Of all the problems that deserve a state and federal push, and a major private push, and an unstinting push inside our homes, this is as important as any.
MALA.
Make America Literate Again.
This is the coolest thing ever. We’re at NASA getting a tour from astronaut Anne McClain. This is us entering the Orion capsule that flew around the Moon in April.
ON THIS DAY: 140 years ago, the first serving of Coca-Cola, which contained cocaine, was sold at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.
The drink became fully cocaine-free in 1929. https://t.co/iijLrmzjZA
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.
WSJ had a quote from Artemis II’s commander, a widower who admits to “worry about his daughters. ‘I could have a very comfortable life for them. But I’m also a human, and I see the spirit in their eyes that is burning in my soul too. And so we’ve just got to never stop going.’”
@blazerbanter As a 5th grader in Vancouver (real ones know which one), our class was entrusted to take care of two hamsters during the 2000-01 school year. We voted to name them Damon & Bonzi
Cool SOTU tidbit: The U.S. Capitol Historical Society just announced Speaker Johnson will display George Washington’s Gavel during tonight’s State of the Union Address, as a nod to America’s 250th birthday. This will be the first time a speaker has displayed this gavel, they say.