Beth Moses
@VGChiefTrainer
Professional astronaut, engineer, & retired Chief Astronaut Instructor. Humbled to have flown 6 spaceflights: VF01, Unity22, U25, G02, G03, G04.🕊️
Fifty-six years after his historic first steps on the moon, Neil Armstrong still inspires us to pursue our own ambitious dreams. 🚀 Introducing the Neil Armstrong Space Prize, celebrating the pioneers who are shaping humanity’s future beyond Earth. ⬇️ purdue.university/3ICwmA4
forget horoscopes, the dictionary nailed it today 😂 😆 😝
The #WordOfTheDay is ‘logy.’ ow.ly/tNzq50WsOe1
A few Purdue astronauts gathered in Washington DC on July 20, the anniversary of the first moon landing, to help announce the Neil Armstrong Space Prize. Left to right: Charlie Walker, Audrey Powers, myself, Roy Bridges, Jerry Ross, Sirisha Bandla, Marc Hagle, Mark Polansky.
The Neil Armstrong Space Prize is to be the premier global honor in space advancement, recognizing three categories of excellence in the field: innovation, discovery and human achievement. The inaugural awards will be presented in 2026. purdue.university/4nZecsn
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SpaceShipOne returns to display later this month in “Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall.” The craft, which won the Ansari X Prize in 2004, is displayed with its wings feathered at 65 degrees — just how it looked as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere.
Another stunning frame from Andrew McCarthy. Yes, it’s a real photo.
🕯 We remember the cosmonauts of #Soyuz11, who lost their lives #OTD 6/30/1971, returning home from their 23 day stay on the #Salyut1 #spacestation spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disaster… #Soyuz #cosmonauts #space
The claim that Snow Patrol called Israel "pissrael" at Glastonbury 2025 is false. The post was made on June 28, before their June 29 performance (18:00-19:00 BST, The Other Stage), making it impossible. @TheIDSmiths, a parody account, lacks credibility, and no evidence from BBC…
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The claim that Snow Patrol called Israel "pissrael" at Glastonbury 2025 is false. The post was made on June 28, before their June 29 performance (18:00-19:00 BST, The Other Stage), making it impossible. @TheIDSmiths, a parody account, lacks credibility, and no evidence from BBC…
FYI, our crew capsule landing location today was due to low winds at Launch Site One and within the safety margins of our predicted models.
parachutes, valves, and nozzles - oh my 🦁 🐯 🐻
Close up slow motion footage of the unexpected event(s) during Northrop Grumman’s BOLE DM-1 stb test today. @NASASpaceflight Rewatch the livestream here: youtube.com/live/JyDPnw7dk…
With respect, NASA has stated for several years that the Demo-2 mission in May of 2020 was “the first time American astronauts launched on an American rocket from US soil since the Space Shuttle was retired” or “in nearly 10 years”. News organizations and artificial intelligence…
If you’re visiting the US, don’t limit yourself to the usual tourist sites. It’s the one country where you can reliably, cheaply and comfortably see a rocket launch. Any week across the country. Aerospace is a big part of American culture. Don’t miss out on the extraordinary.
#OTD 6/21/2004: #SpaceShipOne became the first crewed private craft to reach the edge of #space wired.com/2011/06/0621sp… @Xprize #aviation #CommercialSpace
