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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 02/09/2026

Akiyama Toyohiro, the first Japanese national in space, has passed away. He was 84 years old. Akiyama, a notable TV journalist in the 1980s, boarded a Soviet Soyuz craft in 1990 and blasted off for the Mir Space Station. He famously had a rough time of it. Here is his story: youtu.be/s3lTfIyh_Es

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The Japanese Astronaut Who Hated Space: Akiyama Toyohiro

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 01/08/2026

New episode! The ISS is growing so much that soon the shuttle arm won’t be able to help attach new modules. So let’s give the ISS an arm of its own! We’ll also wonder just what's up with the C&C computers, and try to blink our way through our problems. Show notes: thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep1...

A photo of Chris Hadfield on a spacewalk during STS-100. Next to him is the new robot arm for the space station.

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SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Artemis 3 crew: Commander Randy Bresnik, Pilot Luca Parmitano (ESA), Mission Specialist Frank Rubio, Mission Specialist Andre Douglas Backup: Bob Hines

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 08/06/2026

Astronaut Stanley Love went viral during the Artemis II mission when not-so-subtle anime references were spotted in Mission Control. Erica Friedman talks to Dr. Love about his fandom, magical girls, and more.

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The Astronaut Who Loves Anime

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Daniel Solis @danielsolis.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A heartfelt tenth anniversary to @thespaceabove.us podcast, documenting each NASA mission in chronological order. On a season break at the moment, but will return soon. 🚀 thespaceabove.us

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The Space Above Us

A podcast about the history of NASA human spaceflight. New episodes every other Thursday-ish.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts return to Earth, ending a record-breaking trip around the moon with a splashdown in the Pacific.

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit of a different take on the amazing Artemis II launch footage. Here I stitched clips from the four Solar Array Wing Cameras to make this panoramic video. This is during the later part of the Core Stage burn until MECO and stage separation, sped up to 10x. 🔭🧪 #Artemis

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 08/04/2026

Artemis II is carrying a US flag onboard Orion that was on STS-1, STS-135, left at the ISS for several years until SpaceX Crew Dragon DM1 "captured the flag". And now its taking a trip to the moon and back. Rough estimate 1,152,357,360 miles travelled

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Swapna Krishna @swapnakrishna.com · 03/04/2026

Will I ever get over this image? I don’t think so

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CosmoQuest @cosmoquest.org · 02/04/2026

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 17/03/2026

Happy 100 year anniversary to the first ever liquid fueled rocket. It was designed by rocketry pioneer Robert Goddard and flown on this day 100 years ago.

A black and white photo of Robert Goddard standing next to his liquid fueled rocket.

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CONTACT LIGHT @contactlight.de · 06/02/2026

February 6, 1971 #Apollo14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the #Moon, he became the first lunar golfer in history. One of his golf balls landed in a crater about 15 m away, making this the first hole-in-one on another world. ⛳️ contactlight.de

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 01/02/2026

23 years ago today we lost Space Shuttle Columbia and the crew of STS-107. The more I learn about this period of spaceflight history the more I realize how unusual a mission it was for its time. Another one of those great "what-ifs": what if STS-107 was headed to the ISS? Remember their sacrifice.

The crew of STS-107 poses in the white room just outside Space Shuttle Columbia.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 28/01/2026

40 years ago today, we lost the crew of STS-51L aboard Space Shuttle Challenger. Today is a major milestone and another chance to reflect on the risks willingly taken on by astronauts as we push the boundaries of what is possible in space.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 27/01/2026

59 years ago today. Thinking of the Apollo 1 crew. Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee. There's a good chance Grissom would have been the first person to set foot on the Moon. "The conquest of space is worth the risk of life." - Gus Grissom

Photo of the Apollo 1 crew in their flight suits, standing near the launchpad.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 31/12/2025

Well it's not a new TSAU episode, but if you're just missing hearing me talk about space, check out the latest Kanzenshuu episode and listen to me try to answer increasingly implausible Dragon Ball related questions about space!

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 15/11/2025

New episode! On STS-102 we've got what looks like a pretty simple mission but all sorts of complexities abound. Let's just hope that we don't have to hit that ominous red button on the control stick! Show notes with photos, video, links, transcript, etc are here: thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep1...

Cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko floating inside the cavernous Multi-Purpose Logistics Module on STS-102.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 01/11/2025

I'd like to try to be more active on this account, so here's a fun fact: the PlayStation 2 was released in North America one week before human occupation of the ISS began. If you had asked me the dates, I would have known that, but somehow it feels weird to think about how close in time they are.

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Robert Pearlman @collectspace.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

From the makers of the Apollo in Real Time websites comes a new experience with 500 times more data. ISS in Real Time offers the chance to explore more than 9,000 days of photos, video and audio transmitted during the 25 years of continuous human residency on the International Space Station.

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25 years, one website: 'ISS in Real Time' captures quarter-century on space station

With the milestone just days away, you are likely to hear this week that there has now been a continuous human presence on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 25 years. But what does th...

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 03/06/2025

New episode! After years of planning and building the early International Space Station, the first long duration crew is here! Let's meet them, get a taste of life aboard the station, and wonder where to get bootleg movies on the streets of Moscow. thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep1... #Expedition1

The crew of Expedition 1: Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev, pose for a photo before launch. They are wearing white and blue Sokol launch and entry suits.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 31/05/2025

Alright, for real this time, the Expedition 1 episode will be going up soon. The plan is to record tomorrow and have it posted by the end of the weekend. So if you wanted to get back up to speed, re-listening to the STS-98 episode wouldn't be the worst idea! thespaceabove.us/episodes/ep1...

Expedition 1 crew members Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev put their hands together in a "go team" display before their launch into orbit.

