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  1. Turning NASA Wake-up Calls into data


    by @beet_keeper

    For a while back then I was into space flight again. Scientists, science communicators, and engineers were all excited for a new era of rocket launches and the potential unification of the human race as we look towards the future.

    During that time I discovered Colin Fries’ work in the NASA History Division to document all NASA “Wake-up calls”. A wake-up call is simply a piece of music used to wake astronauts on missions, a different piece of music, daily, for the duration of the flight.

    Take, for example, the last Space Shuttle mission (Space Transportation System) STS-135; it was in flight for 13 days, and the wake-up call on day one was Coldplay’s Viva la Vida, while on day 13 it was Kate Smith singing God Bless America.

    As a huge music buff who has the radio or music television on 18 hours a day, I really wanted to delve into this further. While Colin’s work is great, it’s just a PDF file (@wtfpdf). A PDF is not an ideal file format for querying data and gleaning new insights. So, while I wanted to explore it, I first decided to turn it into a true dataset. The result was a set of resources, a website, a JSON, a CSV, and an SQLite database which are each more functional and more maintainable over time.

    Lets take a look at the results and nasawakeupcalls.github.io below!

    #ApacheTika #Code #Coding #DataWrangling #Datasette #DatasetteLite #DH #DigitalHumanities #glam #harkive #NASA #NASAWakeUpCall #NASAWakeUpCalls #OpenData #PersonalProjects #Science #Space #SpaceHistory #Twitter #WakeUpCall

  2. Hey Saturn V fans, Scott Manley's latest video has some Apollo-era porn for us all.

    How Did The Massive Launch Tower For The Saturn V Work?

    youtube.com/watch?v=JFY7Q47fZaE

    #SaturnV #Apollo #Space #NASA #history #SpaceHistory

  3. CW: Long List of Space-related Hashtags & Handles

    Space

    Physical Sciences
    #Astronomy #AstroPhysics #Cosmology

    General
    #AsteroidMining #Asteroids #AsteroidThreat #Astrodon #Astronomers #AstronomyMastodon #AstroPhotography #AstroTuesday #BlackHole #BlackHoles #CelestialBodyLanding #ClearSkies #Comet #Comets #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #DeepSky #DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) #Exoplanets #Galaxy #Galaxies #Gravity #GravitationalWaves #HallEffectThruster #HumanSpaceflight #HumanSpaceflightBasics #HumanSpaceflightHealth #HumanSpaceflightSecurity #ISRU (in situ resource utilization) #LaunchCost #Lunar3dPrinting #MoonMining #NightSky #Observatory #Planetarium #PlanetsryScience #PrivateSpaceflight #Pulsars #Quasars #ReusableLaunchVehicle #RocketEngine #RocketScience #SatelliteImprovement #SatelliteInternetAccess #Satellites #SBSP (Space-based Solar Power) #SmallSat #SolarPhysics #Space #SpaceAgency #SpaceCommunication #SpaceCompany #SpaceCraft #SpaceColonization #SpacecraftComparison #SpacecraftPropulsion #SpaceDebris #Spacedon #SpaceEnergy #SpaceEvent #SpaceExploration #SpaceFood #SpaceForce #SpaceHabitat #SpaceHistory #SpaceHotel #SpaceIndustry #SpaceInfrastructure #SpaceLogistics #SpaceMaintenance #SpaceMastodon #SpaceMining #SpaceNavigation #SpacePhotography #SpacePlants #SpacePolitics #SpacePort #SpaceRegulation #SpaceRobot #SpaceScience #SpaceSciFi #SpaceShip #SpaceScience #SpaceStation #SpaceSuit #SpaceTelescope #SpaceTourism #SpaceWelding #SpaceX #StarGazing @starrytimepod #TimeToOrbit #Universe

    Organisations
    Canadian Space Agency (CSA) 🇨🇦
    #EuropeanSpaceAgency (#ESA) 🇪🇺
    European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) 🇪🇺
    Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (#JAXA) 🇯🇵
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory (#JPL) 🇺🇸
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (#NASA) 🇺🇸
    Space Telescope Science Institute (STSciI) 🇪🇺

