Black hole sun was right there, and they went with star?
Future fashion! It’s what everyone will be wearing next summer!
Having spent 25 years of my working life dealing with the safety of industrial radiation workers, it worries me when I see the terms “efficient”, “lighter”, and “reasonable”, applied to radiation protection.
The protection currently provided for astronauts is already far from adequate - that’s one of the reasons NASA tend to choose older men who’ve already fathered children.
I guess when the penalty for additional mass is entirely unreasonable, it starts screwing with the terminology a bit… 
Yes, outside of the protection of our magnetic field and atmosphere the full on space weather is harsh.
this popped up in my feed this morning, totally not related to Project Skyscraper …
Its an Imperial Probe Droid 
It’s No Man’s Walk in the wrong system.
According to the article its from cosmic rays; Rover must have gotten the Cosmos update raybeamed to it 3 years before we did. Luckyyyyyyy.
SpaceX - Crew-13 (NASA Commercial Crew)
Launch is currently targeted no earlier than 2026-10-01T15:10:00Z
Homage to Apollo 13… We will see if it lives up to that. 
Forgot to post this:
and this:
Pretty smooth launch, with docking with the ISS estimated at about 2026-10-01T23:00:00Z and hatch opening at 2026-10-02T00:45:00Z.
:-/ AI continues to remind us that we are still barely out of the caves.
Although this studys setup could be a useful tool during onboarding and training to figure out who may be harbouring some weird or harmful gender biases at the workplace
Crew-12 - Hatch Close, Undocking, and Re-Entry & Splashdown
Shedule
- Hatch closing: 2026-10-07T10:00:00Z
- Undocking: 2026-10-07T12:05:00Z
- Splashdown off the coast of California: estimated 2026-10-08T15:34:00Z
NASA on YouTube 
Sheduled Events (NASA Streams)
I missed it this morning but my daughter caught it just before she left for work