Bridenstine declared the manned SpaceX flight a "go" last week after NASA and the company convened for final engineering checks. Thunder could be heard rumbling as the convoy of vehicles made its way toward the rocket . However, NASA has asked spectators to stay home to avoid spreading the virus. Hours before the launch, cars and RVs already were lining the causeway in Cape Canaveral, with... [Full Article...]
The mission is also the first crewed launch for SpaceX , and for Nasa's Commercial Crew Programme, which partners with private companies to send astronauts to the ISS . Veteran NASA astronauts who've flown countless vehicles as test pilots will have to cope with something out of the ordinary with SpaceX's Crew Dragon: touchscreens. [Full Article...]
Liman has helmed a lot of big projects in the past. More information on the ambitious project will be available in the coming days after the launch of Musk's two-man SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which will return the United States to space for the first time in almost a decade, on Wednesday, May 27. [Full Article...]
Dr. Tiantian Yuan , from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions ( ASTRO 3D ), said, "It is making stars at a rate 50 times greater than the Milky Way ". Yuan and a group of colleagues from around the world used spectroscopic data to identify the galaxy, and evidence suggests it may be the first "collisional ring galaxy " located in the early universe. [Full Article...]
After the briefing, they'll put on their custom-fitted SpaceX spacesuits, walk out from the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at about 1:15 p.m., climb into the Dragon capsule at 2 p.m., and close the hatch at 2:38 p.m. Even the current Soyuz capsules are very cramped, with little room for the astronauts and cosmonauts to move around during a launch. Even before the coronavirus took a b... [Full Article...]
The launch from Cape Canaveral , Florida is scheduled at at 4.33pm Eastern time (9.33pm London time) tomorrow and will be the first from United States soil in almost a decade. The Demo-2 mission is the final major test before NASA certifies the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft for regular human transport missions to the ISS. [Full Article...]
And while NASA would like to eke out as much crew time as possible from the test flight, the agency will take a promising landing window when it comes, Bridenstine said, rather then try to stretch the solar arrays to their limit. "I want to reiterate, it is a test flight". "Now we're targeting August 30 for a launch" of SpaceX's so-called first operational mission, Jim Bridenstine, the adminis... [Full Article...]
And it's getting warmer. "I'm in Antarctica and I'm studying the snow algae". The algae map is part of a study examining algae and climate change . Credit: Wikimedia Commons. "With the available area for plant colonization on the Peninsula likely to increase by up to threefold due to this warming, understanding how snow algae fit into Antarctica's biosphere and their probable response to... [Full Article...]
Bridenstine declared the manned SpaceX flight a "go" last week after NASA and the company convened for final engineering checks. Thunder could be heard rumbling as the convoy of vehicles made its way toward the rocket . However, NASA has asked spectators to stay home to avoid spreading the virus. Hours before the launch, cars and RVs already were lining the causeway in Cape Canaveral, with... [Full Article...]
The mission is also the first crewed launch for SpaceX , and for Nasa's Commercial Crew Programme, which partners with private companies to send astronauts to the ISS . Veteran NASA astronauts who've flown countless vehicles as test pilots will have to cope with something out of the ordinary with SpaceX's Crew Dragon: touchscreens. [Full Article...]
Liman has helmed a lot of big projects in the past. More information on the ambitious project will be available in the coming days after the launch of Musk's two-man SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which will return the United States to space for the first time in almost a decade, on Wednesday, May 27. [Full Article...]
Dr. Tiantian Yuan , from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions ( ASTRO 3D ), said, "It is making stars at a rate 50 times greater than the Milky Way ". Yuan and a group of colleagues from around the world used spectroscopic data to identify the galaxy, and evidence suggests it may be the first "collisional ring galaxy " located in the early universe. [Full Article...]
After the briefing, they'll put on their custom-fitted SpaceX spacesuits, walk out from the Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at about 1:15 p.m., climb into the Dragon capsule at 2 p.m., and close the hatch at 2:38 p.m. Even the current Soyuz capsules are very cramped, with little room for the astronauts and cosmonauts to move around during a launch. Even before the coronavirus took a b... [Full Article...]
The launch from Cape Canaveral , Florida is scheduled at at 4.33pm Eastern time (9.33pm London time) tomorrow and will be the first from United States soil in almost a decade. The Demo-2 mission is the final major test before NASA certifies the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft for regular human transport missions to the ISS. [Full Article...]
And while NASA would like to eke out as much crew time as possible from the test flight, the agency will take a promising landing window when it comes, Bridenstine said, rather then try to stretch the solar arrays to their limit. "I want to reiterate, it is a test flight". "Now we're targeting August 30 for a launch" of SpaceX's so-called first operational mission, Jim Bridenstine, the adminis... [Full Article...]
And it's getting warmer. "I'm in Antarctica and I'm studying the snow algae". The algae map is part of a study examining algae and climate change . Credit: Wikimedia Commons. "With the available area for plant colonization on the Peninsula likely to increase by up to threefold due to this warming, understanding how snow algae fit into Antarctica's biosphere and their probable response to... [Full Article...]