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Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane

(Edit: I posted videos in the replies, if that's of interest❤️)

#space #nasa #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #spaceflight

View out of the window of an aeroplane of the trail of smoke from the Artemis rocket against the blue sky, far above the clouds

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This photo reportage is genuine, created in a real Homo sapiens brain, and produced without any AI rubbish: an #expedition to a distant #planet where strong evidence of life had been found: the planet Elder 0815, part of the famous Mosslich-system. https://steady.page/en/naturematchcuts/posts/d242349d-fa59-4af8-a834-c93d580a4039

#NatureMatchCuts #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #moss #MacroPhotography #NaturePhotography #natureWriting #sciFi #spaceFlight #ReconnectWithNature #biodiversity #dinosaurs

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Heads up (especially if you’re currently on a ship in the Indian Ocean).

ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter & its icy moons is flying at less than 10,000km overhead right now, at 13:45 CEST, on its second Earth gravity assist.

It’ll be back here again in 2029 on its last slingshot towards the outer Solar System.

#spaceflight #science

An artist impression of a spacecraft with very large cross-shaped solar panels with the planet Jupiter in the background as well as a sprinkling of stars on a black background.

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One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
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The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-doge-faa-ast-regulation-spaceflight-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #SpaceX #FAA #ElonMusk #DOGE #Aviation #Spaceflight #Trump #Regulation

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Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

Yuri Gagarin completed a single orbit of the Earth #OTD, 12 April, 1961. Today is the International Day of Human Space Flight

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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #space #spaceflight #InternationalDayOfHumanSpaceFlight #Gagarin

A Home in Space
Edwin Morgan

Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring.
Soaring metal is flight and nest together.
Together they must hatch.
Hatches let the welders out.
Out went the whitesuit riggers with frames as light as air.
Air was millions under lock and key.
Key-ins had computers wild on Saturday nights.
Nights, days, months, years they lived in space.
Space shone black in their eyes.
Eyes, hands, food-tubes, screens, lenses, keys were one.
One night – or day – or month – or year – they all –
all gathered at the panel and agreed –
agreed to cut communication with –
with the earth base – and it must be said they were –
were cool and clear as they dismantled the station and –
and gave their capsule such power that –
that they launched themselves outwards –
outwards in an impeccable trajectory, that band –
that band of tranquil defiers, not to plant any –
any home with roots but to keep a –
a voyaging generation voyaging, and as far –
as far as there would ever be a home in space –
space that needs time and time that needs life.

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Laid-back in orbit, they found their minds.
They found their minds were very clean and clear.
Clear crystals in swarms outside were their fireflies and larks.
Larks they were in lift-off, swallows in soaring…

—Edwin Morgan, “A Home in Space”
from CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 2020)

#OTD, 20 July, 1969, Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #MoonLanding #MoonLandingDay #poem #poetry #scifi #sciencefiction #scifipoem #spaceflight

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