Andrew
@nomadd.bsky.social
HALO Life Support Systems Engineer - NASA Artemis Building the future.
Meanwhile HEO Space grabbed this on-orbit image of the Chinese spacestation using a BlackSky Inc. satellite distance of 83 km, with a resolution of 0.17 m/px. source: heospace on the other site.
Hello space people, apologies, another request. I'm looking for people that could comment on in-space manufacturing and the potential benefits for humanity. If that's you, or you know someone, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!
Here’s more detail on the $420 million NASA says it has cut in contracts and grants. Oh wait - there is little detail publicly available. spacenews.com/nasa-termina...
NASA terminating $420 million in contracts
NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with its core priorities, but has provided few details about what is being cut.
spacenews.com
This is an incredible blunder and is the exact reason why you follow operational procedures when doing anything of substance in the government. Those rules were written with the tears of many sacrificed staffers.
Shane Harris@shaneharris.bsky.social · last yr.In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Hi space people, I'm looking for non-NASA experts to comment on the MAV portion of Mars Sample Return, and why it's so challenging to take off from Mars. If that's you, or you know someone, do get in touch. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks!
Food banks around the country are in desperate need of support. They rely heavily on resources from the USDA and many rural food banks don’t have communities that can make up for the current losses. Donations of non-perishable food or money is good but please call your Reps
Thank you to @sciguyspace.bsky.social for putting words to the “ick” I’ve been feeling about the language around bringing the Starliner astronauts home. https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/can-nasa-remain-nonpartisan-when-basic-spaceflight-truths-are-shredded/
Can NASA remain nonpartisan when basic spaceflight truths are shredded? - Ars Technica
“Let’s bring them home NOW, Sir!”…
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Please get involved in your local community organizations. They have an outsized impact on the things you interact with everyday and almost all organizations I’ve interacted with need volunteers
Getting rwally tired of headlines being written to normalize stupidity. The Sec Def is most decidedly not an expert on climate change but wording a headline like this makes it sound like this is a decision based on science or reason, not the political play that it actually is
Hello space people, I'm looking for experts to comment on the NASA cuts from a US/European perspective, and what this will mean for science moving forwards. If that's you, do let me know. jdaoca[at]gmail[dot]com Thanks
Liberal American media are not fact-checking Trump any more. They've given up. Here, WaPo writes an entire article about US & European aid to Ukraine. Not one line on the fact that Trump repeatedly uses egregiously fake numbers to justify his hostility. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Visualizing Ukraine’s military aid after the U.S. freeze
Since 2022, the United States has allocated more than $120 billion in aid to Ukraine. European nations have collectively allocated over $140 billion.
washingtonpost.com
The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️
The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary…
Sudden, indiscriminate layoffs at NASA do not serve the national interests in space leadership.
planetary.org
True story: when my older boys were little, they both got whooping cough even though they were vaccinated. It was bad. We asked the pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. They would’ve died, he said. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How the Senate Voted to Confirm R.F.K. Jr. as Health Secretary
The Senate confirmed Mr. Kennedy by a vote of 52 to 48 to lead the department responsible for public health.
nytimes.com
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not
Just to reiterate for those in the back: “DON’T STOP COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!”
barbylon@barbylon.bsky.social · 2y agoRemember that ONLY the Planetary Science Advisory Council (PAC) is an Advisory committee chartered under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). The AGs are community-based groups that organize themselves and are not Advisory in constitution, action, or fact. DON'T STOP COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!
Last call to volunteer for CVD! Applications close TOMORROW (31 January) at 11:59 pm ET. 👇
American Astronomical Society (AAS)@aas.org · 2y ago🚨 Every year the AAS brings volunteers to Washington, DC, to advocate for federal support of their science with members of Congress for a Congressional Visits Day. Applications for CVD (31 March - 2 April) close Friday, 31 January 2025 at 11:59 pm ET. aas.org/advocacy/how... 🔭
I would like to reboot the country in safe mode, please. Also, let's update all of our antivirus measures.
Here’s hoping folks don’t forget that every technology we need to colonize Mars is also needed for colonizing the Moon. The Moon has the amazing benefit of being only 3 DAYS away, not MONTHS if something goes wrong.
XKCD just reminded me of my hatred for gallons and oz as a unit of measurement. They are terrible and we should feel bad for continuing to use them.
Congrats to Blue Origin on an exciting first launch of New Glenn! Would have loved to see them stick the landing but wow what an impressive first showing!
Every question from the senators should have been job specific like this. This demonstrates lack of preparedness. This could have convinced 3 republicans he isn’t the right one for the job
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y agoYIKES! Duckworth asks Hegseth to name a country that's in ASEAN. He names three -- none of which are in ASEAN. "I suggest you do a little homework," she says.
STOP 👏 DRIVING 👏 AROUND 👏 WITH 👏 SNOW 👏 ON 👏 YOUR 👏 CAR 👏 YA 👏 BIG 👏 DOOFUS
Maybe one day I can hand off backlog management to an AI agent. So tedious shoehorning what I need to get done into a JIRA-friendly format
That feeling coming back from shutdown and having less than 100 emails to triage 🙏