Mid 40's, 5th-generation, year two managing the farm and carrying on with Dad's legacy. Taking pictures of the stars and rockets when I can.
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May 29
Daaaaaammmmmmnnnn!
Blue Origin's New Glenn just blew up at LC-36 while attempting to Static Fire ahead of NG-4.
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May 16
Kicking off the Victoria Day long weekend with the Northern Lights.
The Auroras made a subtle and brief return to southern Ontario last night around 11:30pm.
#AuroraBorealis
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Apr 21
Let's give 'em a hand! 🦾
25 years ago on April 22, 2001, STS-100 astronauts Chris Hadfield and Scott Parazynski completed a 7-hour spacewalk, installing the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2!
That day, Hadfield (center) became the first Canadian spacewalker.
ALT Through the window of space shuttle Endeavour, Chris Hadfield is seen in the center of the frame with his feet in the portable foot restraint (PFR) at the end of the orbiter's remote manipulator system (RMS). Above him, we see one of the International Space Station's solar arrays, and in the lower left corner, the limb of Earth. Astronaut Scott Parazynski, mission specialist, is seen at left near the Spacelab pallet. Photo ID: sts100-714-027. Credit: NASA
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Apr 19
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen joined his Artemis II crewmates to address the public: "If you like what you see, then just look a little deeper. This is you."
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Apr 11
Mission complete ❤️❤️❤️
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Apr 10
That view! 😍
Earth is slowly growing larger as Integrity nears.
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Artemis II astronauts have traveled 252,756 miles from Earth, flown around the Moon, and observed the lunar surface like never before. Now, they’re coming home. 🌎
Watch the crew splash down on Friday, April 10, around 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11). nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/
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Apr 7
I'm speechless!
Apr 7
EARTHSET.
April 6, 2026.
Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA
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We sent the best of us.
Everyone has experienced loss. The crew sharing a moment this intimate, this real, gives us a chance to feel a raw connection to other humans across a great distance. They're off doing truly alien things in deep space, but I'll bet a lot of people have never felt closer to them.
Go hug someone you love because the only universal truth is we never get enough time with them. And the next time you look up at the Moon, keep an eye out for Carroll
To commemorate the Artemis II mission, the astronauts announced their suggestion to rename certain features on the Moon to honor the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, as well as commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll.
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A new milestone for humankind: The crew of Artemis II are now the farthest any human has ever travelled, reaching a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.
This surpasses the previous record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 by about 4,102 miles.
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Artemis II - Some milestone figures for Monday's big day:
Slightly before 2 p.m. Eastern, Integrity will surpass the Apollo 13 distance record for humans, which stands at 248,655 statute miles. Around 7:07 p.m. Eastern, they will reach the farthest distance from Earth at 252,760 miles — 4,105 miles farther than Apollo 13.
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One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon.
This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.
ALT Peering out one of the four windows near the display console on the Orion spacecraft, the Earth is illuminated by the blackness of space and grows smaller as the crew journeys closer to the Moon. This image was taken by an Artemis II crew member on the fourth day of the mission. Credit: NASA
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Apr 5
There are no words.
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Apr 4
Artemis II: To the Moon
If you look closely at the bottom of the frame you’ll notice debris being kicked up.
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