Saturn's rings with shepherd moons Atlas and Prometheus, imaged on August 4, 2008 by NASA's #Cassini spacecraft

Here's a piece of lesser-known Apollo hardware: the Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-1), deployed into lunar orbit from the Apollo 15 CSM on August 4, 1971. It collected data on the plasma and particle environment around the Moon until Feb. 1972. nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft…

Crescent Earth photographed from lunar orbit during Apollo 15 on August 3, 1971 (NASA image AS15-97-13267)

Let’s discuss the phone call to the Moon (by President Nixon in July 1969.) It was far from an impossibility despite the phone being a “ land line”—the call was patched through unified S-band radio that sent the signal to the Moon at the speed of light. politifact.com/factchecks/202…

Reaching apogee. Seeing what unites us.

Wulffie73🐾🦋 Jason Major Nixon’s call was child’s play by 1969. Something done and practiced over decades prior. youtu.be/8mj32OByvrk?si…

Freedickbrand Live television. It’s what we had before WiFi. Bro.

People who don’t believe in planetary atmosphere shouldn’t be allowed to - travel in airplanes - use vacuum cleaners - drink from a straw - check the weather report - breathe (Probably also breed) …any others?

Red Pill Jason Major pic 1: eddington experiment pic 2: gravitational lens effect proof, that general relativity must be very accurate. if its wrong, its damn well wrong. its confirmed up to 14 digits behind the comma. like shown in the given PDF eotvos.dm.unipi.it/opendiscussion… 1/...

Red Pill Jason Major When you climb up a mountain, the pressure diminishes without going from a container to another.

Thirteen ways of looking at a red planet: 13 years ago today, Curiosity landed on Mars. Here are 13 remarkable views captured during one of the most extraordinary journeys of all time. Ride along at science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-cu… 🧵

A view of Mars made from image data acquired with the EXI camera on UAE's Hope Mars Mission spacecraft on August 5, 2022 #OTD from a distance of about 42,780 kilometers

I have to wonder what people from other countries think about all of the high production song-and-dance television advertisements for prescription medications we have here in the U.S. Because it’s definitely not a thing everywhere

Tushar It looks like you're trying to analyze Apollo photography. Would you like help with that? The photo of Schmitt, the flag, and Earth (AS17-134-20384) is NOT a composite. Look at a good scan file of the original film (not an nth-gen, badly-compressed JPEG) and you'll see that.