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Resulta que hoy es una fecha emotiva para mí y quiero compartirla con uds. ¿Por qué hoy? Porque hace 6 meses un muchachito blanco y gordito me cambió la vida. El 9 de junio, más o menos a las 6 pm, @daniealbr y Pedro traían a Bianco a casa, para que fuera su "hogar temporal".

☄️ Los astronautas de #ArtemisII reportaron cuatro probables impactos de meteoroides (destellos de impacto) en la superficie de la Luna durante el eclipse solar que observan desde la cápsula Orion. La Luna se veía casi completamente oscura, lo que permitió distinguir claramente los destellos. ¡Increíble!

I could never be the astronaut tasked with making observation notes onboard because they’d just be variations of “holy shit!!!!” and “did you see that?!!”

The @NASAArtemis livestream has been absolutely life-affirming. What a gift.

People are there… RIGHT NOW!!! Crazy time to be alive!

“You're on a spaceship called Earth that was created to give us a place to live in the universe, in the cosmos.” Space evangelism is the energy I am here for in 2026. This is Victor Glover’s incredible Easter Message:

Dios mío, mi cédula 🤣🤣🤣

I am loving everything about Artemis II. The science The camaraderie The achievement The fun The hope This is the best thing we’ve all gotten to experience together in a really long time, and it feels wonderful. Amaze amaze amaze ❤️

"It’s indescribable, no matter how long we look at this our brains are not processing this image in front of us. It is absolutely spectacular, surreal, there’s no adjectives. I’m gonna need to invent some new ones to describe what we’re looking at right now." - Reid Wiseman on seeing the solar eclipse caused by the Moon

Esta básicamente fui yo hoy. Y no me arrepiento 😅😅

1969. NASA spent $355 million to put two men on the moon. The flag cost $5.50. And three months before launch, nobody at NASA had even thought to bring one. Congress started asking why the biggest space mission ever wouldn’t include an American flag. NASA scrambled. They handed the job to an engineer named Jack Kinzler, a guy everyone at the space center called “Mr. Fix It.” His problem was strange: there’s no air on the moon. No air means no wind. A normal flag would just hang there like a wet towel on a stick. So Kinzler thought back to watching his mom hang curtains as a kid. He designed a metal rod that slid through the top of the flag like a curtain rod, holding the fabric stiff so it would look like it was waving. The whole flagpole was aluminum tubing, weighed under 10 pounds, cost $75 to build. The flag rode to the moon strapped to the ladder of the landing spacecraft, directly in the blast path of engines that hit 2,000°F on the way down. Engineers had to wrap it in a metal sleeve with insulating blankets just to keep it from burning up before anyone could touch it. Then Armstrong and Aldrin tried to actually plant the thing. They could barely get the pole into the ground. Dirt on Earth has smooth, rounded grains because millions of years of wind and water have worn down the edges. The moon has no weather. Never has. So lunar dirt is made of tiny jagged shards that lock together like Velcro. The pole went in a few inches, nowhere near deep enough. Buzz Aldrin later told NASA engineers he spent the whole time terrified the flag would fall over on live television while hundreds of millions of people watched from their living rooms. It stayed up. It stood for 21 hours and 36 minutes. When Armstrong and Aldrin fired the engine to leave the surface, the rocket exhaust hit the flag, planted just 27 feet away, and blew it over. Aldrin watched it go down through the window. Every Apollo crew after that put their flag farther from the spacecraft. Six American flags were planted across six moon landings between 1969 and 1972. The last one, on Apollo 17, had actually ridden to the moon and back on Apollo 11 years earlier, then hung on the wall of Mission Control before going back to the lunar surface for good. In 2012, NASA pointed a spacecraft camera at the old landing sites. The lead scientist on the camera team confirmed that five of the six flags are still standing. Apollo 11’s is the only one down, lying in the dirt right where Aldrin watched it fall. Every one of them has almost certainly been bleached solid white. Fifty-seven years of raw ultraviolet light, with zero atmosphere to filter any of it, strips the color out of nylon. The Stars and Stripes on the moon are now, most likely, just blank white rectangles on sticks.

que locura coincidir con personas que te entiendan y te quieran tanto en un universo tan vasto, uno a veces no lo valora lo suficiente

Mi papá me crió para disfrutar y conmoverme con todo lo que pasó hoy. Él tiene la culpa de mi amor por el espacio 💜💜

Carroll Crater

"copy thumbs up" - INCREDIBLE

Ha 75 años que se publicaba el artículo científico más breve en la historia de la ciencia. Es tan corto que se los puedo dejar por aquí ... Si tienen la paciencia de leer las 3 líneas podrán decir que hoy leyeron un artículo especializado en Física. #Science #Article #Physics

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's @TorontoStar

Ahora no debería hablar alguien por Canadá?

‘We will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.” “Integrity from Earth, our single system, fragile and interconnected, we copy.”

Que conversación tan incómoda 😶