Claudiu Tănăselia

Physicist, ICP-MS specialist & space enthusiast; meteorite collector, coffee snob, Trekkie, fountain pen connoisseur, computer dilettante—in random order.

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@dpoddolphinpro It’s been a while since I’ve last seen an infographic featuring Ares V!

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@mcrs987 @SR_Planespotter N1-5L was an even larger explosion.

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@planet4589 Is that a chair under the Martian flag or a wooden parabolic antenna?

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@bes_dev @NASA Please let me know if you need any data from Dennis Jenkins' Space Shuttle: Developing an Icon book, I can help with that (or if you need to double-check some Wikipedia data).

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@konstructivizm Sharing a photo made with AI won't help your case against conspirationsits...

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@dpoddolphinpro The New New Space era has begun.

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@s8mb I would argue that the LHC still holds the distinction of being the world’s most complex object ever made.

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@blueorigin Does the booster being so exceptionally clean after a reentry have anything to do with the fuel being methane (fewer carbon atoms, thus less soot)?

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@planet4589 @momentusspace @VardaSpace @SpireGlobal Owner of Romanian EMISAR satellite claims their satellite is 2026-067M (68427): https://t.co/MEYE7K3xQB

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@peterrhague Maybe it's from the sunrise?

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@NASAAdmin @ShuttleAlmanac @NASAMoonBase I love the new vibe the Artemis program has! Let’s go!

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19473 days since the last crewed mission to the Moon. Let’s hope this will have been the longest gap between two crewed lunar mission launches in the history of our species.

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@ShuttleAlmanac @katlinegrey It’s a fair point, but using this definition would mean that neither Skylab nor Salyut were space stations either :)

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@katlinegrey @ShuttleAlmanac Vast will launch Haven-1 (allegedly) next year. Or do you mean "the first module out of many"?

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@katlinegrey It's an item in "The NASA Authorization Act of 2026" (pre-Ignition) and I remember reading that NASA will begin discussions with the international partners about the extension: https://t.co/yvKluP0eke

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@planet4589 Exactly on Leonov's first EVA anniversary! :D

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@planet4589 But wasn't NG-23 launched on September 14 and berthed to the ISS 4 days later? It was briefly unberthed to make room for Soyuz MS-28, but it has been at the ISS since September 18, right?

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@katlinegrey Did he just pull a "Deke Slayton maneuver" and assign himself to a space mission (since he's acting director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center)?

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@planet4589 And that's the 11th consecutive Falcon 9 launch, a continuous streak uninterrupted by any other orbital launcher since 2026-031.

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From 2026-031 to 2026-040, all launches were Falcon 9 missions, an incredible 10-launch streak of the same rocket, never before seen in the history of orbital launches.