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💫 ASTRONAUT REID WISEMAN SPEAKS FROM SPACE "We all agreed, we would wake up slow and get into the day easy and quiet — and this morning, we all got up cheering and rocking and getting everything ready to go." "It was the perfect way to start our day."

"We can see the Moon out of the docking hatch right now. It's a beautiful sight." Flight day 3 is in the books, and our @NASAArtemis II crew is now closer to the Moon than to Earth. Check out highlights from our lunar mission. What’s been your favorite moment so far?

@BuzzPatterson SOS

Do you know what this is? I’ll tell you what it is. It’s Heaven at 3 AM in an Air Force dining hall.

I had a conversation with one of my guys at work. He's 23, a good "kid" and he seems to have a great head on his shoulders. We were talking about required reading when I was in school; Animal Farm, 1984, To Kill a Mocking Bird, etc. He never heard of 1984. No idea about Animal Farm. He did know about "Mocking Bird." The look on my face had to show my disappointment. I said, "Bro, these are important books. So relevant today!" Hours later, he showed me his Amazon receipt. That's a win.

@JebraFaushay Based af

He’s right. All of it.

Oakland Zoo’s newest addition — Crimson, a 3-week-old male mountain lion cub — was rescued last Friday after being orphaned in Southern California.

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

@elonmusk The Buggles

Video Killed the Radio Star

Orion Camera View of Artemis II Climb to Orbit

ARTEMIS II CREW SPEAKS FROM SPACE: “We are definitely 100% on our way to the moon." "The lunar gravity will take over in a couple of days here and start pulling us around the far side." "At the end of our translunar injection here, about an hour and a half ago, we just really looked at each other — and I know the United States has done this 1968 through 1972 — but it's just, this is unbelievable, that we can put our minds to something and pull it off." "This is an unbelievable technical accomplishment.”

@depressionlesss We underestimate the intelligence of animals.

Bro has a very clear logic I am shocked 😭

California's nuclear plant, Diablo Canyon can federally operate for 20 years! Many people told us Diablo Canyon plant was a lost cause. That California would be the last place to reverse course on nuclear. That the politics weren't right. And yet, today, Diablo Canyon has received its 20-year NRC license. Last night, we did what we’ve always done—show up and make it visible. In the pouring rain beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, three of us stood soaked, laughing, a little in disbelief. With this great energy milestone we ask, if licensed for 20, why stop at 5?

@F0ODHub A side of sauerkraut

Be honest, what’s missing here?

@mathsrick_ 2a = 8 a = 4 4 + b = 5 b = 5 - 4 b = 1 ab=4 × 1 = 4

ab = ?

@GoingParabolic The people at Grumman developed an amazing spacecraft considering the constraints involved. That thing saved the Apollo 13 astronauts.

This landed on the moon and then returned to earth. Then we lost the technology. Today we have the technology to circle the moon. Pretty incredible progress!

@MissAlly_01 🙋‍♂️

How many people saw the first round of moon launches in the late 60's & early 70's?

@bobby_halstead @Emilyaustin Don't knock that thing, in the right hands it created amazing things, like the SR-71 Blackbird.

@Emilyaustin And they used things like this to do the math

Not trying to be conspiratorial at all, but I’m genuinely confused… if we already landed on the moon decades ago, why does going back now feel like such a massive, complicated mission? 🤔

@MalikAlyza Bonita

I need an old grandma name that starts with B for my girl❤️

California's population grew 0.4% in the last decade. The number of state employees grew 24.5%. Total state spending grew 48%, inflation adjusted. You have to ask - where did all the money go?

She just finished a brutal 5-day straight shift in one of the busiest battalions and firehouses in the LAFD as a paramedic firefighter saving lives, running nonstop calls, only to come home and turn into a literal potato on the couch. 🥔 Words can’t describe how proud I am of this incredible woman. Her strength, heart, and sacrifice blow me away every single time she walks through those doors. Thank you to her and EVERY first responder who makes does the hard work and makes the sacrifice most people will never see. We see you. We love you. We appreciate you more than we can say. ❤️ #LAFD #FirstResponder #ParamedicFirefighter #FirefighterLife #ThinRedLine #ProudOfHer