Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 04/04/2026My word, there's some spectacular imagery coming down from Artemis II. Truly awe-inspiring. 040
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I can't quite believe it - we're actually doing it. We're doing exploration! Congrats to the teams. 032
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Best of luck to the crew of Artemis II. I've waited a long, long time for this. Let's go and explore space once again. I'm ready. Godspeed! 041
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Rest In Peace to the crew of STS-51L Challenger on the 40th anniversary of their passing. As NASA stands on the precipice of the most risky human spaceflight mission of the past half century, we remember not only the Challenger crew, but also the hard learnt lessons of the Challenger disaster. 110
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 09/12/2025NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim (who landed from space this morning aboard Soyuz MS-27) is currently over Turkey en-route back to Houston aboard NASA's Gulfstream V jet. He'll be making a fuel stop in Glasgow, Scotland. 021
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Great photo of HTV-X and Cygnus XL together in space. 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Today on the ISS, for the first time ever, all 8 available Visiting Vehicle ports (x4 on Russian Segment, x2 berthing and x2 docking on US Segment) are in use simultaneously! (Image credit: orbital-velocity.com) 1326
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Congrats to Blue Origin for the landing/recovery of New Glenn's 1st stage! It's good to have more than one company that can now do this! 020
Reposted by Pete HardingGene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Today marks 25 years of humans' permanent presence in low Earth orbit. Via #NASA —an overview of how the International Space Station program started. www.nasa.gov/reference/in...nasa.govInternational Space Station - NASAThe International Space Station Program brings together international flight crews, multiple launch vehicles, globally distributed launch and flight operations, training, engineering, and development ... 072
Reposted by Pete HardingDerek Richardson @spacewriter.bsky.social · 29/10/2025HTV-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! 011
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Great 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). 022
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I highly recommend watching "Once Upon A Time In Space" on the BBC - a great series documenting the early Shuttle years all the way through to today. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...bbc.co.ukOnce Upon a Time in SpaceA new perspective. At the dawn of a new space race, the personal stories of those who led us here offer a unique insight into our changing world - and where we are headed. 200
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Great photo of the UK at night with the SSRMS in the foreground! (Image taken 14/9/25 @ 00:38 UK time) 020
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Amazing video of CRS-33 Dragon docking with PMA-2/IDA-2 in 4K! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmDB...youtube.comSpaceX Dragon CRS-33 Docks with ISS in 4K | NASA Cargo MissionYouTube video by Sen 000
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 20/08/2025An absolutely stupidly crazy decision by our government. Once again the UK sabotages its own space sector. History on repeat. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukUK independent space agency scrapped to cut costsBritain's space agency is set to be scrapped - a scientist fears the UK space sector could fall behind as a result 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 05/06/2025NASA is now faced with the perfect storm: Russia effectively at war with the west, Musk gone off the rails, radio silence on Starliner, Artemis still not operational, and an administration intent on killing science. 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Hopefully we are witnessing the downfall of Elon Musk. I don't think there's any way back for him now in the court of public opinion - he's alienated himself from pretty much all sides, apart from his wacky die-hard fans on X. I only hope that SpaceX can decouple from him in time - but I fear not. 041
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Wow, who could have foreseen that Musk & Trump, two of the biggest narcissistic, egotistical assholes to walk the earth, would fall out? No-one saw that one coming. It's almost as if the "smartest man alive" isn't actually that smart... 🙄 120
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Well, that's the end of NASA I think. RIP. Space exploration is now in the hands of billionaires and China. 161
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Despite 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. 151
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 03/05/2025In 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. 362
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Great photo of the Japanese Experiment Module taken during EVA-93 yesterday. 010
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 03/05/2025So, as expected, Trump's FY26 budget proposal effectively guts NASA and turns it into the SpaceX Contracting Agency. You know, it's almost as if Elon wrote the budget himself.... 151
