thinking about space

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[gusgrissom]

It’s been a while since I really followed the space program closely, but the Artemis II launch has me unexpectedly emotional. To think I’ve spent so many years enthralled with the early space program, all those historic launches to the moon, yet none of them happened in my lifetime—until just moments ago 🥹

[lonestarflight]

A better view of the launch of Artemis II from LC-39B at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

Date: April 1, 2026

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[katchwreck]

One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.

Via @nasa-official

[humanoidhistory]

Space art from the sketchbook of Robert McCall. Courtesy of the University of Arizona Museum of Art.

[purgatorialist]

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian Red Squirrel/ekorre. Värmland, Sweden (August 7, 2021).

[gemini-enthusiast]

Views of earth, Apollo 7.

[spacewonder19]

Jupiter, the gas giant ©

[awsteb]

jan 6th 2009, by marcus wong

[lonestarflight]

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - STS-3 on Launch Pad 39A with searchlights during loading tests."

Date: February 25, 1982

NASA ID: KSC-82PC-0247

[wxmatija]

[humanoidhistory]

The Space Shuttle Columbia blasts off from Cape Canaveral on June 27, 1982. Art by Ren Wicks.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Heinrich Reinhold (German, 1788–1825), "Waves on the Sorrento Coast", 1823

[nocnitsa]

Anatola Howard

[laclefdescoeurs]

Starry night, 1885, William Stott Of Oldham

[mlarone]

Recent work !

[cosmonautroger]

Lesser Ury, Nollendorf Platz, 1922