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Elon’s #Starship is a massive failure, and we should stop allowing it to launch.

NASA’s Saturn V rocket from before I was born is beating SpaceX’s Starship by the metrics Elon promised Starship would excel. It could carry more, it was reliable, and it never experienced any “rapid disassemblies” or whatever he calls it.

In 2022, #NASA sent Artemis 1 on a successful test flight around the MOON on its FIRST ATTEMPT. Starship has yet to complete a single orbit around the Earth in 8 attempts.

NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024…
nasa.gov/missions/jason-cs-sen
“With 2024 as the warmest year on record, Earth’s expanding oceans are following suit, reaching their highest levels in three decades,” said Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, head of physical #oceanography programs and the Integrated Earth System Observatory at #NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Global view of Florida
NASA · NASA Analysis Shows Unexpected Amount of Sea Level Rise in 2024 - NASALast year’s increase was due to an unusual amount of ocean warming, combined with meltwater from land-based ice such as glaciers.

Ha!
Just as I thought that was a rare rock, maybe never to be seen again, here's another one, right next to the rover and to the left of the spot it recently abraded and cored.

Animation and telescopic view.

Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SW (229°) from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1445, LMST: 12:09:38

Originals:
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima
mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise

NASA has closed three of its offices and initiated mass firings as part of a broader government downsizing effort led by the President and his adviser, Elon Musk.

So far, 23 employees have been laid off, with more cuts expected in the coming weeks.

In many cases, individuals are being labeled as "DEI hires" simply for being women or people of colour. It's tacit racism, plain and simple.

open.substack.com/pub/theclima

Continued thread

Update. "US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump"
physicsworld.com/a/us-science-

"In his first cabinet meeting on 26 February, #Trump suggested that officials “use scalpels” when trimming their departments’ spending and personnel – rather than #Musk’s figurative chainsaw. But bosses at the Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) still plan to cut its budget by about two-thirds…The White House’s attack on #climate science goes beyond just the EPA. In January, the US Department of #Agriculture removed almost all data on climate change from its website…The Trump administration has also barred #NASA’s now former chief scientist Katherine Calvin and members of the State Department from travelling to China for a planning meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Meanwhile, in a speech to African energy ministers in Washington on 7 March, US energy secretary Chris Wright claimed that coal has “transformed our world and made it better”, adding that climate change, while real, is not on his list of the world’s top 10 problems."

Physics World · US science rues ongoing demotion of research under President Trump – Physics WorldUS science continues to be hit hard by budget and staff cuts

What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar Eclipse | NASA Science

The Moon will pass into Earth’s shadow and appear to turn red on the night of March 13 or early in the morning on March 14, depending on time zone. Here’s what you need to know about the total lunar eclipse.

#Moon #Eclipse #LunarEclipse #Astronomy #NASA
science.nasa.gov/solar-system/

lunar eclipse
NASA Science · What You Need To Know About the March 2025 Total Lunar EclipseBy Caela Barry

Now, let's try and make sense out of this image captured by #Perseverance earlier tosol. The distance is about 2.5m away from the camera, just to the right of the right front wheel of the rover. What exactly is that we see here?

Spherules with holes? 😮 🧐 🤔

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking N from RMC 69.2124
Sol 1442, LMST: 11:06:22

Original: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-ima

Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

Today NASA is closing their Office of the Chief Scientist and Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and also their Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility branch.

It's a great time to remind your learning community of the incredible achievements of the Black women mathematicians in the 1960's space program that successfully put a man on the Moon. Yes, we're talking about Disney's Hidden Figures.

We offer a Hidden Figures discussion guide that's great for public screenings and low-key classroom use. We also offer classroom-ready lesson plans, across the curriculum, for grades 9-12.

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journeysinfilm.org/product/hid

#NASA #WomensHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #DEI #USPol #Education #Homeschooling #Histodons @stemed @education @edutooters

Journeys in FilmHidden Figures | Journeys in FilmHidden Figures Movie discussion guide and lessons for teaching U.S. History, STEM, Black History. This guides supports UN SDGs.

The long knives are now out for @NASA. It's billed here as "a first step in broader workforce reductions at the agency ordered by the Trump administration."

One of the affected divisions is the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), whose intended purpose "was to provide 'data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice' for NASA. It has worked on topics such as space sustainability and space solar power studies."

spacenews.com/nasa-closes-offi

Calvin
SpaceNews · NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductionsBy Jeff Foust