Cheryl LaPrade ✨

two astronauts are walking on the moon in a black and white photo . ALT: two astronauts are walking on the moon in a black and white photo .

Starting my internship at Amentum today, working out at Kennedy Space Center, has me feeling a bit like this, honestly ... been waiting so long for today 🚀✨🤩

Still an all-time favorite - @astrosherie.space and I bought the whole series a couple months ago ✨🔘

Star Wars Intro Scroll Episode IV It Was All So Stupid Seriously, you would not believe how stupid it was. Every day, unrelentingly, just the dumbest stuff by the absolute worst people. And what made it worse was knowing that we’d brought this on ourselves.

Another cool Martian cloud spotted by CNSA Tianwen 1...

and yes, Mars does have clouds!

Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2r2HXah
Image Processing: Andrea Luck
Raw data: CNSA/CLEP/PEC/MoRIC

Mars, Protonilus Mensae - March 1, 2022
#planetsci 🧪

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The Milky Way above the Earth from space. The green and purple aurora can be seen in the atmosphere.

astronaut don pettit’s new image made my jaw drop.

it’s SO beautiful!!!

“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.”

“We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

Have to say, a malicious government run by oligarchs relentlessly slashing jobs and programs that’s mixed with destructive tariffs, maxed out debt, historic inequality, and AI as a product that doesn’t make money despite having all the major corporations going all in hashes out to economic disaster.

Picture of Falkor from the Never Ending Story, in snow form.

May Snow Falkor brighten your timeline today!

One of the best things you can do right now is read books. Buy them. Borrow them from the library. Gift them.

Read history. Read fiction. Read science writing. Read anything that shows you the world is bigger than what fascists say it is.

Read to remember why your resistance matters. 📚💙

a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket and a pillow . ALT: a stuffed animal is laying on a couch with a pink blanket and a pillow .

Well, we finally let down our guard one too many times and after 2.5 years since my and @astrosherie.space's first round of COVID, it's finally caught us a second time ... really didn't miss feeling this sick 🤧🤒😫

Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old.

Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old.

Beautiful silver-grey tabby kitten with an adorable charcoal grey nose that is 6 months old, curled up in the linen closet.

After @astrosherie.space and I lost our beloved Katniss earlier this month, we decided to adopt this beautiful furbaby that we've named Katie...already now known as also Katie-Kat, Katie Cane, Katie the Koala & the Velveteen Rabbit (very soft)! She is scared but sweet & has claimed the linen closet!

Beautiful! Planning to check out Kilauea while you're there? 🌋

Happy New Year! 😊

Without downloading any new pics, what's your energy going into 2025?

A four grid layout of pictures of Katniss, a beautiful orange and white fluffy cat. In the top left she is laying on her heating mat, in the bottom left, she is sitting in the tube of a small cat tree with her white paws dangling out the front. In the top right she is sleeping, curled up on her heating mat with her white chin up. In the bottom right she is curled in a bun on her heating mat, staring up at the camera, her fluffy tail on full display!

Sadly, @atmocheryl.space & I had to say goodbye to our sweet, beautiful Katniss last night. She was 14 and battling recent lymphoma. She had the best purrs & adorable cheeps & saw us through 3 moves, our B.S. degrees & a million memories. She's completely irreplaceable & we will miss her forever! 🌈😇

LOL love this so much! Here are my and @astrosherie.space's girls! Katniss on the left and Kenzie on the right - not a brain cell between the two of them (what did you expect, they're orange?!) #CatsOfBluesky ... Credit to @daralind.bsky.social ✨

This was an awesome interview @thegalacticgal.bsky.social - Dr. Jill Tarter is an incredible person and you asked some fantastic questions! Thanks for sharing it! 🤩✨ Contact is @astrosherie.space's favorite movie and definitely near the top of my list!

YouTube video by Camille Bergin Talking Aliens, Carl Sagan, and SETI's Future with Jill Tarter

AHHHHH it’s finally time!!! I just published my exclusive interview with the one and only Dr. Jill Tarter, founder of @setiinstitute.bsky.social, renowned astronomer, and the inspiration behind Ellie Arroway’s character in Carl Sagan’s Contact 👽

a bunch of graduation caps are flying through the air Alt: a bunch of graduation caps are flying through the air

@hbesing.bsky.social Huge congratulations on your PhD!! 🎉🥳🎓 @astrosherie.space and I watched you get hooded by @drlwx.bsky.social on the Florida Tech Livestream today!!

a black and white photo of a man and woman holding a little girl . Alt: a black and white scene from "It's a Wonderful Life" of Mr. and Mrs. Bailey holding their daughter, Zuzu, a little girl wearing a nightgown and holding an ornament

Just for fun? What's the oldest song in your Christmas collection (if you listen to Christmas music)? @astrosherie.space & I listen to lots of modern songs but we do have several in our list from the 1950's, one of the oldest is Kay Starr's "The Man with the Bag" 🎅, still one of our very favorites!

Moon to Mars Architecture - NASA NASA's Moon to Mars Architecture defines the elements needed for long-term, human-led scientific discovery in deep space.

Milestone for my team at work, really proud to drop our NASA 2024 Moon to Mars Architecture updates today! www.nasa.gov/architecture 1/

More photos have been released showing the Artemis II SLS Core Stage fully lowered into the new High Bay 2 Vertical Work Cell. Here technicians now have full access to every part of the stage, both internal and externally, allowing more work to be done prior to mating with the SRBs next year.

📸NASA

YouTube video by NASA Goddard Lucy Spacecraft’s Second Slingshot of Earth

Got to see the launch of this cool mission in 2021 w/ @astrosherie.space - awesome to see it swing back around again!

At 11:15 pm, Dec 12, Lucy will make its closest approach... about 220 miles above the ocean west of CA... and will streak over N. America in only 7 minutes!
youtu.be/lIhF82kVjzk?...

This graphic depicts the most likely scenario for the hard landing of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 72nd and final flight on Jan. 18, 2024. High horizontal velocities at touchdown resulted in a hard impact on a sand ripple, which caused Ingenuity to pitch and roll, damaging its rotor blades. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Via #NASAJPL - What caused the #Ingenuity #MarsHelicopter's hard landing during its final fateful flight earlier this year?
Engineers from JPL and AeroVironment are performing the first aircraft accident investigation on another world. Here's what they know so far: go.nasa.gov/4fbOBXx

A vertically oriented rectangular mission patch with a thick, saturated red-orange border and a thin black inner border. The patch shows a linear illustration of the Perseverance Rover toward the bottom center in shades of white, green, orange, and blue. The ingenuity mars helicopter is shown at the top center of the patch and illustrated in the same style and colors. Behind the illustrations of Perseverance and Ingenuity are concentric triangles expanding from the center toward the outside of the patch, with the tip of the triangles coming together at the bottom of the ingenuity helicopter. From the outer triangle to the inner triangle, the colors of the triangles are red-orange, yellow-orange, green, and blue. Behind that are concentric circles, starting at the bottom of the patch and expanding upward. From bottom to top, the circles are yellow-orange, white, green, then blue.

Day 10 of #ArtAdventCalendar
The iconic Mars exploration duo, Perseverance and Ingenuity 🧡

#sciart #spaceart

Oh! I would definitely want that - I LOVE this design! It's so colorful! 🌈

Satellite view of the smoke from #FranklinFire near Malibu 🔥 zoom.earth/fires/us-ca-...

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Jewelry inspired by the primary mirror of JWST

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