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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The photos from the Artemis 2 mission are stunning. Our next mission will take us to the far side of the Moon and I can't wait.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Took my first trip with Southwest Airlines new assigned seats. I’m so disappointed. I have been a HUGE Southwest fan for 25 years because of how they treated the customer and the freedoms they allowed to everyone regardless of ticket. That is gone, the LUV is gone. 😭💔

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I’m seeing people saying “This isn’t how America is supposed to work” and YOU’RE RIGHT. Now, the great thing about America is we can change that…YOU can change that. Take notes. Develop policy. Rise up candidates to make the reforms to #America so this can never happen again. The work begins now

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Sad to see iSpace make a hard landing during the attempt to land on the Moon. It looks like Intuitive Machines and iSpace both had laser rangefinder anomalies which impacted their missions, seconds from touching down. spacenews.com/laser-rangef...

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Laser rangefinder problems blamed for second ispace lunar lander crash

Japanese company ispace says it believes its second lunar lander mission crashed because of problems with a laser rangefinder used to determine altitude.

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Sarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The 2025 call for NASA grant proposals is now two months late. This administration is killing science quickly and slowly

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Tonight we watched as #BlueGhost was captured by the lunar night. We don't expect her to wake up, but at the same time, Blue has surprised at every turn. We have captured sights never before seen by mankind and opened the lunar surface to commercial activities. I can't wait to return.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

What does it take to vacuum up lunar regolith while already in a vacuum? The Lunar PlanetVac team knows. We received video of our LPV operations and invited the payload team into the MOC to watch the video on our video wall. Seeing their excitement was so rewarding after years of hard work!🧪🌖

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❥ Matt 🪳 @cockroach.zone · 08/03/2025

My favorite part about the moon is that practically any human being in history has looked at it in their life no matter when or where they lived and so looking at it myself feels like a connection point with all of humanity.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This has been a mix of emotions. @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social stuck the landing on the Moon, but we also saw the loss of Intuitive Machine’s Athena, Astrofoge’s Odin and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer. That is a lot of science 🧪 that can no longer be completed.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Blue Ghost is rocking on with our Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS) deployment!🌑🔍🧪 This involved deploying probes, which look very much like cannonballs flying over the Moon, and then deploying the antenna mast straight up. So as far as I’m concerned, we are basically #Moon pirates. 🏴‍☠️🦜

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Intuitive Machine’s Athena is suspected to be on its side after a landing attempt near the lunar South Pole. I feel for the IM team. They have put in years of work on their lander and supporting systems. We want all missions to the Moon to be successful as we build a new economy in lunar space

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Intuitive Machines-2 Lunar Landing News Conference

YouTube video by NASA Video

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Sad to see Lunar Trailblazer having issues. It takes a lot of hard work to get a satellite into orbit and those first moments are tense. Wishing them the best of luck on troubleshooting and getting it back in service.

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 03/03/2025

This past weekend, our Trace Gas Orbiter and #MarsExpress waved hello to NASA's Europa Clipper as it passed by the Red Planet 👋 1/3 🧪🔭 #planetsci

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Oh, what a beautiful morning 🎶 Oh, what a beautiful dayyyy🎶 Good Morning on the Mare Crisium! #Moon #BlueGhost 🧪🚀

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Blue Ghost has landed, intact, upright, in 1 piece and is sending back beautiful photos of the lunar landscape! Now the real work begins. We have 2 weeks (1 lunar day) to collect #scientific data for our payloads! 🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We made it!! Blue Ghost is ON THE MOON!🧪🌒🚀

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I had to dedicate Blue Ghost to my parents. I am the first in my family to graduate college. I spent 6 years building our family business, failing to break into space. They were supportive while I was rejected from about every major #aerospace company. Tonight I’m landing on the Moon. 🧪🚀🌒

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Blue Ghost Mission 1 Dedication

