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(there's a lot of people asking about this, but the legal age to use social media is 13, except in few countries. so yes, there are people here under 15)
2016: This Year at NASA!
As 2016 comes to a close and prospects of the new year loom before us, we take a moment to look back at what we’ve accomplished and how it will set us ahead in the year to come.
2016 marked record-breaking progress in our exploration activities. We advanced the capabilities needed to travel farther into the solar system while increasing observations of our home and the universe, learning more about how to continuously live and work in space and, or course, inspiring the next generation of leaders to take up our journey to Mars and make their own discoveries.
Here are a few of the top NASA stories of 2016...
International Space Station
One Year Mission…completed!
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth after spending a year in space. Testing the limits of human research, findings from their One Year Mission will help send humans farther into space than ever before.
Commercial Resupply
Commercial partners Orbital ATK and SpaceX delivered tons (yes literally tons) of cargo to the International Space Station. This cargo supported hundreds of science experiments and technology demonstrations crucial to our journey to Mars.
Mars
Expandable Habitats
The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was one of the technology demonstrations delivered to the space station in April. Expandable habitats greatly decrease the amount of transport volume for future space missions.
Booster Test Firing
In June, a booster for our Space Launch System (SLS) rocket successfully fired up. It will be used on the first un-crewed test flight of SLS with the Orion spacecraft in 2018. Eventually, this rocket and capsule will carry humans into deep space and one day…Mars!
InSight
This year we updated the milestones for our InSight mission with a new target launch window beginning in May 2018. This mission will place a fixed science outpost on Mars to study its deep interior. Findings and research from this project will address one of the most fundamental questions we have about the planetary and solar system science…how in the world did these rocky planets form?
Solar System and Beyond
Juno
On July 4, our Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter. This mission is working to improve our understanding of the solar system’s beginnings by revealing the origin and evolution of Jupiter.
OSIRIS-REx
In September, we launched our OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…which is America’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission. This spacecraft will travel to a near-Earth asteroid, called Bennu, where it will collect a sample to bring back to Earth for study.
James Webb Space Telescope
In February, the final primary mirror segment of our James Webb Space Telescope was installed. This will be the world’s most powerful space telescope ever, and is scheduled to launch in 2018. Webb will look back in time, studying the very first galaxies ever formed.
Kepler
In May, our Kepler mission verified the discovery of 1,284 new planets. Kepler is the first NASA mission to find potentially habitably Earth-sized planets.
Earth Right Now
Earth Expeditions
Our efforts to improve life on Earth included an announcement in March of a collection of Earth Science field campaigns to study how our planet is changing. These Earth Expeditions sent scientists to places like the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing…and what impacts humans are having on it.
Small Satellites
In November, we announced plans to launch six next-generation Earth-observing small satellite missions. One uses GPS signals to measure wind in hurricanes and tropical systems in greater detail than ever before.
Aeronautics Research
Our efforts in 2016 to make air travel cleaner, safer and quieter included new technology to improve safety and efficiency of aircraft arrivals, departures and service operations.
X-Plane
In June, we highlighted our first designation of an experimental airplane, or X-plane, in a decade. It will test new electric propulsion technology.
Drone Technolgy
In October, we evaluated a system being developed for the Federal Aviation Administration to safely manage drone air traffic.
Technology
Electric Propulsion
We selected Aerojet Rocketdyne to develop and advanced electric propulsion system to enable deep space travel to an asteroid and Mars.
Spinoffs
Our technology transfer program continued to share the agency’s technology with industry, academia and other government agencies at an unprecedented rate.
Centennial Challenges
Our Centennial Challenges program conducted four competition events in 2016 to spark innovation and enable solutions in important technology focus areas.
Watch the full video recap of ‘This Year @NASA’ here:
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Today marks the 10th anniversary of this blog!
Stats and highlights:
Posts: 114
Followers: 471
Total notes: 27,037
Top 10 most popular posts of all time:
[S] Jasper: Mental breakdown
Karkat x Clover
Classes Chart
Dave x Karkat Quadrants
Dave the Archaeologist
John <3< Terezi?
The Mirthful Messiahs: Lord English and Calmasis?
Skaia's clouds and Alt!Calliope
Vriska's Return and the Alpha Timeline's Fate
Classpect Profile Guide
Although this blog has been inactive for many years, and Homestuck ended many years ago, I want to acknowledge that Homestuck was a huge part of a previous chapter of my life, and I'm grateful for that experience and for the friends I made through it.
Homestuck also sparked (and/or fueled) my interest in astrology, which led to me becoming an astrologer.
