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Fife start-up makes exploring Mars and the deep sea possible
When Stuart Rogers from Wormit was made redundant last summer he started devoting his time to getting kids into science. ...
Finland colocation?
Web Hosting Talk | 2021-09-11, 09:26
This isn't going to be overly specific, but looking to see if there are any providers that I may have overlooked. We're currently using Hetzner (rented) in this location and are
Space emergency: Smoke and fire alarms on ISS force Russian cosmonauts to take a 7-hour spacewalk
A smoke and fire alarm went off on the Zvezda service module, which provides living quarters for crew members on the International Space Station. The problem now seems to be sorteqd as the team returned to rest. ...
Local Student Graduates from Space Camp
Commonwealth Journal | 2021-09-11, 06:20
Isabella Luster of Somerset, KY recently attended Space Camp at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, home of Space Camp®, Space Camp® Robotics™, Aviation Challenge® and U.S. Cyber Camp®. The Rocket Center is a Smithsonian Affiliate and NASA Marshall Space
NASA’s Mars Rover Collects First Planetary Samples for Return to Earth
NASA's Mars science rover Perseverance has collected and stashed away the first of numerous mineral samples that the U.S. space
SpaceX Crew-3 Commercial Launch to Space Station Set Oct. 31 From Kennedy Space Center
The agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 mission will carry three NASA astronauts The third SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a long duration mission is
China Seeks to Challenge US Dominance in Space
China is ramping up its space exploration goals. This June, Beijing sent up a spaceship carrying three astronauts. Hours later, they
Dead Space: Remake Performance Video Preview
The Dead Space remake release date has been revealed alongside our very first look
Why are Rubble Pile Asteroids Shaped Like Diamonds?
Scientists are fortunate enough to have detailed, close-up views of the near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. Both asteroids have a diamond shape, for some reason. Why? Up until now, it’s been a puzzle. Now a team of scientists has tackled the question
Gene Roddenberry's Son Says Tarantino's R-Rated Vision For Star Trek "Doesn't Work" For Him
One of Star Trek's stranger subplots over the past several years has been Quentin Tarantino's evident desire to direct an R-rated Star Trek. Styling it as "Pulp Fiction in space," the director said he wanted to feature both gangster elements and time
New concept coming to riverfront restaurant space in downtown Wilmington
Star News | 2021-09-10, 23:02
Renovations are underway at a downtown Wilmington space that was home to Le Catalan for many years. Now, new owners are taking over the popular riverfront location at 224 S. Water St. with a plan to bring a cocktail-and-fries
Russia’s New Space Chief Invites Elon Musk to His Home for Tea—the SpaceX CEO Responds
SpaceX founder Elon Musk looks on after being recognized by U.S. President Donald Trump at NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building after watching the successful launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space
Station Busy with Sunday Spacewalk Preps and Biology, Botany Research (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) Two Expedition 65 astronauts are getting ready for a Sunday spacewalk to modify the International Space Station 's power system. Meanwhile, the orbiting lab is hosting a variety of biology and botany research today as two cosmonauts clean up following
Initial Registration Statement for Employee Benefit Plan (SEC Filing - S-8) (Astra Space Inc)
) As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 10, 2021 Registration No. 333- UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20549 FORM S-8 REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 ASTRA SPACE, INC. (Exact
NASA Awards Contract for Software Licenses, Maintenance, Support (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) NASA has awarded Panamerica Computers of Luray, Virginia, an ordering vehicle to provide Box platform licenses, maintenance, and support services when the agency requires. The
The Andy Milonakis NFT Show, EP. 3 – Inedibles And Parodies
Tonight, on The Andy Milonakis NFT Show: our hero starts building community. In the first episode, he became an art collector. In the second one, Andy Milonakis’ career in the arts started. The NFT world has got its own characteristics, though, and a
NASA Briefly Evacuates Kennedy Space Center Building After Telephone Threat - Spokesperson
NASA on Friday briefly evacuated staff from a Kennedy Space Center administrative building because of a threat received over the telephone, a
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for GOES-U Mission (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of
Additional Proxy Soliciting Materials (SEC Filing - DEFA14A) (Astra Space Inc)
) UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 SCHEDULE 14A Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. 1) Filed by the Registrant ☒ Filed by a Party other than the Registrant ☐
NASA's Perseverance rover has taken the 1st steps in decades-long dream of Mars sample return
NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has begun its out-of-this-world rock collection. ...
