Allie Starnes

Your acid bath princess of the darkness. Clinically weird. she/her

[Allie Starnes @AllieStarnes]

They don’t think it be like it does but it do.

[Hot Takes in Your Area @seaweedanxiety]

exciting times for adults tired of being shamed for eating like 12 year olds

[Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astro_jaz]

my entire personality at this exact moment

[Ania_In_UA @Ania_In_UA]

How great would it be if we kept doing cool stuff like this instead of constantly trying to kill each other.

[IGW @interstellargw]

Go Poll from the Artemis II crew:

"This is Victor. We are going for our families.
This is Christina. We are going for our teammates.
This is Jeremy. We are going for all humanity.
Your Artemis 2 crew is GO for launch. FULL. SEND."

Artemis II.

[mar part three 🦢 @arrivalsdune]

first in my bloodline to watch a moon mission launch on youtube

[Allie Starnes @AllieStarnes]

We’re having a moment 🥹 #phm #projecthailmary

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

In all seriousness this may have been my favorite shot from Artemis II so far

[Axel🦇 @AxelTalksFilm]

project hail mary marketing is going crazy

[Allie Starnes @AllieStarnes]

Very proud of our very own North Carolina astronaut!!! For all women and all of humanity. 👏🏻 🚀

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

In 1962, astronaut John Glenn told Congress that women's exclusion from space was simply "a fact of our social order." Now 64 years later - NASA astronaut Christina Koch is strapped into the Orion spacecraft at Kennedy Space Center, preparing to become the first woman ever to travel beyond low Earth orbit and fly around the Moon. No one in history will have gone farther from our planet.

Koch is no stranger to making history. In 2019, she launched to the International Space Station for what was supposed to be a six-month mission. NASA extended her stay -- in part to collect more data on how women's bodies respond to long-duration spaceflight -- and she didn't come home for 328 days, shattering the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman.

"It is a wonderful thing for science," Koch said from the ISS. "We see another aspect of how the human body is affected by microgravity for the long term. That is really important for our future spaceflight plans, going forward to the moon and Mars."

In October of that year, she and fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir conducted the first all-female spacewalk -- an event that made headlines around the world, with millions of girls and women cheering them on. Koch went on to perform five more spacewalks, spending a total of 42 hours and 15 minutes outside the station. Her biggest hope for the duration record, she said at the time, was "that it is exceeded as soon as possible again, because that means we are continuing to push those boundaries."

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and raised in Jacksonville, North Carolina, Koch grew up with pictures of space on her bedroom walls "right next to the boy band posters." She earned bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and physics and a master's in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, then spent years conducting research at some of the most remote stations on Earth -- in the Arctic and Antarctic -- before being selected for NASA's 2013 astronaut class, the first with an equal number of male and female candidates.

Today's Artemis II mission -- a 10-day journey that will take Koch and crewmates Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen swinging around the far side of the Moon -- will send them farther from Earth than any human has ever traveled, surpassing the Apollo 13 distance record set in 1970.

For Koch, the mission is personal -- but it's not just about her. "We're at a time where we've recognized the importance of if we are not going for all and by all, we aren't truly answering all of humanity's call to explore," she said. "That to me is what's worth celebrating."

© A Mighty Girl

#archaeohistories

[cirrus @grace4foxes]

Happy project hail Mary day for those who celebrate

[Allie Starnes @AllieStarnes]

@RegalMovies When will these actually be available? Went to 3 theaters today and no one has even seen them.

[NotKobe @bryanttnotkobe]

ACOTAR 6 OCTOBER 27th and ACOTAR 7 JANUARY 12th

[Circe @vocalcry]

As the bombs dropped on Iran, I began to wonder... was it finally time I ran from Big?

[Pete 🏳️‍🌈 @PeteAscolese]

Me at 3am on the way to the fridge to gobble some shredded cheese.

[michael @mikpick2]

Gaga & Bad Bunny tn

[bakair @bakairr]

JOANNE // JUANITA

[Got CTE from playing Peek-a-Boo @doulbedoink]

Noise my gf made when Gaga showed up would have paralyzed a small dog

[soup🌱 @thrluv]

arachnophobia?? dawg who cares if 2 spiders get married it doesn't affect u

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

My children watched the halftime show and now they’re gay AND Puerto Rican. Thank you Bad Bunny.

[K A C E Y @KaceyMusgraves]

Well. That made me feel more proudly American than anything Kid Rock has ever done.

[Matt Margolis @ItsMattsLaw]

Aliens (completely bewildered): so the groundhog

Me: is clairvoyant, yes