Don Pettit ✓

@astro_Pettit · joined 04 Jun 2011

NASA Astronaut. Photographer. Scientist. Inventor.

184 996Followers

478Following

1 106Posts total

1MViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views28 801this account21 891median for 100K–1M

Reach, %15.57%this account6.81%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %3.35%this account1.14%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	28 801	21 891	1.32×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	15.57%	6.81%	2.29×
Engagement rate	3.35%	1.14%	2.93×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

548.5K26 Feb

31.8K26 Aug

416K30 Aug

12.1K31 Aug

25.8K2 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

2.18%26 Feb

2.88%26 Aug

1.53%30 Aug

3.81%31 Aug

5.47%2 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.14%.

What the audience does

Likes79.1%18 004 in total

Reposts11.0%2 497 in total

Replies1.9%429 in total

Quotes0.9%203 in total

Bookmarks7.1%1 616 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

A free floating bundle of Russian rubber bands used on ISS. These are a long elastic piece that can easily be wrapped around an object and tied into a loop. Very useful on orbit to keep objects from floating away! When bundled together they remind me of a fungal colony. https://t 25.8K views · 1.3K likes · 59 reposts · 14 replies 02 Sep 2026 Manicouagan crater of Quebec, seen from the @Space_Station in black & white imagery. The impact structure is hundreds of millions of years old and through great size is visible from space! https://t.co/lkLIcODSsW 12.1K views · 413 likes · 36 reposts · 7 replies 31 Aug 2026 Star trails from the ISS! Lots of cool physics to see in these. Stars moving as thin lines in the direction of our orbital path but forming arcs to the left of our velocity vector. Lightning flashes making purple spots into the time history. City lights streak by. A faint red ht 416K views · 5.4K likes · 838 reposts · 109 replies 30 Aug 2026 A "train" of Starlink satellites consecutively flashing across the US Capitol, as seen from Earth and the ISS. This was created in collaboration with @BabakTafreshi, as part of our From Above & Below photography series for National Geographic. https://t.co/O2QhX9LBHN 31.8K views · 804 likes · 92 reposts · 16 replies 26 Aug 2026 Cosmic colors at sunrise; never get tired of seeing what the new day brings https://t.co/jLLzMIbOzi 548.5K views · 10.1K likes · 1.5K reposts · 283 replies 26 Feb 2025