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[True ⚜️ @jmtrue_]

25 credit hours in my last semester ✅
First black Construction Engineer in school history ✅
Commissioned as a Naval Officer ✅

Thank you God for getting me through it! #Classof2021

[Louisville Athletics @GoCards]

Doesn't get more Louisville than this ⚜️

Happy Derby & 502 Day, Card Nation!

#GoCards

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

Herbert gonna finally get to throw that thing 70 yards off a crow hop

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[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.

[NCAA March Madness @MarchMadnessMBB]

PUT IT ON LOOP

[True ⚜️ @jmtrue_]

This is crazy

[NBC Olympics & Paralympics @NBCOlympics]

Just one week after tearing her ACL, Lindsey Vonn has completed her Olympic training run in Cortina.

The women's downhill competition takes place this Sunday.

[⚡️ @HarbaughsBolts]

Justin Herbert drops back to pass

1 second later:

[Football Is Life @FootbaIl_Tweets]

this is a work of art

[NFL @NFL]

The @Chargers have their playoff ticket punched!

#ForTheCelly | @budlight

[FOX Sports: NFL @NFLonFOX]

Clean sweep for the @chargers ⚡️

[ًBoltUpYo @BoltUpYo]

KC CHIEFS IS ELIMINATED FROM THE PLAYOFFS‼️

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

are the pro bowl games RIGGED??

help cameron dicker expose the truth. RETWEET now #probowlvote

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

bye eagles bye

[State of Louisville @thestateoflou]

you just lost to crash test dummy Louisville.

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

SWEEEEPPP 🧹🧹

[True ⚜️ @jmtrue_]

@Zephian5 That’s our ball!

[True ⚜️ @jmtrue_]

@WildcatsTongue

[Louisville Football @LouisvilleFB]

CARDS > CATS

#GoCards x @forthepeople

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

LOUISVILLE BEATS KENTUCKY FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2020 🔥

Louisville basketball is BACK.