Solar System inspired badges by me

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51 years ago today, the crew of Apollo 17 took the iconic Blue Marble photo. It was the last time human eyes saw this amazing view from a spacecraft. It was the (so far) last moon mission, and no human has been far enough away from Earth to see that sight since.

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The Last Of Its Kind: Delta IV Heavy Launch

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On this date in 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless unhooked a lifeline and became the first human to fly free in space, using a gas-powered jet-pack to propel himself nearly 300 feet away from the Earth-orbiting space shuttle Challenger and back again

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I’m in western Massachusetts, USA and saw this today (Feb 14) at 19:25 EST. It was just a dot then the plume started expanding. What rocket was this?

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I don't even know what to say. This is just insane!

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Not everyone is interested in spaceflight. (Credit: LA Times)

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Would this work?

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Recently got a 3D printer. My first major print, the RS-25

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Retro Futuristic space station project

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Congratulations to NASA for the Successful Impact of the DART Mission against the Asteroid Dimorphos

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The film The Right Stuff came out twenty years after the last Project Mercury flight, which felt to me at the time like ancient history. It's now been exactly twice that long since the movie.

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Apollo 15 – View from lunar orbit

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Currently, exactly half of the world's orbital launches, half of the successes, and half of the failures can be attributed to the US.

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Astronomical Breakthrough: James Webb Discovers Water Ice In Asteroid Rings

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An Ariane V rocket is vertical at the Guiana Space Centre for the final time. This old beast has served humanity well.

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The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center invites the public to follow the live broadcast of the launch of the explorer Rashid towards the moon as the first Arab mission to the surface of the moon 🇦🇪

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Apparently, there was a fire in the high bay. Artemis I is safe and no one was hurt.

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This is how NASA's Artemis 1 compares to other rockets in the world!

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Two years ago, I teamed up with a fellow redditor to try and take the most ridiculous moon shot we could come up with. Today, we proudly introduce our newest collaboration, a 174 megapixel look at our cosmic companion. Zoom in to check it out!

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Crew Dragon vs Apollo (Present vs Past)

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Artemis is rated to 85mph sustained -Someone at NASA

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In this view looking up, NASA’s Artemis I Moon rocket and mobile launcher – carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 – can be seen following their arrival at KSC's Launch Pad 39B on June 6, 2022

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Should not blink !

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Drove Out To Playalinda Beach to Check Out Artemis 1 Yesterday

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Endeavour, nothing else, just pure beauty

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#NASAMoonSnap

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My painting of space travel gone terribly wrong. Thoughts?

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Skylab B. A second Skylab built in 1970. Its potential uses included putting the station into a spin, creating artificial gravity; and docking it with a Soviet Salyut station. It is now on display in the National Air and Space Museum.

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Rockets size in relation one to an other

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European Space Agencey trolling Elon on Threads

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Every Satellite Orbiting Earth and Who Owns Them [Poster]

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The US didn't send the first Black person into space — the Soviet Union did with the launch of Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, an Afro-Cuban man who cleared the way for others to follow

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With the Crew-2 arrival, there are now 11 people on the ISS!

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Aerojet Rocketdyne has entered into a merger agreement with L3Harris.

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My Dad, an Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) engineer, holding Shuttle mission patches. He worked every mission from the first to the last.

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Number of manned orbital launches by year, 1961-2022

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The future of American crewed spaceflight has never been brighter

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Unusual Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres Image Credit: Dawn Mission, NASA

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New video from Firefly shows that an engine stopped firing during ascent

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JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) (blueprint by me)

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Starship on Superheavy Booster. Human for scale

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I kept a diary of all the live launches I watched online this year. I reccomend others try this out next year.

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Functional testing of NASA’s Mars Helicopter inside KSC's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. The copter will be attached to the Mars Perseverance rover during its mission, which will land on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021. Liftoff aboard a ULA Atlas V 541 rocket is targeted for mid-July from CCAFS

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2023 will be the worst year for Europe by the number of orbital launches since the early 80's

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The real Starship and real SLS at the same time. Screencap of NasaSpaceFlight's side-by-side livestreams during their SLS rollout coverage. Processed to pull the vehicles out from the mist and twilight respectively.

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Two Meters to Mars -- Perseverance Seen from Lander During Descent

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This LEGO IDEAS design called LEGO ASTRONAUT by user legotruman has already gained 6,031 supporters - but only by reaching 10,000 votes the model will get the chance of becoming a real LEGO set.

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Anna Fisher in 1985 - one of the first US women in space, and the longest running active NASA astronaut.

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SpaceX Starship Prototype SN5 Flies (screencap from Labpadre Sapphire camera)

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What happened to Radian One?

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SpaceX Starship Hopper had a succesful flight, hover, and landing!

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The Space Shuttle Columbia after landing on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, April 14, 1981.

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Any idea why spaceflight rookie Zena Cardman is the CDR of Crew-9? Especially with Nick Hague (veteran of 2 flights) and Stephanie Wilson (veteran of 3 flights) on board?

