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Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.
Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.
Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.
His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.
Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”
The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.
Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.
Reid Wiseman@astro_reid
There are no words.
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@canplayson @ESPNNBA U could argue he'd be even better, would have the versatility and quickness to guard outside the paint better, would have a lower centre of gravity, bulk up faster and be less injury prone
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@ESPNNBA If he were 6’8”, he wouldn’t even survive in the league—or at most, he’d be waving the towel on the bench
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@SpursInSix They had previously won 27/29 with the same rotation. Franchise record.
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I fw fox but it's very clear that our future is Harper + Castle starting backcourt. Fox lacks court vision badly and his offense isn't that spectacular either
Wemby Central 👽@WembyCentral
How are you a score-only point guard (who can’t shoot) playing off Wemby gravity and you’re hovering around league average efficiency. And you make 55 million dollars a year.
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@THEAirbat I don't even mind his turnovers, it's the fact his brain shuts down in scoring mode & he forgets that passing is even an option.
That's okay for a KD type player but Fox is not even that efficient
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@SpursInSix I been trying to tell people that Fox turns the ball over just as much as Castle does but no wanted to listen
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@King_BP_TX Idk man, Harper's ceiling is ridiculous and prime D fox is unable to pass to a wide open 7'5 guy under the rim
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"It's starting to feel like it's all about to happen again."
This Spurs team might be laying the foundation for another Golden Era in San Antonio 🎙️ @SheaSerrano
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@NitroHyperUlta @ETT_Trades @TheNBACentel Bro actin like the gym is a pokemon center and they have npc speeches they all say around the world
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@oXeniasyn @Hoops_Market @YahooSports He should just stand in one spot for 20 mins would be hilarious and the nba would revert the rule next year
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@Hoops_Market @YahooSports Have to play 20 mins.
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@PolymarketHoops He’s right 🤷🏿♂️sga gonna win it rightfully but what Luka did this season can not be taken for granted and the media made it a point to make sure he’s slighted because of their opinions on his defense 🤷🏿♂️there is an award for defense 🤷🏿♂️Luka was ballin all season it was efficient 🤷🏿♂️
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Fred VanVleet isn’t a fan of Victor Wembanyama self-campaigning for MVP 👀
“This is my one thing I don’t like. Luka been averaging 40, 10, and 10 for the last 2-3 weeks and he’s been doing down. Wemby gets up there in a press conference and says ‘I’m the MVP’ and he goes up?”
(h/t @NBA__Courtside)


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via @WhiteHouse. Details here: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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#BREAKING 🚨: The White House has proposed a 23% cut to NASA’s budget for 2027 to fund an increase in defense spending


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@SpursInSix since when does statpadding in the 3rd qtr exist lmao
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@b_radtweets @DiamanteAyo Had a whole team perfectly built around him and a 1B but Nico Harrison is retarded 🥀
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@DiamanteAyo Yeah. He’s good the majority of the time. But almost like Durant. He needs a 1b
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