Lone Star Flight and Space

Side Blog of Lone Star Battleship, dedicated to Aviation and Spaceflight. This blog is not affiliated with the Lone Star Flight Museum.

[lonestarflight]

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[lonestarflight]

"Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, command pilot of the Gemini-9A spaceflight, is photographed during the Gemini-9A mission inside the spacecraft by astronaut Eugene Cernan, Gemini-9A pilot."

Date: June 3, 1966

NASA ID: S66-38080

[iriswbp]

Old STS-41-D patches designed by one of the STS-41-D astronaut's son, Patrick Mullane!

[world-beauty]

Sunspot with Light Bridge

Credits: Mark Johnston

[kittydealer]

u/Fine-Dog-9874

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[sunflowermoon2]

Important update

[kittygoatgruff]

Moon joy!!! 🥹

[captain-price-returns]

You will absolutely not be prepared for the logo that flashes at the end of this drone combat video

[leebrontide]

WOw I sure was not

[longislandairpower]

[lonestarflight]

The pilot must be from Australia.

[edwhiteandblue]

May 27, 1999: STS-96 Discovery launches to the International Space Station

STS-96 was a logistics and resupply mission and Discovery was the first Shuttle to dock to the ISS, which at the time consisted of only two modules— the Russian Zarya and the American Unity. Discovery carried a crew of seven, parts for the Russian cargo crane Strela, and a Spacehab module filled with cargo.

[todays-xkcd]

We definitely put the pool in a mine for shielding. It was absolutely not to hide it from the funding people.

Neutrino Project [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[There is a large pool with a curved edge at the bottom of the panel, with a diving board and several stickfigures in and around it. Ponytail and Cueball are talking in the pool; two characters with relatively indistinct hair are in the water either side of them, passing a beachball between themselves; a Cueball has somersaulted off the diving board in a 'cannonball'-like jump; a Danish and a Ponytail with a drink are walking along the outside of the pool.] Ponytail in pool: How much trouble do you think we'll be in when they find out we used the grant money to throw a huge pool party instead? Cueball: We could argue that we did build a neutrino detector. Cueball: There's a lot of water here. A solar neutrino will probably interact with it at some point. Ponytail: ...Wait. Actually, if we got some photomultiplier tubes... [Caption below comic:] How the neutrino detector was invented

[brickett6]

Mars as seen from the psyche probe during it's flyby of the red planet on may 15 2026

(original raw images by NASA, color from me stacking the filter wheel raws)

[apod]

2026 May 23

Messier 2 Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, G. Piotto et al.

Explanation: After the Crab Nebula, this giant star cluster is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous list of things that are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though Messier originally described it as a nebula without stars, this stunning Hubble image resolves stars across the cluster’s central 40 light-years. Its population of stars numbers close to 150,000, concentrated within a total diameter of around 175 light-years. About 55,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Aquarius, this ancient denizen of the Milky Way, also known as NGC 7089, is 13 billion years old. An extended stellar debris stream, a signature of past gravitational tidal disruption, was recently found to be associated with Messier 2.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260523.html

[sherman-jumbo]

Buran on re-entry from mir

[world-beauty]

The Solar Neighborhood

Credits: U. Chicago

[usaac-official]

An AIM-9L Sidewinder takes out a QT-33 target drone over Naval Weapons Center China Lake, California, 19 May 1975

[gusgrissom]

Gus, Roger, and Ed testing the onboard TV camera inside the Apollo capsule, May 18th, 1966.

In the last gif, Ed is laughing because the engineers asked Gus to fix his camera so they could see him better (and Ed, like the rest of us, knows that Gus could not possibly care less about the camera).