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All the best to Sultan Al Neyadi, who embarks on the longest mission to space in the history of the Arabs 🇦🇪👏

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1:2 scale Eagle I built with cardboard and ply

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1992, Mae Jemison, the first African American Woman to Space

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The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9

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The fully stacked twin SRBs for NASA's SLS rocket are seen on top of the mobile launcher inside High Bay 3 of the VAB on June 4. Now that booster stacking is complete, NASA's Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs are preparing to integrate the massive core stage with the boosters

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Falcon 9 & Crew Dragon + Falcon Heavy + Superheavy & Starship by me

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An image of Soviet Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, known as the “Space Victim”, who was stranded on the Mir space station during the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. (Learn More in the Comments)

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On this day 45 years ago the Soviet Soyuz-19 and the US Apollo have launched into space to dock two days later and create the first joint international orbital complex

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SpaceX Mission Patches

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Space Mining

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Luna 25 crashed into the moon after developing a fault

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Docking ports on Chinese TianHe module - Identical to International Docking Standard

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I made myself sad watching this so I made a meme about it to make me happy again

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On May 27, NASA will once again launch American astronauts on American rockets from American soil!

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Thank you for teaching us so much ...

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From my museum trip today, i present; the buran orbiter in the Technikmuseum Speyer.

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Just saw what I think is the SpaceX Starlink satellites fly over while we were camping in MD (sorry for por quality)

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Planned post ISS space stations

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Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken work with teams from NASA and SpaceX to rehearse crew extraction from SpaceX’s Crew Dragon on August 13, 2019 at the Trident Basin in Cape Canaveral. Hurley and Behnken will fly to the ISS aboard the Crew Dragon for the SpaceX Demo-2 mission

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*eye twitching*

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Charles Lindbergh (seated right) meets with the crew of Apollo 8 before their historic launch. Only 41 years separated his famous transatlantic flight and their pioneering voyage across the ocean of deep space between the Earth and Moon, launched December 21, 1968

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First ever close-up image of a geosynchronous satellite in orbit by MEV-1

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High definition panorama of the landing site around Chang'e-5 probe. Full picture is 15000x7947 pixels.

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I always said to my parents Spaceflight companies would emerge in Australia eventually. The future is looking bright for me and many others now. (reupload as it’s not relevant to r/nasa)

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Not sure if it has been posted here before, but wanted to share this extraordinary photo of Bruce McCandless II.

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Dec. 4, 1993: An astronaut captured this view of Space Shuttle Endeavour's approach and capture of the Hubble Space Telescope during the first servicing mission, STS-61. The shuttle's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm appears to reach toward Hubble as it passes over Australia

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X37-B spotted in California on June 4, 2020

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Starlink 4-19 on June 17, 2022.

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Unfortunate but not that shocking.

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[OC] As of October 26, there has been as many orbital launch attempts in 2022 as in the entirety of 2021.

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My Current Rocket Garden

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JAXA's H-II Transfer Vehicle-9 is pictured in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm after its capture following a five-day trip to the ISS. The HTV-9 was carrying over four tons of food, supplies and experiments to replenish the Expedition 63 crew

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A graphic I've made. Pointing out any mistakes I have made with my research would be much appreciated

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TBT — The Soviet Buran Orbiter

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Blue Origin Anti-SpaceX Lunar Starship Infographic

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Gemini Abort Test

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starship moment

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Fr real tho the adapter is jarring at the least

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The Northrop Grumman Cygnus space freighter is pictured after its release from the Canadarm2 robotic arm completing a 93-day cargo mission attached the International Space Station's Unity module

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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will be used for the company’s In-Flight Abort Test arrives at SpaceX’s hangar at KSC's Launch Complex 39. The test will demonstrate the spacecraft and launch system’s ability to abort in the unlikely case of an emergency after liftoff

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I decided to visit Kennedy Space Center. I love anything to do with the NASA program and this visit was amazing! I knew rockets were big but I did not know there were THIS big! The photo doesn't quite show the size of the Saturn V Rocket. If you have visited KSC, what was your favorite thing to see?

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Haven't seen this beeing discussed here. ESA's new reusable rocket concept Themis!

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Mexico and Argentina are starting a space agency of Latin America and the Caribbean

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The cutest thing in the world to me is the crew on the International Space Station just goofing around together and having a good time. No borders, no egos, just strangers who've become best friends. So pure and wholesome!❤

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The UAE Mars Exploration Project The Hope Probe announced that the probe has successfully moved from the capture orbit to the scientific orbit in preparation for the start of its scientific mission and the process of collecting scientific data about the red planet

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A new study by engineers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zurich shows that nanoarchitected materials—materials designed from precisely patterned nanoscale structures—may be a promising route to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields, and other impact-resistant materials.

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For Space and Rocket Geeks (and those who enjoy playing cards)

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Apollo 1 fire. I thought you knew. I've been aboard every flight.

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This was my entry for Dawn Aerospace's competition to come up with the paint scheme of their mk. 2 vehicle. I was a runner up in the competition.

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Oh what could have been... This is SNC's Dream Chaser proposal for NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which unfortunately didn't make the cut.

