Mark Ratterman

Arianespace's official mission patch for the VA267 mission, dedicated to the first Ariane 6 launch of 32 Amazon Leo satellites into low Earth orbit, and the first launch of Ariane 6 in four-booster configuration.

🚀 Date/time for Ariane 6 #VA267, the first flight of Ariane 6 in four-booster configuration (64). Launch window opens 12 February, 16:45 GMT/17:45 CET.

www.arianespace.com/news/mission... @transport.esa.int @cnes.fr

Super excited to work securing the pad and mobile launcher tomorrow evening/Monday morning 🥶

Countdown Begins for Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal - NASA The countdown for the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal is underway at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Artemis II Wet Dress Rehearsal details www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...

Brief snow flurries in Lake City, FL (North Florida about 40ish miles from Georgia) - Temps 40F

If you want to track the ISS, these sites work for all locations around the world, too!

A peach-faced pied lovebird is crawling out of a cardboard tube.

Emerald Lucille Lovebird 🦜 is apparently trying to audition for the " getting fired out of a cannon " stunt for the local circus. She still wishes all, peace 🕊️ #TheDailyLovebird

@milesobrien.com 🤝 Thwaites Glacier
One of the most remote places on Earth. View our livestream NOW: 🔴https://www.youtube.com/live/hboOl0tJTls?si=1c4vD4EJGsqpNmRh

Artemis II Press Kit - NASA Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed test flight in the Artemis campaign. Four astronauts will fly aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft and confirm the spacecraft’s

#Space #NASA #Artemis2

The NASA Artemis II press kit is now online. It's a webpage, not a PDF.

www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-p...

Working 2025 with very little time off has me ending up taking half a week off for 4 of the next 6 weeks. Use it or lose it they say. I like the thought of less work for a change. 🤙

I’ve been using Pocket Casts for years. Set it up and customize it to what you find works best. Agree about the Apple app. Maybe emergency use only

NASA KSC Countdown Clock and US Flag on a clear beautiful afternoon

Nothing as peaceful as being in a Launch Countdown Hold at KSC Press Site by the countdown clock listening to the tap, tap of the flag halyard clips as the US Flag flies is the breeze

Thank you for the kind words, we definitely owe you and all our listeners new shows. We can’t catch up but we can keep on keeping on.

Really hopeful to see my first Blue Origin launch. Gotta admit no matter how complicated and unpredictable the world is, this is fun. Thank you Blue Origin and NASA for making onsite press coverage possible. #TalkingSpace Podcast - still here after all these years since 2009

Heavy rain the Press Site slowed a few minutes ago, launch window is open till 4:13 and just announced launch time now 3:18PM

Blue Origin NG-2 #NASA #ESCAPADE - today’s Primary Launch Window is from 2:45 PM EST through 4:13PM EST. The Backup Launch Window is Monday Nov 10, 2025 from 2:40PM EST through 4:08 PM EST

Kennedy Space Center VAB with dark clouds low in the sky to the north

Not the skies I hoped for on launch day but we’ll see how the rain and clouds move through in the next couple hours #NASA #ESCAPADE

Margaritaville on a mission: Jimmy Buffett patch to fund ISS science The first mission patch to directly fund research on the International Space Station is the first product of a long-standing but little known collaboration between the ISS National Laboratory and Marg...

In most cases, mission patches celebrate a spaceflight, its crew or payload and the program to which it belongs. Rarely is a patch the mission itself, but that is the situation with Margaritaville's emblem, which is the first-ever insignia to directly fund science on the International Space Station.

Just found out I have been approved to cover the NASA Escapade launch on Blue Origin NG-2 for Talking Space. Now hopefully T-0 will be on time, if not I’ll have a problem with my government job that I’m required to work full time and not get paid for. Sorry for the rant, fingers crossed for Launch!

YouTube video by TWiT Tech Podcast Network New NIST Password Guidelines: End of Complex Passwords? #shorts

Password Recommendations from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) - via twit.tv "Security Now" - So now we wait hopefully for the change to roll out to users as recommended by the experts. youtube.com/shorts/BDK7-...

I am a US government FAA employee with 50 years experience, I’m required to work my normal full time hours. My last paid workday was Oct 2nd and since then I’m being paid what all the politicians in DC think I’m worth. #Zero Too bad they don’t get paid what I think they’re worth. Less than zero!

Japan's first advanced cargo ship, HTV-X1, arrives at the International Space Station For the first time in five years, a Japanese spacecraft has arrived at the International Space Station. JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) oversaw the HTV-X1, its first upgraded cargo ship,...

On board the HTV-X1 are science equipment and technology demonstrations, as well as commercial payloads including a sake fermentation test and an airline's clients' passports.

Best anniversary wishes to the STS-133 NASA Tweetup folks. Virtual toast later tonight?

Thank you for the #StayBright messages, I’m not online much but do appreciate them.

Maple, an English springer spaniel and former police dog, uses her strong sense of smell to help save thousands of honeybee hives.

She sniffs bee colonies for American foulbrood, a highly contagious bacteria that’s fatal to the insects. https://wapo.st/41phn2Y

My wife insisted I go to the Space Coast & stay 3 nights & I’ve seen: USSF-36 (OTV-8) F9 launch, finished reading Childhood’s End, read Thunder Dog & started The Fountains of Paradise. Also visited the American Space Museum in Titusville, FL plus weather permitting soon see launch of CRS SpX-33 F9

my journey to becoming a pop-up master📚✂️🎓

BREAKING: Department of Defense Makes Eleventh Hour Decision to Maintain Critical Hurricane Satellites After critical feedback, Navy officials step in to keep data flowing from three U.S. Defense-operated weather satellites scheduled to go dark this week

According to a Navy spokesperson I spoke with, the 11th hour decision to keep data flowing from the three weather satellites was due to critical feedback it received. A testament that our voices and concerns do very much matter. My full afternoon update ⬇️

"And if you thought this was unimportant to you, remember BLS calculates the CPI used for Social Security COLAs, as well as the headline CPI used to calculate TIPS yields. Oh, also the inflation adjustments to the marginal tax rate thresholds…"

#econsky

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