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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 8d

And yours ❤️‍🩹 We really were lucky to share a planet with them.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 8d

By us! Thanks for working with me on this one ☺️

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Lee Billings @leebillings.bsky.social · 8d

Now on @sciam.bsky.social: NASA’s next-gen Habitable Worlds Observatory may be our best chance to find alien life. But can a nation busy ripping itself apart unite to launch a mission to solve life’s cosmic mysteries? By @nadiadrake.bsky.social (and me).

www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-...

NASA’s First-Ever Alien-Hunting Space Telescope Could Enlighten Our New Dark Age

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground

www.scientificamerican.com

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · 28d

Alex I just heard that we are "sending mankind throughout the universe" so really that's just a tiny hop

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Sep 2

Missing my dad extra hard today — it's been three orbits since he left.

Dad and me in the snow; I'm wearing a pink snow suit and am barely old enough to walk. He's holding my hand.

I'm a few years old and am sitting on Dad's shoulders. He looked excited. I look puzzled.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jul 26

Hmmmm…that’s an auspicious date 🧐

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jul 14

Lots to look at in this subcommittee markup, but: Whose yacht did those orcas attack?? 🤦‍♀️

appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

appropriations.house.gov

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jun 5

"You’re punching a generation-size hole, maybe a multigenerational hole, in the scientific and technical workforce. You don’t just Cryovac these people and pull them out when the money comes back. People are going to move on.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

This Budget Plan Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

Scientists are rallying to reverse ruinous proposed cuts to both NASA and the National Science Foundation

www.scientificamerican.com

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · May 30

That’s a cool shot! Safe flight and see you soon 🌌

Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · May 26

Thank you! I really appreciate it. Yay Clipper!

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · May 9

Meanwhile, check out the midpoint of this re-entry window. (Prediction is current as of 4pm US Eastern, and it will change, but if 2025 wants to be maximally chaotic…it’s on course) #kosmos482 aerospace.org/reentries/6073

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Apr 24

“A lot of life’s interesting things are in the bits that don’t fit. The anomalies. The curiosities.” — Jocelyn Bell Burnell

#breakthroughdiscuss

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Apr 18

About the leaked NASA budget proposal that kills an almost-ready-to-launch flagship mission: "It sets back a program that is clearly the leading program in the world—in a historic fashion. You take that program and shoot it through the head."

www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa...

NASA’s Next Major Space Telescope Is Ready to Launch. Trump Wants to Kill It and Other Vital Science

Amid harsh cuts, the Trump administration has proposed canceling the nearly ready-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

www.scientificamerican.com

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Apr 17

The one science story that friends, family, and neighbors are pinging me about right now:

• K2-18b

I love that people are excited about it! That's great!! But how much damage are we doing to the general appetite for cool, actual science with the type of hyperbole that came from this team?

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Apr 17

Mmmmmmhmmmmmmmmmm. Would also add that there’s room for improvement in multiple areas.

These are good conversations to have. 🖖👽

Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Apr 17

Good thing we’re having a workshop for journalists in one week on claims of life in the universe 👽

Feels like maybe last week could have worked better 🤷‍♀️

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Apr 13

Extremely yes!! Cannot wait. (But do we have to wait five years? Okay…)

Laurie Leshin @laurieofmars.bsky.social · Apr 12

Psst…5 years from today is Jupiter Orbit Insertion for Europa Clipper. Everyone should mark their calendars.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 24

And yet, carrying unclassified data about Mars gets you detained and ejected.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 24

Re-upping this absolute gem for no reason whatsoever.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD3...

A screen grab of Darth Vader asking Princess Leia, “What did you do with those plans you were sent?” It’s from an absolutely genius mash up of Stars Wars set to Beatles songs.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 14

Wow — this shot of a total solar eclipse is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Shot from the moon's surface by @firefly-aerospace.bsky.social's Blue Ghost lander, it shows the sun about to emerge from behind the Earth. What a beautiful cosmic perspective! 💍

An image of a total solar eclipse, seen from the moon's surface. The sun's light is a thin ring around a dark Earth, except where the sun is beginning to emerge from behind the Earth, producing what's colloquially called the "diamond ring" effect.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 13

You’re really selling it! …be right there 😂

Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 13

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Mar 13

Before we know it, California will be called "Champagne" because this is a person who cannot stand being wrong (especially when he's really, really wrong)

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jan 31

She would like a visit and more peanut noodles, please.

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jan 31

Beans SphereXed herself chasing a deer…

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Nadia Drake @nadiadrake.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Please stand by. We are awaiting a wayward boat to clear the range." — Blue Origin, accurately telling the story of my launch-reporting life 🚀

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