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.

First of all, this is an epic photo. Second, I believe the successful launch (and hopefully) landing of Blue Moon will be a pivotal moment in the space community's recognition that there's a real commercial race to the surface. Third, let's go!

Vintage NASA aesthetic

Break the cycle.

Liebe Covid-Safe Bubble, kennt jemand einen nachhaltig funktionierenden kleinen portablen Luftreiniger (kabellos) mit HEPA-Filter fürs Reisen? Mein To-Go Filter ist leider schon das 2. Mal kaputt und nicht zuverlässig. Danke! @CoronaZeroCH @ChristineLoriol @twtomcat

SpaceX engineers have spent years preparing and months testing for the booster catch attempt on Flight 5, with technicians pouring tens of thousands of hours into building the infrastructure to maximize our chances for success

#ProtectTheKids-🇨🇭 würde es begrüssen, wenn mal eine Parteileitung ein Problem anpacken würde, das UNS ALLE seit 2022 ununterbrochen stark belastet: Die ungebremste Verbreitung von #SARSCoV2 in den #Schulen und deren Folgen: Zu hohes Infektionsangebot … protect-the-kids.ch/projekt-…

Die Finanzierung fürs Spital- und Abwassermonitoring von #Covid & co läuft in der Schweiz ja bekanntlich aus. Ich habe gestützt aufs Öffentlichkeitsgesetz entsprechende Dokumente dazu vom BAG verlangt. Die wichtigsten Aussagen & Quellen im Thread 🧵 #TeamVorsicht

Damit auch Schulen in D und CH ein passendes Plakat haben, gibt es nun unser Schulplakat in einer D & CH Version. "Wege zu guter Raumluft in unseren Schulen" statt "... in Österreichs Schulen". Als Kopierversion und für den professionellen Druck in CMYK und mit Zuschnitt. igoe.at/saubere-luft-folder/… @CorneliaBeeking @_ProtectTheKids @DAGL_ev

Noticing a lot of your relatives are just not the same, health wise? Relatives dying after surgeries that were relatively low risk a few years ago? Today, this report from insurance giant @SwissRe puts numbers on the ongoing excess death toll attributable to Covid-19. From the report: "Fluctuations in excess mortality tend to be short-term, reflecting developments such as a large-scale medical breakthrough or the negative impact of a large epidemic. However, as society absorbs these events, excess mortality should revert to the baseline. With COVID-19 this has not been the case and all-cause excess mortality is still above the pre-pandemic baseline. In 2021, excess mortality spiked to 23% above the 2019 baseline in the US, and 11% in the UK. As Swiss Re Institute's report estimates, in 2023, it remained significantly elevated in the range of 3–7% for the US, and 5–8% for the UK. If the underlying drivers of current excess mortality continue, Swiss Re Institute's analysis estimates that excess mortality may remain as high as 3% for the US and 2.5% for the UK by 2033." What does the percentage increase in deaths mean in real numbers? Roughly 3 million people die in the US every year of various causes (cancer, heart disease, accidents, etc). The 3-7% increase in 2023 represents a 3-7% increase in that 3m number, so roughly 90-210k more deaths. This places Covid-19 solidly among the top five killers in the US, with heart disease (700k), cancer (600k), accidents (200k) and strokes (150k), and it continues to stay there 3 years after mass vaccinations, and countless waves and variants since. While not the killer of millions and the destroyer of health systems it was in 2020-2021, it is a leading cause of death that we must continue to respect, and take active measures to prevent in especially the elderly and vulnerable. It continues to be a leading cause of disability in the form of Long Covid.

Auch im Flugzeug lohnt sich eine Atemschutzmaske gegen Viren in der Luft. Mindestens N95, denn eine chirurgische Maske (blau/grün) filtert die Luft nicht! #maskup #longcovidally

Awesome! #SpaceX #Spacewalk #PolarisDawn #Earth

Orbital sunset from Dragon

Polaris Dawn and Dragon at 1,400 km above Earth – the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago

The @PolarisProgram astronaut mission is headed for an altitude 3 times higher than the Space Station, the furthest that humans have been from Earth in over half a century!