OSSmile🚀 Good News From Space
A little ongoing series about the most hopeful things we’ve ever done with a rocket. 🌌 Golden records, gold telescopes, and the photo that made us look at ourselves. The sky is not the limit; it’s the subject. Grab a Tang and settle in.
Like the Space sticker series? Same energy. 🏷️
🛰️ Transmissions so far
- 🌌 We Put a Mixtape on a Spaceship and It's Still Playing to the Stars In 1977 humanity bolted a gold-plated record to two space probes — greetings in 55 languages, the sound of a kiss, whale song, and Chuck Berry. Both are now in interstellar space, carrying our greatest hits into the dark. Forever.
- 🔭 We Built a Gold Telescope, Parked It a Million Miles Away, and Saw the Dawn of Time The James Webb Space Telescope unfolded itself like cosmic origami, flew to a spot four times farther than the Moon, and started sending back baby pictures of the universe from 13 billion years ago. In one tiny patch of 'empty' sky it found thousands of galaxies.
- 🌍 The Photo That Made Humanity Look at Itself On Christmas Eve 1968, three astronauts became the first humans to orbit the Moon. They went to photograph the Moon — and instead turned around, saw the Earth rising over the lunar horizon, and scrambled for a camera. That one picture helped launch the modern environmental movement.
