Iris Fisher

@astro-g-dogg.bsky.social (former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman)'s article is spot on in every way.
#RepresentationsMatters #DiversityMatters #DEI

17.09.2025 17:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Iris Fisher (@irisfisher) “Seeing the Earth at 240,000 miles, my world suddenly expanded to infinity. “I put my thumb up to the window and completely hid the Earth. Just think, over three billion people [now eight billion], m...

Jim Lovell's inspiring words from 2018 at a National Air & Space Museum event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 8.
"Then, looking up I saw it, the Earth, a blue and white ball, just above the lunar horizon, 240,000 miles away."
#Apollo8 #JimLovell #AmericanHero

substack.com/@irisfisher/...

18.08.2025 20:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When a row of seats are empty next to you, and with just the right angle, a perfect shot like this happens, the wing in fill sight and Air Canada's logo. 🍁✈️
@aircanada.bsky.social

18.05.2025 17:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD in 1930, (95 yrs ago!), a new planet was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, at Lowell Observatory, in Flagstaff AZ.
The planet is now called #Pluto!
10 yrs ago this year, 'New Horizons' spacecraft flew by Pluto, and we now know what the planet looks like!
#SolarSystem #Planets #STEMEducation
🛰🚀

18.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

These women are amazing, heroes, and inspirational, and should be shown to every little girl because, #representationmatters !
#SuniWilliams still currently in the vacuum of space!

#Spacewalk #EVA #SpaceStation #WomeninSTEM

30.01.2025 17:44 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded a little just after takeoff.
May their memory always remind us how dangerous and difficult this industry is and may we always remember them as heroes.

28.01.2025 15:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

On 23 Nov 2021, @unesconow.bsky.social declared 25th January as:
International Day of Women in Multilateralism.
The purpose of this day is to recognize the essential role played by #women in the promotion of #humanrights, #peace & #sustainable #development within the #multilateral system.

25.01.2025 19:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#OTD in 1992, Roberta went to space!
Roberta Bondar is Canada's 1st female #astronaut and the 1st #neurologist in space.
Her work studying the effects of low-gravity situations on the human body allowed NASA to prepare astronauts for long stays in the #spacestation.

(Photo/text from Wikipedia.)

22.01.2025 17:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Lessons of Passion, Perseverance and Resilience in Everyday Living Passion, Perseverance and Resilience (PPR) – that’s how to strive high and far in life.In the photo above are two men who inspire me the most with their PPR mindset.The one in the background screen wa...

Need a bit of inspiration & motivation to start the new year 2025? I wrote a blog with 🔽 photo as inspiration.
Alan Stern gave a talk and ended with a slide of a photo of my father.
Made me realize the two had/have:
Passion, Perseverance & Resilience in common.
www.iris-space.space/post/lessons...

15.01.2025 00:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Inspiring Girls in Aerospace and STEM Fields "A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women."This was said by the first woman to have gone to space – Valentina Teres...

Inspire the future generation in STEM and STEAM by knowing that it's possible for them too!
"You can't be what you can't see." - Sally Ride

My article below, please share with those who need inspiration! 🚀🚀

#RepresentationMatters #WomeninSTEM #SpaceforAll

www.iris-space.space/post/inspiri...

23.12.2024 16:45 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy 135th birthday, Edwin Hubble! Digital Research and Communications Fellow Lyz Bush-Peel remembers an extraordinary astronomer whose path to the stars changed the course of astronomy.

A would-be birthday -135th birthday- to Edwin Hubble.
A nicely written article attached explaining how he came to be, what he's done, and today's telescope legacy.
#EdwinHubble #Hubble
@sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social
blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/happy-135th-...

20.11.2024 16:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#Starship splashdown in the Indian Ocean! Great!
Also in the Indian Ocean: "under numerous threats, including overfishing, #climatechange, deep sea mining, seismic blasting, #plasticpollution, coral reef degradation..."
I'm all for #Spaceexploration, but can we be good to #Earth at the same time?

19.11.2024 23:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What do all these people have in common?
They all congratulated The Lowell Observatory on their new Astronomy Discovery Center in #Flagstaff, #Arizona!!
🪐✨️🌌
See full video on their social media pages, and visit
lowell.edu for more info!
#astronomy #stemeducation #observatory

19.11.2024 19:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From the Pacific ocean to a drive through the desert, from trees changing colors to forests of cactus to the San Francisco peaks! All in a few days' drive.
🏜🏔🌊🌠
That's what it's really all about!
#climatecrisis #earth #globalwarming

16.11.2024 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0