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 03/05/2025This is an extremely dumb move - reducing ISS research & crew at a time when the station is at it's most capable (and still improving). With reduced crewing requirements, Starliner may well be dead in the water too. 010
Reposted by Pete HardingESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 25/04/2025🔧 Now installed on @esa.int’s Columbus lab, our Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space is ready to test gravity, compare time across continents, and explore the laws of physics from orbit 💫. ⚡ Next step: #ACES first power-up on 28 April 🔋 Find out more 👇esa.intACES finds its home in orbitThe Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES), ESA’s state-of-the-art timekeeping facility, has been successfully installed on the International Space Station, marking the start of a new chapter in space-... 0144
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Don Pettit now airborne aboard NASA's Gulfstream V heading back to the US. Routing Karaganda > Prestwick > Houston (Ellington). 000
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Butch & Suni have been rescued!!! All thanks to Trump & Musk! 😅 020
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 18/03/2025As the saying goes: "Why let truth get in the way of a good story"... 😆 🤡 040
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 15/03/2025OmG tHe StRaNdEd AsTrOnAuTs ArE bEiNg ReScUeD!!! 😮 010
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 13/03/2025FFS THEY ARE NOT STRANDED!!! So sick of reading these BS headlines. This is literally fake news. Mainstream media do themselves no favours when they post rubbish like this. 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Just an observation: 10 yrs ago colonising Mars seemed an idealist, noble goal - taking the best of humanity & building a new society free of Earth's divisions. Now I'm increasingly seeing people criticise it as a billionaire playboy pursuit – the wealthy abandoning Earth to start an elitist society 130
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025And one more thing: I'm so sick & tired of reading headlines about the "stranded astronauts". THEY ARE NOT, AND NEVER HAVE BEEN AT ANY POINT, STRANDED!!! This is why people say that mainstream media is "fake news" - they don't help their case when they post BS headlines like this. 051
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I'm gonna say it now: Starship is a stupid lunar lander. It's a great concept for other uses, but for lunar landings it's just too tall. Vehicles that are tall/top-heavy really can't cope with uneven terrain - landers that have a wide base are a much better design. 040
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I think most people don't realise just how long it's going to take to A) develop a fully human-rated ECLSS for Starship (capable of supporting Mars missions), and B) to build a safety case for putting humans on the vehicle given it's novel propulsive landing technique. 111
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Caribbean countries should lodge a protest at the UN about being showered by debris like this. This is why launch regulations exist. It's only a matter of time before somebody gets hurt. 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025I read now that the "increasing number of anomalies" line is being used as an excuse to bail on ISS early, but IMO this is just a case of facts being found to supprt a predetermined political case. Anomalies can be expected from a ship that's 25+ years old, but none of them are critical to safety. 120
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Elon's plan to cancel SLS and go all-in on Starship is not looking so clever now huh. For what it's worth, I fully support Starship and I believe SpaceX will figure it out eventually, but I think it'll be 10+ years before Starship is ready to carry crew. 030
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If I were Jared Isaacman, at this point I'd be seriously considering whether I could serve under President Trump. Of course it's his decision to make, and for what it's worth I think he's a reasonable, level-headed guy who'd make a great NASA Administrator. 140
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Absolutely unbelievable scenes from the Oval Office. Just wow. Trump is really something. My full support is with Ukraine at this time. Time for Europe to step up. 160
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Who the heck does this jumped-up (and unelected) guy think he is? 100
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I'm taking a break from other platforms in the space community and focusing my future postings on here! 5242
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I don't think I've ever witnessed anybody burn their bridges with their fanbase the way Musk has done with the space community over the past 12 months. He's always been a controversial and somewhat zany figure, and I liked him back in the early days when he was the disruptor rocket scientist. 231
Reposted by Pete HardingAstronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Trump has the emotional maturity of toddler, the intellectual capacity of a teenager, and the moral compass of a gangster. 4337
Pete Harding @spacepete.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Space has become so politicised in the last few months I think, unfortunately space exploration is becoming more associated with billionaires than it is with NASA. I love SpaceX, but we need to separate it from this toxic cult of Musk. 130
