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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Starfleet Design 🖍🖖 @starfleetdesign.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Huh! Well, this is actually MUCH more my kind of game. Interesting…
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/04/2026
Holy shit. The Hubble Space Telescope, photographer in space, BY A SATELLITE ALSO IN SPACE (Happy 36th birthday, Hubble!)
A space telescope! In space! Photographed by another satellite, also in space!!
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls flic.kr/p/2s7aCi3 #Artemis 🧪🔭
NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Koch, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, Artemis II commander, NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, Friday, April 10 at 5:07 p.m. PDT (8:07p.m. EDT). Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/04/2026
There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"
artemis.cdnspace.ca
Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control
Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 27/03/2026
A little gift from the official Project Hail Mary website. Link in the next post 👇
A promotional graphic for a digital download features a 3D model of a stylized, porous humanoid figure floating against a dark background with light flares and the text "3D MODEL DOWNLOAD NOW."
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/01/2026
Incredibly important historical turning point happening:
theguardian.com
Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
57 years ago, on this day, the iconic earthrise photo was taken during apollo 8 🌎
The iconic Earthrise photo
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory
A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.
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voyager212 / Mac Rebisz @macspace.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
If you see this, post your blue art 🔵 some of my Near Earth Orbit classics.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
*speechless horror* (Guys the NASA Exoplanet Archive is in this box. My job is in this box.)
Screenshot of the president's budget showing that the Exoplanet Exploration budget would reduce from $54.4M to $3.3M.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 31/05/2025
🟡 SCOOP: The White House is likely to pull the nomination of Jared Isaacman to be the next NASA administrator, just days before he was set to receive a confirmation vote in the Senate.
semafor.com
White House expected to pull NASA nominee Isaacman
Jared Isaacman was set for a vote next week, but now the president may yank his nomination.
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Casey Dreier @caseydreier.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Four charts showing the extent of cuts to NASA in the FY26 budget: - Cuts to every science division - Smallest science funding since 1984 - 19 active, inflight missions cancelled - Smallest NASA budget since FY 1961
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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/05/2025
Happy birthday to Keir Dullea, born in 1936. 🥳 ↖️2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) ⬆️The Starlost (1973) ↗️2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) ↙️Space Station 76 (2014) ⬇️Halo (2022) ↘️Starfield (2023)
Keir Dullea in:

↖️2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 
⬆️The Starlost (1973) 
↗️2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
↙️Space Station 76 (2014)
⬇️Halo (2022)
↘️Starfield (2023)
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/03/2025
Open this image up fully. Look to the top right. That's Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. And that bright point of light? Earth.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/05/2025
NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Mike Bird @birdyword.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Capital Economics: if today's announcements are implemented, the effective US tariff rate will shoot straight past the Smoot-Hawley levels of the 1930s. "The effective tariff rate on all imports will rise from 2.3% last year to around 26%, leaving it at a 131-year high"
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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA JWST image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image... 🧪 🔭
In the center is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 16/03/2025
So I’m getting started reading Values by Mark Carney and I want to share some shots of how this book starts because it makes me blink in surprise. If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.
Page excerpt of Mark Carney’s book, Values.

These are the questions that this book seeks to explore. It will examine how our society came to embody Wilde's aphorism - knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing. How by elevating belief in the market to an inviolable truth we moved from a market economy to a market society. And how we can turn this around.

In many respects, this book is a belated response to a question posed a few summers ago when a range of policymakers, business people, academics, labour leaders and charity workers gathered at the Vatican to discuss the future of the market system.
Pope Francis surprised us by joining the lunch and sharing a parable. He observed that:
Our meal will be accompanied by wine. Now, wine is many things. It has a bouquet, colour and richness of taste that all complement the food. It has alcohol that can enliven the mind. Wine enriches all our senses.

At the end of our feast, we will have grappa. Grappa is one thing: alcohol. Grappa is wine distilled.

He continued:
Humanity is many things - passionate, curious, rational, altruistic, creative, self-interested.
Excerpt, continued:

But the market is one thing: self-interested. The market is humanity distilled.

