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Blue Ghost and the #PyramidOnTheMoon have arrived at the lunar surface! This is the second mission (behind Intuitive Machines' IM-1 over a year ago) to put my name and message on the Moon. Much thanks to @fireflyspace and @goLifeShip for this amazing opportunity! #AdLunam

Shortly after its 1990 launch, an optical defect in Hubble's main mirror was identified. Fortunately, it was designed to be serviced by astronauts visiting it on the Space Shuttle. Read about repairing Hubble on the blog: s.si.edu/3Aqf15Y

NASA reserves science payload space for Mars telecommunications mission spacenews.com/nasa-reserves-…

Apollo 16 command module pilot T.K. Mattingly performed an 83-minute spacewalk #OTD in 1972 during the return trip from the Moon. It was to retrieve film cassettes from the Scientific Instrument Module bay at the rear of the service module.

40 Eridani—just 16.5 light-years away and a fun one for sci-fi fans. @Astro.Krd captured this triple star system with a NexStar 8SE. Three stars bound together, with at least one known planet orbiting the primary. If you’ve read or watched Project Hail Mary, this system might ring a bell—it’s Rocky’s home neighborhood. Turns out, you can actually point your scope at it. 📸: @Astro.Krd

Quite fond of the direction our future is going on paper. The watch item now is to see how delivery goes.

Famous asteroid Ryugu may have been bombarded by a swarm of tiny space rocks 1,000 years ago space.com/astronomy/aste…

Astrophotography, from raw to final processing

🚨Science Committee Democratic staff have learned from multiple sources that President Trump has fired the entirety of the National Science Board (NSB). The purpose of the @NSF_NSB is to advise Congress and the President on the activities of the @NSF.

@greta Graphic design Or if I stuck to the dream job I had in grade school (and enjoyed math, which I don't), an astronomer. 🔭

If you were 18 years old now, what career would you choose?

Let's go to space

The U.S. Space Force weather squadron at Cape Canaveral predicts a 75 percent chance of acceptable weather for the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launch of the @AmazonLeo mission on Monday at 8:52 p.m. EDT (0052 UTC). Full details: bit.ly/av_leo6

There are no photos of Neil Armstrong on the Moon? There are actually three*! 1. AS11-40-5886 2. AS11-40-5894 (restored by @AndySaunders_1) 3. AS11-40-5903 ("unwrapped" reflection of Buzz Aldrin's visor by u/rg1213) (*Not including the ones where he's partially visible)

Damaged spacewalking glove. The Space Station gets bombarded by space rocks and debris, and is covered with small, sharp impact scars. It's easy to snag your glove on one. We pause every 45 minutes (at sunrise or sunset) to inspect for new tears. Fortunately this one didn't get through the glove's tough hide to the rubber pressure layer. Just in case, we have a small, 6000 psi backup tank to feed a leak until we get back to the airlock and plug into ship's oxygen.

On this day in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was placed in orbit from Space Shuttle Discovery, the day after it launched. This image was captured as Hubble was suspended above Discovery's cargo bay.

A piece of 1970s hardware is still alive and pinging back from deep space. 🛰️✨ On Sept 5, 1977, NASA launched a probe - Voyager 1 to observe Jupiter and Saturn. 48 years later, it is still talking to us. Communicating with Voyager 1 from nearly a light-day away is arguably one of the greatest engineering feats in history. 🤯 Its survival is a mix of nuclear physics, extreme engineering, and clever remote surgery by NASA teams. A thread on how this 48-year-old machine is still hanging on: 🧵

NASA's TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before space.com/astronomy/exop…

They transmit data 100 times slower than a dial-up connection, but they're somehow still going. trib.al/hWZKAnz

NASA’s Dragonfly will explore the air, land and seas of Titan, Saturn’s most mysterious moon: scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-…

IT’S FALCON HEAVY TIME, BOYS AND GIRLS!!!

OTD 1991 - Inaugural rollout of Space Shuttle Endeavour. We were there, met the crew and NASA leadership one on one.