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Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @andysaunders-1.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

#OTD 1969. Apollo 9. Such is the resolution, once enhanced, the tiny 0.6mm dot on this half-century old film frame reveals the Saturn V 3rd stage (S-IVB) as it is remotely fired into an orbit around the Sun. McDivitt: ‘It's just like a bright star disappearing into the distance.’

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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 08/02/2025

📸🎂 The best view in the world turns 15 today: happy birthday Cupola! 🎉 🚀 #OTD in 2010, the European-built module was launched to the International Space Station on the Space Shuttle mission STS-130. 👨‍🚀 Video by @esa.int project astronaut Marcus Wandt. 🌍 Beautiful views of Earth, 24/7.

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JP @yatpay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

He was a worthy adversary. He will be missed.

Photo of a very loved cat named Buzz, with the added text "SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY..."

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David Hitt @homesteading.space · 27/01/2025

#OTD in 1967, NASA lost the crew of Apollo 1 in a fire on the launch pad during a test. In exploration, risk is a key ingredient for achieving great things. But so also is diligence, and in even greater measure. #NeverForget #NASARemembers

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Wayne Hale @waynehale.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

NASA has designated today as 'Remembrance Day' You can read my thoughts about it here: waynehale.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/r... waynehale.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/f... waynehale.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/b... waynehale.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/a...

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After Ten Years: Enduring Lessons

From the Rogers Commission to reading Dr. Diane Vaughn’s book The Challenger Launch Decision took me 17 years. For all those years I had learned the wrong lesson about the loss of Challenger. The…

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I found this old #NASA video that describes a typical #Apollo mission profile. Its a no BS, no marketing buzzwords look at what a Apollo mission might look like. I honestly wish such a thing existed for #Artemis. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXY4...

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1960’S NASA ANIMATED " APOLLO LUNAR MISSION PROFILE ” OVERVIEW OF MOON MISSION EXPLAINER XD48854

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Ben Feist @benfeist.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Apollo 17 has just gone behind the moon and is about to shoot some 16mm film of what they see. Landing tomorrow. Follow along live: apolloinrealtime.org/17/

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Apollo 17 in Real Time

A real-time interactive journey through the last landing on the Moon. Relive every moment as it occurred in 1972.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 27/11/2024

Super cool use of InSAR. Too bad STS-59 and STS-68 didn't fly before 1992!

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Jonathan's Space Report No. 839 published at planet4589.org/jsr.html

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Tory Bruno @torybruno.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This shot is a week or two old, but I thought you guys might enjoy it. The new methane tank starting its voyage out to California for SLC3. #VulcanRocket

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 16/11/2024

Oh, y'know, typical Friday night. (Just a few more weeks..)

A page full of hand-written calculations converting Keplerian elements into inertial position and velocity vectors.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 14/11/2024

One thing that didn't survive the migration from Twitter was the "location" field. I'd be surprised if anyone noticed, but for the last two years I updated my "Location" with a tiny joke based on the current episode. Sometimes tough with only 30 characters! So here's the whole list for posterity:

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STS-83 : Anxiously watching FC2's CPM
STS-84 : Not shaking hands in doorways
NASA-5 Pt1 : Approaching Spektr at 3m/s
NASA-5 Pt2 : Slicing through insulation
STS-94 : Experiencing deja vu on STS-94
STS-85 : Grooving to the Astroboy theme
STS-86 : Getting grilled by Congress
NASA-6 Pt1 : Crawling behind Mir's panels
NASA-6 Pt2 : Stuck in Kvant-2's Airlock
STS-87 : Chasing AERCam around the PLB
STS-89 : Admiring the fish in CEBAS
NASA-7 : Breaking wrenches on Mir
STS-90 : Spinning round the Crazy Chair
Dad : Not forcing it
STS-91 : Bending around AMS-01's magnet
Phase One Retro : Looking for my free taco
STS-95 : Zero G and I still feel fine
STS-88 : Hidden from view behind Node 1
STS-96 : Flying with cargo bags in PMA2
STS-93 : Dodging golden bullets
STS-103 : Carrying high smack over Texas
STS-99 : 60 meters from Endeavour
STS-101 : Waiting for GOES-L
Dr. Kim Broadwell : Floating on a KC-135
STS-106 : Translating up Zvezda
STS-92 : Attached to Unity's zenith CBM
STS-97 : Scared of heights on P6
STS-98 : Crashing into the robot arm

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Kanzenshuu @kanzenshuu.com · 11/11/2024

The site is recovering from some hardware failure over the weekend, but in the meantime... Podcast 515 is here with @thespaceabove.us to chat about all things space in the Dragon Ball universe! It's a great one, so tune in today! 🔗🔊👂👇 www.kanzenshuu.com/2024/11/11/p...

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Podcast Episode #0515 - Kanzenshuu

Episode #0515 of Kanzenshuu - The Podcast (for the week of 2024-11-10): your one, only, and best Dragon Ball podcast around!

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 06/11/2024

New supplemental! It’s been a long time since the last episode of the podcast. What’s going on? Fear not, dear listener, it’s good news. Well, mostly good news. And really it’s more good for me than for you but– you know what, just give the supplemental a listen. thespaceabove.us/episodes/s09...

A vector diagram from an orbital mechanics homework assignment.

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Astronaut training.

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 16/10/2024

Great quote from Expedition 1 commander Bill Shepherd: "I think it’s critically important that we have a space program if only to fulfill this need for a technical society to face challenges, surmount them, and move on."

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The Space Above Us @thespaceabove.us · 16/10/2024

Haha, I love this joke. And when I finally get my Expedition 1 episode done we'll be learning a surprising amount about the IT situation on the ISS! twitter.com/APPL_Houser_Jr/status/1…

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