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by @headintheclouds.bsky.social
Space skeets. Picks up on mentions of spacecraft, space station, spaceflight, NASA, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ArianeSpace, Firefly, Stoke Space, Rocket Lab, Relativity Space, ULA, Atlas V, Falcon 9, Long March, Tianlong, Zhuque, Vulcan Centuar, Orbex and more.
11 October 2000: #NASA launched the 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) using #Space Shuttle Discovery. #History #Exploration
This week, Zhu Yangzhu, Li Jiaying, and Zhang Zhiyuan refreshed their training on spacecraft systems aboard Tiangong, while also supporting the orbiting lab's various experiments and continued operation Details -> www.china-in-space.com/p/shenzhou-2...
NASA Astronomy Hourly Picture - 2026-10-11: Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos #Astronomy #NASA #Space
Guardate queste immagini, sono davvero spettacolari! Risultano velocizzate rispetto ai due video pubblicati di recente dalla NASA. Vi lascio il link alla fonte ufficiale nei commenti, così potrete ammirare anche i filmati originali. Il video risalente al 10 aprile 2026 mostra l'intera...
SpaceX targets Nov for Starship Flight 15 catch. Goal: first upper stage catch for reusability Sponsor this valuable channel. https://www.ProNetGrowth.com/space/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=news-space&utm_content=space #SpaceX #Starship
🔭 Ice Fishing for Cosmic Neutrinos Fuente: NASA APOD http://www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/ #APOD #NASA
NASA reported August lunar eclipse on 27‑28 Aug 2026, visible across Americas, Europe, Africa, with a reddish coppery hue at maximum. If you're ready to spend a little more time with the night sky, have a look (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5DTJJVR?tag=wtsr0f-20 #LunarEclipse
Chinese Tiangong Space Station Tracking The Tiangong Space Station is currently over 4HCQJ9VC+52 Latitude -41.35711193 Longitude 55.37004932 Orbiting at 15,611.33 miles/hour Altitude of 398.62 km At 11 : 50 UTC, in 1 hour time, the Tiangong spacestation will be passing over 77R659RQ+6Q, 26.1...
A Stanley Kubrick joint TODAY IN HISTORY: Happy Birthday, NASA! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration became operational on October 1, 1958.
On 27‑28 Aug 2026, NASA reported a lunar eclipse visible across the Americas, Europe, and Africa, featuring a dramatic coppery hue. Want to explore the sky beyond this post? (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H5DTJJVR?tag=wtsr0f-20 #LunarEclipse
11 October 1984: #NASA Astronaut Kathy Sullivan became the first American woman to walk in #space. #History #Exploration
Close to the railway station in Gent 🇧🇪 there is this spacecraft
The Skylab space station Launched to space on Mon May 14 1973 De-Orbited on Wed Jul 11 1979 Orbit: Low Earth Orbit Owned by National Aeronautics and Space Administration Skylab was a United States space station launched and operated by NASA, and occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 a...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope on Flickr (Oct 16, 2018) Caldwell 3, also known as NGC 4236, is a barred spiral galaxy located in Ursa Major, 11.7 million light-years from Earth, and is visible with a small telescope. flic.kr/p/2hXzDzV
International Space Station Tracking The ISS is currently over 766W8QHH+35 Latitude 14.327728876016 Longitude -81.222025890733 Orbiting at 17,131.00 miles/hour Altitude of 486.82km At 11 : 30 UTC, in 1 hour time, the ISS will be passing over 4Q4J3P42+FP, -47.943846740888,132.70184553961 At 1...
SundayFunday : a SPACEX side hustle.
https://soho.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/gif/ #TheSun #space #astronomy #ESA #NASA
Pesca de hielo para neutrinos cósmicos. 📷 NSF , B. Gudbjartsson, IceCube Collaboration Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff 🔗 https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod-2026-october-11-ice-fishing-for-cosmic-neutrinos/
🚀 FAA Space Launch Plans - 11/1000 🚀 PLANNED LAUNCH/REENTRY: SPACEX STARLINK 15-25, VANDENBERG SFB, CA PRIMARY: 10/12/26 2300Z-0343Z BACKUP: 10/13/26 2300Z-0343Z SPACEX CRS-35, CAPE CANAVERAL SFS, FL PRIMARY: 10/13/26 102... More info in image. FAA Details.
Oct 15, 2012: Space Shuttle Endeavour is maneuvered through the streets of Inglewood, headed to its new home at the California Science Center. www.nasa.gov/image-article/endeavour-makes-final-journey/
ESA’s hardware and ground‑station support join the Roman Telescope’s Falcon Heavy launch for a deep infrared survey. If this sparked another question, keep going here (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T9TPXD6?tag=wtsr0f-20 #RomanTelescope
A decagonal marvel captured by Hubble appears in NASA’s Sep 8 2026 APOD, framing Saturn’s south pole. For the astronomy-curious, this is worth exploring (Ad AmazonAffiliate)→ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G517QPB?tag=wtsr0f-20 #Hubble
Gap in stellar dust disk may be swept out by planet Image date: 8 January 1999, 06:00 Credit: Alycia Weinberger, Eric Becklin (UCLA), Glenn Schneider (University of Arizona) and NASA/ESA Source: ESA/Hubble