Musk’s involvement is beyond business which make analysts question the viability of players like SpaceX and its ability to deliver a sustainable business model in the New Space Industry. After a humiliating launch failure of the “Falcon 9” rocket engineered and operated by SpaceX in September 2016, the successful launch and return flight made by the rocket this past week bought the company back into the space race.
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Scoot: “Hidden Figures” and race issues in America’s space race
“Hidden Figures” is a movie that brings new emphasis to the word “race” in America’s space race in the late-50s and early-60s. It is also a movie that deserves credit for being the first movie since “Good Will Hunting” to make mathematical calculations riveting and suspenseful on the big screen.
Remembering Eugene Cernan: Facts about retired U.S. astronaut
This December 13, 1972 image courtesy of NASA shows Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander, walking toward the Lunar Roving Vehicle during extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site of NASA’s sixth and final Apollo lunar landing mission. Pic/AFP Eugene A. Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972 and the last man to walk on the moon, died in Houston on January 17. Here are some facts about the retired US astronaut.
Hubble spies exocomets’ plunge into star
Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered doomed, wayward comets plunging into the star HD 172555. Artist’s concept of comets speeding across a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust, heading straight for the youthful star HD 172555.
Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On The Moon, Has Died
The last man in the world to take one of the most historic jaunts in human history has died. Astronaut Gene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972 and ended the astonishing adventure with a message of peace and hope, died at the age of 82 surrounded by his family, according to a statement NASA released Monday.
Remembering astronaut Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on Moon
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Tom Stafford arrive in the white room atop Launch Pad 19 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station on June 3, 1966. During Eugene Cernan’s two-hour, eight-minute spacewalk on June 5, 1966.
China’s first cargo spacecraft to leave factory
A review meeting was convened last Thursday, during which officials and experts unanimously concluded that the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft had met all the requirements to leave the factory. The take-off weight of Tianzhou-1 is 13 tonnes and it can ship material of up to six tonnes.
Saturn’s moon looks like the Death Star
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took photographs of Saturn’s moon Tethys on Monday, and it seems the planet is staring right back. Tethys measures 660 miles across and features a large impact crater known as “Odysseus,” which gives the planet its eerie, eyeball-like shape; some have even likened it to the Death Star from Star Wars.
Last man to walk on the Moon dies, aged 82
The connection between humans and the Moon is a little more distant today, with the death of the last man to have walked on the Moon. Astronaut Eugene Cernan travelled to space three times, including on the last Apollo mission. Featured: Eugene Cernan, astronaut
Gene Cerman, last astronaut on the moon, dies aged 82
Former astronaut Gene Cernan, the last of only a dozen men to walk on the moon who returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind,” has died aged 82. Cernan died on Monday following ongoing heath issues, his family said in a statement released by Nasa spokesman Bob Jacobs. Nasa said Cernan was surrounded by his family.
9 prominent early astronauts carrying on US space history
Early U.S. space history is fading with the deaths of Gene Cernan , the last man to walk on the moon, John Glenn , the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and Neil Armstrong , the first man to walk on the moon. But others survive, veterans of a time when Americans were glued to their television sets to watch their heroics, from fiery Saturn V launches to ocean splashdowns.
Gene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, has died
The U.S. space program lost another towering figure today as astronaut Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last person to walk on the moon, died at the age of 82 on Monday. “Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation’s leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon,” Cernan’s family said in a statement.
Ready Jet Go
READY JET GO! takes viewers ages 3-8 on a journey into outer space, building on children’s curiosity about science, technology and astronomy. “Mission to the Moon” – Sean tells Jet, Sydney, and Mindy about the Apollo 11 mission, and the kids decide to do a real-life reenactment of man’s first mission landing on the Moon! Curriculum: The first manned mission to the Moon took place on July 20, 1969, and the first two humans on the Moon were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
Hidden Figures counts up $20.5 million as it holds on to top spot…
Hidden Figures counts up $20.5 million as it holds on to top spot at the box office for a second weekend Hidden Figures, the inspirational true story of three black female mathematicians who helped NASA put the first men in space, soared into its second week on top of the weekend box office on Sunday. The biographical comedy-drama, based on a book of the same name, stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae whose characters deal with segregation in the 1950s and 60s while they work on the complicated calculations that get astronaut John Glenn into orbit and back again.
SpaceX successfully launches rocket, deploys ten satellites
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Dennis Mammana: Getting Sirius About a Stunning Celestial Sparkler
Every year around this time, I can expect my email inbox to overflow and my phone to begin ringing. Folks who spend time outdoors during early evening hours in mid-January frequently notice a brilliantly sparkling diamond low in the southeastern sky, one that appears to shimmer, dance and dramatically change colors.
Did smaller ‘moonlets’ create our moon, and why do we care?
How was the moon formed, and what does that mean for life on Earth? A new theory offers some changing from the prevailing wisdom. A new scientific theory suggests our moon was formed by the merging of smaller “moonlets” created by collisions between multiple space objects and the Earth.
United for the greater good
This month, the film “Hidden Figures” hits the movie theaters, chronicling the untold, true story of the three African-American women – Katherine Johnson and her two colleagues, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson – with exceptional math minds who helped advance our nation’s space program. Without them, it’s unlikely that astronaut John Glenn would have orbited the earth.
