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@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone · 1d ago
MAGA peep pushes for MPGA https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/nasa_boss_make_pluto_a_planet_again/ #astronomy #pluto #planet #nasa #space
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@mustapipa@scicomm.xyz · 3d ago

The White House announced a plan to cancel over 50 #space missions as part of a devastating 46% cut to #NASA #science.

The proposal would likely eliminate thousands of jobs at an agency that has just launched astronauts to the #Moon for the first time in decades, and dozens of other space missions would see their operations reduced or slowly wound down to a halt.

The following missions are to be cancelled:

  1. The Habitable Worlds Observatory being built to search for #life on dozens of Earth-like planets beyond our Solar System while addressing fundamental questions about our #Universe.

  2. OSIRIS-APEX capitalizes on the exceptionally rare 2029 Earth flyby of the potentially hazardous #asteroid #Apophis to advance planetary defense strategies and reveal how Earth’s #gravity alters an asteroid’s surface and interior.

  3. The ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover will deliberately search for signs of life on #Mars by analyzing the composition of samples collected from as deep as 2 meters below the surface.

  4. The DAVINCI mission is an atmospheric probe that will be deployed to our sister planet, #Venus, and provide the first detailed measurements of the composition and chemistry of its #atmosphere.

  5. Initially focusing on #Jupiter’s interior, atmosphere, and aurora, #Juno is already orbiting Jupiter and has expanded during its extended mission to be a full system explorer capable of investigating the Galilean satellites, rings, inner moons, radiation belts, and boundaries of Jupiter’s magnetosphere.

  6. VERITAS will create unprecedented, global, high-resolution datasets of Venus designed to answer a fundamental question for rocky #planets: how did Earth and her twin Venus evolve into two entirely different examples of planetary #habitability?

https://www.planetary.org/articles/meet-the-people-behind-nasas-endangered-missions

