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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2085739/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2085739/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Vermilion students to hear from International Space Station astronauts <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/AlexanderGorbunov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlexanderGorbunov</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/astronauts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronauts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ButchWillmore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ButchWillmore</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Crew9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crew9</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CrewedMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CrewedMission</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Falcon9" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Falcon9</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ISS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/launch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>launch</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/LaunchPad40" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaunchPad40</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/liftoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liftoff</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ManuelMazzanti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManuelMazzanti</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NickHague" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NickHague</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/nurphoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nurphoto</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OrbitalFlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OrbitalFlight</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rocket</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Roscosmos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roscosmos</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RotationMission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RotationMission</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SpaceAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceAgency</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SpaceForceStation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceForceStation</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SpaceTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceTravel</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SuniWilliams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SuniWilliams</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Australia’s Steady March Towards Space - The list of countries to achieve their own successful orbital space launch is a sh... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/australias-steady-march-towards-space/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/02/austra</span><span class="invisible">lias-steady-march-towards-space/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/currentevents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>currentevents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gilmourspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gilmourspace</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hybridrocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hybridrocket</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/spaceprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spaceprogram</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/originalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>originalart</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>australia</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/featured" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>featured</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/interest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>interest</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/rocket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rocket</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/orbit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orbit</span></a></p>
SpaceHistory, etc<p>The film <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/hiddenfigures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiddenfigures</span></a> offered one piece of the story of Black people at <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/nasa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nasa</span></a> and in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spaceprogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spaceprogram</span></a>. This new documentary, narrated by <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/astronaut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronaut</span></a> Mae Jemison, tell much of the rest of the story.</p><p>Here’s the link to stream it - ‪<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr0dO3Nn6kU" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=fr0dO3Nn6k</span><span class="invisible">U</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>The <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Chinese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chinese</span></a> 🇨🇳 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceIndustry</span></a> recognizes that the future of spaceflight is fully reusable ♻️, and even its state enterprises are re-calibrating toward such an outcome.</p><p>By contrast, <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> 🇺🇸 policymakers seem determined to force <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> to continue building the ultra-expensive and expendable <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLS</span></a> rocket for decades. This consumes a NASA budget 💰 that could otherwise be directed toward the kind of technological advances that might keep the US civil <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> ahead of <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a>. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/chinas-long-term-lunar-plans-now-depend-on-developing-its-own-starship/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/</span><span class="invisible">chinas-long-term-lunar-plans-now-depend-on-developing-its-own-starship/</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>While the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> 🇪🇺 has never had a <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceCommissioner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceCommissioner</span></a>, there is a need to zone in on a sector that McKinsey estimates will be worth $1.8 trillion 💰 by 📆 2035. Kubilius' mission letter does not mention any potential big new <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a>. While <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/ESA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ESA</span></a> spends billions 💰 on <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> and exploration projects, the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/EuropeanCommission" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanCommission</span></a> needs extra cash 💶 to build out <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/IRIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRIS</span></a> <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/andrius-kubilius-defense-space-commissioner-budget-european-space-agency-cooperation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">politico.eu/article/andrius-ku</span><span class="invisible">bilius-defense-space-commissioner-budget-european-space-agency-cooperation</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpacePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpacePolitics</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p>🇨🇭 In 📆 2024, <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Colibri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colibri</span></a>, our bi-propellant vertical takeoff, vertical landing (<a href="https://spacey.space/tags/VTVL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VTVL</span></a>) rocket 🚀, will perform its first flight <a href="https://www.gruyerespaceprogram.ch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">gruyerespaceprogram.ch/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Gruy%C3%A8re" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gruyère</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a></p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Presidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Presidents</span></a> support <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> and do what NASA says. We could have orbiters around every planet 🪐 in the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SolarSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarSystem</span></a> for a fraction 📊 of the cost of <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Artemis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artemis</span></a>. But nobody gave us that option. The cost 💰 and time ⏳ spent on <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SLS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SLS</span></a> and <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Orion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orion</span></a> have set the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> back 〽️ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion/nasa-moon-artemis.