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Another setup in progress. Inspection is in one week.

@KirksGumBrand @midwestern_ope Kansas disagrees.

@midwestern_ope The Midwest views Kansas as not in the Midwest.

@midwestern_ope We didn't do a damn thing to ND. The fuck they have to say about it anyway, there's like, 23 people there.

@midwestern_ope Gee, I wonder why Kansas and Missouri couldn't get along?🤔

Start your week with some new photos from Artemis II! Though our journey around the Moon has ended, we're still retrieving plenty of new images. Keep an eye on our Artemis II multimedia gallery for image highlights from the mission: go.nasa.gov/4usiN8W

@HUBBLE_space @esa No doubt that the science was there, it's just that those first 3 years didn't provide stunning images. Big fan BTW.

It was still possible to do useful science with the telescope as launched, before its optics were corrected to give it its intended resolution. You can look in our image archive to see photos released before 1993: for example, here are Pluto (esahubble.org/images/opo9014…), Saturn (esahubble.org/images/opo9011…) and the Orion Nebula (esahubble.org/images/opo9024…).

Happy Anniversary! 🎊 Hubble was launched #onthisday in 1990 and, every year since, it has been surprising us with its cosmic views 📸🌌  Check out the best images Hubble had to offer in its 36th year in our latest #SpaceSparks episode! 1/2

@DJSnM Cool! 😎 I especially love that there's still buttons and switches and guards!

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.

@CSI_Starbase But all at the same time.

@CSI_Starbase I was unsure after the 36 anomaly if it would affect cadence. It seemed like a big setback at the time, but I knew that pad2 readiness was also a big factor. Still unsure as to which event had a factor, if any.

I hope I'm wrong but I think we are seeing roof panel 1 being liberated and taking panel 2 with it. If this is the case it would mean one of the gas generators for the water cooled launch deck exploded. Need a flyover to determine for sure.

@CSI_Starbase I didn't manage to catch much of the show and tell today. Will this push back the launch date? Do they have another? It's not like this is off the shelf hardware.

@SandiaLabs @Bl3D_Eccentric @NASA Well, never been used. Wasn't that project shelved for a while after it was already completed and had a launch provider?

Sandia’s Large Centrifuge helped @NASA test its new VIPER rover ahead of its mission to map water ice on the moon. #NationalSpaceDay 🚀 bit.ly/4uk06UE

@ThrillaRilla369 We're doing it as I speak.

Be honest Do you believe time travel is possible ? ⏰ ⚡️ 🧲

@scitechgirl Got an article to go with that?

🚨 Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) can now be completely eliminated, thanks to Mexican researchers.

@EvonMush2700 Hmmm 🤔 Are there natural gas resources there?

@sixstringsimple The land is owned by exxon mobil, with SpaceX (according to locals) planning on making a purchase of 30 thousand acres on the southern coast of Louisiana.

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@MaxLobovsky Coastline, we don't launch orbital rockets over people. West coast is needed for polar orbits.

The two hubs of spaceflight in the US are central Florida and southern California. They are also both very sunny and filled with theme parks. What's the connection?

@PaulMSmithphoto It's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled.

Teeny tiny “made with AI” labels don’t cut the mustard . Slap that ish right across the middle so it gets 16 likes instead 16k. People don’t like being fooled actually

@MbarkCherguia Who stopped first?

Who’s in the wrong here?

@bscholl So, instead of saving time, we're expected to do more. AI on the other hand should be the technology that gives us that time back.

@bscholl Most modern technology is labeled as time saving, but then that time gets used up with other productive activities filled with similar technology. People used to travel a day or two just to run to the nearest town general store for sundries, now it's delivered to your doorstep.

Every technology—from the plow to the tractor to the steam shovel—has made humanity more human. Has freed us from cyclic, repetitive work, and enabled us to be more creative. And to do the most human thing of all: to leave the world better than we found it. As technology has advanced, fewer have toiled for basic necessities and more have become scientists, engineers, inventors, artists, thinkers. I believe AI will prove to be the *most* humanizing technology yet. AI enables anyone with an idea or a vision to become a creator. To leave behind something new, to add to the sum of human creation. Buckle up, we're in for an amazing future.

Iceland—previously the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes—no longer holds that distinction. "The detection of mosquitoes just north of Reykjavík in 2025 reflects an ecological shift already underway," write Amanda M. Koltz and Lauren E. Culler in a new #ScienceEditorial. Read more: scim.ag/48P6zP2