A Man Takes A Picture From A Rooftop As The Endeavour Space Shuttle Makes Its Way Toward The California

me: *is bored for 0.5 seconds*

me: i wanna learn how to work wood. i need to build a boat

STS-31 on Approach by NASA on The Commons

Mission Specialist Sally Ride sits in aft flight deck mission specialists seat of STS-7 Challenger during deorbit preparations.

Date: June 24, 1983

NASA ID: STS007-31-1603

Gravitational Lens passing in front of Hubble Deep Field North Lensing by a black hole. Animated gravitational lens simulation caused by a Schwarzschild black hole passing through several background galaxies. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

Basically, there's an alternate universe in which Kathy's selection was blocked, and Blue Origin ended up being the primary contractor, with maybe SpaceX being a secondary contractor for later heavy cargo missions.

It's genuinely possible that Starship HLS might not be ready before Blue Moon MK 2 is.

Pathfinder (OV-201) launching from its Lockheed C-5 carrier and accelerating to the moon during her maiden voyage, September 1983.

Clips from Episode 9, Season 2 Triage "For all Mankind"

Charlie: “That ain’t very fun, is it?”

John: “That ain’t very smart.”

It’s Apollo 16′s 48th anniversary so here’s a gifset of Charlie Duke tripping, falling, dropping things and generally being clumsy on the surface of the Moon

I always think that squids are like little spaceships

A Caribbean reef squid spotted during a night dive in the Bahamas. Their large eyes make them effective nocturnal predators, and their intelligence makes them highly inquisitive, as with other cephs!