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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 33m

Legitimately shocking that there are teams less lucky than the Rangers so far

Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 37m

Curious why the first word in the article is a comment on her looks?

Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 13h

Like, this is just sad

The Lockheed Martin exhibition stand at IAC 2021 in Dubai. In the middle is a giant display showing the identical image as the Chinese inflatable habitat, except this one has corporate logos on it.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 13h

It looks exactly like the original Starlab renders

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 13h

Fabulous thread from inside NASA's human spaceflight program, ISS to Artemis

Jason Hutt @jthutt.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve known I wanted to work in aerospace since I was 10. My mom brought me home an art kit that let you draw aircraft. Then in high school, I started drawing spacecraft blueprints, coming up with designs and layouts. Astronaut Andrew Allen spoke at my high school & I knew where I wanted to work.

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 15h

68 years ago today the dog Laika was launched into orbit, the first living being to break the bonds of gravity. Unfortunately she died soon after. I found the previously classified document on her fate in a Russian archive. Here's what it said about her fate #laika (1/n)

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 19h

I was just looking forward to getting my 11-year-old niece a subscription to Teen Vogue for Christmas. Oh, well.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, but how is that different from anything else right now?

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

I've never met anybody so completely certain of his own genius before, but I don't have a lot of SV contacts

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Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social · 2d

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

The ISS Archaeological Project studied the phenomenon of crew-created visual displays in two articles (both open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... and www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11...

Three inhabitants of the ISS in front of a wall covered with various items.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 4d

I wrote something about the 25th anniversary of ISS habitation and the 10th anniversary of the International Space Station Archaeological Project
theconversation.com/25-years-of-...

25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space

Archaeologists have studied how astronauts use the International Space Station to improve its potential future successors.

theconversation.com

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.

An agency photo of the Expedition 1 crew

The Expedition 1 crew in the Russian Zvezda module with fresh oranges. The table is at lower left

A graph showing the ISS population over the last 25 years

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

There are approximately 50 posts in this thread and of course I left out the verb in the first sentence

Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to everyone who has worked on the ISS project. It is an absolutely amazing thing, and it deserves all the recognition we can give it. (And maybe a new table.)

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Our work reinforces the comments of the crew: astronauts want and need a table. It's hard to think of a simpler or more useful technology. ISS has functioned to teach us how to live better in space.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a photo from our experiment on the ISS showing the table on the US side on a Saturday, with a leftover Russian pastry in a Ziploc bag at lower left.

The wall of Node 1 above the table. There is a Russian pastry at lower left in a plastic bag

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Eating around a table is so important that the crew has consistently maintained a group dinner of the entire crew every Friday night. Sometimes this happens on the Russian side, sometimes on the US side.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

At the same time, it's highly notable that there has never been a professionally-designed table on the NASA side of the ISS. For as important and useful as the crew's social bonding around a table is, the NASA engineers who planned the station never prioritized something so simple.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

This table has continued to be used ever since. It is a social hub of the ISS. It has certainly served its function, perhaps far beyond the dreams of its student creators.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Note that the table is perpendicular to the wall again. Paolo Nespoli noticed this, too, when he came back to the ISS in 2017. He said, "When I went back up to the station, I thought Dammit, not again!”

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

NASA astronaut Tim Kopra introduced the new US table here youtu.be/NV-i_1OHrZA

GMT116 10 02 Tim Kopra HUNCH Galley Table evaluation and review 372988

YouTube video by NASA HUNCH

youtu.be

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

In consultation with NASA engineers and astronauts, students from Clear Lake HS, right near Johnson Space Center, designed and built a table that was launched and installed in Node 1 in 2016 www.hunchdesign.com/uploads/2/2/...

www.hunchdesign.com

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing will spill in space, so this was a good solution. With Paolo's modification, the table stayed there until 2016, when the US Orbital Segment of the ISS finally got its own table. This one was a product of NASA's HUNCH program to engage with high school students.

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Justin Walsh @jstpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

This situation was seen as suboptimal by some crew, though. It stuck out into a space that it wasn't designed for, and people hurt themselves bumping into it. ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli solved the problem by tilting it at 45°. www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-ma...

ISS crew with the reused table in Node 1. Now it's at an angle to the wall.

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