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🤷🏻‍♀️ ufc and whatever else i think about

[rachel @rachievogie]

If you can’t handle me at my croc-strap-down, you don’t deserve me at my croc-strap-up!!!!!

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

People comparing the Artemis II re‑entry to Columbia are telling on themselves. Columbia wasn’t lost because “re‑entry is scary.” It was lost because a hole was punched through the wing on ascent and the crew had no way to inspect or repair it.

Since then? Every crewed spacecraft on Earth has safely re‑entered. Soyuz, Shenzhou, Crew Dragon, even the final Shuttle flight. Dozens and dozens of flawless returns. Well over eighty in total.

Artemis II is flying a capsule designed from day one to survive lunar re‑entry with modern heat shield materials, full inspection capability, and abort modes Columbia never had.

This isn’t 2003. Stop fear‑baiting people who don’t know the history.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

The Artemis I shield did not fail. It protected Orion the entire way down. The Avcoat char layer came off in a different pattern than predicted, but the capsule stayed well inside safe limits.

NASA has spent two years analyzing that data. The update for Artemis II is not a redesign. It is in how the material is processed and bonded so the gas pockets that caused the flaking do not form the same way. NASA has said repeatedly that the shield did its job and the new one incorporates everything they learned.

And here is the part fear posts never mention. NASA has already planned the re-entry angle and corridor to manage heating spikes and reduce peak load on the heat shield. Orion does not just fall back in. It flies a controlled skip re-entry that spreads the heat over time and keeps the vehicle inside comfortable margins.

Artemis II is not gambling with four astronauts. It is flying a capsule built for lunar speeds, a heat shield that already survived the worst case test, and a re-entry profile designed to keep it well within limits.

Be excited. Do not fall for fear bait.

[Jenny Hautmann @JennyHPhoto]

The Artemis II crew named a lunar crater after Commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. What a beautiful and touching moment.

I'm not crying, you're crying 🤧

[rachel @rachievogie]

throwing up in a Japanese toilet and the bidet turns on

[rachel @rachievogie]

Punch is in the Epstein files btw

[rachel @rachievogie]

what’s an arctic monkey

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

your secret is safe with me unless it’s funny

[rachel @rachievogie]

thinking abt 2 people in a trench coat

[rachel @rachievogie]

*me the day after seeing my Spotify wrapped every year* time to lock in for next year

[k @lmkwhenurhome]

do not "they" my dog bro just take a stab.

[rachel @rachievogie]

I feel so cunty picking up my mobile order at an airport Starbucks

[Bob Golen @BobGolen]

Just rolled a joint. It was my ankle.

[rachel @rachievogie]

Worst thing about college was seeing people put fat emoji stickers on anything alcohol related to draw more attention to the fact they they were drinking

[rachel @rachievogie]

Wedding day find my friends goes crazy

[rachel @rachievogie]

Chick fil a is only good in red states

[rachel @rachievogie]

getting married during the annual health insurance enrollment period 😍😍😍😍 >>>>>>>>

[rachel @rachievogie]

????

[rachel @rachievogie]

Why wasn’t he named jeaux burreaux when he was at LSU

[rachel @rachievogie]

nvm actually

[rachel @rachievogie]

rachel is a name that looks better in all caps

[rachel @rachievogie]

RACHEL