NASA astronaut Jonny Kim leaves the agency while SpaceX unveils plans for a Louisiana launch complex and NASA's Roman Space Telescope targets an August 30 launch.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-08-28 00:46Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A sprawling spaceport at dusk with a massive rocket looming in the center, astronauts in orange suits walking towards a launchpad, and a crescent moon rising in the sky behind them, as a flock of birds flies overhead, set against a warm orange and blue palette.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A sprawling spaceport at dusk with a massive rocket looming in the center, astronauts in orange suits walking towards a launchpad, and a crescent moon rising in the sky behind them, as a flock of birds flies overhead, set against a warm orange and blue palette. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim leaves agency to return to Navy
The flight engineer departed Thursday after nearly a decade of service to resume his career as a lieutenant commander.
By Luisa Marconi · 7wNASA astronaut Jonny Kim is leaving the agency after nearly 10 years to return to service with the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant commander.
Kim was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2017 and completed two years of training including instruction in space station systems, Russian language, robotics, T-38 flight operations, geology, and spacewalk preparation. He launched to the International Space Station in April 2025 aboard the Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft as a flight engineer for Expeditions 72/73.
Kim departed the agency on Thursday after nearly a decade of service to continue his career as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.
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