Mars will kill you

I'd never heard of it, but it appears to be real. Jessica Meir, currently up on the Space Station, has a masters degree from it. (Along with a bachelors from Brown and a PhD from UCSD.)

https://twitter.com/Astro_Jessica?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

 

something is wrong . . . and it's getting worse

https://www.livescience.com/hubble-constant-universe-expansion-not-make-sense.html

 

It seems that this mysterious substance could be a gel-like substance composed of a kind of crushed glass

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm4px/finally-a-clear-look-at-the-weird-substance-china-found-on-the-moon

 

Virgin Galactic takes off

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/28/virgin-galactic-stock-trading-debut-on-nyse-under-the-ticker-spce.html

 

More posters are now available

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/nasa-exoplanet-posters-scn-trnd/index.html

 

In an attempt at a crossover with the Conspiracy Theory thread, the Air Force X37B Space Plane returns to earth after spending 2 years in orbit. No one knows what it was doing up there all this time. Let me imagine . . .

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/68434/air-force-space-plane-37b-lands-baffling-780-day-orbit/index.html

 

Arrokoth

https://phys.org/news/2019-11-nasa-renames-faraway-ice-world.html

 

space beer

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/09/space_roundup/

 

It's the only time I've ever imagined becoming a tow-truck driver

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/space-tow-truck-will-clean-up-earth-s-orbit-and-remove-defunct-satellites/ar-BBY19j8?q=3

 

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETLEJUICE!

https://gizmodo.com/whats-going-on-with-betelgeuse-1840659793

 

Just started streaming season one, enjoying it so far.

 

This is a sort of "Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?" story

https://digg.com/2020/space-force-new-logo-looks-like-star-trek

 

Here's your opportunity people!! You've all wanted to build spaceships. (Like on some old Amazing Stories cover, or an old 1950's Science-fiction movie...)

Well, here it is... Doing this will change your life.

Elon says that they want to go to around-the-clock, 7 days a week Starship construction in Boca and need more rocket-shipyard workers.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1224623398460018688

 

https://www.slashgear.com/why-the-space-force-logo-looks-like-star-trek-and-star-trek-looks-like-nasa-24607686/

The Space Force is the former US Air Force Space Command and the new Space Force just adapted its logo. Here's the Space Command's logo (they've used it since 1982):



The Space Force logo:



The Air Force and Star Trek were both inspired by NASA's logo.

While the original star trek series used a Star Fleet logo, it was rather different, more of a boomerang shape. The one that looked like this didn't appear until DS9.

 

I like SpaceX. And Blue Horizons and Orbital Sciences and all the other private space companies. I also like NASA and so I'm happy that NASA is one of the beneficiaries of the Trump presidency.

https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/07/trump-budget-nasa-windfall/

 

...a space hotel...can you make reservations on Orbitz?

https://futurism.com/the-byte/plans-moving-ahead-space-hotel-iss

 

Christina Koch is home and her dog is really happy

https://www.space.com/nasa-astronaut-christina-koch-dog-reunion.html