Maria Andrade

I just go on here for the memes

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🇮🇶 THIS IS THE STORY OF AYMEN HUSSEIN!

• His father was killed by Al Qaida.

• His brother was kidnapped and never found again.

• When he entered the USA for the World Cup, he was interrogated for 7 hours.

• He was very close to not being allowed to enter the country.

• And now he scores the 2nd goal in Iraq's World Cup history.

[nath 🍁🇧🇷 @chromojoy]

If Brazil loses all brazilians will immediatly die so please cheer for our national team

[cay @koralinadean]

im actually in awe. the budget was unlimited like WOW

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA.

Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team.

After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator.

In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets.

Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record."

Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

[eda ★ @edascofield]

100 thoughts vs a girl trying to fall asleep

[everslay⸆⸉ ☁️ @everslay13]

i feel like if you voted for trump you should automatically be drafted for war

[ɴᴀᴅɪᴀ. @luvblessingz]

this deserves to be on your timeline once again.

[dior ✞ @deeore5]

hey sorry i didn't text you back i've been having a bad day since i was about 12

[aria the ninth @An_Aria_Blooms]

Bless my eyes is that the original pride flag design? Mamdani my brother I didn't know you had game like that

[Skitzo @theskitzo_]

His legendary beef with Donald Trump will never be forgotten
https://t.co/ntEeFwT42J

[zay dante @zaydante]

fuck ICE, fuck Donald Trump, and fuck anyone who supports those murderous pigs

[x__x @bpdsins]

girl u survived being 16
u can survive today

[🦢 @meishato]

“source?” my gut feeling, reddit, my intuition, super symbolic dream, and the vibe i got

[mikal bridges' jorts @waystarroyhoe]

the intense fucking deep clean this country is gonna need after that man is gone

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

Surrounded by people who drive too slowly (sanctimonious suck-ups who should have their licenses taken away) & people who drive too fast (reckless lunatics risking everyone’s lives who should have their licenses taken away) And then there’s me. Perfect as always

[⟢ ⟣ @vamptact]

being in yr 20s is abt experiencing the worst thing you can imagine & then having to go to work