Steve Collins @longhairnasaguy.bsky.social

a NASA/JPL guy, with long hair. Guidance and control engineer. steve.m.collins@gmai?.?om Opinions are my own

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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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/feed/aaahuawzr46cm
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Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social
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Alrighty so NASA (and me and a lot of other people) had a little goof. But I think it’s a great opportunity to remind people that sometimes mistakes can actually be pretty cool and lead to a lot of new perspectives and understanding! 🧪🔭
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Entry interface will be a little southeast of Hawai`i. Splashdown off the coast of Southern California.
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Kavaeric ➡️ AC26 @kavaeric.net
3d
impact flash moonjoy pog, live science director Kelsey Young's reaction
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New rule: No chainmail in the washing machine.
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social
4d
Inside the Science Mission Operations Room at the Johnson Space Center this morning. #ArtemisII 🧪🔭
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Nice Artemis II dashboard: artemis.cdnspace.ca
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bridget, ink @bridgetink.bsky.social
5d
astronauts are live rn lol

www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK8TEs
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Octopus hauling ass on the sea floor: #AGoodPlace

Source: www.reddit.com/r/Romania_mix/s/req4vpxTfa
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Tony Clark @informative.ink
8d
Astronaut Michael Collins, CAPCOM on Apollo 8 during the first Translunar Injection:
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Tony Dunn @tony873004.bsky.social
11d
Artemis II is scheduled to launch on Wednesday evening.
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Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social
12d
For this Orion thread, I’ll go over the reconfiguration of the cabin for in-space operations. There are 2 main goals here: maximize living space & make it easy to access everything the crew will need for day-to-day living while still allowing access to safety critical items.
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Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅

@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.

www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduate-fellowship-2027

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Wow.
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it's incredible how fast the last 5 years have flown by. Happy anniversary to #Perseverance landing on Mars! 🎂🥳

If you want to relive this incredible moment, look no further than this remastered video of the #EDL by @stim3on.bsky.social @theseaning.bsky.social

🔭🐡🧪🎨

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHhyznZ2u4E&t=3s
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Joshua Sokol @joshuasokol.bsky.social
1mo
Whoa: young scholar searching Florence libraries for how the ancient Ptolemy informed Galileo found a copy of Ptolemy's Almagest with marginalia in what looks a lot like Galileo's own hand. Like a frozen moment of torch passing, when a carefully tended fire from antiquity ignited something new.
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Nash Is Here For It @nashishereforit.bsky.social
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Wow.
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I greatly enjoyed this book
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social
2mo
What an honour to speak at an event for the Earth Rover Program last week alongside some incredible people, almost none of whom seem to be on BlueSky except for @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I spoke on soil health in ancient Mesopotamia, and here are some snippets of what I learned along the way
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social
2mo
News from the edge of the visible universe:

JWST has confirmed this galaxy, MoM-z14, as the most distant one yet studied. We're seeing it as it was 13.5 billion years ago, 98% of the way back to the beginning of time.

(MoM stands for "miracle or mirage.") 🧪🔭

science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-pushes-boundaries-of-observable-universe-closer-to-big-bang/
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com
2mo
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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Artemis Direction @cheatlines.co
2mo
Thief (1981)
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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social
2mo
The ring below is a historical mashup. It's a chunky Anglo-Saxon gold filigree finger ring set with an ancient Roman intaglio featuring the god Bonus Eventus, aka "good outcome." He personifies the successful results of labor, particularly agriculture. 🏺 1/

6th c. CE ring, 1st-5th c. intaglio. 📸 me
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Ha Ha! My father (Bob Collins) is credited as an editor on this ( and probably did camera work as well). I have memories from childhood of a shooting day at the beach and rubber fish with bite marks in them. Thank you. I will keep this tab open forever.
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social
3mo
This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!
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Epic.
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Mario Billiani @starbase.bsky.social
4mo
Launch of @rocketlabcorp.com #Electron rocket with four #DiskSat satellites on #STPS30 mission imminent. Watch live! #DontBeSuchASquare
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social
4mo
Here's a giant isopod from a Okeanos dive in 2019 swimming away with a meal since someone on my isopod post yesterday complained that it was boring and not doing anything. Is this up to your standards?
youtu.be/7P8S1OwLpME?si=W_TLIxNR9GeCMX71
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com
4mo
Now this is cool. Or rather hot. Well, you know what I mean. 😉

With fire-cracked #flint handaxes alongside two fragments of iron #pyrite, new research at Barnham, UK, seems to suggest deliberate #fire making … 400,000 years ago!

🔥🏺 R. Davis et al. in @nature.com 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09855-6 href="/search?t=posts&q=Sec20">#Sec20
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