Courtney Corby @QuintersKMM

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Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been. Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now. Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list. His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch. Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.” The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule. Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

Reid Wiseman @astro_reid

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Idk if this is a "#teachinghack" but completely #roasting and #ragebaiting my boisterous students at the beginning of class has kept their behavior in check for a week now...I can't explain it, and it probably won't be in a textbook, but it's real life and works! #teaching2026

Introducing the Cold War using @mikeroweworks 's story, "The Orphan Hero" to my 11th graders. They're....actually listening and paying attention!? #magic #TheWayIHeardIt

Learned I'll be teaching Sports History next school year and I am PUMPED! Would love to have guest speakers visit Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, SC if they can fit it into their schedule! @JJWatt quote in our press room! @JClements51 @NASCAR @MLB @NFL @UFLgame @MLS @usmlr

@AspenBoulware @KatieRBrowder @jodydavidson @CoachZack21 @GamecocksOnline @USASoftball @TheTalon_GCA @war_eagle_sball @graycaathletics Congratulations Aspen!!!!!!! You've worked so hard, keep grinding!! (And now I'll have to be a USC fan...for softball. 😂)

YAYYYY!!!!!

Carl Azuz @CarlAzuz

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@macktheAP_ @DrBrendaMack @rvhs @RichlandTwo CJ!! He's such a smart, kind, talented kid! I'm glad he has you in his life to help lead him to the next level!

Dear @CarlAzuz, Thank you for saying the full government name of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Signed, High School Teachers Everywhere ☠

"He didn't say CATastrophe once!" - Greyson, 11th grade @CarlAzuz 😂🤣

College Day with the coolest student we have! #ClassingThePlaceUp 😂 @Midlands_STEM @ClemsonUniv

IT HAPPENED. IT FINALLY HAPPENED! 📷📷📷 My students were PUMPED! Thank you @CarlAzuz !! #FridaysAREAwesome #MidlandsSTEMCharterSchool

I have kids on an A-B day schedule, so my high schoolers don't always get to watch #TheWorldFromAtoZ @CarlAzuz. #SadDay They are STEM students and needed some data collection & analysis experience, soooo....they did a thing. (Still in progress) docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Teachers have to be all things for all people at all times. Just let that sink in for a minute. Hit me hard this morning.

"I bet Santa has *redacted* in all 50 states! Hawaii, Korea, China...." ....all 50 what? #BlessEm Short Geography lesson in US History...and also a lesson on school appropriate language. #ohboy #17goingon12 #HighSchoolersAreGrownMiddleSchoolers #ISaidWhatISaid

I mean...is the description really that far off?

Scene: 10th grade, discussing the Industrial Revolution and how technology has evolved in their lifetime. Me - "Who wants to share what they came up with?" Student 1 - "So, I don't know how else to phrase this...You remember those TV's...with the BIG BOOTY?!" 😂🤣 #Yes #YesIDo

"He started off GAS. Good job, @CarlAzuz" - 11th grade, regarding your rap. Not sure if you realize how big of a compliment this is. 😂

Hello from the otter slide! ⁣⁣ Must’ve slid a thousand times.

My Seniors are trying to fundraise for their Senior Trip, they found a DELICIOUS popcorn company willing to help. If your popcorn stomach is empty, these look pretty yummy! s.dgpopup.com/a8j4zq46