New Frontier Aerospace and HyBird Space Systems are among 95 small businesses winning NASA funding for innovative aerospace research: geekwire.com/2024/new-front… H/T New Frontier Aerospace NASA_Technology #SBIR

.@Amazon gets set to extend drone deliveries to parts of the Phoenix metro area - while shutting down drone deliveries in California geekwire.com/2024/amazon-dr…

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Best pic ever? 👏🙏 Thanks Charlie!

I love being part of this gang 🍸❤️

Excited to team with SERA, the Space Exploration & Research Agency, to support such an inspiring initiative that makes space more accessible to so many countries! We’re looking forward to flying these future astronauts on #NewShepard and hearing their perspectives about the

How de-extinction could change our destiny: Douglas Preston talks about his new thriller, #Extinction , and why efforts to resurrect mammoths could 'end up with something really terrifying': cosmiclog.com/2024/04/22/how… With Fiction Science Club podcast, H/T Tor Books (Check Mark) Forge Books Dominica Phetteplace

My colleagues at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing are looking for an executive director to take the baton from rosreid - and take a leading role in supporting science journalists. Join our crew (including Albert!) casw.org/news/casw-seek… H/T CASW

Here's your chance to win the recognition of your peers in science journalism - plus a five-figure prize to support your dream reporting project....

Airing May 15 on PBS !!!

MSR: NASA is not ruling out launches in the '27-'28 timeframe as currently planned, but it appears extremely unlikely at this point. The goal of the program redesign is to ensure samples are returned in the 2030s, and not in 2040 or beyond as suggested by current funding

How did #Pluto get its heart? Scientists suggest that it happened with a cosmic 'splat': universetoday.com/166640/how-did… H/T Nature Astronomy UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Universität Bern

According to NASA source selection statement, proposals from Blue Origin and Astrobotic (and Leidos Dynetics) to build a lunar rover were ruled out...

In a fabulous new discovery—in the arches under a large staircase in the Region 9 excavations—a series of #gladiators are in perpetual combat.
Murmillo versus Thracian (armed with a curved sword) sketched in detail in charcoal alongside a stylised phallus painted in red
#Pompeii

Halo Space reveals the interior layout of its stratospheric tour capsule, created by Frank Stephenson Design cosmiclog.com/2024/04/12/hal…

And here it is, the sun being eclipsed by the moon in H-alpha. The 'wishbone' prominence is clearly visible

WE RATE HISTORICAL DOGS: Thys ys Scruffye. Scruffye was ther yn the palace of Sparta at the moment that Helen and Paris left for Troy. The expressioun on the face of Scruffye showeth that he ys aware that thys event will bring about the fall of Ilium. Still a good dogge. XII/X.

Here's a closeup of the bright prominence that many people reported seeing with their naked eye during the eclipse. This was captured using two telescopes- at 2000mm and at 3650mm.

These prominences are part of the solar chromosphere, and normally require a specially modified

Archaeologists unearth a banquet hall in #Pompeii that was inspired by tales of the Trojan War — and designed to serve as a conversation-starter for ancient Romans: cosmiclog.com/2024/04/11/anc… #BlackRoom

.Project Kuiper satellite network gets a big lift from @Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, but the deployment timeline is still a bit hazy geekwire.com/2024/kuiper-sa…

Steve Schumacher from The Weather Channel is an incredibly talented Paramotor pilot. He rented a cargo van and drove to Fairfield, IL to capture this breathtaking view of the eclipse... a mile above the ground!