I don't know what the future holds for this blog. While I still post regularly on my general "reblog blog" @pixie-styx-mix, I don't have much interest or motivation to blog about Homestuck anymore, especially since its end. (And Homestuck^2 basically killed my interest, too.)
I still have several unfinished posts sitting in my drafts that I don't know if I'll ever publish. Some of them are completely obsolete theories, anyway. (And some of them are about Steven Universe, which also ended years ago.)
I've thought about finishing and publishing some of my posts. I've also thought about continuing this blog, but pivoting the content and expanding to theories and meta-analyses about other media/fandoms. Maybe even posting creative, non-meta content.
I guess we'll see what happens.
Thank you to everyone who's followed, supported, and/or engaged with this blog over the past 10 years!
Today marks the 2nd anniversary of this blog!
Stats and highlights:
Posts: 105
Followers: 417
Total notes: 15712
Notes in past year: 10912
Notes in past 6 months: 1799
Top 10 popular posts in past 6 months:
Karkat x Clover
Classes Chart
Emerald Eye of the Storm
Dave the Archaeologist
Jack loses arm parallels
The Mirthful Messiahs: Lord English and Calmasis?
Classpect Profile Guide
“Maimed Clown. Undead Cat. Impaled Crow. Omnipotent Dog.”
413 Followers
2X3Prong Day
Most popular posts of all time (not including above, which are in bold):
Dave x Karkat Quadrants
John <3< Terezi?
Skaia’s clouds and Alt!Calliope
Vriska’s Return and the Alpha Timeline’s Fate
Vriskagram horse omen
Eight-ball dream bubble
The First Guardian of Beforus
Something I find interesting is how so many of my most popular posts involve “shipping” observation/speculation of some sort. I’m not sure if that’s a testament to the fandom (most likely) or to me being a Blood player (possibly) or both, but it amuses me.
In the past year, Homestuck has ended and the credits have rolled. Now we have Hiveswap coming soon and a possible epilogue to look forward to. Hopefully both will provide answers to many important questions that still remain.
As always, thanks for your support (and patience), everyone! Here’s to another year!
Waaah! I recently hit 413 followers! This is so awesome! Thank you, everyone! ^_^
As a thank-you, have a low-quality selfie of me dressed as Roxy!
Today marks 1 ½ years since I started this blog, and also this is my 100th post!
Stats and highlights:
Posts: 100
Followers: 392
Total notes: 13913
Notes in past 6 months: 9113
Began sideblog @pixie-styx-mix
Top 10 popular posts in past 6 months:
Classes Chart
Karkat x Clover
The Mirthful Messiahs: Lord English and Calmasis?
The First Guardian of Beforus
Cinnamon Roll Classes
PM cue ball head
Jack loses arm parallels
John the Wizard
LOTAK’s destruction and Gamzee
“Maimed Clown. Undead Cat. Impaled Crow. Omnipotent Dog.”
Thanks, everyone, for your support for the past year and a half! It’s been a wild ride!
At this point, I’m not sure what the fate of this blog will be. I’m still disillusioned by Homestuck’s finale, although I realize an epilogue is in the works. I might do some character analyses, non-predictive theory posts, classpect stuff, or other posts, but we’ll see. I do still have some asks I need to answer. (Thanks for your patience on those.) I’m considering adding in some non-Homestuck content, perhaps applying classpect analyses to characters from other works, to keep it tied to HS.
At some point, I intend to read Problem Sleuth. (I know, I know, I’m behind. XP ) Maybe I could comment on that and sort of... pseudo-live blog as I go? I’d also like to re-read Homestuck now that it’s “finished”, and see if I can glean anything new. (Plus I want to make note of what’s been left unresolved.)
What would you guys like me to do? What content are you interested in seeing on this blog?
Wow, I can’t believe today marks one year since I made this blog! (I also can’t believe that I’ve only made 3 posts in the past 6 months... >_>; )
Anyway, here are some stats and highlights:
Posts: 73
Followers: 216
Notes in past year: 4800
Notes in past 6 months: 642
Top 10 popular posts in past 6 months:
The Magic Chest
Dave x Karkat Quadrants
Matrix Vibes
John <3< Terezi?
The First Guardian of Beforus
Classpect Profile Guide
Eight-ball dream bubble
Classes Chart
Doomed vs. Void Timelines
Vriskagram horse omen
Once again, I apologizing for not posting much lately. I guess the Omegapause has killed my motivation. I do hope to post more, though.
Again, thanks so much, everyone, for your support! Here’s to another year! ^_^