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Moon Joy June: Launch Inspo

Moon Joy June artists! Looking for a little inspiration? The prompt for this week is “Launch.” Here is a small collection of photos of the launch of the Artemis II mission, which took place on April 1, 2026. What followed was ten days of our Artemis astronauts circling the Moon, returning to Earth, and experiencing pure Moon joy all throughout.

You can find more launch photos here. If you’re feeling inspired to make some art, you can share your creations on Tumblr with the #ArtemisArtShow hashtag!

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Space Podcast Recommendation

Highly recommend listening to “13 Minutes Presents” which is a BBC space podcast.

I listened to all of 13 Minutes to the Moon and most of Apollo 13. Really well done with lots of information and actual Mission Control tapes and interviews.

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IM GOING TO SPACE CAMP SOON! 🚀

I cannot express how excited I am that my husband and I are going to space camp for our anniversary. I have been space obsessed since 1995 when I first saw Apollo 13. 🚀

I never got to go to space camp as a kid so this has been a bucket list item for me for ages. 🚀

Hopefully can make it to Houston next year! 🚀

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Photos from the James Webb Telescope in May.

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Luna-16 in Star City's "The Eyes"

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Star City Episode 2 Thoughts

Genuinely thought for a moment when they said Anastasia Belikova was going to be forced to marry someone they meant Sergei. Glad that was not the case.

I never imagined Irina being a mother.

Love that Sergei makes himself a fancy dinner. I imagine he does this nightly and that just adds to his charm. He would have made such lovely dinners for Margo in Brazil.

Condolences to my husband for me going on about about Sergei and the immorality conversation during the episode.

I’m wondering how much we will get to see in regard to the American side. There was the one clip of Deke and Von Braun on tv. Maybe we can finally get an answer on the red light Gordo saw on the moon?

I really wish I could binge watch this season.

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Imprint trailer.

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Watched the first episode of Star City and I enjoyed it. I think the casting for Sergei was spot on at least from the brief moment we saw.

I’ve really only become interested in Irina since For All Mankind season 5. Still very much not a fan after she destroyed Margo and Sergei, however I am curious about her origin story.

Interesting that they chose Fra Mauro for the landing site of Luna 16 though. That was the original landing site for Apollo 13 IRL.

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Recent photos from the International Space Station.

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Blue Origin rocket explodes on launch pad in Florida

Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, had successfully launched its third New Glenn Rocket last month.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket exploded Thursday night on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

The explosion occurred at about 9 p.m. ET. Blue Origin said there were no injuries from the incident.

The New Glenn rocket had just been cleared on May 22 to return to flight after being grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration after an anomaly with the second stage during an April 19 launch.

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Serious Thoughts:

“That’s not the NASA I knew.” No, it’s not, Margo, because you reigned over NASA and it was fantastic. They excelled into space and brought people together.

Now it’s probably number 7 on a ‘Best Places to Work in Houston’ list.

“Some problems cant be worked.” This broke my heart.

Love that Graci came to visit Tía Margo! And they shared a bag of Tootsie Rolls together.

Other Thoughts:

When the camera panned into the Russian ship I joked to my husband “maybe Sergei’s ghost is on the ship!” Which we laughed about until:

“Д:/ Обнаружение ГВ 3.06.0451 // Никулов

Загрузка..”

(D:/ GW Detection 3.06.0451 // Nikulov

Loading..)

I think the season finale may have helped lessen my dislike about season 5. I was on the fence about season 6, but I’m probably going to watch just to see where it goes.

Entirely Unserious Thoughts:

How did the Baldwin family get such strong plot armor? I thought (my bad) that Kelly was going to die until the luminescent lake. Did anyone notice the luminescent movement at the other end of the lake? I’m attributing it to a Titan Loch Ness monster to go along with the ridiculous plot armor.

Thank you for coming to my For All Mankind Season 5 TED Talk.

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Us going into tonight’s episode.

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Looks like Nope was added to Netflix recently. Excited to finally see Wrenn in this.

Can’t wait for the inevitable “really…” when my husband realizes I’ve been repeatedly suggesting we should watch this movie because of Wrenn haha

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Wrenn at Comic Con in 2015 for Outcast.

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Someone posted a while back about “That Don’t Impress Me Much” as a Margo x Sergei song (I’m so sorry I don’t recall who!).

Made a Margo x Sergei playlist this morning for fan listening, fic inspo, etc. Below is what I have so far. Happy to share the link if anyone wants it.

And if anyone has any suggestions on songs to add/remove please feel free to suggest! I tried to organize it in show order.

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I have no idea how they are going to wrap up season 5 in general let alone with Margo. This is a mess.

Unless Margo fell asleep at her Mission Control support console and it’s all been one big Tootsie Roll induced dream. At this point, I might be able to get behind that.