Trent Faust

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Astronomy, planetary science, astrophysics, & spaceflight; geophysics; #NASASocial. My posts are my own irresponsibility.

My YouTube channel, chock full o’ time lapse spaceflight vids, w/music!
https://youtube.com/@spacetimeflies

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A special Euro 2024 Edition of #ThrowbackThursdayLyrics 🎶 Georgia, Georgia The whole day through (the whole day through) Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind (Georgia on my mind) 🎶

Liftoff of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft on its first crewed flight, with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams!

#OTD in 2020, Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken returned the United States to human spaceflight! Lifting off on SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour on mission DM-2, the duo would spend just over two months aboard the International Space Station. youtu.be/VLPuzHfWYms

Mission Highlights - Crew Dragon DM-2youtu.be "The Avengers" by Alan Silvestri is from the soundtrack to the motion picture "The Avengers."Highlights from the launch on May 30, the docking on May 31, spa...

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was born on this date in 1951.

#OTD in 2011, Soyuz TMA-20 undocked from the International Space Station and crew member Paolo Nespoli took this stunning photo of Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour docked to the orbital outpost. [photo credit: NASA/Paolo Nespoli]

"The six spacefliers on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship included Ed Dwight, a retired military test pilot who missed his chance to become NASA’s first Black astronaut in the 1960s. Today’s flight made Dwight, 90, the oldest person to go into space….” www.geekwire.com/2024/blue-or...

Blue Origin flies its first crew in 21 months — and writes another page in space historywww.geekwire.com Blue Origin resumed sending people into space after a 21-month gap — and made a Black aerospace pioneer's 60-year-old dream come true.

A most well-deserved recognition.

#OTD in 1992, Space Shuttle orbiter Endeavour lifted off on its maiden voyage. Later in the mission, to recover a satellite that had failed to reach its intended orbit, Pierre Thuot, Richard Hieb, and Thomas Akers performed the first, and to this day, the only three-person spacewalk.

#OTD in 1961, Alan Shepard launched atop a Redstone rocket in his Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 15-minute suborbital flight, becoming the first American in space. Shepard would later become the only Mercury astronaut to walk on the Moon, as commander of Apollo 14 in 1971.

#OTD in 2021, Crew-1 Dragon Resilience splashed down, concluding its six-month ground-breaking mission to the International Space Station. Check out the mission highlights, set to the theme from Top Gun! youtu.be/VkAsSwY9Z78

Top One! - Mission Highlights of Crew-1 Dragon Resilienceyoutu.be "Top Gun Anthem" by Harold Faltermeyer is from the soundtrack to the motion picture "Top Gun." Highlights from the launch on November 16 and the docking on November 17, 2021, spacewalks during the mission, and the undocking on May 1 and splashdown on May 2, 2021 of the #SpaceX #CrewDragon #Resilience on the Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins (@Astro_illini), Victor Glover (@AstroVicGlover), and Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi (@Astro_Soichi) flew this first operational flight of the Crew Dragon. Follow along on the web: https://spacex.com https://nasa.gov on Twitter: @Astro_illini @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Soichi @Space_Station @SpaceX @NASA

#OTD in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, perhaps the most famous science instrument in history, was deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle orbiter Discovery.

On this date in 1990, Discovery launched on mission STS-31 to deploy the Hubble Space Telescope! (that’s Columbia on the other pad at the left side of the photo)

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NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earthwww.jpl.nasa.gov After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.

🎶 Florida Dog Florida Dog Givin’ that gator a frightening shock Running’ away Just not his day Florida Croc 🎶 www.instagram.com/reel/C56qii5...

Natalia Rojas Art on Instagram: "(For licensing or usage, contact [email protected])#floridaliving #floridalive #floridaman #alligator #floridaalligator"www.instagram.com 11K likes, 397 comments - natalia_rojas_artApril 18, 2024 on : "(For licensing or usage, contact [email protected])#floridaliving #floridalive #floridaman #alligator #floridaalligator".

Via NASA History on Facebook: “‘There's a big rooster tail out of all four wheels.’ The Lunar Roving Vehicle gets a speed workout (reaching 10 km/h) by astronaut John Young during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site, #OTD in 1972.”

#OTD in 1970, the crew of Apollo 13 splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. The mission would be termed a "successful failure," in that they could not accomplish a landing on the Moon, but the crew did make a safe return to Earth, due to the efforts of hundreds, if not thousands, on the ground.

#OTD in 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth; and on this date in 1981, John Young and Robert Crippen lifted off on the first mission of the Space Shuttle Program, aboard the orbiter Columbia.

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Check out the view of the #eclipse from the International Space Station! go.nasa.gov/3xtBOzt

Station Orbits into Eclipse, Crew Works Research and Spacesuitsgo.nasa.gov The International Space Station soared into the Moon’s shadow during the solar eclipse on Monday afternoon. The Expedition 71 crew members had an opportunity to view the shadow at the end of their wor...

#Eclipse fun with a colander - checkout all of the lunate shadows cast by the holes!

Lining up the #eclipse through the spotting scope.

2:41 pm here in Seminole, FL through the telescope and solar filter, shot with my phone. A sunspot is clearly visible. #eclipse

Just a reminder - don’t be an idiot tomorrow. Don’t look directly at the Sun without eclipse glasses unless it is totally obscured by the Moon.

Check out yesterday’s undocking and return to Earth of Soyuz MS-24 with a crew of three, including NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara: youtu.be/Bt-gcZgBD84

Soyuz MS-24 Returns Homeyoutu.be

🎶 Early morning, April four Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride 🎶 #ThrowbackThursdayLyrics

On this, her 90th birthday, and every day, I wish for all of us just a bit of the compassion, patience, persistence, and wisdom of Jane Goodall.

This was the first-ever flight of a Soyuz spacecraft with two women crewmembers, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Belarus spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya (Марына Васілеўская). Soyuz commander Oleg Novitsky (Олег Новицкий) rounded out the crew. 1/3 youtu.be/d04CNvOwdDY

Two Women Crewmembers - A Soyuz First: Soyuz MS-25 Launch & Dockingyoutu.be NOTE: This was the first-ever flight of a Soyuz spacecraft with two women crewmembers, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Belarus spaceflight participan...

NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson will make a bit of women’s space history with today’s scheduled launch of Soyuz MS-25. This is the first launch of two women aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, Caldwell-Dyson and Marina Vasilevskaya from Belarus.

Morning visitor.