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As the Moonikin flying aboard the @NASA_Orion spacecraft, I realize how lucky I am to be here! Not every manikin has this opportunity.

You know how the famous saying goes… “One small step for a man, one giant leap for a manikin.”
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


in reply to NASA

We won't have this view again anytime soon - DRO (distant retrograde orbit) is for Artemis I, while lunar flyby will be used for Artemis II!


Because we recently broke the Apollo 13 record for farthest distance of a spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth, I want to acknowledge my namesake, who is known for his contributions to the Apollo 13 mission. 1/9 go.nasa.gov/3GSnkM5
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Arturo Campos (the human) grew up in Laredo, Texas, hailing from a Mexican-American family. He started working at his dad’s auto mechanic shop, and went on to earn an engineering degree before joining @NASA_Johnson in the 1960s. 2/9 go.nasa.gov/3ijsers
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Working during the Apollo era, Campos used his engineering background to help design the electrical systems used in lunar modules — including the one used during the first Moon landing in 1969. 3/9
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


The JPL and the Space Age documentary series continues today (#RedPlanetDay!) at 4pm PT with “Mission to Mars." This episode tells how overcoming adversity led to the @NASAMars Spirit and Opportunity rovers.

Tune in here: youtu.be/f_sSzn87ljM
#NASAJPL



The explosion crippled their ship. Unless somebody helped them, those astronauts would have been toast! (And not the kind you eat for breakfast.) 5/9
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


One day, disaster struck. An oxygen tank ruptured aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft while it was on its way to the Moon. The astronauts were left without their normal supply of electricity, light, and water some 200,000 miles from Earth. 4/9
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Arturo Campos dived into the rescue effort. Thinking on his feet, he rewrote a plan to divert electricity from other parts of the spacecraft into the ship’s essential systems. The plan was relayed to the crew via mission control. 6/9
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


Welcome, Hubble’s first new #StarrySights image!

This glittering gathering of stars is Pismis 26, a globular cluster located 23,000 light-years away. Many thousands of stars gleam within this cluster, which scientists estimate to be 12 billion years old: go.nasa.gov/3gKQ3rJ
#Hubble



Quiz time‼️

#OTD in 1964, Mariner 4 launched. This 1965 photo is the first closeup picture of what planet in our solar system? 🤔

A. Mercury
B. Venus
C. Mars
D. Jupiter

Comment below with your answer!
#NASAhistory



I did it. I made music on a TI-83 graphing calculator. This is insane. Massive shout-out to @jefftheworld for letting me know this exists. Man was this a pain to get up and running. I still run into a problem where it only plays the first note and then nothing else. I find if I leave row play mode off it doesn't do that but I'm stumped as to what it could be causing it. The only thing that solves it is reinstalling. Yikes! Well, it works. For now. Gotta get the emulator up and running so I have a more reliable platform to work with the tracker. Then I can port the ROM over to the calculator.
#chiptune
#houstontracker2


NVIDIA Linux driver 525.60.11 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/nvid…
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Do you know when will be available for Ubuntu 22.04 in additional drivers ? For now, I have there only 520 drivers. Thank you


It was no easy fix, but it got the job done. Four days later, the Apollo 13 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, exhausted but safe. Campos helped save their lives. 7/9 go.nasa.gov/2z23yNl
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


The Apollo 13 mission would go down in history as a “successful failure” because of the experience gained in rescuing the crew members. Campos’ knowledge played a key role in the team’s efforts. So to me, he’s a hero. 8/9
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


P.S. …I hope my own trip home isn’t quite as dramatic! 9/9 nasa.gov/moonikin-comic
#NASAArtemis #Artemis


This is RIGHT NOW. @NASA_Orion is looking back at Earth and the Moon from distant retrograde orbit. Watch the #Artemis I livestream: bit.ly/3EBXYiY
#NASA


Stars in globular clusters pack snugly together. Messier 28, for example, crams about 50,000 stars into a region just 60 light-years (350 trillion miles) across. The Sun only has about 400 known stellar neighbors that close. #MondayMotivation
#NASAUniverse
in reply to NASA

What keeps them from collapsing together from gravity? Were the stars formed from an old expanding supernova?


NASA precipitation data reporting for duty 🫡

The @usairforce meteorology unit is now using precipitation data from @nasa's IMERG algorithm in its operational weather forecasts and advisories. go.nasa.gov/3ubC2WU
#NASAEarth



A couple days ago, my crewmates @DLR_en (Helga), @ILSpaceAgency (Zohar), and I hit a very important milestone!

@NASA_Orion broke the record for the farthest distance of spacecraft designed to carry humans to deep space and safely return them to Earth. go.nasa.gov/3u8ep1K
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



Time to take in some #StarrySights!

Over the next couple weeks, we'll be exploring Hubble views of different types of star clusters. Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3gNrNFf

Here's a quick guide for star cluster categories ⬇️
#Hubble



Hello professors on here: this semester we've seen a tidal wave of academic misconduct (copy and paste plagiarism, sharing answers). What strategies do you use that *work* to deal with this (not including giving 0s)? Right now we're having students meet with the chair for a chat & I assign a make-up assignment using Andrea Edinger's Cultivating a Conscientious Citation Practice. Other practices? unwrittenhistories.com/cultiva…



Open Clusters:

These contain between a few dozen to a few thousand stars, all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust. Their shape is more irregular than spherical, with large amounts of gas between the stars.
#Hubble



Embedded Clusters:

These are like a "prequel" to open and globular clusters. As the youngest type of star cluster, they contain newly born and forming stars surrounded by cosmic gas and dust.
#Hubble



Does anyone have any information on books or websites that can help guide my partner on making body butters and haircare, specifically from Black/African backgrounds? She'd like to know the use cases of ingredients and how to use them together. (jacky.wtf/2022/11/DQuk)


Hey there! Remember me? It’s Commander Moonikin Campos, and I’m taking over this account again… but this time, from the Moon!

As I write these Tweets, my crew and I are flying aboard the @NASA_Orion spacecraft in a distant retrograde orbit! nasa.gov/moonikin-comic
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



I am joined on the #Artemis I mission by my two trusted companions, Helga and Zohar, aka the #LunaTwins!

Not only are Helga and Zohar joining me here inside @NASA_Orion… they are also joining me here on @Twitter!
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



I'm still finding my feet here, so it feels right to share with you the first #JournalCover I ever got with my #sciart

I was a #postdoc at the time and I had 1 evening to produce something around the idea that virulence in #bacteria is often 'all about the #phage ... '

A lucky break for me!
#MastoArt #Introduction

in reply to Eliza Wolfson

very cool. What sort of stuff had you made with aquarelle/printmaking prior to this work?
in reply to Danny (he/they)

@danwchan Thank you! This was my first go at it. To be honest, at the time, I didn't even know that it was an actual technique with a name. I was just making it up as I went along! I didn't have any lino to hand so used some thick card instead. It's more absorbent and gives different printing effects.

I got commissioned by #FEMSmicro to make a visual identity for their blog using this technique some time later...



Half-Life: Alyx LEVITATION mod adds four hours of new story - out now

gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/half…



Wine 7.22 out now with more 32bit on 64bit work gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/wine…


JSAUX release 'CaseKiller' for the official Steam Deck Dock to help with protective cases gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/jsau…


The Long Dark: Tales from the Far Territory begins on December 5th gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/the-…


Cyberspace hacking looter-shooter Black Ice gets a big content upgrade gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/cybe… #IndieGame #FPS


Dome Keeper adds new cave types and little critters to make exploration more interesting gamingonlinux.com/2022/11/dome…


📄 Statistical code for #ClinicalResearch papers in a high-impact specialist #medical journal

Interesting #paper on the availability of #statistical #code in European Urology papers. And a checklist to get us all thinking about how good the code we share is.

thanks for finding and posting it first @MarkKelson

🔗 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

#Science #OpenScience #Reproducibility #Research #OpenAccess

in reply to Open Science ✅

Thanks, I believe this really sheds light on the rush to publish as soon as you get results.
Unfortunately often those results are not reproducible due to how the code is written, which is often specific to the machine of the researcher.

I admit I'm also guilty of this, trying to become better and placing more care in the code.

in reply to Open Science ✅

If I get 10 guesses for criteria to assess code quality, I don't think I would guess 1 out of those 3 criteria, tops.

I understand the code quality standards out of the software community may be low, but precisely for that reason it's scary to see code quality evaluated in terms of extensive annotations, no repetition and markup for formatting. People may start thinking that's what they should do... 🤔


in reply to Peter Tennant, PhD

@pwgtennant I can agree with that. I think the inspection tools have a big effect. I think that if code has been sighted by more than one person, preferably by an outsider and along with some useful comments, it will be comprehensible to most readers.
in reply to Open Science ✅

@openscience @pwgtennant
I don't know what the right answers are but this feels like an enormously healthy conversation to be having.

Best practice for research/analytical code may or may not reflect best practice for code in industry. A process to get consensus around what research code best practice is seems valuable.

I agree with Peter - I think readability is more important in research/analytical code. Efficiency is often less important (at least I hope so!).



What makes Nextcloud stand out? ✨

"First of all privacy. The ability to host your own data and to know where your data is."

Listen to this customer interview with Nassim Shahin, Information Technology Services Manager at Erzbistum Köln.
vimeo.com/748722216



Leonid Meteors Through Orion apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221128.ht… #APOD
#APOD


*yodeling intensifies*

I dunno, if I were a wresler I would pick some god damn Yodeling as a theme song.

Imagine: Beefy Mcbeef Pants enters the arena with heavy metal. John Cena does the whole patriot stuff.

Random guy appear in pajamas, eating shreaded cheese, Yodeling blasting. John Cena starts sweating, other wreslers also have never heard of guy before and don't know how to react.

Be the bright colored toad that'll kill by mere touch.

youtu.be/_w2joqV5XVA

#shitpost

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