Engineers noticed Voyager 1’s thrusters getting sluggish. They needed to swap thrusters to make sure the spacecraft could continue pointing at Earth to communicate.

It was a risky maneuver that could have damaged the spacecraft. Here’s the story:

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https://youtu.be/_KbKrqnFjxI

Butch and Suni will return on Crew-9 in February. Boeing Starliner will return uncrewed.

I have gotten or seen about a million questions about (1) spacesuits not being compatible across Boeing and SpaceX and (2) loss of crew odds/how NASA looks at risk and I will have a video explaining and analyzing both these things in the next couple of days.

If you want to read about what exactly Perseverance found on Mars, but video isn’t your thing — newsletter is out now!!

https://www.adastraspace.com/p/perseverance-rover-cheyava-falls-life-on-mars
https://wandering.shop/@skrishna/112972046892238986

Very excited that the video I've been sitting on for like two weeks about "did Perseverance find life on Mars" will actually go up today as I play catch up (kid is out of camp this week.)

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Here’s the newsletter version outlining NASA’s contingency plan to bring home Boeing Starliner astronauts on a SpaceX Crew Dragon — important to note, NOTHING has been decided yet: https://www.adastraspace.com/p/nasa-boeing-starliner-spacex-rescue-plan
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I will have another video breaking down what comes next for Boeing Starliner tonight, newsletter tomorrow at 11 am ET: http://www.adastraspace.com

If you want to get up to speed on the Boeing Starliner/SpaceX Crew Dragon possible rescue situation, I have the newsletter version ready for you!

https://www.adastraspace.com/p/boeing-starliner-spacex-rescue-nasa
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Gotta love Boeing. Posting this on a Friday night absolutely screams confidence, Boeing.

Here's the newsletter if you prefer that! (and yes there's an RSS feed -- scroll to the bottom, you'll find the link)

https://www.adastraspace.com/p/will-happen-iss-deorbited-2030
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It’s looking increasingly likely that Boeing Starliner astronauts will come home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon. If that happens, that’ll be the end of the Starliner program.

To be clear, nothing is certain — but the lack of updates from NASA (and the agency’s lack of transparency) is pretty loud here.

I didn't intend to tackle this huge subject this week, but I started writing...and couldn't stop!! This week's issue of Ad Astra (video + newsletter) will be all about the ISS deorbit -- why we can't leave it up there as a museum, why we can't bring it down and save some large pieces, why we can't repurpose it, as well as how the deorbit will happen.

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SpaceX is having a trash issue: Specifically, multiple pieces of debris have landed across North American as a result of Crew Dragon re-entries. No one's been hurt, but it's a serious issue.

https://youtu.be/Ndqzl6zUw4Q

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#space #spaceflight #spacex

NASA announced today that SpaceX was selected to develop the vehicle that will de-orbit the ISS in 2030.

#space #nasa #spacex #iss

Hubble is back in full operation with all three gyros operating!

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-pauses-science-due-to-gyro-issue/

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Ok y'all, a few things:

(1) That article is from freaking 2017. There is zero point in critiquing it now. All you're going to do is get muted.

(2) If I knew it was going to go viral multiple times, and be read by an audience other than Asian American kids, I would have written it very differently. Please keep in mind that it was written FOR Asian American children of immigrants before anyone else.

The interview unfortunately also doesn't exist anymore, but I found a transcript. Here's what #MichelleYeoh said to me about keeping her accent on the show.

I forgot about this: ”You know how it is. That's what we are."

I'm crying again.

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery

@pynkbites I haven't seen any writing specifically on it, but I have a feeling M’Benga's accent meant a LOT to a lot of people!!!

She means SO MUCH to me, my captain, and to see her succeed like this is amazing and incredibly well deserved.

(The site I wrote the article for took down all their pre-2019 content, so that's a personal copy of it.)