There are 10 toilets in space. 4 on the ISS, 1 on Soyuz MS-22, 1 on Soyuz MS-23, 1 on Crew Dragon Endeavor, 2 on Tiangong, and 1 on Shenzhou 15. Welcome home Crew 5!

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[🔴China’s 11th launch in 2023] At UTC 08:33 Mar 17, Gaofen-13-02 high resolution remote sensing satellite was successfully launched by CZ3B rocket at Xichang, Sichuan. It’s also the 468th launch of Long March rocket family. HD: buff.ly/3FwjYwZ

Japanese communications package with a mass of 155 2L soda bottles reentered the atmosphere above Sacramento.

A mesmerizing display of lights over Northern California on Friday was caused by the re-entry of flaming space debris into Earth’s atmosphere, experts said. The chunks of communications equipment had been jettisoned from the International Space Station. nytimes.com/2023/03/19/sci…

TIL asteroids are rich in Vitamin B. Add them to you diet now!

THE ECLIPSE, Alma Thomas, 1970

Cold, salty, oxygen-rich water sinks near #Antarctica, then spreads northwards and carries oxygen into the deep Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. phys.org/news/2023-03-d… via Phys.org

Virgin Orbit's demise will come as no surprise to anyone paying attention. Small launch is a brutal business. They had no ability to scale to a larger rocket. This still SUCKS for some great people who worked very hard to solve myriad technical challenges and fly LauncherOne.

There are 9 toilets in space. 4 on the ISS, 1 on Soyuz MS-23, 1 on Crew Dragon Endeavor, 2 on Tiangong, and 1 on Shenzhou 15. MS-22 returned to Earth empty.

As far as I can tell, you have to manually examine multiple bits of data to see if BlackLotus is installed. And if it is, you have to wipe the entire drive — including boot sector.

We played pool with asteroids.

Just for context because non space people seem confused: It of course would have been better if the rocket had not exploded but it’s not actually a big deal that it exploded.

LandSpace(蓝箭航天)’s LOX/CH4 methane fueled rocket Zhuque-2 Y2 entered Jiuquan Launch Center on May 12, aiming to be world’s first methane rocket ever launched into orbit, after failures of its ZQ-2 Y1, Relativity Space’s Terran-1 & SpaceX’s Super Heavy buff.ly/3q29hgA

There’s gonna be an 11th toilet in space soon (assuming Axiom doesn’t return prior to this launch.)

There are 10 toilets in space. 4 on the ISS, 1 on Soyuz MS-23, 1 on Crew Dragon Endeavor, 1 on Crew Dragon Freedom, 2 on Tiangong, and 1 on Shenzhou 15. Welcome to space, Axiom-2!

There are 11 toilets in space. 4 on the ISS, 1 on Soyuz MS-23, 1 on Crew Dragon Endeavor, 1 on Crew Dragon Freedom, 2 on Tiangong, 1 on Shenzhou 15, and 1 on Shenzhou 16. Welcome to space, Shenzhou 16!

I think this is a new record.

There are 10 toilets in space. 4 on the ISS, 1 on Soyuz MS-23, 1 on Crew Dragon Endeavor, 2 on Tiangong, 1 on Shenzhou 15, and 1 on Shenzhou 16. Welcome home, Axiom-2!