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Touchdown! Carrying NASA Science, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lands on Moon - NASA

complete a fully successful soft-land on the Moon

- YouTube

gorgeous video of descent and landing

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - X Band Antenna Deployment

deployed

https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1896357393937965219

this fun observation

Blue Ghost Begins Surface Operations, Captures Descent Video, Sunrise - NASA

are now in full swing

Nyx Space and Rust Power Firefly's Blue Ghost Lunar Landing - Nyx Space

powered by Nyx, ANISE, and Hifitime, open-source Rust libraries

GitHub - orbitalindex/awesome-space: 🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index

Awesome Space list

NASA employees advised to delay responses to “what did you do” email

personal anxiety

Full list of DOGE spending cuts as Trump marks one month into presidency

Numerous agencies have been impacted

Noaa imposes limits on scientists, sparking concerns over global forecasts

NOAA

https://investors.intuitivemachines.com/news-releases/news-release-details/intuitive-machines-im-2-lunar-lander-successfully-commissioned

IM-2 launched successfully toward the Moon

Rocket Lab reaffirms 2025 first launch of Neutron

reaffirmed Neutron’s 2025 debut

Rocket Lab Announces Flatellite: A New Satellite Designed for Mass Manufacture and Tailored for Large Constellations | Rocket Lab

flat satellite design

Rocket Lab Reveals Ocean Platform for Neutron Rocket Landings at Sea | Rocket Lab

Return On Investment

Soyuz launches newest navsat

launched a GLONASS navigation satellite

https://x.com/EuropaClipper/status/1895896076496089505

conducted a Mars flyby

China’s Tiantuo satellite breakthrough enables global cargo surveillance

66 satellite constellation

Varda Space capsule lands in Australia with critical data for hypersonic vehicles

landed their second reentry capsule

3d Minion Vinyl Bath Ducks Custom Cartoon Character Floating Rubber Duck Toys - Buy Minion Bath Duck custom Rubber Duck rubber Duck Toy Product on Alibaba.com

Hulk Duck

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/aisy.202300392

paper

Mole-bot 3 (2020 version)

video

This $100 Muon Detector Lets You Harness the Cosmos

$100 muon tomography machine

Donald Pettit - Wikipedia

Don Pettit

Designing a Star Tracker for Astronaut Don Pettit to Use on the ISS

custom, mechanical star tracker built by RIT professor Ted Kinsman