And then he challenged us:
Your job is to turn the grappa back into wine, to turn the market back into humanity. This isn't theology. This is reality. This is the truth.

This book draws on my experience in the private sector and public policy to examine the relationship between value and values. How they shape each other, and how, by doing so, they can determine our livelihoods, identities and possibilities. And how, once we recognise these dynamics, we can turn
grappa back into wine.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I examines various concepts of value and their roots in political philosophy and, more recently and narrowly, in economic theory and financial practice. It uses a series of valuation paradoxes from art to the environment to illustrate the potential disconnects between valuations in markets and the values of society.
Values and value are related but distinct. In the most general terms, values represent the principles or standards of behaviour; they are judgements of what is important in life. Examples include integrity,
A second excerpt from Values by Mark Carney:

Chapter 6 shows that our deepest challenges are rooted in the narrowing of our values to market fundamentalism, and it explains how this is contributing to the growing exclusivity of capitalism and the rise of populism. In particular, it argues that, just as all ideologies are prone to extremes, capitalism loses its sense of moderation when the belief in the power of the market enters the realm of faith. In the decades prior to the financial crisis, such radicalism came to dominate economic ideas and
became a pattern of social behaviour.
In short, we have moved from a market economy to a market society, and this is now undermining our basic social contract of relative equality of outcomes,
equality of opportunity and fairness
across generations.