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Tonight's the big night! Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander is going to be landing on the #Moon! Livestream is linked below! Should go live around 1:30 AM CST Mar 2. So excited to see Blue touchdown and for the lunar surface science mission to begin! 🧪 🌒

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Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing

YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

🔊It's gravity assist day! Today Mars will bend the #EuropaClipper trajectory towards Jupiter. At 17:57(UK)/12:57(EST) 🛰️Clipper will be just 550 miles above Mars’ surface, testing its thermal imager & radar. So #DoLookUp to Mars and give Clipper a little wave 👋🥳 ℹ️ www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e... 🔭🧪

A dot at the centre represents the Sun. Three concentric circles show the increasingly larger orbits of Earth, Mars and Jupiter. A swirly blue curve shows the path of Europa Clipper from its Earth launch on 14th Oct 2024, meeting Mars on the 1st March 2025, a second Earth gravity assist on the 12th March 2026, and on to Jupiter and its moon Europa on the 11th of April 2030.

This is Europa, a silvery orb in the darkness. The ice surface is covered in deep criss-crossing cracks.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Calling all #planetary #scientists! If you could conduct research anywhere in the solar system, where would you go and what would you study? Let’s talk #exploration! 🧪🌌🚀 #astronomy #planetaryscience

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The #Moon is so beautiful. Yes it appears monochrome, but the bright white ejecta and the pitch black of shadowed regions create a diverse landscape. I love how we are finally able to make out smaller craters that were not visible and higher altitudes. 🧪 Only a few days until Blue Ghost lands!

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🌟 Honored to be featured in Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost update! 🌟 This update covers where we are in the mission and what’s coming up in the next few weeks. I also had the chance to share a piece of advice I wish I had heard earlier in my career.🧪 #FireflyAerospace

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In Lunar Orbit! Blue Ghost Week 5 Update

YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm happy to see our friends at NASA have been given a temporary reprieve. We will need to wait and see if cuts are still made, and if they will be more targeted at specific programs. Still, this gives people time to adjust and consider their options compared to being forced to look for new work.

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The Planetary Society @planetarysociety.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Planetary Society strongly opposes the sudden, indiscriminate dismissal of more than 1,000 scientists, engineers, and explorers at NASA — the largest involuntary workforce reduction since the end of the Apollo program. Read more on our stance. ⬇️

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The Planetary Society Strongly Opposes Mass Layoffs of Probationary…

Sudden, indiscriminate layoffs at NASA do not serve the national interests in space leadership.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Blue Ghost completed LOI2 which brought us into lower elliptical orbit around the #Moon. We were able to capture the footage seen here at approx 120km off the surface of the Moon. For reference, the ISS orbits the Earth at around 400km. We are getting close to descent, only a few weeks to go!🧪

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Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

To everyone in and around NASA. Hang in there everyone. The NASA civil service, contractor, and science family has the smartest, most gifted and inspired people on Earth. You have touched the sun, visited every planet, and now sail between the stars. Ad Astra - one way or another.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🌎How it started be How it’s going🌖 It blows my mind. This makes me want to explore so much deeper into the solar system. I hope we will get that chance. I'm amazed at how alien the #Moon looks in these photos. For something we see almost everyday, this looks so foreign. 🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

In this photo we see the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) and the Next Generation Lunar Retroreflector (NGLR). We haven’t landed yet but we have already been returning data to assist with our payload’s scientific endeavors 🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Unreal. 🤯 We are so close! 🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We made it to the Moon! Blue Ghost is currently orbiting our nearest celestial neighbor! 🌖 It’s truly unbelievable to see our lander finally in orbit around the thing I’ve been looking at in the night sky for 35 years. I can’t wait to get the chance to stick the landing in a few weeks!🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We just completed our Lunar Or it Insertion (LOI) maneuver! That means Blue Ghost is now orbiting another celestial body and has left our home forever. Good-bye Blue!🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Why do we go to the Moon? FOR SCIENCE!! 🧪 To clear the path for future human and robotic explorers. There are so many simple questions that we don’t know the answer to when it comes to our nearest neighbor. We are carrying NASA payloads that will help us understand more about the Moon and Earth

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CLPS Mission Heads for Vast Basalt Plain | APPEL Knowledge Services

Third spaceflight in the program will carry a varied NASA payload of scientific instruments to the lunar surface. Mare Crisium is a vast plain of basalt stretching for 68,000 square miles over the sur...

