@SciKyle

Dad, space & remote sensing nerd, sci-fi geek, crew for @HERA_XI analog mission, PhD student, and recently an aquanaut. He/him. Mostly Harmless.

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Joined March 2015
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Three years ago today, I started a thirty day analog mission with three new friends supporting physiological and psychological research for human spaceflight: @HERA_XI. Each day had a wake up song, most had a movie, and every day had a unique observation. Let's review!
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Awesome day of outreach with astronauts & aquanauts, conservation work in the lagoon, science, outreach and of course fun with the team on the #NEP2NE mission! Fun fact: we have challenge coins & patches with our names on it, and there are Easter eggs in both! 🌊🌊🌊
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Announcing NEP2NE, a follow-up to our 2019 NEPTUNE aquanaut mission at @JulesLodge May 14-9. Myself @DougACampbell @SciKyle & Paul Bakken will joing Commander @drdeepsea as he crosses into world record-breaking territory. Can't wait! Media inquiries? Email [email protected] 🌊👩🏽‍🚀
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JETT3 was the final test in the @NASAArtemis JETT test plan series for 2022, which is a fully integrated mission scale test to ensure successful operations for Artemis III. JETT was led out of @NASA_Johnson where flight control teams supported the astronauts.

JETT - Joint EVA & Human Surface Mobility Test Team

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Earth is growing larger in views from NASA's Orion spacecraft as it races toward re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean to wrap up the 25-day Artemis 1 test flight to the moon. Splashdown west of Baja California is set for 12:39pm EST (1739 GMT). spaceflightnow.com/2022/12/1…
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We've completed our return powered flyby burn and are heading home!
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A composite image from this morning's eclipse showing the moon in various stages throughout the night. The size and shape of Earth's shadow is clearly visible here. These events are absolutely magical to witness and quite surreal.
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Antares is ready! 🚀 We’re just 10 mins away from the launch of the Antares vehicle carrying the Cygnus spacecraft full of supplies to the @Space_Station. Launch time is now 5:32 am ET. For those in the mid-Atlantic region, you may catch a glimpse of the rocket across the sky.
Map of the Mid-Atlantic region. The land is green and the ocean is dark blue. Visibility area for viewers with a line-of-sight 150-180 seconds after launch is an orange semi-circle reaching from Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and to South Carolina. Visibility from 120-150 seconds is indicated by an aqua semi-circle from Connecticut to North Carolina. Visibility from 90-120 seconds is indicated by a bright pink semi-circle from New Jersey to the northern part of North Carolina. Visibility from 60-90 seconds is indicated by a bright yellow semi-circle from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Cities pinned inside this semi-circle are Richmond, Washington, Dover, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. There is a smaller, bright green semi-circle on the coast between Richmond and Dover that indicates line-of-sight viewing from 30-60 seconds after launch. Innermost part of the semi-circle is blue and labeled the “launch site.”

ALT Map of the Mid-Atlantic region. The land is green and the ocean is dark blue. Visibility area for viewers with a line-of-sight 150-180 seconds after launch is an orange semi-circle reaching from Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and to South Carolina. Visibility from 120-150 seconds is indicated by an aqua semi-circle from Connecticut to North Carolina. Visibility from 90-120 seconds is indicated by a bright pink semi-circle from New Jersey to the northern part of North Carolina. Visibility from 60-90 seconds is indicated by a bright yellow semi-circle from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Cities pinned inside this semi-circle are Richmond, Washington, Dover, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. There is a smaller, bright green semi-circle on the coast between Richmond and Dover that indicates line-of-sight viewing from 30-60 seconds after launch. Innermost part of the semi-circle is blue and labeled the “launch site.”

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For those in the mid-Atlantic region, weather permitting, you may see the rocket the sky. Learn more on how you can watch: go.nasa.gov/3NGdKNM
Map of the Mid-Atlantic region. The land is green and the ocean is dark blue. Visibility area for viewers with a line-of-sight 150-180 seconds after launch is an orange semi-circle reaching from Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and to South Carolina. Visibility from 120-150 seconds is indicated by an aqua semi-circle from Connecticut to North Carolina. Visibility from 90-120 seconds is indicated by a bright pink semi-circle from New Jersey to the northern part of North Carolina. Visibility from 60-90 seconds is indicated by a bright yellow semi-circle from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Cities pinned inside this semi-circle are Richmond, Washington, Dover, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. There is a smaller, bright green semi-circle on the coast between Richmond and Dover that indicates line-of-sight viewing from 30-60 seconds after launch. Innermost part of the semi-circle is blue and labeled the “launch site.”

ALT Map of the Mid-Atlantic region. The land is green and the ocean is dark blue. Visibility area for viewers with a line-of-sight 150-180 seconds after launch is an orange semi-circle reaching from Massachusetts through Pennsylvania and to South Carolina. Visibility from 120-150 seconds is indicated by an aqua semi-circle from Connecticut to North Carolina. Visibility from 90-120 seconds is indicated by a bright pink semi-circle from New Jersey to the northern part of North Carolina. Visibility from 60-90 seconds is indicated by a bright yellow semi-circle from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Cities pinned inside this semi-circle are Richmond, Washington, Dover, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. There is a smaller, bright green semi-circle on the coast between Richmond and Dover that indicates line-of-sight viewing from 30-60 seconds after launch. Innermost part of the semi-circle is blue and labeled the “launch site.”

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If you leave Twitter, I recommmend you DO NOT delete your account. All old tweets @ mentioning you will still exist and if someone grabs that now available username then all tweets @ referencing that username now point to them.
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Be kind. Stay steady. Help someone. Check in on an old friend. Listen to your favorite music. Have a good weekend.
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I think it's fair to say that NASA's #DART mission was a...smashing...success. When the spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos, it only needed to change the asteroid's orbit by 73 seconds. Instead, it slowed the little space rock by a whopping 32 minutes. nationalgeographic.com/scien…

Why NASA's high-stakes maneuver to redirect an asteroid surprised its own scientists

The DART spacecraft's collision changed a harmless asteroid's orbit more than expected, suggesting the technique could work if we need to deflect a real killer space rock.

nationalgeographic.com
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On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more. A THREAD
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So, @TheOnion filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court in defense of parody under the First Amendment… and it’s exactly what you’d expect. supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/2…
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NASA and SpaceX have signed a space act agreement for a commercial mission to boost the Hubble Space Telescope. This will extend the lifetime of the telescope, and preclude emerging concerns about the need for costly end-of-life disposal.
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ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos!
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Animation (sped up 500x) from one of @LCO_Global's 1 meter telescope at @SAAO South Africa showing effects of #DARTMission impact into Dimorphos (Still no threat to the Earth... Long straight streak is camera artifact)
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The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/
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@NASA26 Sep 2022
IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.

DART Successfully Impacts Asteroid Dimorphos

IMPACT SUCCESS! Watch from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.

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@NASA26 Sep 2022
Live from @JHUAPL: Follow the real-time journey of the #DARTMission spacecraft towards its planned impact with a non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos in the world’s first planetary defense test. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1ZkJzXPbA…
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