Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social

Planetary scientist, freelance science writer and space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. Turns out it’s hard to be all those things at once. Shop at elakdawalla.Etsy.com

Hi! I'm Emily. I'm a planetary geologist, a science writer, space artist, queer, ADHD, mom. I write & post about solar system & exoplanet science for Sky & Telescope and elsewhere, & post about space-themed art & jewelry I sell at elakdawalla.etsy.com. I live in Los Angeles. Also, cats.
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Do yourself a favor and watch, this is gorgeous hula
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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social
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Great, now I'm horny for -
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Weird to me that this is the thing everyone cites, because there's so much that's so much worse. In 1974 the first laws against marital rape were passed, but all 50 states did not classify it as a crime/remove the exemption until 1993.
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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social
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OK - it's Friday night. I have beer. And, better yet, I have about half a bottle of Yuzumon left.

And it's Merrie Monarch time - Hulu Kahiko night. (Hulu Kahiko is pre-1894 hula; modern hula is its own category in the competition.

If you want to watch, livestream below.
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Limited Edition Ellie @tldrellie.bsky.evl.im
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As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.
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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social
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"How do you sustain interest built up by something like the Artemis II stuff?"

If you figure this out, do let us deep sea folks know, bc honestly we have THE MOST live & interactive science available rn and STILL very little of the public cares at all. If cool ocean shit can't win ppl, idk what can
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Steve Collins @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social
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Our mission, Psyche, has a Mars flyby coming up in about a month. It's been pretty darned cool this week listening to the Artemis II ops comms while working on the encounter sequence. Things got even cooler when I saw some Moon flyby pics had Mars in them and realized our own bird was in frame too.
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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social
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Weather satellites were able to see the Artemis II launch and re-entry.

Space is cool, satellites are cool. It's all cool!!!
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Alix Markman @markwoman.bsky.social
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Toto making sure his friends Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy make it home safely
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social
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My cat testing for the 349575th time whether or not biting me will make me feed him more
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This is true of painters too. Basically any skilled worker (carpenter, tile guy, etc) owns their own tools, and getting one’s truck stolen with all one’s tools in it is a common way these workers are ground into debt
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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social
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And now...after the Artemis II success...this mess.
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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social
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Daily bunny no.3285 made it home safely
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Arthur Urbano @arturoviaggia.bsky.social
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watched the splash down with ma figghia and nonna tonight.

Nonna: the boats keep going by, they don't see them.
Me: They know what they're doing. They're just circling.
Ma figghia: Where are they?
Me: They'll be out soon.
Nonna: Oh, they missed them again.
Me: Eh...
Ma figghia: That was nice, huh?
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social
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Big historical footnote: The Navy amphibious vessel recovering the Artemis crew this evening is named for John Murtha, the first Vietnam vet in Congress, who ultimately opposed the Iraq war and sought accountability for U.S. war crimes fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/navy-supports-nasa-artemis-mission/
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Bird 🏳️‍⚧️ @robinyourgrave.bsky.social
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I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
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Tammy Garrison @hauntedhideaway.bsky.social
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Look, sorting your gummy bears by color is the way Adonai intended them to be eaten. It’s in the Talmud.
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This is me. Nobody *really* needs to hear “I hope this message finds you well,” do they? Isn’t it more efficient to go straight to “can you please send me the PDF of your paper”?
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
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A good friend of mine works at NASA, and has spent the last TEN years of his life working on the Orion CPAS (Capsule Parachute Assembly System), testing it in the deserts of Arizona.

Ten years of design & testing. For this moment.

Science is so good, y'all.
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@planetdr.bsky.social is this a spacebewb
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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🏳️‍⚧️🐟 @cageyratfish.bsky.social
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here are the 4 guys who went into the capsule to check out the astronauts, in case anyone needs any more competence porn

They're using the John P. Murtha for recovery, because the ship has a floodable well deck (aka *moon pool*) they can use to retrieve the capsule
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Carly J Dubois 🦋 @carlyjdubois.com
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Splashdown Cats will be my next band name.
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Erich with an H @erichwithanh.bsky.social
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We take you live to Meow-ssion Control
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I just love the whole “cats attacking astronauts” genre
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com
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Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school.

Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon!

🌕 💛
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No Airstream trailer though
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God I love the mute button
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This is a pretty similar vantage point to what the Artemis astronauts had coming in
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Space engineering is really conservative, in part because we spent a lot of resources testing Apollo tech to Hell and back. We can prolly make better tech but NASA has not been alotted sufficient resources to test much stuff as well as Apollo stuff was tested. NASA sticks with what’s proven.
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