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What is this and what was it used for?

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What is Stoke Space Technologies (Kent, WA) building here? For anyone unfamiliar, Stoke wants to build a fully reusable launch vehicle. This appears to be some sort of ring-like thurst structure that has rocket engines surrounding the perimeter.

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The Space Launch System Core Stage pathfinder is being moved to the north end of the transfer aisle inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 3, 2019. (Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett)

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Artemis 1 Orion Spacecraft Complete

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Need an efficient propulsion system for a hard sci-fi story. I need at least 1 m/s/s of acceleration for long periods of time for a 60 ton spacecraft. Suggestions? Ion drive? Project Orion?

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What are these devices on a Soyuz booster?

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The view from the surface of asteroid Ryugu

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Deep Space Exploration Probes (to scale)

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Astra cancelled a launch vehicle with just about a 50% success rate and opted to place all resources towards the development of a larger rocket. It’s certainly an odd decision and does little to instill customer confidence. Has NASA has found a replacement vehicle for its’ TROPICS mission?

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The Solar Cells on Launcher's Orbiter (Rideshare Vehicle) are mounted using fasteners as opposed to bonding the cells to the substrate. I assume they made this decision to not have to worry about CTE-induced stresses (so that way, they are not orbit-limited)

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How much would it be to build a home on Mars? Don't have alienincome so haven't considered.

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China's crewed space projects 1992-2023

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An interesting observation of our history in spaceflight by xkcdcomics.

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How BepiColombo's orbit changed after its Earth flyby

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Really looking forward to seeing SNC's Dreamchaser finally in action! One of my favorite Spacecraft Designs

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My phone background

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The crew of STS-54 poses in uniforms from the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. They would later launch on Jan 13, 1993 on Shuttle Endeavour to deliver a communications satellite (TDRSS-6) to orbit

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Gumdrop meets Spider, March 6, 1969: Apollo 9 Command/Service Modules nicknamed Gumdrop and Lunar Module nicknamed Spider are shown docked together in this photo by Lunar Module pilot Russell L. Schweickart as Command Module pilot David Scott stands in the open hatch during his EVA

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Could the apollo spacecraft reach escape velocity under the right conditions? And if so, what would need to happen?

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Illustration of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlast V rocket at Space Launch Complex 41, in preparation for Boeing's Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program

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FedEx Space Cargo Vessel Concept I Designed, for Sending Deliveries to Earth Orbit, Lunar Orbit, and Beyond...

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ISS crew eating crop of Tokyo Bekana Chinese cabbage grown and harvested in zero-G.

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Enjoyed listening to this interview with Pangea Aerospace CEO, Adria Argemi. Adria notes that the geometry of an Aerospike enables allows for better management of aero-thermal heat distribution than a bell nozzle. Will Aerospikes finally enable 2nd stage reusability? (no need for a vac opt. nozzle)

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Hi All, I'd like to introduce you to a poster I drew. It was inspired by Ariane 5.

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This coming Sunday, SpaceX will be launching the Falcon Heavy for its first commercial flight.

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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prepares for electromagnetic interference and electromagnetic contamination (EMI/EMC) testing in a specialized test chamber at Boeing’s Space Environment Test Facilities in El Segundo, CA, 3/22/19

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Perseverance approaching Mars

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Friendly reminder that this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

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In just over 5 days, SpaceX will be launching a flight-proven Falcon Heavy carrying 23 satellites into LEO and MEO.

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Does anyone know which Gemini mission is this pic from? Found it randomly on google search

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Visiting ULA today for some training. This is the chandelier in their lobby.

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ISS Commander Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency... needs a ride home, if you're passing by

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What software is this? SpaceX always displays trajectory info on stream but I dont know if its something they created themselves or its a commercially available package for either planning or plotting live orbital paths.

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SpinLaunch - Love the idea of Yeeting a Payload off to space (remember the canon ball analogy in your space systems class)! But I bet the tougher part will be to design payloads that can handle 10,000g at TBD freq. range. It's probably why they offer Satellite Buses. (image taken from Spinlaunch)

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Gateway Space Station (First Lunar Outpost) Blueprint

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The moment you actually nailed autonomous docking so well, you make astronauts scroll thru stripes on the touchscreen so it would look like they are doing something.

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Stuck in the ISS Kibo module

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BepiColombo's heliocentric orbit before/after its Venus flyby on 15 Oct 2020

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Soyuz-7 space junk for sale on eBay [1200 × 889]

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Why is there so much sound-deadening around this communications satellite? Risk of vibration damage?

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Some graphics I've been working on for a potential game

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Cosmos, here we come!

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Spaceflight in 2018. 114 orbital launches, 111 launch successes, 2 failures, 1 partial failure and a huge step up from China.

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Got to drive on the Shuttle runway today. Here’s the marker they put down for the final wheel stop of STS-135

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A technician works on the European Service Module that will propel Orion in space and provide air, water and electricity for future crews. The module pictured here will help send Orion about 40,000 miles beyond the Moon during the first integrated test and will soon be delivered to NASA

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