Allison 🍉

she/her

[Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley]

Ban all Israeli sports teams from EVERYTHING now!

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

He did this without cutting any social services, btw.

[nordacious @nordacious]

An anti Zionist Jewish man just got arrested in Brisbane at the pro Palestinian rally

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

Australian cops are nothing but racist child abusers - in & out of uniforms

[💗 @ma1ybe]

they'll put a woman in prison for a miscarriage but you can state your intent to let your kids die from a preventable disease and its fine

[Allison 🍉 @infiniteallien]

Do you reckon @astro_reid pulls the classic Dad move of pointing to the moon and saying to his girls "I've been there!"?
#artemis #artemisii #nasa #rise

[Olivia Stalvey (Even in Ruin) @OliviaStalvey]

As a millennial…
FINALLY a historical moment I am actually thankful to have lived through.

[Allison 🍉 @infiniteallien]

@NASA @NASAArtemis @NASASolarSystem @NASAScience_

[NASA Solar System @NASASolarSystem]

"...copy, Moon joy."

[Brunette Bohemian @Jane_Doe82]

We see pictures of the beautiful gift we’ve been given from outerspace, and we’re down here nuking it with bombs. How undeserving we are

[Allison 🍉 @infiniteallien]

@NASA we're all waiting very impatiently for pictures. Pleaseeeeeeee @NASAArtemis
#nasa #artemis #artemisII

[Ellie Sleightholm @elsleightholm]

"copy thumbs up" - INCREDIBLE

[Allison 🍉 @infiniteallien]

Well thats one way to ruin the entire vibe of the mission. Carrot man needs to shut up, talking like he hasn't just defunded @NASA get out of here you crusty cheeto.
#ArtemisII #Artemis

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.

Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.

Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.

His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.

Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”

The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.

Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

[ᴘᴏᴛᴀᴛᴜᴍ @pot8um]

“why do we as individuals need to worry about protecting the planet” ????

bitch ??????? do ??????? you ??????? live ??????? here ???????? or ?????????? not ????????????????????????

[reb @rebmasel]

“Her name was Carroll. The spouse of Reid and the mother of Kate and Ellie … It’s a bright spot on the moon.”

Being human is all we really have

[Julie @hoolie_r]

Coworker: “Hey can you—“
Me today:

[reb @rebmasel]

Carroll, now a bright spot on our Moon, because four people, who traveled farther from Earth than any human in the 4.5-billion-year history of Earth has ever been, loved someone so much, they carried her the whole way there.

[ً @prinkasusa]

Y’all scream “protect the innocent” when it’s a clump of cells in a womb… But when living, breathing kids are killed by bullets or bombs, it’s suddenly “collateral damage” and “the cost of freedom.”

The selective outrage is wild. Pick a lane.

[𐙚⋆°🦢｡⋆♡ @neversukhi]

How are women the “emotional” gender when men are the ones who throw acid on women after facing rejection. Men are the ones starting wars with other countries. Men are the rash drivers. Men k!ll more people. Men k!ll themselves more than women. It makes absolutely no sense to me.