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June 20, 1993: 🏆🏆🏆 Back-to-back-to-back champs.

42 Years Ago Today: On June 19th, our Planet would change forever. The Chicago Bulls took Michael Jordan 3rd overall in the 1984 NBA draft. And all the rest is.... #ChicagoHistory ☑️

June 14, 1998: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 A perfect six for six.

June 13, 1997: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 A ring for each finger.

June 12, 1991: 🏆 You never forget your first.

50 Years Ago Today: Chicago #Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saves the American Flag from being burned during a game vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium! (April 25, 1976) #MLB #Baseball #History 🇺🇸

We will never see anything like this again in our lifetimes. If you have a few minutes, watch it. Probably the greatest music video ever made. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1983)

Himalayas as seen from Space 🌍 🛰

This view of Wrigley Field at night from an airplane 😍

Jim Cornelison singing the national anthem as NFL Films captured players and fans singing along.

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

Ok last one: the rarest solar eclipse of all time. Only 4 people have seen this with their naked eyes. The sun is fully behind the moon. The only faint light hitting the near side is reflecting off of earth, 250,000 miles away. And the stars and galaxies in the background, sheesh Nikon Z9 f/2.0 2 second exposure ISO 1600 @NASA: flickr.com/photos/nasa2ex…

Artemis II, by John Kraus

1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

Left: The iconic Blue Marble captured by Apollo 17 in 1972. Right: A stunning new view of Earth from Artemis II, in April 2026. Two breathtaking photos of our planet by humanity… more than 53 years apart.

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet. The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy. There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one. That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure. 📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

Sixteen years ago at a music festival in Washington, one guy stood up and started dancing all alone. The crowd laughed and mocked him. Then a stranger joined him. Then another. In minutes, hundreds came running from every direction to join the party! One man’s courage turned into something huge — all because of the very first person brave enough to follow. As Derek Sivers says in his famous TED Talk: Movements don’t start with the leader… they start with the first fearless follower.

Chicago, Illinois 🇺🇸