Astro_Vic

Always pick the window seat. Jupiter and Venus seen from 38,000 feet over Florida’s Atlantic coast

@SR_Planespotter The Brits considered a couple of versions but ultimately decided to pass years ago, but for a country like India that only operates STOBAR carriers, what other AEW&C platforms are available? It may be worth trying to go for an Osprey with a palletized radar

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SLS vs. Saturn V, a real time comparison. Saw a comparison yesterday using my video on the left at 50% speed. Here's a proper comparison with both rockets launching at their real speeds. You'll notice SLS is significantly faster off the pad because of the dual massive SRBs!

@StephenFleming @dansgoldin

@dansgoldin Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis.

I de-wormed NASA in the '90s. At the time, it felt right to bring NASA's meatball back from retirement to reinvigorate that Apollo spirit we had when we got man to moon in under a decade. We were in a time when the end of the Cold War was indicating the end of our robust space program and the Challenger tragedy caused immense angst across the nation. The team and I felt we needed a symbol that was reflective of that aggressive spirit we had in the 60s to *explore and win*. Different times call for different symbols and emblems.

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.

@TheJoeyKendrick @NatalieFratto I understand. I appreciate the effort. I've purchased patches directly from USN/USAF/USMC units at airshows and public outreach events so presumably selling the patches isn't a problem in itself. Thanks for trying and thank you for your service

@VicFlies @NatalieFratto I’m legitimately asking. Our CO is concerned about the legality of it, but we’re working on it

I must acquire the final patch for my Artemis collection…

@TheJoeyKendrick @NatalieFratto Here's hoping the public sales of the patches is for real

@NatalieFratto I’m working on getting permission to set up public sales of the patches!

@MotorsportiveHQ Let the brat leave. He’ll quickly figure out that he’s nothing outside F1 and quickly come back, just like Alonso. No driver is bigger than the sport. This is the reigning champion btw

🚨 Toto Wolff warns Formula 1 CANNOT AFFORD to lose Max Verstappen. 👉 The reigning champion could leave due to dissatisfaction with 2026 technical regulations. Verstappen has criticized the upcoming rules as 'anti-racing'.

Welcome home Artemis II crew 💪

The ceasefire gives Iran control over the Strait of Hormuz which it did not have before the war. The regime's still in place, proxies in place, it still has enriched uranium & the capability to shoot missiles/drones at neighbors. This looks like a huge strategic defeat for the US

Incredible work!! 👏👏👏

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been. Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now. Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list. His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch. Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.” The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule. Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

Plus the X-15, Spaceship One and Spaceship Two. Also, NASA counts the stations as separate spacecraft, so I guess we need to add Skylab and the American part of the ISS

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The best is yet to come

Apollo 9 no fue à la órbita lunar. Fue una misión a la órbita terrestre para probar el Módulo Lunar antes de ir a la Luna

Hot take. The top one looks way better.

@SpaceNosey @NASA @esa @NASAArtemis Las alas de astro civil de la NASA están bordadas en plata (no blanco). Son plata para los que no han ido al espacio. Una vez el astro vuela al espacio, sus alas pueden bordarse opcionalmente en oro. Acá las alas doradas de Koch (que ya voló a la ISS) x.com/johnkrausphoto…

¿Qué significan los parches de los astronautas de #ArtemisII? -Hansen Alas doradas de piloto de la RCAF canadiense y corona real. -Koch Borde y alas blancas de astronauta civil de la NASA. -Glover y Wiseman Alas doradas de piloto naval de la US Navy, con ancla característica.

@latestinspace I'm genuinely curious about why they would need password protected tablets post launch. Who's gonna get into their tables? their crewmates?

@VicFlies GO for launch 😎