SpaceX launches 1st rocket since explosion in Florida
The SpaceX Falcon rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company’s first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago.
AL-HUSSEINI: Let’s clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
“Earth orbit is breathtakingly beautiful and our gateway to exploration. It’s up to us to keep it that way.”
SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida
Space-X’s Falcon 9 rocket with 10 satellites launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
SpaceX Successfully Launches Rocket, Deploying 10 Satellites
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. returned to the skies Saturday with a flawless delivery of communications satellites into orbit, its first flight since a Sept. 1 fireball destroyed a rocket and its payload on a Florida launch pad.
Hidden figures: What Trump’s AG pick Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows
As the Senate hearings for Jeff Sessions’ nomination as attorney general ran into their second day, I kept thinking about the movie “Hidden Figures,” which my wife Judith and I saw three days earlier. The film is based on a book by Margot Lee Shetterly about three African-American women in the early 1960s who lived in the segregated South while working on NASA’s first manned space missions.
.com | SpaceX launches, lands rocket for first time since Sept blast
SpaceX blasted off its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday, marking its first return to flight since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion in September. “Liftoff of the Falcon 9,” a SpaceX commentator said as the tall white rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 09:54 , carrying a payload of 10 satellites for Iridium, a mobile and data communications company.
SpaceX launches rocket for first time since blast destroyed Israeli satellite
Space-X’s Falcon 9 rocket with 10 satellites launches at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017.
SpaceX sends 10 satellites into orbit, lands rocket booster on drone…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 10 satellites, lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Jan. 14, 2017. Four months after a launch pad explosion, SpaceX returned to flight Saturday morning, delivering 10 satellites into orbit and landing its first-stage booster on a floating drone ship.
Three ways to die on Venus, and other space facts
Today we call it the “Big Dipper,” but in the year 75000, we may look up in the night sky and admire a constellation known affectionately as the “Big Spatula.” As astronomer Dean Regas explains, that’s because the stars are moving relative to our position here.
Obama’s legacy in science, technology and innovation
As the old aphorism says , it’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. Assessing the legacy of Barack Obama will be easier in a few decades when we can see the long-term consequences of his presidential decisions and initiatives.
SpaceX counts down to first launch after rocket explosion
Accident investigators determined that a canister of helium burst inside the rocket’s second-stage liquid oxygen tank, triggering the explosion. SpaceX plans to blast off a rocket on Saturday for the first time since a launch pad explosion in the fall sidetracked the ambitious flight plans of company founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk.
Astronauts upgrade station power system in six-hour spacewalk
U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough left the station’s airlock at about 6:30 a.m. EST to begin his second spacewalk this month. He was joined minutes later by French crew mate Thomas Pesquet, a rookie astronaut making his first spacewalk.
Power upgrade spacewalk begins for French, US astronauts
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk on Friday, on a mission to help upgrade the power system outside the International Space Station with new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries. Wearing a white spacesuit with the French flag emblazoned on one shoulder, Pesquet and American astronaut Shane Kimbrough switched on their spacesuits’ internal battery power to mark the official start of the spacewalk at 6.22am, more than a half hour earlier than scheduled.
Go on, take that selfie, you may not be a narcissist.
Are you a communicating selfie taker, an autobiographer or just a self-publicist? US research identifies three categories of selfie-takers and finds ego is not our only motivation Friends do it, world leaders and entertainers do it, you probably do it and we – abashedly – admit to doing it occasionally too. Taking a selfie is commonplace in social media culture these days.
‘Hidden Figures’ is about people, not mathematics
From the hidden pages of history second-time director Theodore Melfi has bookmarked a true story about three African-American women who helped save the space program back in the ’60s. “Hidden Figures” is based on a same-named non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid
The International Space Station’s solar power grid got three more top-of-the-line batteries on Friday during the second spacewalk in a week. This photo made by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency shows him in a selfie photograph with the Earth reflected in his visor, during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrade orbiting lab’s power grid
This still image taken from video provided by NASA shows U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, left and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet during a space walk outside the International Space Station, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017.
Spacewalking astronauts upgrading orbiting lab’s power grid
It’s the same type of job that was conducted last Friday 250 miles up. This Friday, commander Shane Kimbrough was back at it.
Edmonds CC students participate in NASA-funded undergraduate research
From left, Edmonds CC students Cali Drake, Stephanie Bernard, Chris Nguyen, and Thinh Pham participated in a NASA-funded undergraduate research project during fall quarter. Edmonds Community College students have partnered with a local technology company to test how well plasma jets can eliminate specific types of bacteria from the surface of spacecraft.
China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A
The rocket Kuaizhou-1A carrying the satellite JL-1 and two CubeSats XY-S1 and Caton-1 blasts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China’s Gansu Province, Jan. 9, 2017. The rocket sent three satellites into space in its first commercial mission on Monday.
NASA Study Finds a Connection Between Wildfires and Drought
The Suomi NPP satellite detected these fires in Africa on January 30, 2016. Ichoku hypothesizes that such fires play a significant role in altering rainfall patterns.
Kepler’s unusual orbit
A couple more interesting things about the just-launched Kepler telescop e – then we’ll let it get on with the business of searching for distant planets. The spacecraft will be controlled, at times, by college kids working alongside professional operators.