Maximus @TheRealMXMS

We go where we need to be, and today that was @NASAKennedy. Some of my senior engineers and I spent time at @blueorigin with @JeffBezos and @davill, speaking with the workforce and seeing the damage at LC-36 firsthand. I appreciated the opportunity to hear directly from those working through the aftermath and better understand the challenges ahead. There is a lot of work to do, but this is exactly why people choose careers in aerospace, whether at NASA, Blue Origin, or across the industry. The talent in this field thrives under pressure and performs at its best when solving the toughest problems. We have been saying for months at NASA that we are not going to sit on our hands and wait for the capabilities necessary to achieve the nation’s most pressing objectives. We are going to take an active role alongside our partners, just as we did in the 1960s, to overcome setbacks, remove obstacles, and deliver the intended outcomes. @NASA is committed to helping the Blue team recover, continue to advance their lunar lander and get New Glenn back to launching as soon as safely possible. America’s greatest achievements in space were never the result of avoiding setbacks. They came from overcoming them. We have done it before, and we will do it again🇺🇸

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Starship flip and landing burn at the end of its twelfth flight test

Onboard views from Starship and Super Heavy V3, which are equipped with upgraded cameras capable of streaming 4K video through every phase of flight via @Starlink

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Starship V3 summoning ritual in progress 😭🚀

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

@WarhorseStudios

You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on. 🗺️ An open world Middle-earth RPG. ⚔️ A new Kingdom Come adventure. We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right. #WarhorseStudios #Annoucement #lotr #KingdomComeDeliverance

I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun. The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in final preparations for an early September launch, eight months AHEAD of schedule and UNDER budget. This milestone is the result of more than a decade of dedication and millions of hours of work by NASA and our industry partners. Their commitment is what’s making this moment possible and helping drive Gold Standard Science. Roman will help answer some of the biggest questions in science, investigating dark matter, dark energy, and the structure of the universe. Its images will be so large and detailed, there isn’t a screen in existence big enough to display them. This is just the beginning.

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Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@iruletheworldmo

Engineering is real magic

The Ultimate Hi-Fi 4K Slow-Mo SuperCut of Artemis II! Footage and Audio made possible by: Ryan Chylinski, Andrew Taylor, Spencer Tetik, Jami Higginbotham, Andrew Keating, Collin Thrash, Ben Stineman, NASA, Blackmagic Design, Sigma America, and Freefly Systems 00:00 - Intro 00:11 - Pad 1 Realtime 00:44 - Pad Slow Mo 01:08 - Top Of Tower 01:46 - Engines From Deck 02:19 - Engine Super Slow Mo 02:55 - Side Slow Mo 03:39 - Over Tim's Shoulder 04:49 - Inside Trailer 05:20 - Aerial Slow Mo 07:00 - NASA Tracker Realtime 11:39 - Onboard Booster Sep 12:02 - Orion Sep 12:18 - Earth Set All music is original! Find it anywhere you listen to music! (Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, etc)

POV: You're flying by the Moon. This visualization is designed to show you what exactly the Artemis II astronauts will see outside their window during their lunar flyby. Here, the seven-hour visualization is compressed into 28 seconds. ⬇ (1/4)

Puts everything in perspective..

NASA @NASA

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One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon. This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.

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I'm honestly SHOCKED at how the general public has NO IDEA Artemis II is taking humans out to the moon and will be the furthest humans have ever flown. Every non-space nerd I've talked to has no idea. WE GOTTA GET PEOPLE STOKED!!!! THESE FOUR HUMANS ARE FLYING TO THE MOON!!!

My preference would be for industry to focus on responding to RFIs, as what matters is achieving the correct, safe, and affordable outcome so that America and our international partners avoid giving up a presence in low Earth orbit. To be extremely clear, the ISS has an end date per the national space policy, which will require a transition to one or, ideally, more commercial space stations. NASA’s recent history of undertaking big endeavors with industry and arriving on time and on budget is not perfect, as highlighted in most OIG reports. So it should be understandable that we want to get this right. We have put out RFIs to industry for commercial space stations and are eager to review the feedback. From there, we can move very quickly. In the interim, we have expanded the PAM program, permitted further monetization of those astronaut seats, and will prioritize the highest-potential commercial research on the station. As someone who has personally spent hundreds of millions on commercial spaceflight and has a reasonably informed sense of the domestic and international market, I want nothing more than for there to be demand that supports lots of people living and working in space someday.

Initial Super Heavy V3 and Starbase Pad 2 activation campaign complete, wrapping up several days of testing that loaded cryogenic fuel and oxidizer on a V3 vehicle for the first time. While the 10-engine static fire ended early due to a ground-side issue, we saw successful startup on all installed Raptor 3 engines. Next up: preparing the booster for a 33-engine static fire

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