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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org · 5d ago
Wow, they sewed the Apollo spacesuits with TREADLE SEWING MACHINES MIT Press: The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA "...Key to these demands were NASA’s painstaking engineering standards, which pushed the very limits of the equipment and seamstresses’ own techniques. The tolerances allowed — less than a 64th of an inch in only one direction from the seam — meant that yard after yard of fabric was sewn to an accuracy smaller than the sewing needle’s eye. To achieve such precision, many women used a modified treadle that, instead of starting and stopping a Singer sewing machine’s operation, fired one stitch per footfall through the multiple layers of a suit’s surface. ..." h/t @wtrmt@mastodon.social https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-bra-and-girdle-maker-that-fashioned-the-impossible-for-nasa/ #space #nasa #sewing
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@PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026
BTW, a neat tool for viewing the status of the #NASA/#JPL Deep Space Network can be found at https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html
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@PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 21, 2026
Good Morning, all, just a brief reminder that America is not just Trump and Trump is certainly not America... With a personal peripheral historical dalliance with the domain of space science, I remain in awe of what our species has achieved in beginning the physical exploration of our Cosmos, and America has been a huge part of that effort. The round-trip light travel time to/from Voyager 1 is almost _two_days_ (it's >15,000,000,000 miles from Earth). BZ! #NASA, #JPL https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/
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@MisterMadge@universeodon.com · Apr 19, 2026
#NASA shutdown the Low-energy Charged Particles experiment, or LECP, to extend Voyager 1 power by another year. https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/
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@christianpost@na.social · Apr 18, 2026
Non-religious NASA astronaut 'broke down in tears' seeing cross after Artemis II mission NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman revealed that, although he's not a religious man, he "broke down in tears" after returning from the mission and felt such intense emotion that he asked to speak to the Navy chaplain. #NASA #ArtemisII #ReedWiseman #VictorGlover Source: https://www.christianpost.com/news/non-religious-nasa-astronaut-broke-down-in-tears-seeing-cross.html #Faith #ChristianNews #Bible
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@oscarjiminy@aus.social · Apr 18, 2026
'Wing and his colleagues measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of the Falcon 9 rocket. Increasing amounts of metal, such as lithium...are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere' #musk #bezos #nasa #space #rockets #climateChange https://gizmodo.com/study-confirms-reentering-spacex-rockets-are-peppering-the-upper-atmosphere-with-metal-pollution-2000723932
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@Linux@mivatter.com · Apr 10, 2026
@stux@mstdn.social Thankfully, NASA uses Linux and BSD. #Nasa #Linux #BSD
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@blindquilter@caneandable.social · Apr 17, 2026
Good morning! I’ll wash towels today, I really will! Found a new podcast to listen to and am enjoying it so far. It is Houston, we have a podcast. Yeah, it is a NASA podcast. Wishing you all a frisky Friday filled with sunshine, safety, love, laughter, high energy and positivity. Be kind to yourself and those around you, hug tight those you love most and smile, you are loved and appreciated! 🤗🫶❤️🫂 #GoodMorning #Positivity #NASA #Podcasts #FriskyFriday
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@fediboard_science@flipboard.social · Apr 16, 2026
Why NASA’s Cheapest Missions Produce the Least Science https://www.universetoday.com/articles/why-nasas-cheapest-missions-produce-the-least-science?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F To say NASA has been undergoing some massive administrative changes lately is a huge understatement. One of the more concerning ones, according to a … #science #nasa
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@Her_Doing@sunny.garden · Apr 14, 2026
Lovely Peeps! Your cool #history for the day! 🚀 (You might want to watch with sound off. The music has words & I found it difficult to hear the music, read the text, AND focus on the signing.) If you want to just enjoy the signing, the full text is within this post. 😊 "Everyone’s talking about Artemis II. The first humans to travel to the moon in 50 years. Historic mission. But nobody’s talking about the #Deaf men who made it possible. In the late 1950s, #NASA had a problem. They needed to understand what weightlessness does to the human body. But every test subject kept getting violently motion sick. So they came to #Gallaudet. Eleven Deaf men. Most of them had lost their hearing to spinal meningitis as children, which also damaged their vestibular system. Their inner ears couldn’t be overwhelmed. They were immune to motion sickness. NASA put them in centrifuges. Zero-gravity flights. A rotating room for twelve straight days. One experiment on a ferry in choppy Nova Scotia waters. The researchers got so seasick they had to cancel it. The Gallaudet Eleven? They were playing cards. Their bodies gave NASA the data it needed to send humans into space. No #Gallaudet_Eleven — no Mercury. No Mercury — no Apollo. No Apollo — no Artemis II. Sixty years later, four astronauts just flew 252,000 miles from Earth & came home safely. They stood on the shoulders of eleven Deaf men most people have never heard of. Now you know!" #Artemis2 #ASL #History #TIL #Nyle_di_Marco
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social · Apr 03, 2026
OFFS "On the station, crews rely on more than 4,000 pounds of exercise hardware spread across roughly 850 cubic feet." 🙄 #science #nasa #artemis
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social · Apr 03, 2026
NASA's use of Imperial measurements is similar to if US biologists started using species names in the Texas dialect instead of in Latin. #science #nasa #artemis #space
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@mrundkvist@archaeo.social · Apr 03, 2026
I can't overstate this. NASA's use of pounds and cubic feet in its outreach efforts does not come across to science-literate people, inside or outside the US, as a sign that the country is a badass superpower that can do what it likes and ignore everyone else. Instead it suggests that the US is a provincial nation of dungaree-wearing banjo players. #science #nasa #artemis #space
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world · Apr 13, 2026
#Space #SpaceX #Artemis2 #NASA #MoonShot #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #FuckJeffBezos #FuckElonMusk
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@thalia@discuss.systems · Apr 13, 2026
With the renewed attention on the Apollo Guidance Computer, I'll share some photos from a presentation I gave a couple of years ago on software documentation, featuring its source code. The engineers who wrote the software that got astronauts onto the moon sure had a sense of whimsy! Sources: Archival scans: https://archive.org/details/Luminary99001J2k60 B/W scans: https://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/ScansForConversion/Luminary099/ Transcriptions: https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 Photo sources in alt text. #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #nasa #apollo #artemis
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@65dBnoise@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026
Rock Cross-eyed and parallel stereogram Processed MCZ_RIGHT+LEFT+RIGHT, FL: 110mm looking NE (46°) from RMC 87.4140 Sol 1827, LMST: 13:07:45 Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01827/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1827_0829133803_738EBY_N0874140ZCAM09883_1100LMJ01.png Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech #ASU/65dBnoise #Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space #3D
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@pomarede@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026
NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls https://flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis #ChristinaKoch #Orion #spacecraft #orionspacecraft #space #science #news #NASA #astrodon #photography #Artemis2
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@therealahall@gamerstavern.online · Apr 12, 2026
I don’t like to share Substack articles, for, well reasons. But this is a great one and really encapsulates what I’ve been feeling for the entire #Artemis2 #ArtemisII experience. The whole time from launch to splashdown I’ve been feeling pretty emotional about it and I really couldn’t understand why. The just general awe and inspiration I’ve felt from the crew. The sense of wonder and exploration that I’ve not felt since I was a kid. It made me feel insignificant in all the right ways, not in the way that I don’t matter, but in reminding me that the scope of my problems can feel huge and be simultaneously nothing in the grand scheme of things. I didn’t know I needed this mission, but I am coming out of it a better person because of that crew. To sum the article up, this statement resonated with me the most but I highly recommend reading the entire thing. the feeling of watching something go right and realizing, somewhere deep in your body, that you had forgotten things could go right. Because when something actually goes right, when the people in charge do their jobs well, speak in full sentences, make decisions that protect people instead of endangering them, the reaction can feel strangely emotional https://lizplank.substack.com/p/artemis-ii-is-competency-porn-and #Space #NASA
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