What’s On The Other Side Of A Black Hole?
Black holes shred everything they get their ‘hands’ on. No matter what kind of matter it is, it gets crushed by a massive gravitational field. Even light
Snapshot: Dusty light veers from a black hole’s throat
Heard lay ee odl lay ee odl-ooooo. RELATED TOPICS: BLACK HOLES | X-RAY ASTRONOMY A black hole recently gobbled up material from its companion star in the binary system V404 Cygni, located 7,800 light-years from Earth. As the black hole’s meal swirled around it
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and DC headquarters put in lockdown following active shooter false alarm ...
The NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida was briefly placed under emergency lockdown on Wednesday after receiving a threat by telephone. At about the same time, an alarm
Untangling the Tarantula Nebula the skys largest stellar nursery
This vast cosmic cloud gives us a spectacular close-up view of stars bursting into life. RELATED TOPICS: COSMOLOGY In 1799, French soldiers unearthed a large black rock near the Egyptian town of Rosetta (now Rashid) in the Nile delta. Inscribed on its flat
NASA’s SunRISE Mission Studying Solar Particle Storms Moves Toward Launch (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) NASA's SunRISE mission - short for the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment - passed a mission review on Sept. 8, 2021, moving the mission into its next phase. 'SunRISE will detect and study eruptions of radio waves from the Sun that often precede major
Building at Kennedy Space Center evacuated after ‘telephone threat,’ but all now clear, officials say
Orlando Sentinel | 2021-09-10, 20:15
An administrative building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center was evacuated
NASA's Gateway moon-orbiting space station explained in pictures
NASA's planned Gateway space station will house astronauts in lunar orbit. ...
NASA Briefly Evacuates Kennedy Space Centre Building After Telephone Threat
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - NASA on Friday briefly evacuated staff from a Kennedy Space Center administrative building because of a threat received over the telephone, a spokesperson told Sputnik. ...
Sian Proctor: The teacher whose journey to space began with a poem
“Hello everyone, thank you for supporting my space art and poetry journey.” That’s how Sian Proctor’s journey with Inspiration4 began – long before she even knew she had been selected. And it will end with her being plucked up out of the ocean, after being
Jared Isaacman: The internet entrepreneur who bought a flight to space
Jared Isaacman’s journey to space began in his basement. Today, he is the chief executive of Shift4 Payments, an internet company which offers financial solutions to other firms, but it was
Chris Sembroski: The man who won a trip to space on board Inspiration4 mission with ...
It’s not normal that you don’t win a raffle but still get the prize, and it’s even weirder to enter a raffle and the prize to be a trip to space. On that basis, Christopher
Hayley Arceneaux: The cancer survivor and physician assistant that SpaceX will take to orbit on ...
Hayley Arceneaux was the first person to be announced as joining SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission – and, perhaps, remains the person who embodies what it aims to be most. On the face of it,
Inspiration4 launch date: When will Elon Musk and SpaceX’s private trip to orbit blast off?
SpaceX is preparing to launch the Inspiration4 mission to space, with liftoff coming in just days. The most recent indications from SpaceX have confirmed that the mission is ready to go and that it is progressing on track for launch. That is planned for 15
NASA Selects Three Space Biology Proposals to Prepare for Future Research on the Surface of the Moon
The measurement of the effects of space-relevant stresses on organisms, and fundamental research into the underlying mechanisms of those effects, are core components of NASA's Space Biology Program. These stresses include galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), solar
KSC headquarters building briefly evacuated after phone threat
KSC headquarters building briefly evacuated after phone threat ...
Launch of SpaceX's private Inspiration4 mission slips by 24 hours
Inspiration4, SpaceX's first all-civilian mission, will launch at least a day late. ...
The world’s next ‘forever war’ will be over the control of space
By Peter Apps / Reuters, LONDON Last month, astronauts from Europe, Japan, Russia and the US held a pizza party in orbit aboard the International Space Station, celebrating the birthday of one of their number. However, the era of multinational cooperation in
Our Milky Way galaxy isn't very well mixed, study suggests
Our galaxy isn't as thoroughly mixed as scientists sometimes assume, according to a new study. ...
NASA confirms Mars rover’s 1st rock sample grab, 40 to go
Orlando Sentinel | 2021-09-10, 18:27
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s newest Mars rover has
Netflix to document historic all civilian launch in "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space."
Four civilians are slated to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center for three days of orbiting Earth in a specially modified Crew Dragon capsule. ...
Inspiration4, all-civilian SpaceX flight, set to launch from KSC next week
The three-day mission is the first ever all-private trip to orbit. A Netflix docuseries "Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space" documents the process. ...
Ask Astro: How did Earth's gravity capture (then lose) a 50-year-old rocket booster?
RELATED TOPICS: SATELLITES | NEAR EARTH OBJECTS | EARTH A rocket booster that launched a 1966 NASA lunar probe was captured by Earth’s gravity in November 2019. It then escaped our gravity in March 2021. What gave it enough energy to escape? R.C. Timm
ESO captures best images yet of peculiar 'dog-bone' asteroid
Astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Collects Puzzle Pieces of Mars’ History (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) 1-pia24840_main_samuels_5_hazcam_flf_0196_0684353735_668cws_n0070000fhaz02008_0a00llj01-stretched.png Two holes are visible in the rock, nicknamed 'Rochette,' from which NASA's Perseverance rover obtained its first core samples. The rover drilled the hole on
Queen’s Brian May reflects on recovering from heart attack
He told the PA news agency in central London: “What also happened was I got very sick. I got a heart attack for no
There Should be More Material Left Over From Bombardment Eras. Maybe the Sun Blew it ...
The early solar system was an especially violent place. The terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) likely formed by suffering countless collisions between planetesimals. But the material left over from all those collisions should have remained
China launches hyperspectral Earth observation satellite
China launched the Gaofen 5 (02) hyperspectral Earth observation satellite on Tuesday as the country races towards carrying out 40 missions in 2021. ...
Alien movies, ranked worst to best
We're on an express elevator to Hell, goin' down as we rank the best Alien movies. ...
DSLR vs Mirrorless Cameras for Astrophotography
We weigh in on the great DSLR vs mirrorless debate, looking at how the two generations of cameras compare when it comes to astro images. ...
Best Space Horror Movies
We take a look at the best space horror movies to unnerve you in the voids of space. ...
Orion Spacecraft Completes Milestone for Artemis III Crew Module
At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion’s newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is lifted out of the welding tool. NASA home page
CuPID CubeSat Will Get New Perspective on Sun-Earth Boundary
Launching with Landsat 9, a joint mission of NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, are four CubeSats – compact, cube-shaped satellites used for space research projects. One of the CubeSats launching with Landsat 9 is the Cusp Plasma Imaging Detector, or CuPID.
"Dog Bone" Asteroid's Best Images Yet Confirm Its Very Weird Shape
The asteroid (216) Kleopatra is as distinctive as the queen it was named after, although perhaps less glamorous. One of the largest telescopes in the world has captured images confirming it is shaped like the stereotypical bone dogs gnaw on, making it one of
Growing risk of once-in-a-century solar superstorm that could knock out internet, study says
By Alexandra Mae Jones | CTV Network TORONTO – Imagine if one day the internet was down not just in your neighborhood, but across the globe, knocked out by a threat from space: an enormous solar superstorm. It sounds like science fiction, but a new study
Sounding rocket mission targets mysteries of solar corona
Although some rocket-borne missions last years or decades, others, such as the cast of NASA's Sounding Rockets Program, do their science during a short hop that doesn't even reach orbit. ...
