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Visionary Think Spaces & Research Studio focused on Architecture, Urban Design, Land, Environmental Planning, Scientific Exploration, Engineering & Art

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@NASA18 Jun 2025
Riding into orbit 👩‍🚀 On June 18, 1983—42 years ago today—astronaut Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel to space. Ride and her crewmates deployed two satellites and conducted scientific research during their six days in orbit aboard space shuttle Challenger.
Astronaut Sally Ride floats gently as she sits in the front seat of the space shuttle Challenger. Light from the shuttle window on the left illuminates Ride's face and upper body; Ride is wearing a blue polo shirt, with a watch on her left arm. The shuttle around her is filled with consoles and control panels. Credit: NASA

ALT Astronaut Sally Ride floats gently as she sits in the front seat of the space shuttle Challenger. Light from the shuttle window on the left illuminates Ride's face and upper body; Ride is wearing a blue polo shirt, with a watch on her left arm. The shuttle around her is filled with consoles and control panels. Credit: NASA

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Watch Starship's ninth flight test → spacex.com/launches/mission/… teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1OwxWXMRA…
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SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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Once-in-a-lifetime-shot. A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy.
Image from Curiosity (@MAstronomers)
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🏆 Competition time, £2,500 top prize! 🔍 Using @WFraserEurope's SterlingOSB Zero, can you create an object, installation, building or urban intervention that plays on the idea of scale, to create wonder, drama – or even shock? Entries close 23 Jun 2025 ow.ly/5kFM50VnVOs
Image from RIBAJ (@RIBAJ)
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Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.
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The clearest image ever taken of Phobos, Moon of Mars.
Image from Curiosity (@MAstronomers)
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The Sun photographed for a year and a half every day from the same spot at the same time ♾ teapawt.org/i/status/1832703923162…
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People playing startup house think “build a demo” or “get a first customer” is some sort of check mark in order to join a club or pass a test Do you understand starting a company is do or die? Either your product is something people want or not. We want you to make a great demo or build something awesome not as check mark on the way to something. Either you make it or you don’t. There is no other bar to hit. Those things we want you to do are literally the necessary steps it will take to win in a market. Startups are pass/fail.
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They both lived in the future and saw around corners, always thinking years/decades ahead. And at the same time, they were both obsessive over the tiniest product and design details. They could go from 30,000 feet to 3 feet in a split second.
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"Courage is far shorter in supply than genius." - Peter Thiel
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Out of this world🚀💫
The Ohio State University Marching Band (@TBDBITL) profile pictureThe Ohio State University Marching Band@TBDBITL21 Sep 2024
Ohio, the heart of it all! Enjoy the ending of our halftime show, "The Road to the Moon Goes Through Ohio." 🚀 Full show: go.osu.edu/roadtothemoon @NASA @NASAglenn
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Replying to @dvassallo
The very best engineers want to build things, not type characters into a text field
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Bryan Johnson— the most measured man in human history— at the YC alumni event tonight: “Don’t die.”
Image from Y Combinator (@ycombinator)
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On June 26, our engineers made history by streaming 4K video footage from Earth to the @Space_Station for the first time. The video was sent from Glenn to the ISS over @NASASCaN networks using several laser links & High-Rate Delay Tolerant Networking: go.nasa.gov/48OcaDM
Artistic Rendering. The International Space Station is shown floating in space above the surface of the Earth. A red laser communications signal is shown connecting the space station to a smaller laser relay satellite positioned to the upper right side of the image. The laser relay satellite is sending a second red communications signal down to the Earth’s surface.

ALT Artistic Rendering. The International Space Station is shown floating in space above the surface of the Earth. A red laser communications signal is shown connecting the space station to a smaller laser relay satellite positioned to the upper right side of the image. The laser relay satellite is sending a second red communications signal down to the Earth’s surface.

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Hurricane Beryl, a Category 4 storm with winds around 130 miles per hour, is seen over the Caribbean from the space station as it orbited above at about 9 a.m. EDT Monday morning.
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How does a spacecraft survive a wild rocket ride and harsh space conditions? By passing a series of tests here on Earth first. Preparing to launch in less than six months, @EuropaClipper recently endured shaking, chilling, airlessness, and more: go.nasa.gov/4cvGOnl
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OTD in 1852 the 16th asteroid was discovered and named Psyche. Now 172 years later we have a robotic spacecraft on its way to learn more, and currently more than 450 times farther than our Moon and zooming onward. Go, humans, make the next 172 better and better. @MissionToPsyche
Image from Lindy Elkins-Tanton (@ltelkins)
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Starship is coasting in space
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Next up — a very big candle 🕯 As I learned in my youth: everything's bigger in Texas.
Image from Steve Jurvetson (@FutureJurvetson)
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Reminder that the US built some of the greatest train stations ever seen. These are the most beautiful (thread) 🧵
Image from The Culturist (@the_culturist_)
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