David Grinspoon
@drfunkyspoon
Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀 Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow. Former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA. There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
14 years ago Curiosity was snapping its first pics on Mars. Unbelievable! 🧪🔭
Sinéad. Three years gone. Her beautiful, courageous, honest voice will always be treasured by me.
So according to the Times opinion page today, Gen-Z are not working and not having sex. What the hell are they doing, reading books?!?!
When a child, I thought the stars are the atoms of some gigantic being. And who of us did not? - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1928 🧪
I had a public conversation with poet Diane Ackerman about the new edition of her classic "The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral". (Released on @mariapopova.bsky.social Marginalian books) A recording has now appeared on Archive.org. Have a listen if you fancy. (link below). 🧪 archive.org/details/4-25...
How is technology currently changing us? And what should be be paying attention to? Little ambush interview I did at South by Southwest London, just appeared in Insta: 🧪 www.instagram.com/reel/DakhrAr...
Funky Funky Aliens! 👽🎶💃🕺🏻 Would extraterrestrials have music? Would they dig our grooves? Here’s I get into all that with @neildegrassetyson.com and @chucknicecomic.bsky.social (A new mash-up of @startalkradio.bsky.social and some DC GROOVADELICS shows) 🧪 www.instagram.com/reel/DZrLiH8... #funk
Bill Anders, who took this iconic “Earthrise” photo from Apollo 8 on Christmas Eve 1968, died 2 years ago today when a plane he was flying solo, at age 90, crashed into Puget Sound. RIP Spaceman!
If I was an NYC cop I might be rooting for the Spurs… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/n...
Thanks Elon! Enjoy your big SpaceX IPO & your lucrative NASA contracts while Africans die and world health is threatened by your cruel, callous stupidity. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/h...
Here’s Jill Tarter looking badass outside the SETI Institute yesterday. 🧪
With an engineering model of the frame for the sapphire window on our DAVINCI probe we will launch to Venus in 2030… (Sapphire because it’s very strong and transparent and won’t etch like glass as we fall through the sulfuric acid clouds…) 🧪
You know it’s possible that this soldier thought that was a statue of Trump.
56 years ago today: Relief at Mission Control as Apollo 13 astronauts return safely to Earth. 🧪🔭
Today’s surreal split screen: Brave, brilliant astronauts swinging AROUND THE MOON, returning wondrous new photos of our exquisite planet and its ancient companion, while our dangerously unhinged “leader” threatens unspeakable war crimes. “Diving for dear life, when we should be diving for pearls”
Huh. Here’s a piece about using AI for writing that is actually interesting and provocative. Neither fawning nor reflexively fearful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Amazing orbital view of the Artemis 2 launch, as seen from the GOES-19 satellite. 🧪
Wow - here are 3 really nice comments I’ve received in the 24 hours since I posted this:
News flash!! ☄️🌗 Big new crater on the moon. The size of two football fields. A once in a century event! 🧪