Part II explores the three most significant crises of the twenty-first century - of credit, Covid and climate.
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HiRISE Beautiful Mars (NASA) @uahirise.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
newscientist.com
NASA may have to cancel major space missions due to budget cuts
Potential cuts of up to 50 per cent of NASA's science budget could mean cancelling missions including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Voyager probes
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A top economics reporter goes off script on national TV: “I am going to say this at risk of my job, but what President Trump is doing is insane.”
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DutchSpace @dutchspace.eurosky.social · 04/03/2025
Firefly Aerospace just released their Blue Ghost Moon landing video, this view is rather special... Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHh... #BGM1
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ToughSF @toughsf.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
An impressive mission to Titan done in KSP's Realism Overhaul. 4K edit here: youtu.be/0Oj4jqqJQOA
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 24/02/2025
We live in an age when commercial spacecraft are flying around the Moon and we're getting views of our homeworld like this one. Simply incredible. View from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, scheduled to touch down Sunday in Mare Crisium on the Moon! Credit: @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social
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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 19/02/2025
Flyby success! Solar Orbiter swept past Venus last night, using the planet's gravity to adjust its orbit and grant it a new view of the Sun's polar regions. Everything went as planned 🕹️🛰️✅
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Simon Proud @simonsat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Our wonderful planet, seen by @eumetsat.bsky.social's #MTG satellite. I'll never get tired of views like this. Can you see the thunderstorm clouds bubbling up just ahead of the sunset?
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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
In 1961, artist G. Pokrovsky drew a Mars exploration vessel for Tekhnika Molodezhi. His drawing depicted a silvery spaceplane with its scientific equipment carried in a series of inflatable structures. This is my render of the ship, original drawing below.
A spaceship with inflatable structures trailing.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Imagine if the media pointed out there was already a Government Accountability Office whose job it is to go after actual waste and fraud, not just things Elon doesn’t like, and found $70 Billion in savings last year and $2 Trillion in waste since 2003. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governm...
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
nytimes.com
Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws (Gift Article)
Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
blog.archive.org
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For what it's worth, NASA already decided in August to bring back Butch & Suni via SpaceX: www.cnbc.com/2024/08/24/n... They're planned to return as part of Crew-9 after Crew-10 launches in March: blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcr...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
washingtonpost.com
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
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Energia-Buran Archive @buranarchive.space · 28/01/2025
Beautiful photo of Buran on the An-225 Mriya over Hostomel in May 1989. One of around 50 slides discovered this year by Vadim Lukashevich.
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David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I mention this a fair bit, but in case there's anyone who hasn't read it - here's my NASA-published history of Mars mission planning HUMANS TO MARS. In my preface, I wrote of updating it in 15-20 years in the hope that I could report on a Mars expedition. 🛰️🔭🧪🚀🪐🌏👩‍🚀🌌 www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...
Cover of my 2001 NASA publication HUMANS TO MARS. A pale red limb of Mars behind a picture showing artwork of two drum-shaped Mars landers surrounded by astronauts and a rover.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/12/2024
A new analysis of data from the Juno spacecraft suggests that the ice shell covering the ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa might be WAY thicker than anticipated. (With comments from @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social) Possibly bad news for any hope of life signs from Europa Clipper, currently en route. 🧪🔭
science.org
Surprisingly thick ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa complicates hunt for life
Revelation is blow to hopes for habitability and future space missions
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Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 14/12/2024
The 1M1 weight model of the N1 being tested out at the launch pad.
The 1M1 weight model of the N1 being tested out at the launch pad.
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 09/12/2024
🔭 🧪 For a decade, Hubble has kept an eye on the outer planets, making global studies of their cloud coloration, activity, and atmospheric motion to understand the underlying mechanics of their weather and climate systems: bit.ly/3VmSyS6
A montage of Hubble views of our solar system’s four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, taken from 2014 to 2024. From upper left toward the center: The hazy white polar cap on the three teal-colored Uranus images appears more face-on as the planet approaches northern summer. Center-right to far-center right: Three images of the blue planet Neptune show the coming and going of clouds as the Sun’s radiation level changes. Seven views of yellow-brown Saturn stretch across the center of the mosaic in a triangle, showing the tilt of the ring plane relative to the view from Earth. From left to right shows from an oblique angle to nearly edge-on, with colorful changes to bands of clouds in the turbulent atmosphere. Bottom center: Three images of Jupiter spanning nearly a decade form a triangle. Notable changes are seen in Jupiter’s colorful white and brown striped cloud structure. The Great Red Spot, seen at southern latitudes, is prominent in each photo.
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Michael Sheetz @michaelsheetz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
NASA leadership to give an update on the Artemis program tomorrow at 1pm ET: www.nasa.gov/news-release...
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Jason Major @jpmajor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
This is a view of Saturn's largest moon Titan, made from images taken with NASA's Cassini spacecraft in visible-light wavelengths on November 28, 2012
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Today (Wed Nov 27 2024) marks the 60th anniversary of the first day of filming on the very first Star Trek episode, "The Cage," in 1964. We interviewed director Robert Butler, the man responsible for helming "The Cage" for the Roddenberry Archive. youtu.be/65ZtLReySGo
youtu.be
The Roddenberry Archive: The Cage (2022)
YouTube video by OTOY
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Eric Berger @sciguyspace.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Reminder: I’ve created a space-news focused feed that seeks to maximize signal amid the noise. If you know someone who belongs on this list, reply below or message me. Thank you! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Tory Bruno @torybruno.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just another pair of BEs… #VulcanRocket
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 26/11/2024
On this day in 2003, Concorde touched down for the final time. Here are photos of that final flight from London-Heathrow to Bristol.
A rear, right side view of Concorde climbing away from London-Heathrow as the landing gear is retracted.Concorde making a low pass over Filton as it prepares to land for the final time.Concorde seconds away from touching down in Bristol.Concorde taxiing to parking one last time with UK flags displayed out the pilots’ windows.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
everything I learn about pre-WWI aviation is insane
Eugene Gilbert, flying a Bleriot XI: While over the Pyrenees en route to Madrid, Gilbert was attacked by a large eagle, which he warded off using a revolver.A painting depicting Eugène Gilbert in a Bleriot XI being attacked by an eagle over the Pyrenees in 1911
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Adam D.A. Manning @adammanning.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Tomorrow, 19th November 2024, is the 55th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 12 on the Moon, the second human mission to land on Earth's only natural satellite. After the success of Apollo 11, this was an attempt at a pin-point landing on the lunar surface with the aim of
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