kate egert

"In light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully." - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

Still thinking about this 😧

Five people were shot and injured at an Iowa City pedestrian mall near the University of Iowa campus overnight, police said Sunday. Three students from the university were among the injured, according to school officials. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing. Police have released photos of the five “persons of interest associated with this shooting.” cbsnews.com/news/universit…

HAWK ALERT: ICPD seeking public assistance to help identify persons of interest: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/IAIOW…

Thank you, @Gatorade, for removing artificial FD&C colors and switching to newly @US_FDA–approved plant-based dyes from fruits and vegetables. I urge every food company to follow your lead and join us to Make America Healthy Again.

Everything is nominal. 🤣

Twins now sit alone atop the American League. Seriously.

Difference Between SpaceX and NASA NASA and SpaceX are both going to the Moon. But they are building completely different machines to get there. Here is the difference, explained simply. NASA builds like a government. Slow. Expensive. Extremely safe. Every single part is tested, certified, reviewed, and reviewed again. Their rocket, the SLS, costs $4 billion per launch. It cannot be reused. Once it fires, it is gone forever. Their capsule, Orion, seats four astronauts and was designed with decades of engineering tradition behind it. It is the most powerful rocket America has ever built. It is also the most expensive way to get to space that currently exists. NASA’s approach is: we cannot afford to fail, so we will take all the time we need. SpaceX builds like a startup. Fast. Cheap. Fail, learn, rebuild, try again. Their rocket, Starship, is the biggest rocket ever built by any human civilisation. It is designed to land back on its launch pad, be refuelled, and fly again within hours. One Starship launch costs a fraction of what NASA spends on SLS and the plan is to launch it dozens of times just to refuel itself in orbit before heading to the Moon. SpaceX’s approach is: move fast, break things, fix them in public, and make it cheaper every time. How They Work Together NASA is not competing with SpaceX. They hired SpaceX. The plan for landing on the Moon works like this. NASA’s SLS rocket launches astronauts in the Orion capsule toward the Moon. Meanwhile SpaceX launches Starship separately, fuels it up using 14 tanker flights in orbit, and parks it near the Moon waiting. The astronauts transfer from Orion into Starship. Starship takes them down to the lunar surface. They spend about a week on the Moon. Then Starship brings them back up to Orion, and they fly home. They are two completely different vehicles with two completely different companies but they all have one mission. In conclusion, NASA style: one perfect rocket, one shot, do not fail. SpaceX style: launch many times, fuel in orbit, land the rocket back, fly it again tomorrow. NASA is the architect. SpaceX is the contractor who figured out a cheaper way to lay the bricks. Neither can finish this mission without the other. That is what modern space exploration actually looks like.

PS- it’s hard not to love this little guy. I cant let Rise out of my sight…currently tethered to my water bottle.

God at work! 🙌🏽✨

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Can we all agree that in a world of influencers, Z-listers, TikToks, badly acted ads, brand collabs, people filming themselves crying…the Artemis livestream of 4 middle-aged scientists doing their jobs is genuinely the best most authentic content of the century? Thanks @NASA🌚

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…

Big smiles from Christina and Victor on the deck of the USS John P. Murtha, as they waited to be escorted for their routine post-mission medical checks.

There go my new best friends!! 🌖

All four crew members, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, Artemis II mission specialist have now exited the crew module and are now in the inflatable “front porch.”

Welcome Back Home

Whoa!! 🤯

The crew module has now started its reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere. A 6 minute blackout period is now in effect. A P-3 Orion aircraft has now acquired the trajectory of the reentry vehicle. Time until splashdown is now 9 minutes and 35 seconds.

Hello, Earth.