Telling my assistant to clear my calendar because I'm likely to be made verklempt by astronauts throughout the course of the day.

(i don't have an assistant, i'm just talking to my cat and he's confused but humoring me)

Friendship seems to be slowly occurring between Cosmo and Minnaloushe

Although, one troublesome habit Minnaloushe has is that he waps folks in the face when he's nervous. So he will get kinda close to one of the other cats, sniff a bit, look all sweet, then panic and take a swing before running away

omg astronaut group hug

they're all crying in space omg

they named a newly observed lunar crater "Carroll" in memory of astronaut Reed Wiseman's wife who passed back in 2020

@APBBlue Crying in space has to be the worst

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If I were a billionaire, I would have gladly paid $5-20 million for one or all of the Artemis 2 astronauts to make a "moon's haunted" joke when they come clear of the dark side later today

Ohh these NASA nerds sound so overjoyed to be discussing lunar geography 🥰

@janbeta For some reason I want to mash that up with a mortar & pestle and make a real good guacamole

Next lunar mission, they should let them roll down the windows so they can shove selfie sticks outside to get a better look at things

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They keep mentioning there are gopro cameras mounted on the solar arrays of Artemis II. And I'm just like, oof, how many hours of meetings & head-scratching did that take? How to power them, how to get data from them, will they physically interfere with the arrays? Not like slapping a gopro on a bike helmet

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@marshray FWIW, I've been watching the moon get bigger on this live feed all day youtube.com/watch?v=m3kR2KK8TEs

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When this Artemis 2 mission is complete, I want like a picture frame in my office with a video screen permanently replaying the live stream lunar approach and flyby on loop so I can just glance up at it from time to time and see the moon get bigger

@ccferrie They say a picture's worth 1000 words, but they've never been to the moon :blobSmileSweating:

Man, they get such a variety of food on the Artemis 2 mission. Personally, I'd be fine with just, like, 10 days of burrito bowl packets. Maybe the rest of the crew would object - to me, not the food.

Family photo

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Somebody adjust the rabbit ears, my show's coming back on

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What if the astronauts just started speaking Quebec French when they came back around the moon?

2026/04/08