We are going to the Moon!
At 1:47 a.m. EST on Nov. 16, 2022, our Orion spacecraft launched aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from historic Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a path to the Moon, officially beginning the Artemis I mission.
This mission is the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems: the Orion spacecraft, the SLS rocket, and Kennedy ground systems. This is the very first time this rocket and spacecraft have flown together, and it’s the first of many Artemis missions to the Moon. Artemis I is uncrewed, but it lays the groundwork for increasingly complex missions that will land humans on the lunar surface, including the first woman and the first person of color to do so.
With Artemis, we will build a long-term human presence on the Moon and prepare humanity for future exploration plans to Mars and beyond.
See more photos of Artemis I on our Flickr.
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Tiny forest for your dash
Someone's dropped their French baked goods again!
San Francisco, 2023.
Gamer cats
So good to have John Frusciante back on the guitar!
Tumblr engineering...
We do what we must, because we can.
For the good of all of us,
Except the ones who are banned.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of bells.
And the engineering gets done, and you dev some neat crabs,
For the people who are still around
Not to mention that by killing weak spiders you've been able to spot, you're reinforcing the spiders' gene pool, increasing the chance that one day YOU will be the one killed by a sneaky super-spider.
i just saved a spider in my room instead of killing it. my connection with nature has increased by 27%
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