Breaking news: A U.S. spacecraft has successfully landed on the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 flight 51 years ago. The spacecraft, dubbed Odysseus, is on the lunar surface, and is communicating with the ground. wapo.st/48rgN59
Watch live as Intuitive Machine’s Odysseus lunar lander attempts to land on the moon, which would make it the first commercial spacecraft to do so.
Be sure to see Sarah Moran’s exoplanet lecture tonight. Each of our 4 public talks is proceeded by a poet reading a poem they wrote for the occasion. I’m looking forward to the exoplanet poem! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-EV...
One way we know that Republicans will come for your birth control is that... Republicans are already coming for your birth control. www.fox23.com/news/new-abo...www.erlywrm.com
See if your venue has recommendations. The photographer will be familiar with the best angles and places to shoot. At least that’s how we found ours. Check out their instagrams. The knot and weddingwire were also helpful.
I’ll remember this when I vote in November. Congress needs to do its job and pass a budget
Citing funding uncertainties and the failure of Congress to pass a 2024 budget, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated under contract by Caltech, on Tuesday announced that it is laying off 8 percent of its workforce, about 530 people, plus another 40 contractors.
At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a long-anticipated Mars mission has been forced to go into low gear.
The Other Worlds Laboratory (#owlsummer) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (@UCSC) in now accepting applications for the sixth annual #Exoplanetowl.ucsc.edu/summer/
For those interested in Ocean World Science, the Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) is organizing its first meeting to develop the Strategic Plan for the Exploration of Ocean Worlds. To signup for the meeting, use this google form: forms.gle/ZNdtRCQwrzTM... 🧪⚒️🔭
If you are interested, please enter your contact information here and we'll provide a zoom link for the upcoming OWWG Science Meeting on Feb 14th at 1pm EST, 10 am PST. This initial meeting will go ov...
This is pretty cool. Personally I love the placement of “icy ice” 🧊
Astro folks -- I need some data on grad admissions. How many Astro PhD applications are you getting & what's your ~acceptance rate? 🔭.
A Japanese robotic spacecraft successfully set down on the moon on Friday. With this achievement, Japan is now the fifth country to send a spacecraft that made a soft landing on the moon.
The SLIM robotic lander reached the lunar surface on Friday morning, although officials from the Japanese space agency said it is having difficulty generating power which could limit how long it opera...