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Brandon - He/Him - 25 - Lafayette, Indiana -  Have a wonderful day, my friends! 

[justmelagain]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

It would be nice to be able to actually see the night sky again.

[allhailthedramallama]

More selfishly, it would also be nice to not have the streetlight shining directly into my window all of the time

[ghost-type-dan]

[spaceexp]

1965 … ‘Space’

[academicssay]

science explained | source: https://www.instagram.com/nathanwpyle/

[pissvortex]

fuck everything else happy birthday sputnik

[rus-califi]

Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen

[shunkawarakin]

This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.

[vabla]

Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.

[question-the-status-quo-deactiv]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]

^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.

[supaslim]

NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT

[aripuppyistired]

@osunism

[nyokoko]

NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.

[nightpiercer]

This deserves every reblog.

[slow-magic]

@geh-is-okeh

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

In the face of institutions being silenced, this is doubly huge.

[kingscrown666]

I love seeing that, for once, there are more reblogs than likes

Keep passing on this info, guys. Good job

[captaincardboardbox]

THIS is how science is advanced.

Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars.

But through open, uncensored and unrestricted

public access to knowledge.

Thank you @vabla for saying exactly what was on my mind, this is so important!

[the-official-nasa]

hell yeah

[spaceexp]

Life size replica in Prague. They even let you in.

via reddit

[shoyowo]

Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)

For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here

[shoyowo]

Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)

They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you

[shoyowo]

white people can and should reblog this

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

and shout out to the women engineers integral to the launch

“Indian staff from the Indian Space Research Organisation celebrate after the Mars Orbiter Spacecraft entered Mars’s orbit.

On November 5, 2013, a rocket launched toward Mars. It was India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan, and a terrific gamble. Only 40 percent of missions sent to Mars by major space organizations—NASA, Russia’s, Japan’s, or China’s—had ever been a success. No space organization had succeeded on its first attempt. What’s more, India’s space organization, ISRO, had very little funding: while NASA’s Mars probe, Maven, cost $651 million, the budget for this mission was $74 million. 

This was not the only success of the mission. An image of the scientists celebrating in the mission control room went viral. Girls in India and beyond gained new heroes: the kind that wear sarees and tie flowers in their hair, and send rockets into space.”

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[timeplayer-moved]

Do you ever wish you could go "💕💞💗❤💗💞💞💕💖💗💓💓" but verbally?

[astronotmovie]

Birds of a feather flock together. The Mercury Redstone & Little Joe II rockets stand side by side at Cape Canaveral, early 1960s. The Mercury Redstone 🚀 launched Alan Shepard in May 1961 to become the first American in space. The rocket was used 6 times in Project Mercury on 6 sub-orbital flights in 1961-62. The Little Joe II flew 5 times between 1963-66. These uncrewed flights tested the Apollo spacecraft launch escape system & ensured the parachute recovery system for the Command Module was in working order should the mission need to abort. Space age rockets!

[sistertaxon]

a verbal description of a far side comic is indistinguishable from a fine shitpost

[gwylock-one-deactivated20170205]

far side comics are just visual shitposts

[xxxtictacion]

[catbountry]

Often imitated, never replicated.

[lunaticobscurity]

the best part of this post is that one of the comics is some ancient image with 1-bit colour and has probably been on the internet for decades

[nasa]

Say hello to the Eskimo Nebula 👋 

This nebula began forming about 10,000 years ago when a dying star started flinging material into space. When Sun-like stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, they become unstable and blast their outer layers of gas away into space (bad news for any planets in the area). This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a snapshot of the unworldly process.

Streams of high-energy ultraviolet radiation cause the expelled material to glow, creating a beautiful planetary nebula — a term chosen for the similarity in appearance to the round disk of a planet when viewed through a small telescope.

The Eskimo Nebula got its nickname because it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. The “parka” is a disk of material embellished by a ring of comet-shaped objects with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star. In the middle of the nebula is a bubble of material that is being blown outward by the star’s intense “wind” of high-speed material.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

[spaceexp]

Apollo 11 Saturn V launch

[usnatarchives]

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing later this month, we will be featuring articles on topics related to the mission.

Apollo 11: The Department of State Prepares for Launch 

By David Langbart, Archivist in the Textual Records Division, National Archives at College Park | The Text Message

Department of State involvement with the U.S. manned space program is little known and little appreciated.  Much of that involvement dealt with mundane matters such as coordinating international visitors to various launches and the foreign tours of astronauts after their return to earth, informing foreign governments of launches and other mission-related matters, and responding to international messages of congratulation.  The Department was also involved with negotiating the establishment of tracking stations and other ground facilities where needed in foreign countries around the world.

The Department also had a more serious role to play, however.  That role related to the fact that rockets, once launched, flew over the territory of other countries.  This aspect of the Department’s involvement would come into play only if some debris landed in another nation causing damage, injury, or loss of life or in the event of a mission-related disaster that forced an aborted landing on the land or in the territorial waters of another nation.  The Department was responsible for assisting in an emergency by arranging for the staging of recovery teams and obtaining emergency overflight and landing clearances if needed.  (See here and here about the demise of the post-Apollo Skylab.)

Read more at The Text Message.

[datarep]

History of spaceflight, from Russia’s reliable early vehicles to today’s privately engineered crafts.

[historicalevents]

This artist’s concept depicts the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first international docking of the U.S.’s Apollo spacecraft and the U.S.S.R.’s Soyuz spacecraft in space,1975.

[sovietpostcards]

Yuri Gagarin amidst celebrations marking his space flight. The boy is dressed up as a cosmonaut, his headpiece reads USSR.