Nathan Barker

Mid 40's, 5th-generation, year two managing the farm and carrying on with Dad's legacy. Taking pictures of the stars and rockets when I can.

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

S-P-A-C-E L-A-U-N-C-H S-Y-S-T-E-M

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

Daaaaaammmmmmnnnn!

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.

https://t.co/tANS0dWyIH

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

@socialwriter 🤣

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

Man, I sure hope open concept is still a thing 😉

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

Kicking off the Victoria Day long weekend with the Northern Lights.

The Auroras made a subtle and brief return to southern Ontario last night around 11:30pm.

#AuroraBorealis

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

A quick in and out work trip to Chicago!

[NASA History Office @NASAhistory]

Let's give 'em a hand! 🦾

25 years ago on April 22, 2001, STS-100 astronauts Chris Hadfield and Scott Parazynski completed a 7-hour spacewalk, installing the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2!

That day, Hadfield (center) became the first Canadian spacewalker.

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

@space_jim1 @charlesboyer @blueorigin @GregScott_photo @FarryFaz @SchilkeScott @stevenmadow @dwisecinema Great captures, Jim!

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[ABC News @ABC]

Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen joined his Artemis II crewmates to address the public: "If you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you."

https://t.co/36KxiWBydN

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Mission complete ❤️❤️❤️

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

ARTEMIS II: SPLASHDOWN! Welcome home, astronauts!

https://t.co/K0fLwTVCcz

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

That view! 😍

Earth is slowly growing larger as Integrity nears.

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II astronauts have traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, flown around the Moon, and observed the lunar surface like never before. Now, they’re coming home. 🌎

Watch the crew splash down on Friday, April 10, around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). https://t.co/Ccsk5Z3HFS

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

@NASA has just released some EXTRAORDINARY tracking footage from Artemis II's launch just one week ago.

Mesmerizing exhaust flow interaction between all four RS-25's & twin SRB's.

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

I'm speechless!

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.

Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

[Nathan Barker @NASA_Nerd]

@CAlexMasse Seriously, I feel the same. I’ve been glued to the tv all day. NASA couldn’t have picked a better crew to fly this mission.

[Dan Huot @danhuot]

We sent the best of us.

Everyone has experienced loss. The crew sharing a moment this intimate, this real, gives us a chance to feel a raw connection to other humans across a great distance. They're off doing truly alien things in deep space, but I'll bet a lot of people have never felt closer to them.

Go hug someone you love because the only universal truth is we never get enough time with them. And the next time you look up at the Moon, keep an eye out for Carroll

[NASA @NASA]

A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.