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Are astronauts gonna have to climb a ladder?

When the astronauts are ready to come back from Mars, how are they gonna get in the rocket? Climb a ladder to the top wearing those heavy suits in Martian gravity.

When The Moon Imitates Saturn

Looking back at this old article, Bezo's Blue Origin was seen as the favorite, savior for NASA's Artemis program, SpaceX Starship was just a footnote

“A NASA spokesperson says it’s received a stay from the judge overseeing Blue Origin’s federal lawsuit, meaning work on the HLS contract must once again come to a halt.”

A source familiar with Bob Smith, Blue Origin's CEO, said he was "rubbing his hands together" after losing the HLS contract, almost giddy. Smith is willing to take this suit as far has he can, whatever the cost. Has hired numerous outside law firms to push this.

Natural history museum, NYC 🪐

Picture of the moon taken from my phone

I went to see the moon at The Bristol Cathedral Last night, it was I incredible!

I’m on the hunt for a rock that won’t crumble when I core it. Luckily, there are many rocks to choose from in this area called “Citadelle.” Our project manager takes us back to our first sample attempt and looks forward to our next one in her latest blog: https://t.co/0ZoytTBO2m

LIVE: Set your phasers to fun! Tune in for a conversation with @GeorgeTakei of @StarTrek & NASA experts in celebration of #Roddenberry100: https://t.co/PFL1UKUBIW

Stars

If you could see the orbits of outer planets' satellites in the sky, they would look this big compared to Moon

Moon Airlines

Orion Sword Region

Yesterday Firefly performed a static fire test of the Alpha launch vehicle on its Vandenberg launch pad. The fully-fueled, flight-ready vehicle fired its first stage engines for fifteen seconds. https://t.co/XZt45n72js