Derek Richardson

ISS in Real Time Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

Ben Fiest, the man behind the "Apollo in Real Time " project, has launched for the International Space Station's 25th Anniversary. "ISS in Real Time" issinrealtime.org #ISS #ISS25 #ISSInRealTime

HTV-X1 was captured and berthed to ISS today! There are now 7 vehicles docked/berthed to Station (tied record from 2024). If schedules hold, when Soyuz MS-28 docks in late November, all 8 available ports will be occupied for the first time -- a new record!

Great to see HTV-X arrive at the ISS (and by my count, this is the last ever time we'll see a brand new type of Visiting Vehicle arrive at the ISS).

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

These “agents” like doing this. They want to do this because it’s a legal way to feed their worst compulsions.

And they’ve been given full authority to do it - verbatim - by Stephen Miller and President Trump.

Some visuals from the video:

YouTube video by Jared Owen Building the Space Station Truss (and the Solar Panel Tear)

Check out this video on the International Space Station Truss and how NASA built it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvhd...

The Jared Owen Animations team did a phenomenal job on this one. It was a joy to help create this video, and a trip down memory lane for ISS construction!

The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail The White House’s FY 2026 budget request for NASA proposes a radical shift in the agency’s direction, proposing extinction-level cuts to space science, severe cuts in other program areas and a dramatic pivot of human spaceflight focus to Mars.

The administration’s anti-consensus Mars plan will fail

The White House’s FY 2026 budget request for NASA proposes a radical shift in the agency’s direction, proposing extinction-level cuts to space science, severe cuts in other program areas and a dramatic pivot of human spaceflight focus to Mars.

“I have friends everywhere.” 🙌

YouTube video by Jared Owen New Shepard Rocket: Space and Back in 10 minutes

The latest video for Jared Owen Animations is out! It's about Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket!

The team did a fantastic job on this one. Each of our names (and others) show up on the New Shepard screens. Let me know if you spot my name. :D 🚀

youtu.be/O9E0Ljd2ML8?...

As the world contemplates NASA's reliance on SpaceX

NASA Science Spending Across the U.S.

Planetary Society has a very cool dashboard to see where NASA dollars go

@caseydreier.bsky.social

White House to pull NASA nominee Isaacman Jared Isaacman was set for a vote next week, but now the president is yanking his nomination.

I’ve worked for NASA since the Reagan administration, and I can’t recall a similar situation.

Following the inspiration of @ohdearz.bsky.social @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social here’s the NASA fleet with the proposed budget cuts. Red X’s will be fully defunded, green X’s will lose all NASA funding but have other funding sources, and exclamation point means >50% cuts

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Musk spent $292M on Trump's campaign, became a scapegoat for killing thousands of African children to save a few $B for billionaire tax cuts and all he gets at the end is hate for the destruction of NASA's science program under his watch.

Drugs destroyed his mind and made him Howard Hughes V-2.

Trump has pulled Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be head of NASA.
He wants a NASA wrecker instead.
This is a disaster for America.

Time to start learning Mandarin, I guess...

Jared 'Rook' Isaacman's nomination for NASA Administrator is being withdrawn. This is bad news for NASA but maybe a good thing for Jared himself though, since being NASA head right now is a bit of a Kobayashi Maru scenario. Rumour is he will be replaced by someone more gungho about slashing NASA

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX)

spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

There's also a line from this movie: The Enterprise is dead in space, the Klingons ready to destroy the ship Kirk was informed his son has been killed. The no win situation is here. Kirk gets up and tells his team "I swear to you, we're not finished yet." Neither are we.

We're going to learn some tough stuff today about the White House's proposed budget for fiscal year 2026—including what they have in mind for NASA.

I'll share what I hear, but remember:

CONGRESS decides how much money NASA gets, not the White House.

So whatever happens today, the fight continues.

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath

Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision…

Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter.

If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

Inspired by @jtuttlekeane.bsky.social and @ohdearz.bsky.social, here's what the White House proposed budget cuts to NASA would do to the entirety of the agency's Science Mission Directorate.

Bloodbath is right.

The text on here heavily sounds like the budget people were in bed with Elon. It can't be a coincidence that they wrote that shit, with Elon announcing a near term starship Mars test yesterday. NASA is compromised.

What is the fastest way to make China Great In Space? Simple: just do this one thing to the #NASA budget. #Slash

NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her. "It feels like everything that I worked for has been taken down little by little."

Rose deserves better.
I’m grateful she trusted me
To tell her story.

Despite Musk's rhetoric that ISS is nearing the end of its life, that's far from the truth IMO - the US Segment has many years of life left I think. Its modular nature has allowed it to be upgraded over the years – for example, it has a fully upgraded system of batteries and solar arrays.

In 2011, when Shuttle retired, NASA found itself dependent upon and beholden to a partner (Russia) whose behaviour was increasingly becoming belligerent and erratic. The irony is, nearly 15 years later, NASA now finds itself in exactly the same position - only this time the "partner" is Elon Musk.