we're go, flight

| gaylen/rook | i like space!! | 🇨🇦 |

[thehighgatevampire]

deadbeat dad who’s an academic: i’m just going to the stor

[vulpe-astra]

ok this made me laugh though

[good-and-colorful]

There's only 1 member of the backup crew?

This is how you end up drugging Ryan Gosling

[gemini-enthusiast]

Meet NASA's Artemis III Crew

As of a few moments ago, NASA has officially announced the crew for the upcoming Artemis III mission. A low Earth orbit mission focused on testing the Orion capsule and lunar landers produced by industry partners Blue Origin and SpaceX, Artemis III will be a complex mission preparing us for a future lunar landing. This international crew comprises of three NASA astronauts and one European Space Agency astronaut.

Commander: Randy "Komrade" Bresnik

A two-time spaceflight veteran flying on both Shuttle and Soyuz, Bresnik first traveled to space aboard the STS-129 mission as a mission specialist. His second mission, beginning on Soyuz MS-05, included a nearly 140 day mission to the International Space Station. Serving as commander of the International Space Station for Expedition 53, Bresnik follows in the long line of astronauts who began their career as Navy test pilots as well as serving as a flight instructor.

Pilot: Luca Parmitano

An Italian astronaut and part of the European Space Agency astronaut corps, Parmitano has flown on two long-duration missions to the International Space Station. A veteran of six spacewalks, Parmitano has proven himself in difficult situations when the suit on his second spacewalk began filling with water, posing the danger of drowning in space. The first Italian to command the International Space Station, Parmitano is also notable for being the first person to DJ in space.

Mission Specialist: Frank Rubio

A record-breaking NASA astronaut, Rubio has flown the longest single spaceflight by an American astronaut at 371 days. A doctor of medicine, Rubio's stay on the International Space Station was prolonged due to damage to the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft. This lengthy stay allowed for more than a year of study of the impact of space flight on the human body.

Mission Specialist: Andre Douglas

The only rookie astronaut on the crew, Douglas is an engineer with a doctorate of systems engineering. A member of the US Coast Guard, Douglas has also studied robotics, planetary defense, and space exploration with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Serving as a backup crew member on Artemis II provided Douglas with the unique experience of training for the Artemis II mission alongside the primary crew. Artemis III will be his first space flight.

[jackswigert]

LUCA PARMITANO?????

[jackswigert]

luca parmitano, artemis 3 pilot, being blessed before a soyuz launch in 2019

[jackswigert]

LUCA PARMITANO?????

[eusexuanal]

Settles down on your dashboard gingerly and with a big heaving sigh

[astronomical-bagel]

Trots onto your dash with youthful curiosity and zest for life

[pucksnroses]

Grief is so fucking weird

[jackswigert]

please tell me the cuff link story! ❤️

ah of course!!

so in the early fifties, jim lovell, still a navy officer and not yet the astronaut we know and love, was attending an army/navy game when he met a young west point cadet at a party. now, he never got the cadet’s name, but as per tradition at games such as these, the two decided to exchange a memento of some kind. since jim had nothing else handy, he decided to give the cadet one of his navy cuff links, and in kind, the cadet gave him an army cuff link.

years later, after jim had joined nasa, he recounted this little tale to ed white, and as jim recounts in lost moon:

“White’s jaw dropped. He was the West Pointer; he, like Lovell, had told the story numerous times over the intervening years; and he, like Lovell, still had the cuff link. The two astronauts became fast friends.”

jim also flew their mismatched cuff links on apollo 8 to honour ed :)

[jackswigert]

visited my father's school today and look what he rescued from their library for me...the gasp i gusped

[jackswigert]

started watching apollo 13 with my mother... had an incredible amount of unprecedented technical issues halfway through... the legacy continues

[jackswigert]

going through your notes app is so fun because sometimes you find 33 mercury seven astronauts incorrect quotes which you wrote in 2019 at the age of sixteen and you wonder where it all went wrong

[vulpe-astra]

[g1pper]

Reid apparently has an attachment to Rise

[jackswigert]

i have been crying over jeremy's "we are a mirror reflecting you" for like twenty minutes oh my godddddd

[jackswigert]

was wearing a friendship bracelet that one of my kids (non-biological) made me today and every time i looked at i internally said "copy heart, copy bracelet" #reidwisemancore

[lonestarflight]

Launch of Apollo 13 (AS-508)

"The Apollo 13 (CSM-109/LM-7/SA-508) space vehicle is launched from Pad A Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), at 2:13 p.m. (EST), April 11, 1970. The crew of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) third lunar landing mission are astronauts James A. Lovell Jr., commander; John L. Swigert Jr., command module pilot; and Fred W. Haise Jr., lunar module pilot."

"The Apollo 13 mission insignia depicts the Greek god of the Sun, Apollo, with three horses pulling his chariot across the face of the Moon, and the Earth seen in the distance. This is meant to symbolize the Apollo flights bringing the light of knowledge to all people. The mission motto, Ex luna, scientia ("From the Moon, knowledge"), appears. In choosing it, Lovell adapted the motto of his alma mater, the Naval Academy, Ex scientia, tridens ("From knowledge, sea power")."

-Info from Wikipedia: link

Date: April 11, 1970

NASA ID: S70-34852, S70-38747, S70-34853, S70-34855, S70-34854, 0101247, S69-60662

Posted on Flickr by Dan Beaumont Space Museum: link, link