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@RoughRidersShow @NASASpaceflight Absolutely LOVE this shot! Really helps show how massive the tower is!!

Booster 19 back at Pad 2! This place is rocking! @NASASpaceflight nsf.live/starbase

@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre They are NOT playing this time!! They want to yeet this thing to space already! lol

Pretty much as soon as Booster 19 had arrived at the pad, she was between the Chopsticks and lifted up to the launch mount. @LabPadre

@Truthful_ast What's wild is this is still technically a test article, and it looks this refined! Makes me wonder how they could possibly make it better with V4 booster 🫠

Starship looks like an operational variant now, this feels like the program's version of Falcon 9 Full Thrust (v1.2)

Auroras, Lightning & Starlink from 10.000 km 🌍🛰️ (Apr 3) Camera setup by #ArtemisII Crew Raw photos courtesy of the ESRS @NASAEarth @NASA_Johnson ID ART002-E-25501 to 25518 Edit by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) Enjoy! @astro_reid @Astro_Christina @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Jeremy @NASAAdmin

@Erdayastronaut AND by the same extension it gives NASA more time to adapt Centaur for A5 instead of months sooner for A4. All in all a good call it would seem!

Some interesting notes besides the amazing 4K streaming from orbit (YES PLEASE), the inclination and altitude mentioned tells us two things. 1. Starship could do this from Starbase, so it wouldn't require 39A pad to be operational. 2. SLS could do it WITHOUT the ICPS, saving it for Artemis IV, which is smart considering we don't want to be potentially waiting on a new upper stage for that mission.

@alexboge What the commentors in this thread show is they have no clue what Geostationary Orbit means 🤣 lemme break it down for them. Geo = Earth Stationary = stays in place Orbit = path around and object So these satellites are high enough to where they stay stationary around the earth

On April 26th, 2026, the Japan Meteorological Agency's Himawari-8 satellite captured a full day of Earth. Every ten minutes, for twenty-four hours, it photographed a complete hemisphere of the planet. One hundred forty-four individual photographs. No editing for content. No compositing. No CGI. No green screen. No hologram. No drawings. These are photographs, assembled into video. Himawari-8 is a geostationary weather satellite operated by Japan. It orbits at roughly twenty-two thousand miles above the equator, remaining fixed over one spot on the planet, orbiting at the same rate Earth rotates. It was launched in 2014. It takes photographs of Earth in visible light and infrared. It does this every ten minutes, every single day, year after year. These images are available to the public. Meteorologists worldwide use them for weather forecasting. News organizations use them. Scientists use them. You can access them yourself right now. What you're seeing over that twenty-four hour period is the terminator line moving -- the day-night boundary shifting as the planet's rotation carries different regions into and out of sunlight, all viewed from a fixed point in space. It is not a composite. It is not a trick. The curvature you see is not distortion. It is not perspective compression. It is the actual shape of the Earth as photographed by an independent satellite operated by a nation with no interest in perpetuating a NASA conspiracy. This is what Earth looks like from space. This is the globe holding atmosphere in place with gravity as you witness weather patterns moving across its surface. This is reality. (No fisheye lens was harmed in the making of this video.)

Love these shots. Some of the things working against them while they took these photos: The spacecraft moving relative to the everything else Camera focusing on the glass instead of the subject Focusing on Internal reflections instead of the subject Blocking those reflections when photographing something dark Trying to stay still while you’re floating Insane dynamic range of the subjects (deep black space, sunlit planet/moon) Distortions from shooting through glass Dealing with internal lights while trying to photograph something dark Millions of people watching your every move and criticizing the photos I respect the blurry photos the same way I respect rocket scrubs. In the path to achieving greatness, you have to fail a few times. Also, most of my camera rolls look a lot like this 😂

@digijordan They do have pix from artemis showing stars in the background. What you have to realize is that even on the nightside of the earth it will still be difficult because of the light coming off the moon. You have to have all the right elements line up AND be trying to get that pic.

When I questioned why none of the Artemis photos showed stars…hundreds of triggered NPCs screamed at me…saying it was impossible to do…I’d proceed to tell them it’s actually quite easy and basic…they’d call me names and come completely unhinged. But now we see this beautiful photo from a NASA astronaut…with a VERY bright earth AND the Milky Way. Obviously these types of shots are not only possible…they’d are easy and should be expected. Now…the question is…why the lack of videos… And WHY are most the Artemis photos devoid of stars?

@DJSnM SAME!! It brings the human element into focus, and adds life to the photos!

Of the thousands of new Artemis II images released the ones I like looking at most are the ones showing that they're taken from a spacecraft with people on it flying around the moon.

@_MaxQ_ @davill Perhaps it has to with protecting the non-gimbaling engines? The new bracing almost looks like its ablative material.

@davill noticed some interesting materials on 4 of the 7 engine bells from "No, It's Necessary" this morning, and the other 3 have the more traditional bracing/bracketing that we've seen during NG-1 and NG-2. Curious as to what y'all are testing this time around in this configuration - additional BE-4 upgrades?

The space port that never sleeps starting off the week bright and early this morning! Blue Origin has rolled GS1-3 "No, It's Necessary" out of their factory — it’s now heading to LC-36. This marks the company’s third New Glenn first stage booster built to date, and the next one scheduled to fly. 📸 - @NASASpaceflight

@_MaxQ_ I won't lie, I'm impressed that they are starting to ramp up launches this early! Excited to see how B.M MK1 does!!

@OliviaStalvey Kitty cat in astronaut suit 😀😀 speaking on behalf of my 22 purrbabies lol

What should I paint? Andddd GO. Can be anything

Absolutely LOVE Titan!!

@astratuatha The Titan family is my FAV classic rocket family!! Just such a cool looking rocket and was a workhorse in its own right!!

@Truthful_ast Idt I know of the Altair Lunar Lander? Any info you could give before I jump down the rabbit hole?

NASA's Altair Lunar Lander

oh jeez oh god oh jeez oh god oh jeez oh god

Good gracious I love this crew!!!

Day 076, orbit 1179 — Weighing yourself in weightlessness isn’t really about weight… it’s about mass. On Earth, a scale works because gravity pulls us down, but in microgravity everything floats, so that method simply doesn’t work. Instead, we use a special device that moves our body up and down, allowing us to determine our mass. Mass stays exactly the same, whether you’re on Earth or floating in orbit. 🎥 @esa / @NASA #εpsilon • @esaspaceflight • @NASA_Johnson • @Space_Station

The state of the camera that got the shot 😂

@AJamesMcCarthy You need to have this same setup when starship launches!! Holy guacamole this is an awesome shot!!

I used a modified camera to see more infrared light during this morning’s launch. The result gave me such beautiful colors.