I’ve been doing “music in space” workshops and research and, as you may expect, there are extra challenges to how you hold necks, press strings, and create friction.@Cmdr_Hadfield talks about all of the “buzzing and popping” that occurs when he tries playing guitar in space. It’s not possible to hold the guitar to your body easily either, so the feeling is totally different… you don’t get that lovely acoustic vibration in your chest. Since violin is clutched at the chin/shoulder, it has an extra advantage over other instruments, but I have to assume there are challenges to pushing down with the bow on the strings…. This is why I’m obsessed with the music gloves or other wearable instruments that can flow with the environment and the free floating body! Can’t wait to see what new tools we create to make music specifically for that environment!

NASA should at least find a company willing to take over Starliner and run its operations, like ULA took over flight operations for Atlas & Delta rockets from Boeing & Lockheed. The operator should work towards a commercialization plan.

Boeing is incurring a huge loss on Starliner, but I wonder if they’d consider selling the IP and hardware to Sierra, Rocket Lab, Relativity, Firefly or Northrop for cheap. Would need a ton of work to fix the issues but a huge shortcut in dev for those companies. Is that possible?

Had to add one more for my vision

A quick behind the scenes look at how we setup portraits of ourselves peering out of a Dragon window into the stars from Starliner's cockpit window.

I wasn’t prepared for this timeline

I tried really hard to like it… but this week absolutely ruined it for me. Bad Star Wars.

There is no emergency situation going on aboard the International Space Station. At approximately 5:28 p.m. CDT, audio was aired on the NASA livestream from a simulation audio channel on the ground indicating a crew member was experiencing effects related to decompression sickness (DCS). This audio was inadvertently misrouted from an ongoing simulation where crew members and ground teams train for various scenarios in space and is not related to a real emergency. The International Space Station crew members were in their sleep period at the time. All remain healthy and safe, and tomorrow’s spacewalk will start at 8 a.m. EDT as planned.

They have landed, but let's see in what state the lander is. This is the first US soft landing on the Moon since Apollo 17 in Dec 1972.

My entire career, it's been received wisdom that Mars was the hardest place to land in the solar system. The 7 minutes of terror, the EDL demon, etc. But the moon is reminding us today that no space landing is easy. Even "just" DDL is still unbelievably hard to get right!

hello queens!!! I’ve made some more posters plus a 2024 calendar! just wanted to let yall know in case you’re interested or could help spread the word! 💜 alyssanodo.myshopify.com/

It's the law here in Australia that if the nutbush isn't danced at a wedding the couple are not officially married. True story.

Oh dear

This paper has the most chaotic acknowledgement section I've ever read 🤣 Check out the paper too: arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 Cc @Cosmic_Horizons

Wingardium levibooster 🪄

Yikes, an anomaly from @VirginOrbit during todays UK launch

*cough* @UNOOSA *cough*

you CANNOT be offering a 40h/wk UNPAID internship & state IN THE POSTING that you are “dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion,” “offering reasonable accommodations,” & “encourage all candidates, including persons with disabilities, to apply.” that’s…not how that works.

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