A. Pettit
@PettitFrontier
Aerospace | Business | STEM
A view of the ISS from SpaceX Dragon. Amazing that videos like this can exist so casually on social media.
Elusive flamingo pink aurora in a vibrant atomic oxygen lightshow. Station flies above the green aurora but straight through the higher altitude reds.
People get disbelieved at what Apollo achieved in its time, but in hindsight it is not surprising what 1960s safety regulations, unified national support, and ~4% of the leading industrial and financial superpower’s entire budget backing the greatest minds in aerospace could do.
Humans landed on the moon for the first time 56 years ago today 🌕
Literally no other photos like these exist. The star tracker he built and brought to space to take these is the first of its kind. It was previously impossible to achieve this level of deep space detail from orbit. Unprecedented in astrophotography.
Dragon flying among the stars.
While we are on the topic of rare nebulae, this is the ONLY photograph in existence of this nebula. This one I discovered with my friend Marcel Drechsler, and with a small team produced this image.
Today in 2011, the space shuttle program came to a close with the final landing of Atlantis at Kennedy Space Center, ending decades of service from an icon of American spaceflight.
Few know how much this set a new precedent at the time. Before 2002, astronaut photography was poor and rarely performed. No one could compete with Earth observation satellites using a film handheld, and every shuttle mission lasted only a few weeks, so why bother? There were…
This is actually a cool story. Prior to the advent of digital cameras, astronauts aboard orbital stations could not take clear photos of cities at night. Orbital speeds were simply too much for contemporary film cameras, creating blur. This remained so for every station until…
Eight launches are scheduled for this week. Four of these are Falcon 9s, with SpaceX launching two customer missions and two Starlink missions. nasaspaceflight.com/2025/07/launch… Internationally, Russia and Europe are both expected to launch science payloads, while, in Australia,…
In this image alone are: - 4 of the Magnificent 7 tech companies - 1000s of GPT wrapper startups - 1 Golden Gate Bridge - 1 Cluely - Average rent of $3500+ per month - 5 of top 10 AUM venture capital firms - More dogs than children
San Francisco Bay Area photographed at night from the ISS. Headquartered here are many of the largest companies on Earth, and countless startups trying to take their place. NASA also has roots in Silicon Valley with @NASAAmes, seen as the dark runway strip at bottom center,…
South Korea is not particularly known for its space sector. But even they want a Moon base of their own. And they want to build it by 2045. Ambitious to say the least.
South Korea just laid out its long-term space exploration road map, which features the planned construction of a moon base two decades from now. space.com/astronomy/moon…
This will be notable. Vast’s Haven-1 is planned to launch NET May 2026. The first crew mission will follow soon after, lasting ~30 days. This could make it the first commercial space station, first private flight to one, and longest private mission in history. All at once.
It seems that @Vast may be taking a page out of the @PolarisProgram in terms of astronaut training using private fighter jets to enhance crew management under dynamic and high pressure environments. This lines up with the timeline, as Vast’s website indicates that training for…
56 years ago today, Apollo 11 achieved one of humanity’s greatest feats by successfully landing humans on the Moon.
View from the ISS of SpaceX Dragon’s atmospheric entry, carrying the Axiom-4 crew home.
A question for Americans that oppose returning to the Moon or going to Mars: What are your reasons for why?
NEWS 🚨: Most Americans are in favor of returning to the moon and going to Mars, per CBS News poll
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 entered lunar orbit and the crew got a close-up look at the Sea of Tranquility, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would land in lunar module Eagle the next day.