Raquel Nevar 유아리

ex Human Data at @xAI || Orchestra Singer, PADI Mermaid, and Social Media Nerd. Posting and reposting stuff that tickles my brain. All opinions are my own.

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

This week I got the incredible privilege of working from the @xai office surrounded by some of the most intelligent people in the world. I'm inspired by their dedication, tenacity, and focus in creating the world's best AI. I look forward to returning soon!

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Japanese man visiting the US for the World Cup can't speak English but is very excited

[NASA @NASA]

@alltooriah Tell your cat the Artemis II crew said pspsps

[IGW @interstellargw]

AMAZE AMAZE AMAZE @projecthailmary 🤝 @NASA

[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.

[IGW @interstellargw]

Artemis II

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

@3nduringHawkeye it should be a crime not to

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

HISTORY IS MADE

[Techniques Spatiales @TechSpatiales]

Il m'a fallu 10s pour le repérer, mais le vaisseau Orion est toujours visible avec un télescope et une bonne caméra m, alors qu'il est grosso-modo à la distance de la Lune.

[David Willis @ThePrimalDino]

Big day for "it was revealed to me in a dream"

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Dreamt I was in lunar orbit last night. Been in that post-vivid-dream-that-wasn't-real funk all morning.

[project hail dado ⚢ 🎱 @astrasdoctor]

THIS is my barbenheimer

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

The crew dedicating a lunar crater to Reid's late wife during the flyby was moving. What a sweet moment.

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

@astro_reid for the rest of human existence, we will all be looking up at Carroll ❤️

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

@astro_reid right now

[NASA @NASA]

LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. https://t.co/Zpy7GdTqA8

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.

Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.

Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.

His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.

Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”

The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.

Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

[Raquel Nevar 유아리 @NevarRaquel]

guys what are we doing working jobs apathetically, scrolling on websites rotting our brains, when there are wonders out there like that. the universe is our playground. we are made for so much more

[Cinema Shogun @CinemaShogun]

The Artemis II crew filmed 🎥 an 80s sitcom intro video.

And I love ❤️ it.

[NASA @NASA]

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

Where will you be when history is made? Join the Artemis II lunar flyby LIVE from space with NASA at 1 p.m. ET.

📺 Find your favorite streaming service and strap in: https://t.co/Q06GiJD16m