All-civilian crew for Inspiration4 flight on SpaceX Dragon arrives to Kennedy Space Center
Orlando Sentinel | 2021-09-10, 16:18
The four civilians looking to make history next week arrived to Kennedy Space Center
Fly me to the moon: Securing potential lunar water sites for research
Athena Coustenis, Niklas Hedman and Gerhard Kminek for the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection discuss updates in the Planetary Protection Policy to ensure sustainable scientific lunar exploration While gumboots won’t ever be required for exploring the Moon,
CuPID CubeSat Will Get New Perspective on Sun-Earth Boundary (Goddard Space Flight Center)
) When you help build a satellite the size of a shoebox, you learn pretty much everything about it, says Emil Atz, a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. You learn how to write a proposal to fund it, how to place the screws that hold
Norcross Votes to Advance Science, Space and Technology Committee’s Provisions of the Build Back Better Act, Including Historic Investments to Combat Climate Change (Donald Norcross)
) WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), who serves on the Energy Subcommittee and Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, voted to advance portions of the Build Back Better Act.
ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/09/2021 (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) Russian Segment (RS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #50: Today, FE-4 Oleg Novitskiy (EV1) and FE-5 Petr Dubrov (EV2) egressed the Mini-Research Module (MRM)-2 airlock and completed the following tasks during today's 7 hour and 25-minute EVA: Mating of
Largest virtual universe free for anyone to explore
Forget about online games that promise you a "whole world" to explore. An international team of researchers has generated an entire virtual universe, and made it freely available on the cloud to everyone. Uchuu (meaning "outer space" in Japanese) is the
SpaceX Inspiration4 mission will send 4 people with minimal training into orbit – and bring ...
Independent Record | 2021-09-10, 15:41
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wendy Whitman Cobb, US Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (THE CONVERSATION) On Sept. 15, 2021, the next batch of space tourists
The Sky This Week: Neptune reaches opposition
It’s also time to enjoy the First Quarter Moon and catch Mercury at sunset from September 10 to 17. RELATED TOPICS: OBSERVING Cold, lonely Neptune Friday, September 10 Asteroid (2) Pallas reaches opposition at 10 P.M. EDT tonight. The large main-belt
NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Commercial Crew Space Station Launch (NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
) Crew-3 astronauts for advisory SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts (from left) Matthias Maurer, Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron are pictured during preflight training at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California. Credits: SpaceX Media accreditation now
Elon Musk's SpaceX calls out Amazon in latest spat over Starlink: 'Despite its theatrics, Amazon ...
Jeff Bezos (left) and Elon Musk. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts SpaceX responded on Thursday to Amazon's latest jab over its plans to expand Starlink. The previous day, Amazon took aim at Elon Musk, saying the CEO believes "rules are for other people." The letter is
Astronomers Create 3D Printed Nebulae
Visualizations can inspire creative new ways of thinking about an object. But holding that visualization in your hand adds a whole other level of impact to it. That desire for impact has led Dr. Nia Imara, an astrophysicist and artist at UC Santa Cruz, to
The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station review – awe generators turned up to 11
The multi-national International Space Station gets it story told through the men and women who worked on it With such strong base-level material, you could hardly go wrong, and so it proves with this history of the International Space Station, which has been
Music has Emotions, Diljit Dosanjh Adds those to the Cover of Face Magazine
Since the dawn of time, music has been appreciated and understood in the forms of raags, sound, sur-taal, beats, tones, voices, and a plethora of different melodies. The most pleasing types of music were liked by ancestors and even ancestors of ancestors. The
How to watch astronauts on a spacewalk at the ISS on Sunday
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are making final preparations for a spacewalk on Sunday, September 12, and NASA will livestream the entire event. The spacewalk was originally scheduled for August 24 but had to be postponed when one
Week in images: 6 - 10 September 2021
Week in images: 6 - 10 September 2021 Discover our week through the lens ...
The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light
Using cameras aboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, Japanese scientists get a rare, close-up glimpse of a space rock’s structure. ...
