. This is fantastic! youtu.be/3Spar8vkQLM

I am so thrilled to share this guide to the observations that the #ArtemisII crew will be making during their closest approach to the Moon!! I hope you'll follow along! science.nasa.gov/resource/art...

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

So far so good. I am still anxious about the heat shield though...

Wanna experience Artemis II as if you were on orbit with the crew? Grab Kitten Space Agency and the mod OEM Loader, download the NASA orbital data and replay the mission in the game! Awesome!

Somebody at NASA was a fan of the synth parts of the "DOOM" soundtrack. That music goes hard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eeZ...

"JA! Perfect."

Is it just me or was the general public's reaction to Artemis II launching more like shrugged shoulders than actual excitement? I slept when it launched (time zones). Now, roughly 6 hours later, the story is barely above the fold on most news websites. Thoughts on why?

Artemis II launch in about 5 hours from now. Livestream is already rolling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

Jupiter from orbit in Kitten Space Agency. The scale hits a bit different when you’re this close. Appreciate everyone jumping in and sharing feedback, it’s helping shape as we go. #space #spacesim #gamedev

I receive multiple sponsorship offers a week, which I never react to, because... ugh... that would be an entire video, honestly. But this has to be either the lowest effort scam attempt or the lowest effort sponsorship attempt ever. Sad part: some real companies behave similarly lazy.

Docking things together into space opens up new possibilities! So it's a big deal that Kitten Space Agency now has docking included - if you can coax it out of the game, at least for now. youtu.be/PDH8hoHtN1Q

So much this. If we don't interact genuinely with our audience, it will damage the relationship irreparably. Creators should never use these AI suggestions for replying.

FFS, USA!

(To the best of my understanding, the attacks by the US and Israel on Iran were carried out with endoatmospheric weapons, so not my department . However I condemn these attacks which are manifestly against international law)

TESS confirms what we saw with Kepler and K2 - on average, ***every single small red star has a planet around it***! And a short-period one at that (<30 days). And you know what the galaxy is mostly made of? Small red stars. PLANETS. PLANETS EVERYWHERE!!! Happy weekend pondering that, everyone.