"The capsule, shaped like a giant Tunnock’s tea cake, has touched down amid a lot of excitement from those on board.
The voice on the radio says “congratulations and welcome back to Earth”.
There’s applause and cheers among the spectators. All six of the women appear to be fine.
It seemed a bit of a bumpy landing to me but apparently that’s par for the course with vanity space trips."
#ns-31 #spaceflight #theguardian #ns31 #vonkármán #blueorigin #ladylaunch #texas #spacenews #nasa #sigh
As far as I'm concerned, if you didn't orbit the Earth, you're not an astronaut. Congrats to NS-31 but y'all ain't astronauts.
Katy Perry and crew to launch on Blue Origin NS-31 in about ten minutes.
An oxygen tank on board Apollo 13 exploded OTD in 1970, seriously endangering the crew's lives https://toilet-guru.com/blog/2.html?s=mb #spaceflight #history
going to write a proper introduction post!
hello, my name is neo. i'm a transmasc in my 20's. generally speaking i like machines that move people, amusement rides, shooter games, and various sci fi and sci fi-adjacent media. i'm in between jobs right now, but my background spans aerospace engineering, acting, teaching, and operating amusement rides.
i occasionally draw and shoot 35mm film! (even less often, i write mediocre fanfiction.)
i'm on the fence about talking about my mental issues on new social media pages but you might find me mentioning them down the line.
i'll put my interests in the tags. (hopefully that's considered helpful here, like mastodon, and not spammy like it is on some sites.) happy to be here!
A very cool interview with the #FRAM2 civilian astronauts.
Incredible. I'm not jealous at all.
The first crewed mission in a polar orbit, shared their experiences viewing Earth some 460km above the surface, viewing from the Dragon cupola.
h/t @satofishi@twitter.com
I miss shuttle launches. I got to see Atlantis launch for STS-117, an ISS construction mission, back in 2007. It was an amazing, emotional event. The little boy from the Apollo era will always dream of those types of launches...
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Airbus entwickelt und baut die Rover-Landeplattform ExoMars der ESA
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"Airbus wurde von der .. ESA + Thales Alenia Space (TAS) - ein Joint Venture von Thales .. + Leonardo ..-, dem industriellen Hauptauftragnehmer von ExoMars, mit dem Bau von Schlüsselsystemen für den ExoMars-Lander beauftragt, der den Rover Rosalind Franklin sicher auf der Oberfläche .. absetzen wird."
29.3.2025
How to Astronaut An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth by Terry Virts, 2020
This book is a collection of essays, each one on a different subject related to spaceflight. Some short, some long. Some technical, some emotional. Some fact-based, and some purely speculative. Some funny, some tragic. All are written with two goals in mind: to make you laugh, and to make you say, “Wow!” Often.
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#spaceflight
#astronauts
#humour
!["There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page... [How to Astronaut] captures the details of an extraordinary job and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating."––Publishers Weekly
Ride shotgun on a trip to space with astronaut Terry Virts. A born stroyteller with a gift for the surprising turn of phrase and eye for the perfect you-are-there details, he captures all the highs, lows, humor, and wonder of an experience few will ever know firsthand. Featuring stories covering survival training, space shuttle emergencies, bad bosses, the art of putting on a spacesuit, time travel, and much more!](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/142/320/041/905/013/original/35f00e083daa8bab.jpg "\"There's something intriguing to be learned on practically every page... [How to Astronaut] captures the details of an extraordinary job and turns even the mundane aspects of space travel into something fascinating.\"––Publishers Weekly
Ride shotgun on a trip to space with astronaut Terry Virts. A born stroyteller with a gift for the surprising turn of phrase and eye for the perfect you-are-there details, he captures all the highs, lows, humor, and wonder of an experience few will ever know firsthand. Featuring stories covering survival training, space shuttle emergencies, bad bosses, the art of putting on a spacesuit, time travel, and much more!")
#ESA:
"After the successful delivery of CSO-3, Ariane 6 demonstrated the full potential of its upper stage. The Auxiliary Propulsion Unit ignited as expected, and the Vinci engine’s third boost put the upper stage into a reentry orbit to safely burn up through Earth’s atmosphere, preventing accumulation of space debris. This confirms the full capability of Ariane 6."
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Ariane_6_takes_flight_for_the_second_time
Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes, scattering debris and closing airports - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/Yds54
No.better representation of US politics right now than a billionaire's crap burning down and in the process endangering other countries and the Planet #SpaceX #SpaceKaren #debris #spaceflight #USPol
SpaceX loses contact with spacecraft during Starship test flight : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/g-s1-52507/spacex-starship-test-flight-boca-chica-texas
Musk blows another of his StarShit rockets. Eight flights and he can't even make orbit. Saturn V performed flawlessly since it's maiden flight and that's the rocket that got man to the Moon and that was over 55 years ago
#Musk #SpaceX #Elon #ElonSucks #FuckElon #PresidentMusk #spaceflight #starship
SpaceX again loses its Starshi...
Musk blows another of his StarShit rockets. Eight flights and he can't even make orbit. Saturn V performed flawlessly since it's maiden flight and that's the rocket that got man to the Moon and that was over 55 years ago, before he was even born ... Musk is a loser and a con man. The fascist narcissistic sociopath is only good at two things: sucking government money and ...
#Musk #SpaceX #Elon #ElonSucks #FuckElon #PresidentMusk #spaceflight #starship
Ob wir wohl erfahren werden, ob es eine erfolgreiche Wiederzündung der Oberstufe zu deren Deorbiting gegeben hat?
@mike_malaska
Elon Musk has done a lot of horrible things lately, but the personal affront for me is that he stole my lifelong joy of space flight from me. Thanks, Firefly. That video just brought it back. And I'll celebrate even more the day you can launch it on your own MLV launch vehicle. Rooting for you!
Ephemeris Explorer, a #simulator of #solar systems with spacecraft flight planning tools
Open source under a GPL-3.0 license
"Today, Musk is in a unique position to deliver that change. As one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, he’s presiding over the administration’s effort to cut costs and slash regulation.
While it’s unclear what changes his panel has in store for the FAA, current and former employees are bracing for Musk to focus on the little-known part of the agency that regulates his rocket company: the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST. “People are nervous,” said a former employee who did not want to be quoted by name talking about Musk.
The tech titan and his company have been critical of the office, which is responsible for licensing commercial rocket launches and ensuring public safety around them. After the fines in September, SpaceX sent a letter to Congress blasting AST for being too slow to keep up with the booming space industry. That same month, Musk called on FAA chief Mike Whitaker to resign and told attendees at a conference in Los Angeles, “It really should not be possible to build a giant rocket faster than paper can move from one desk to another.”"
The Orbital Index Issue № 305:
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spun through lunar gravity for research, while NASA’s Nick Hague repaired the NICER telescope on the ISS. Exoplanet BD+05 4868 Ab is vaporizing, and Rocket Lab launched for Kinéis. Vast delayed its Haven-1 space station launch to May 2026, and Hubble unveiled a stunning Andromeda photomosaic. 
