Jay Aranha 🌎🚀✨

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Falcon Heavy will launch the Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars in late 2028

Cool!

Time to join this epic team!!

@TimSheehyMT Great team! Love SDC!

Great to be with the team at Skydive Chicago to practice flag jumps as we celebrate America 250 this summer! 🇺🇸

Back to the VAB to get ready for Artemis III 🇺🇸

NASA is taking employee recognition to new heights – literally! ✈️☁️ This week, select NASA Armstrong employees got to fly high above NASA’s home for flight test. These flights are part of @NASAAdmin’s effort to spotlight exceptional contributions across the agency. NASA Armstrong is proud to support this ongoing effort!

NASA Aeronautics is looking ahead. ✈️ The Aeronautics Flight Accelerator is now OPEN—seeking input from industry, academia, and government partners on technologies and flight test concepts that could take flight within 3 years. Subsonic. Supersonic. Hypersonic. 🗓️ Responses due May 7 ✈️ Learn more: go.nasa.gov/48R1aaf

Wheels up for NASA’s X-59. ✈️ In its first wheels-up flight, the aircraft revealed its sleek, streamlined design—key to reducing sonic booms to a quiet thump. See how this milestone moves us closer to quiet supersonic flight over land: go.nasa.gov/41B3YV6

NASA Force will begin accepting its first round of applications April 17, bringing early- to mid-career engineers, technologists and innovators into mission-critical roles at the forefront of a new golden age of exploration. Apply starting April 17: nasa.gov/careers/nasafo…

The world watched. Artemis II carried humans farther into space than we’ve ever been in over half a century and showed a new generation what exploration looks like. The journey back to the Moon is underway. Artemis III is up next.

Jesse, Steve, Laddy, and Vlad….such an incredible feeling to welcome you aboard Integrity after a nearly 700,000 mile journey. Forever thankful for your service to our crew and the nation.

With Artemis II complete, we’re preparing to roll Artemis III into the VAB. Artemis III will rendezvous with our partners in earth orbit as we continue building toward the @NASAMoonBase. Artemis missions will launch every year, with Artemis IV landing on the Moon in 2028.

Great to see this getting coverage. The team at Critical Loop is excellent.

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

Starship and Super Heavy move out to continue preflight testing

@ocd_offroad @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman @SciGuySpace Energy involved is too great to do this via thrusters (would require too much propellant). A heatshield is the most mass efficient solution to dissipating the energy given known physics.

@rookisaacman genuine question. What is the reasoning behind simply not slowing velocity prior to re-entry? I get that the atmosphere is a great (and no mass) braking system, however it is inherently dangerous and causes a reusability issue. Always wondered why! Btw congrats on the mission. It was amazing to watch.

Not an expert so I can't really comment on this. But hopefully NASA will soon. nasa.gov/image-detail/d…

I am hesitant to get ahead of a proper data review, but I understand the space community’s curiosity, especially when imagery can give the impression of a problem. As you would expect, engineers were eager to inspect the heat shield, starting with diver imagery shortly after splashdown and continuing with the review aboard the ship. No unexpected conditions were observed. I suspect when the images are released, it will be pretty obvious the stark difference between Artemis I and Artemis II head shield performance. As to the question specifically, the discoloration was not liberated material. The white color observed corresponds to the compression pad area and is consistent with the local geometry, AVCOAT byproducts, and transitional heating environments. We observed this behavior in arc jet testing and expected it in this compression pad area. We will complete a full data review across all systems, including the thermal protection system, and make the results publicly available.

"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

Artemis II may have splashed down, but our photos and videos from the mission are still rolling in! Keep an eye on the latest: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-mul…