Probably One Of The Coolest Photographs Ever Taken. Can't Wait For Artemis 2 To Best It.

Melba Roy, NASA Mathmetician, at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 1964. Ms. Roy, a 1950 graduate of Howard University, led a group of NASA mathmeticians known as “computers” who tracked the Echo satellites. The first time I shared Ms. Roy on VBG, my friend Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a former postdoc in astrophysics at NASA, helpfully explained what Ms. Roy did in the comment section. I am sharing Chanda’s comment again here: “By the way, since I am a physicist, I might as well explain a little bit about what she did: when we launch satellites into orbit, there are a lot of things to keep track of. We have to ensure that gravitational pull from other bodies, such as other satellites, the moon, etc. don’t perturb and destabilize the orbit. These are extremely hard calculations to do even today, even with a machine-computer. So, what she did was extremely intense, difficult work. The goal of the work, in addition to ensuring satellites remained in a stable orbit, was to know where everything was at all times. So they had to be able to calculate with a high level of accuracy. Anyway, that’s the story behind orbital element timetables”. Photo: NASA/Corbis.

I love listening to Apollo transcripts! I can’t wait!

Apollo 13: In Real Time!

Via Ben Feist on twitter: “Coming soon! Apollo 13 in Real Time! Includes 7,200 hours of mission control audio as they work to save the crew. Created by a small team including @steveslater1987 @dave_charney @ke6jjj Will launch in March. The 50th anniversary starts April 11. https://apolloinrealtime.org “ 

Is that in the LM on the surface? I think that's the first video I've seen of inside the LM while on the surface. I was curious to see the effects of the lower gravity.

Charlie Duke during Apollo 16, April 1972

Being autistic and also a Hyperpop/breakcore/ect enjoyer is really funny bc the sounds of being outside in the real world are often so tiring to me but if I wanna unwind and have a good time I will listen to the the most unnatural noises conjured up by evil computers and specifically designed to make your head explode. awesome

crystalworksgallery on ig

It's genuinely possible that Starship HLS might not be ready before Blue Moon MK 2 is.

“Typical stages in development of a solar system.” The source and mode of solar energy throughout the universe. 1895. Frontispiece.

Internet Archive

The Night Rolls In,  -    Greg Mort, 2011.

American,b.1952-

Watercolour, 14 × 20 in.   35.6 × 50.8 cm

Part 2! 🤩 BepiColombo’s last close-ups of Earth during flyby

A sequence of images taken by one of the MCAM selfie cameras on board of the European-Japanese Mercury mission BepiColombo as the spacecraft zoomed past the planet during its first and only Earth flyby on 10 April 2020.

► Learn more about BepiColombo: https://www.fromspacewithlove.com/bepicolombo/

📸 Copyright ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO