My favorite part about the moon is that practically any human being in history has looked at it in their life no matter when or where they lived and so looking at it myself feels like a connection point with all of humanity.
This has been a mix of emotions. @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social stuck the landing on the Moon, but we also saw the loss of Intuitive Machine’s Athena, Astrofoge’s Odin and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer.
That is a lot of science 🧪 that can no longer be completed.
Tonight we watched as #BlueGhost was captured by the lunar night.
We don't expect her to wake up, but at the same time, Blue has surprised at every turn.
We have captured sights never before seen by mankind and opened the lunar surface to commercial activities.
I can't wait to return.
The lunar exploration community is very small. Intuitive Machines and Firefly are both based in Texas.
Someone may have sent coffee to the other company for their landing attempt and the other may have sent donuts and energy drinks.
It’s a sad day to see hard work lost in the name of science.
Took my first trip with Southwest Airlines new assigned seats. I’m so disappointed. I have been a HUGE Southwest fan for 25 years because of how they treated the customer and the freedoms they allowed to everyone regardless of ticket. That is gone, the LUV is gone. 😭💔
I’m seeing people saying “This isn’t how America is supposed to work” and YOU’RE RIGHT.
Now, the great thing about America is we can change that…YOU can change that.
Take notes. Develop policy. Rise up candidates to make the reforms to #America so this can never happen again. The work begins now
What does it take to vacuum up lunar regolith while already in a vacuum? The Lunar PlanetVac team knows.
We received video of our LPV operations and invited the payload team into the MOC to watch the video on our video wall.
Seeing their excitement was so rewarding after years of hard work!🧪🌖
Sad to see iSpace make a hard landing during the attempt to land on the Moon. It looks like Intuitive Machines and iSpace both had laser rangefinder anomalies which impacted their missions, seconds from touching down.
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