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/nasa-moon-artemis.html</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/lori_garver" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lori_garver</span></a></span></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a>’s space agency is working on its own version of ‘<a href="https://noc.social/tags/Starlink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starlink</span></a>,’ which will allow the island to remain online even if Taiwan’s <a href="https://noc.social/tags/UnderseaCable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnderseaCable</span></a> system is hit during a conflict. </p><p>CNN’s <a href="https://noc.social/tags/WillRipley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WillRipley</span></a> sits down with the director of the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/TaiwanSpaceAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaiwanSpaceAgency</span></a> in an international exclusive to find out more about the island’s <a href="https://noc.social/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a>.</p><p>Taiwan’s internet is vulnerable to <a href="https://noc.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> threats. Its space agency is stepping in [VIDEO]<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/taiwan-s-internet-is-vulnerable-to-china-threats-its-space-agency-is-stepping-in/vi-BB1n71dW" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-us/money/other/taiw</span><span class="invisible">an-s-internet-is-vulnerable-to-china-threats-its-space-agency-is-stepping-in/vi-BB1n71dW</span></a></p>
Kent Pitman<p>Mars as climate fix?<br>Simpler to terraform Earth.<br>We lack will, not tech.</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiku</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/senryu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>senryu</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ShortPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShortPoem</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateMitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateMitigation</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateDenial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDenial</span></a></p><p>I love the space program as much as anyone, but there is not even time left on habitable Earth to think somehow a colonization to Mars would save us. </p><p>Terraforming is a VERY difficult, expensive, and risky task, easy to fail at, as writers of hard science fiction like Kim Stanley Robinson have explained in fascinating detail. </p><p>If you REALLY want an uninhabitable planet to rehabilitate, take the engines out of existing rockets, put them on cinder blocks, and wait. The wait won't be long. You'll be on one faster, cheaper, and more reliably than if you try to escape the gravity well, and with lots better available resources. </p><p>Seems far better to me to just get started now in earnest with the serious task of fixing Earth, in hopes of optimizing out the messy, sad, painful part in the middle where humanity goes extinct due to that messy uninhabitability thing that's rocketing toward us. Fixing things here at home is perhaps not as flashy as planetary colonization, but it's much more relevant and, if we start now, doable. YMMV.</p>
Spaceflight 🚀<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/senbillnelson" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>senbillnelson</span></a></span> 's outsized influence on <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> over four decades is undisputed, but some of us in the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceCommunity</span></a> are concerned this may not be a feature 👎. Senator <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Nelson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nelson</span></a>’s imprint on the <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> has led to grand pronouncements based on <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/unrealistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unrealistic</span></a> industry estimates, multibillion-dollar 💰 <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/cost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cost</span></a> overruns, years of schedule <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/delays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>delays</span></a> and unmet expectations 😠 <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bill-nelson-isnt-the-best-choice-for-nasa-administrator/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scientificamerican.com/article</span><span class="invisible">/bill-nelson-isnt-the-best-choice-for-nasa-administrator/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spacey.space/tags/SpacePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpacePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/PorkBarrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PorkBarrel</span></a></p>
AnneTheWriter<p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a> in 1986...</p><p>I was at college, walking up the stairs to my dormroom when I heard about it. I spent the rest of the day glued to my little TV in our room.</p><p>As I watched the video that was being replayed over and over, one moment struck me: The twin trails of smoke from the booster rockets looked like the wide-spread arms of a giant in the sky. </p><p>It was immediately obvious that there would be no survivors. I cried, and prayed that they never had a chance to know what happened, and feeling awful for all the school kids watching the teacher take off, on TVs at schools around the world.</p><p>The cause was later determined to be a simple, small, faulty O-ring. It would be months later before any human remains were recovered, found at the bottom of the ocean. </p><p>The <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceProgram</span></a> would never be the same again. </p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ChallengerDisaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChallengerDisaster</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceShuttle</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/SpaceShuttleChallenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpaceShuttleChallenger</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ThisDayInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThisDayInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/NASAshuttle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASAshuttle</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OnThisDay80s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay80s</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/hgA4HUfpyF4?si=IAILrm7ll2IjxqTQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/hgA4HUfpyF4?si=IAILrm</span><span class="invisible">7ll2IjxqTQ</span></a></p>
Ramesh #NotGoingBack<p>TIL: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a>’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RevolutionaryGuards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevolutionaryGuards</span></a> have their OWN <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spaceProgram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spaceProgram</span></a> separate from Iran’s civilian space program.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IRGC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IRGC</span></a> answers only to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Khamenei" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Khamenei</span></a>.</p><p>Satellite launch vehicle “shortens the timeline” to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICBM</span></a>, which can be used to deliver nuclear weapons.</p><p>Iran is now producing close to weapons-grade uranium after collapse of nuclear deal during <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> "presidency". It has enough enriched uranium for “several” nuclear weapons. </p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/iran-satellite-launch-mideast-tensions-israel-palestinians-gaza-b2d8d654c24cf588acaa8228229a0415" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/iran-satell</span><span class="invisible">ite-launch-mideast-tensions-israel-palestinians-gaza-b2d8d654c24cf588acaa8228229a0415</span></a></p>