IM-1 Mission Vehicle Health Update 🧵

1/6 The IM-1 mission Nova-C class lunar lander continues to be in excellent health, and we are preparing for our engine commissioning maneuver.
Following nominal launch vehicle separation, the spacecraft autonomously brought up all sensors…

6 years ago I spent my first full day back on Earth.
What's the first thing I did when I got home? Surprised my 🐕 of course!

✅Mission teams for NASA's SpaceX #Crew5 mission are GO for launch following a review of weather at the
launch site and downrange for the flight of Dragon.

📺Coverage begins at 8:30am EDT on NASA TV for launch at noon!

LSU physicist Jeffrey Chancellor's #startup , @AtlantisIndust, is the owner of three patents intended to make #spacetravel safer and simpler. #techtransfer
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An LSU physics professor has launched a startup that uses AI to help design and build satellites and other items for space exploration. Here are the details. businessreport.com/business/lsu-p…

Roll has begun #Artemis I

Our next artwork to be highlight for #ArtForArtemis comes from Sara, 3rd-year student Scuola di Comics in Turin, 🇮🇹, who found inspiration through S. Auñón-Chancellor and Paranoidme ⚡️. More on our #blog : blogs.esa.int/orion/2022/04/… #ForwardToTheMoon

From performing the longest single spacewalk to sequencing DNA in space for the first time, women have pushed the boundaries of space exploration aboard the International Space Station. #WHM
Meet some of the recent women who’ve conducted science in microgravity: go.nasa.gov/2TsZI4B

Outstanding! 💜💛

By merging physics, biology, high-performance computing, and art, LSU students Megan Chesal and Nousha Afshari LSU College of Science LSU Pinkie Gordon Lane Graduate School LSU Phys & Astro create human phantoms—virtual avatars—to predict outcomes of radiation exposure.

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#LSUWorks Mary Bird Perkins

We join our @UTMB_PrevMed team in welcoming Dr. Ronak Shah as Division Director, UTMB Aerospace Medicine! Dr. Shah earned his MPH at UTMB and has served as Medical Director of Clinical Services at NASA Johnson Space Center. He was just awarded the Exceptional Achievement Medal from NASA!

This important initiative is one of many that will improve the health of everyone in our community. Tiffany Wesley Ardoin, MD, FACP is doing great work with Our Lady of the Lake, LSU Baton Rouge Internal Medicine Residency, Dollar General, HealthyBR and Sharon Weston Broome!
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A permanent Moon presence is essential for future space exploration. It offers the opportunity to perfect engineering, life support and survival systems while still within Earth's range. Next year the adventure begins when we send the 1st private lunar lander to the Moon!

Congratulations Anil S. Menon, MD, MS, MPH! Dr. Menon was selected as 1 of 10 for NASA's 2021 Astronaut Candidate Class! Dr. Menon completed the UTMB Aerospace Medicine Residency in 2012 and UTMB MPH in 2011. @UTMB_PrevMed UTMB Provost's Office nasa.gov/press-release/…

🚀 It's launch day! Join us starting at 4:45pm ET for live coverage of the #Crew3 mission!

This marks the third time Crew Dragon has transported a crew rotation of astronauts to the International Space Station as part of NASA Commercial Crew. Liftoff is set for 9:03pm ET: nasa.gov/live

Together or apart, you always have my heart.
Happy Birthday to my amazing, smart & smokin' hot wife Elizabeth Fischer

Jeff Chancellor and an interdisciplinary team of researchers at SpaRTAN Physics Laboratory of LSU Phys & Astro are sending a radiation detection device to the Moon! The data collected will help make space travel safer for humans and space hardware. See here: tinyurl.com/k3jn68r3