Tessa🌔

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. 🇺🇸🚀🇨🇦

[Tessa🌔 @TessaToMars]

Vega.

[NRO @NRO_gov]

Today we reflect on the vision of 1776 and celebrate our unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[Justin McLeod @justfactsmaam]

Oh that’s awesome. The Artemis II launch as seen from Stetson’s Patricia Wilson Field.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Thinking about the NEP demo for Mars and something special it could do, since adding deltaV is relatively cheap. Since it's nuclear powered it could drop off those Skyfall drones and fly past mars to raise its orbit. It's nuclear powered so it could head out beyond the asteroid belt towards the outer planets.
NASA could try sending it to Uranus or Neptune, even with token science instruments it could be worthwhile.
But that requires a lot of extra work to make sure it can handle the thermal environment, and the communications requirements.

[NRO @NRO_gov]

How do you capture perfectly clear images from 100 miles above Earth?

In the past, engineers designed film that could survive radiation and temperature swings in space and developed powerful lenses capable of extreme detail.

The result was a new era of space photography.

[Tessa🌔 @TessaToMars]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Grace Meng @RepGraceMeng]

Massive cuts to @NASA in the President’s proposed budget are shocking – the largest in American history.

They will decimate NASA’s research & education efforts and terminate funding for our nation’s dedicated scientists. Rather than rooting out so-called “government waste”, this budget puts American leadership in science, technology, & innovation at risk.
https://t.co/vKRnW8IkeJ

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

As part of their plan to GUT the science mission at NASA, Trump and Musk want to cancel the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a critical project that is on time, under budget, and nearly finished.

They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The James Webb Space Telescope detected dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere (on Earth that comes from marine microorganisms).

K2-18b is potentially habitable super-Earth about 2.6 times the size of our planet. It is located 124 light-years from the Solar System.

[Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson]

With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years.

Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to @NASA . Just sayin'.

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

Before you can defend, you have to detect!

Meet NEO Surveyor, the first space telescope specifically designed to hunt asteroids and comets that may be potential hazards to Earth. It’s set to launch in late 2027. https://t.co/VEZSUwg9ds

#DetectToProtect

[Havoc @Havoc_Six]

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[melanie haber 🏴‍☠️ @melsorbit]

@KatyPerryTours @katyperry A woman.
An astronaut (cosmonaut).
A history maker.

Valentina Tereshkova. June, 1963.
First woman in space. Only woman to fly a solo mission, to this day.
Age 26.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Donald Trump’s attack on NASA amounts to a form of national self-destruction and will have untold effects on the country’s scientific efforts, research objectives, and our standing around the globe.

The president’s proposed budget cuts would gut the Mars Sample Return program, one of our top planetary science priorities with strong bipartisan support, which will not only see hundreds of jobs lost at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but also kneecap years of critical scientific progress that is already happening.

This would dismantle our greatest advantage in space and destroy our top centers of innovation, not just at JPL but at NASA facilities across California and the country.

It’s a gift to China, and a slap in the face to those that have dedicated years to making the American space program the best in the world.

And NASA isn’t just space. It’s stem cells, supercomputers, and sustainability efforts. It’s reaching for the stars in the search for our future here at home.

The administration must reverse course for the sake of American jobs, ingenuity and our future.

To go forward with these cuts may be just one small step in the eyes of the Trump Administration, but it would be a giant loss for American people, and all of mankind.

Congress should unequivocally reject this foolish proposal.

[Derek Newsome @DerekdotSpace]

A really interesting find on Reddit today of a satellite imaged on Google Earth! It's located at 33.744157, -96.746170 .

As of now it has not been positively identified but the imagery date was on 11/29/2024.

[American Astronomical Society (AAS) @AAS_Office]

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: https://t.co/hU8iuzne3D and take action now: https://t.co/LEiFKh1tAn

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

So Isaacman says we are sending astronauts to the Moon AND Mars while simultaneously cutting NASA's budget by 20% and closing centers?

Lol

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

@once_banned Also Dawn exploration of Ceres and Vesta, Curiosity exploration of Gale Crater on Mars, OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sampling, Parker probing the outer solar atmosphere, New Horizons at Pluto, and many more

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

@once_banned Kepler discovery of lots of exoplanets, Chandra and NuStar discoveries about black holes, Spitzer mapping of the Milky Way, WMAP images of the Big Bang, JWST unexpected results on high redshift galaxies...

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

I'm seeing confusion about who is making the cuts. It's not NASA. It's not Jared Isaacman (he's not confirmed yet). It's not Elon. It's mostly the White House Office of Management and Budget. In terms of sourcing, I did not receive these documents from NASA employees.

[Jeff Foust @jeff_foust]

Isaacman Wednesday: "more telescopes, more probes, more rovers"
OMB Thursday: fewer telescopes, fewer probes, fewer rovers