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A beautiful view of Earth captured by Blue Ghost! The images we have been capturing are breathtaking. 🧪🦋 I hope we can inspire the next generation of #space explorers the same way images from the ISS and Hubble inspired me as a kid.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The #NSF is a force multiplier for U.S. tech superiority—advancing AI, quantum computing, genetics, and space research while fortifying #STEM readiness Doing so would allow our adversaries to challenge American primacy in technology and engineering for the next generation Science is good strategy🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We are wrapping up our third week of operations for Blue Ghost Mission 1! We have some big maneuvers coming up, including Trans-Lunar Injection (TLI), the burn that will push us free from Earths gravity and send us on our way to intercept the Moon! 🧪 youtu.be/DXJ7LsEL_gA?...

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Leaving Earth Orbit! Blue Ghost Week 3 Update

YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We noticed a small dot that becomes eclipsed by the Earth in the video captured by Blue Ghost. I give you our destination! (The Moon)🧪

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We caught a beautiful view of our little blue planet. 🥹 I can't stop watching this video, thinking our lander is truly leaving us behind. 🧪🦋 Blue Ghost is on her way back out towards her apogee! #BGM1 Video: Firefly Aerospace

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

One week in and Blue Ghost is doing great on the journey to the Moon! Listen to our team explain how the trip is going so far!🧪🦋

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We're in Orbit! Blue Ghost Week 1 Update

YouTube video by Firefly Aerospace

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Rare that Texas looks like Wisconsin, but here we are. #winterstorm

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Alejandro Soto @soto.space · 20/01/2025

One of my colleagues has an instrument heading to the Moon on the Blue Ghost lander. The Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder will measure magnetic and electrical fields on the surface and in the subsurface of the Moon. #planetaryscience 🧪 www.swri.org/press-releas...

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SwRI is sending its first instrument to the lunar surface to survey the Moon’s interior

LMS instrument aboard the Blue Ghost Lander heading to Mare Crisium in early 2025

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Hey that's us! So cool to see Blue Ghost among the stars!

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Shameless crosspost from Firefly Space on Twitter🧪: Blue Ghost's fluid and propulsion systems are now primed up! This bi-propellant priming distributes our fuel and oxidizer to the engines, getting them ready for our first burn in a couple days.

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Firefly put together the ultimate road trip playlist based on the favorite road trip songs of our operators. This is the perfect music for a road trip to the #Moon. #GhostRidersInTheSky 🧪🦋

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Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Ghost Riders in the Sky

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Beautiful photo from the top deck of Blue Ghost 📸 You are looking at our 2 gimbals which support our payloads. The taller object is the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), while the long flat object is supporting Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE)!🧪🦋

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Blue Ghost on orbit commissioning has been completed! Attitude determination and control has been verified, the team increased the data transfer rate, established a power-positive attitude, and completed initial lander health checks! We are on our way to the Moon! 🧪🦋🌌

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Blue Ghost is on its way to the Moon! Clear separation from the launch vehicle and the team had acquisition of signal (AOS) shortly afterward. Now the journey begins! 🧪🦋🌌

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Curtis Szajkovics @curtis.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hi Bluesky! I’m Curtis Szajkovics a Lunar Lander Systems Engineer and Flight Controller for Blue Ghost Mission 1!🌖 I post updates about space exploration and our missions to the Moon!🧪🦋 youtu.be/tVa-oF0kzCQ?...