NASA Invites Media to Next SpaceX Commercial Crew Space Station Launch
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Media accreditation now is open for the launch of the third SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket that will carry astronauts to the International Space Station for a long duration mission. This mission is
NASA innovations will help US meet sustainable aviation goals
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 NASA Administrator Bill Nelson
Accidents on International Space Station: Setback for US, advantage China
The International Space Station has been making global headlines as it suffers one incident after another. The incidents could dent the US' plans to extend its operational life till 2030. ...
SpaceX's CFO reportedly said the company makes 5,000 Starlink dishes a week, lagging behind preorders
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Britta Pedersen / POOL / AFP via Getty Images SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen said the company makes 5,000 Starlink user dishes weekly, per Space News. This lags behind orders: Starlink, the satellite internet service, had 500,000 pre-orders as
Watch the cast of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' introduce themselves
Some familiar characters return as well as some interesting new ones ...
'Star Trek: Lower Decks' mid-season 2 trailer promises even more space hijinks for fans
Madness, mayhem, heroics and hijinks, fans of "Lower Decks" have plenty to look forward to ...
Lego Star Wars X-Wing review
It’s the most iconic ship in the Star Wars universe, but does the Lego Star Wars X-Wing live up to its legendary status? ...
Brilliant meteor lights up sky over southern England coast (video)
The meteor lit up the night sky. ...
NASA helps students launch into new school year with space-related educational resources
As students head back to school, NASA is ready with resources for students, teachers, and families. ...
1st sign of elusive 'triangle singularity' shows particles swapping identities in mid-flight
Physicists sifting through old particle accelerator data have found evidence of a highly-elusive, never-before-seen process: a so-called triangle singularity. ...
SpaceX's Inspiration4 all-civilian spaceflight: When to watch and what to know
Here's everything you need to know about the private Inspiration4 mission on SpaceX's Crew Dragon. ...
Smoke alarms sound at International Space Station
MOSCOW (AP) — Smoke alarms went off at the Russian segment of the International Space Station in the early hours of Thursday, and the crew reported noticing smoke and the smell of burnt plastic. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos said the
First female space shuttle commander left powerful legacy at Vance
Enid News & Eagle | 2021-09-10, 12:31
The legacy of a trailblazing female aviator is exemplified in more ways than one at Vance Air Force Base, even 43 years after her graduation. Col. Eileen Collins graduated Undergraduate Pilot Training at Vance in 1978. She was one of the first four women to go
Elon Musk is dominating the space race. Jeff Bezos is trying to fight back.
The Washington Post | 2021-09-10, 11:43
What began as a fight over a NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon has become especially bare-knuckled and personal. ...
Satellite in sun's backyard unravels the origins of interplanetary dust
Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 What do shooting stars and astronaut
Dates set for Space Station change of command as Franco-German relations awarded Media prize
Paris (ESA) Sep 10, 2021 The dates have been set for ESA astronaut
China releases first batch of gamma photon data from dark matter explorer
Beijing (XNA) Sep 10, 2021 China has released the first batch of
Earthlike planets in other solar systems? Look for moons
Urbana IL (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Finding an exact copy of the Earth
Parker Solar Probe team sheds new light on structure, behavior of inner solar system dust
Laurel MA (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Scientists using data from NASA's
ESO captures best images yet of peculiar "dog-bone" asteroid
Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Using the European Southern
German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer is ready for his first ISS mission - 'Cosmic Kiss'
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 At the end of October 2021, the
Eutelsat completes OneWeb equity investment
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Eutelsat Communications confirms
Smoke alarm, burning smell disrupt crew on International Space Station
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 9, 2021 Russian cosmonauts woke up to an
Smart T-shirt measures astronauts' vital signs
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 At the end of October 2021, it
SpaceX to raise bar for space tourism with Inspiration4 launch
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 SpaceX plans to reach new heights,
How to Clean Binoculars Properly without Damaging the Lenses
Here's our guide on how to clean binoculars properly, so you're well-prepared for the next stargazing event. ...
Starlight Review
Starlight is a great stargazing app for learning the basics but doesn’t offer much depth beyond what you’ll find with a simple Google search. ...