    Missions
    #Artemis (#NASAArtemis) #BepiColombo #Cassini COBE #Euclid #EuclidMission #EuropaClipper #Hayabusa2 #InternationalSpaceStation (#ISS) JupiterIcyMoonExplorer (#Juice) #JuiceMission #Juno #Gaia #MMX #Magellan #Voyager1 #Voyager2

    Space Telescopes
    #SpaceTelescope #Telescope

    #ChandraXRay (#Chandra) #ESAEuclid #EventHorizonTelescope #Hubble #HubbleSpaceTelescope (#HST) #IXPE #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST (#Webb) #Kepler #MIRI #NIRcam #NIRISS #NIRSpec #Spitzer

    Earth Observatories
    #Arecibo 🇵🇷 #AtacamaLargeMillimeterArray (#ALMA) 🇨🇱 #CerroTololo 🇨🇱 #EuropeanSouthernObservatory (#ESO) 🇩🇪 #Haleakala 🇺🇸 #Herschel (#WHT) 🇮🇨 #Keck 🇺🇸 #KittPeak 🇺🇸 #LIGO 🇺🇸 #MaunaKea 🇺🇸 #Paranal 🇨🇱 #Parkes 🇦🇺 #RoqueDeLosMuchachos 🇪🇸 #SquareKilometreArrayObservatory (#SKAO) 🇦🇺 #VeryLargeTelescope (#VLT) 🇨🇱

    Mastodon Observatories
    Abbey Ridge Observatory 🇨🇦 @abbeyridgeobs
    Burke-Gaffney Observatory 🇨🇦 @BGO
    Hamburg Observatory 🇩🇪 @HambObs
    Las Cumbres Observatory 🇦🇺 🇿🇦 🇮🇨 🇨🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇨🇳 @lco
    Mount Burnett Observatory 🇦🇺 @mbo
    Rubin Observatory 🇨🇱 @VRubinObs
    Stella-Luna Observatory 🇺🇸 @StellaLunaObs
    Westport Observatory 🇺🇸 @WestportObservatory

    Astrophotography
    Andrea Luck @andrealuck
    Astronomy Picture of the Day @APoD
    Cathie LeBlank @cathieleblanc
    Craig Kolb @cek
    Dan Kagelmacher @[email protected]
    David Blanchflower @DavidBflower
    DGMc @Astrobum
    Frank Adler @adfr
    jdsoubeyran @jdsoubeyran
    Kreegan99 @kreegan99
    Landru79 @Landru79
    Loran Hughes @WestwoodAstro
    Mollenberg Observatory @MollenbergSky
    Naztronomy @naz
    Noom @noom
    Philo @philo
    Roger Sliva @[email protected]
    Simeon Schmauß @stim3on
    UniversoMagico @UniversoMagico

    Solar System
    #Sun #SolarCorona
    #KuiperBelt

    Planets
    #Mercury
    #Venus
    #Earth
    #Moon #Lunar
    #Mars
    #Phobos #Deimos
    #Jupiter
    #Callisto #Ganymede #Europa #Io
    #Saturn
    #Enceladus #Mimas #Titan
    #Uranus
    #Ariel #Miranda Titania
    #Neptune
    #Triton

    Dwarf Planets
    #Pluto
    #Charon
    #Ceres
    Makemake
    Haumea
    #Eris

    Hypothetical
    #PlanetX

    Beyond
    OortCloud
    #ProximaCentauri
    #SagittariusA*
    #MilkyWay
    #Andromeda (#M31)
    #Pleiades (#M45)

    (See Sciences for Other Disciplines)

    (See Index for More Hashtags)

  4. Infiltration of the #Baikonur #Cosmodrome and its abandoned parts with a #rocket and two #SpaceShuttles. Shot in 📆 2018 jonk-photography.com/en/le-mon

    Two #Buran are rotting away in an abandoned hangar in another part of the sprawling Baikonur complex. Over the years, local scavengers have snuck into the hangar to harvest valuable metals and electronics. The site has also been targeted by international #adventurers seeking a glimpse at Soviet #SpaceHistory. Among them is #French photographer #Jonk wired.com/story/jonk-buran-pho

    Picture : #SpaceShuttle Buran at the Technik #Museum #Speyer 🇩🇪 graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Te :ccby: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil