Curtis Ailes

He/Him. Urbanist. Public Servant. Nerd. MTG Legacy. Rummy and Euchre enjoyer

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

Did the thing

[Tom Gerend @TomGerend]

I would imagine Argentina is the only base camp with a color-coordinated streetcar pavilion. Welcome to #KC @Argentina! @kcstreetcar @portkc @KansasCity @FWC26KansasCity

[Tom Gerend @TomGerend]

Never stop believing folks.

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

New train 🤝 new bridge.

Check out our NextGen Acela fleet traveling over the Portal North Bridge.

When new trains travel on new infrastructure, the result is an enhanced customer experience – thanks to a smooth ride, use of modern technology, and the incredibly hard work of our teams and partners.

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

@CCWeatherx @fireshoes @SaffronOlive Just one more yacht...

[Tom Gerend @TomGerend]

To be clear, #kcstreetcar expansion efforts are absolutely being leveraged for the World Cup, but they represent a long-range vision for transit , started years before the bid, and will continue years after. Can't wait to serve thousands! @kcstreetcar

https://t.co/7nRCTQIrS9

[Andrea Mengucci @Mengu09]

Italy 🇮🇹 officially surpassed Greece 🇬🇷 and it’s now the Country with the biggest Debt/GPD ratio of the European Union 🇪🇺. An important achievement that the Ultra-Conservative government was able to reach by focusing their politics on limiting other people rights. Way to go! 💪

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The U.S. Department of War has announced that it has entered into agreements with seven commercial artificial intelligence companies—SpaceX, OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Reflection, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services—to "deploy their advanced AI capabilities on the Department's classified networks for lawful operational use."

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

@klug_alters This is beautiful

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

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.

[Ryan Caton @dpoddolphinpro]

"In all of this emptiness, [...] you have this oasis"

Victor Glover, Pilot, Artemis II, reflects on Planet Earth the evening before Easter.

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

@SaffronOlive FWIW, I don't recognize any of those other dragons

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

You are in this photograph.

[NSF - NASASpaceflight.com @NASASpaceflight]

LAUNCH! ARTEMIS II LAUNCHES on the first attempt!

https://t.co/tLGI5HcxGZ

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

She’s…. beautiful🥹

[John Kraus @johnkrausphotos]

If you were born after 19:45:58 UTC on December 19, 1972, you have not been alive during a time when a crewed lunar spaceflight was underway.

This is approximately 75% of the global population.

That could change as soon as Wednesday evening with the planned launch of Artemis II.

Hundreds of thousands of people near Kennedy Space Center will see the launch with their own eyes and likely millions will watch live online.

If you can't make it out in person, I hope you'll tune in and watch as NASA makes its first attempt to send Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen into space and around the Moon this week.

It is not often you have the opportunity to witness a historic moment in real time. Please watch and soak it in, and after launch, look up at the Moon and smile knowing that our great return to the lunar environment is well underway.

Godspeed, Artemis II!

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

@RolandMTG Can't go wrong either way

[Angry Seattle @angryseattle]

IT FINALLY SNOWED OMG

[Don Pettit @astro_Pettit]

The Milky Way as seen from @Space_Station, with stars as points, rising sun, and cities as golden streaks below.

Taken with Nikon Z9, Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens, 15 seconds, f1.4, ISO 6400, with homemade orbital sidereal drive to compensate for orbital pitch rate (4 degrees/min)

[Curtis Ailes @curtailes]

@BcdLegacy I prefer “beat to shit”. Even when I buy for legacy decks I get VG or Ex condition when possible. Partially for cost considerations but also just love the rough around edges look.