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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

I was looking for something else on the NASA website when I came across this collection of letters that Astronaut Jerry Linenger wrote to his 14 month old son during his stay on the Mir space station in 1997.

https://www.nasa.gov/history/SP-4225/documentation/linenger-letters/letters.htm

Such an interesting glimpse into life on a space station.

# NASA

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

NASA is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Viking Lander on Mars!

#nasa #mars

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/viking/viking-50-years-on-mars/

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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Integrity is not only the name of the Orion spacecraft but also a core value at NASA. NASA has policies to label AI generated material and to be transparent with its data. Research integrity and transparency are critical to scientific discovery. From my experience, those working at NASA take this seriously. So when you see images and if you aren’t sure, check who is sharing it, check the provenance of the images, and check the NASA repositories for the images to verify them.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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The Artemis II science team did put together an Open Science and Data Management Plan for their mission.

My very small part in all of it was reviewing it and providing comments. It was very exciting to read about the observations both of the moon and the trip that the astronauts will be doing!

#OpenScience #nasa

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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Full list of NASA ebooks: https://www.nasa.gov/ebooks/

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

One of my favorite recent highlights from NASA research is this data release from the BioSCape project. It is an audio data set to track the ecosystem and compare with remote sensing in one of my absolutely favorite regions of the world!

#NASA #OpenScience

https://science.data.nasa.gov/learn/blog/bioscape-biodiversity-audio-dataset?utm_campaign=ocsdo

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Science takes all types of contributions and this is a great example of recognizing volunteer and community contributions when the rise to the level of co-authorship.

#nasa #citizenscience #openscience

https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/650-nasa-volunteers-have-co-authored-scientific-papers/

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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At the same time, I’ve seen plenty of AI images generated here on social media claiming to be real. With today’s technology, it would not be hard to fake it. And this raises the important question about trust. While some experiments and research anyone can do, building your own telescope to track Orion is not trivial for anyone. We can’t all do our own research - we have to know who we can trust and we have to build organizations that are trustworthy.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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Will it be the technology of the SLS and Orion demonstrating human space flight? Will it be the exploration? It will be the furthest humans have ever been away from Earth! There will be some great views of the Moon’s far side. https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-artemis-ii-lunar-science-operations-to-inform-future-missions/ #ArtemisII #nasa

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Since everyone loved my last post on this topic, NASA just dropped a new coloring book about the sun: “Journey Through the Heliosphere: The Sun-Earth system in Color”

#nasa #color

https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/science-activation/new-nasa-heat-coloring-book-blends-art-science-and-cultural-perspectives/

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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And when verified, enjoy the images and dream about what other amazing things we can accomplish when we work together!

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

NASA science data and software highlights for December! This includes a new repository for Aura software, THEMIS and SphereX and life sciences data, and new tools at the Exoplanet archive.

#NASA #OpenScience #OpenSourceSoftware

https://science.data.nasa.gov/features-events/data-software-highlights-december-2025

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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Will it be science and fascinating experiments like Avatar (‘an organ on a chip’)? https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis-ii-science/ #ArtemisII #nasa

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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This was an incredible tough selection process as we had 102 proposals submitted and an incredible high number of very high quality projects. There were more deserving projects than we had funding for. It was my honor to see all the amazing work being done and I hope we can support more projects in the future. Thank you to all who submitted and all who served as panelists in the review process. #OpenScience #opensourcesoftware #NASA

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 11mo ago

Once again, I thought I bought enough bags of candy for Halloween.

I thought 20 bags would be enough and I thought it was a slow night, but I ran out of candy with 45 minutes still to go.

So many great costumes by the kids and such excitement in the neighborhood!

#happyhalloween

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

Here are some highlights from November on open data and software from NASA Science including highlights from Lucy, Landsat and Sentinel-2, and SphereX

https://science.data.nasa.gov/features-events/data-software-highlights-november-2025

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

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@serge great reminder about that one!

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@galaxy_map we also have a call that supports innovative projects as well and here are some of those selected: https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/funding-winners-open-source/

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NASA Awards 15 Grants to Support Open-Source Science - NASA Science

NASA awarded $1.4 million to 15 teams developing new technologies that advance and streamline the open sharing of scientific information.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@lavergnetho we will be posting the abstracts soon, or take a look at the repository for contact information for the team. https://github.com/nasa/fprime

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GitHub - nasa/fprime: F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework

F´ - A flight software and embedded systems framework - nasa/fprime

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@RegisHaubourg Not at the moment but we will be posting the full abstracts soon. Also you can reach out to the PI - I’m sure Trent would be happy to chat.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@williamgunn I beleive once the paperwork is complete that the awarded amount will be publically accessible, but we usually don’t include those on the announcements.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 39mo ago

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Continuation of CERN’s Open Hardware policy: Hardware design releases will consider opportunities for collaboration with other research communities and industry. In cases where extensive documentation and ancillary components like software for interfacing and testing are required for projects, these should be licensed under appropriate open source documentation and software licences respectively.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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Open to US citizens for an in-person experience at NASA Headquarters in DC. Other opportunities can also be found at the STEM gateway site.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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And here is the preprint with more details: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01181

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 23mo ago

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@upol there definitely is much more of a critical mass in the fields I’m most interested in. I’ve not found it very much of a transition, though just annoying when I want to post something in multiple places.

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Steve Crawford @crawfordsm@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

A beautiful few days hiking in Southern Utah.

#brycecanyonnationalpark
#WillisCreek

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