Artemis II found itself in a solar eclipse while circumnavigating the moon on April 6. (Huge h/t to NASA, with many more photos here)
Dana sez, US Senator and former astronaut Mark Kelly’s Facebook feed during the Artemis II mission was a delightful follow, and Fix the News has a long section on the mission with photos and links here.
What Ken Griffey Jr. found in the lens at the Masters
Quote: “I think it’s all about getting better and trying to learn things,” Griffey said on a call last week. “I feel like if you get stuck or you only do one thing, your mind is going to die. You can always get better and learn different things. I like taking pictures. So why not learn to take better pictures?” –Ken Griffey Jr., MLB star, husband and father, scuba diver, pilot, and now photographer. Dana sez, Just one of those great stories. (NYT gift link)
Quote: “Yes, Trump himself may soon be disgraced, but he and his administration have set in motion long-term changes that are going to be with us for the foreseeable future. Trump, it is increasingly clear, is a figure of enormous historical significance who is reshaping America and the globe in ways that will not easily be undone by Democratic wins in future elections.”
Dana sez, Peter Leyden is saying pretty much the same thing, and Pete Buttigieg keeps telling us that no matter who wins the midterms or in 2028, nothing will ever be the same. May you live in interesting times. (NOTUS, h/t The Best of Journalism)
Dana sez, Possibly the coolest fountain in the whole wide world. But I’ve only watched this video like seven or eighty times, what do I know. (h/t Laughing Squid, I think)
Quote for the day
By spring 1865, the Confederates who had ridden off to war four years before boasting that their wealthy aristocrats would beat the North’s moneygrubbing shopkeepers in a single battle were broken and starving, while the Union army, backed by a booming industrial economy, could provide rations for twenty-five thousand men on a moment’s notice.
The Civil War was won not by the dashing sons of wealthy planters, but by men like Grant, who dragged himself out of his blankets and pulled a dirty soldier’s uniform over his pounding head on an April morning because he knew he had to get up and get to work. —Heather Cox Richardson
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