After a 48-hour delay as a tropical storm traveled up the coast, a cargo Dragon capsule bid farewell to the International Space Station on Thursday (July đ.
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On July 1, the company announced that it would host its first fully-crewed spaceflight no earlier than Sunday, July 11. The ship will carry two pilots and four mission specialists, most notably company founder Richard Branson.
Itâs the companyâs 22nd flight with the VSS Unity ship and the fourth crewed space mission. But itâs that âspaceâ clarifier thatâs sparked debate â Virgin Galacticâs flights reach an altitude of just over 55 miles, but some organizations claim the boundary of space is actually 62 miles high.
As competitor Blue Origin prepares to launch its own crewed flight later this month, moving past the 62-mile limit, itâs a debate that could dictate who gets bragging rights.
The international James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review for its launch on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europeâs Spaceport in French Guiana.
This major milestone, carried out with Arianespace, the Webb launch service provider, confirms that Ariane 5, the Webb spacecraft, and the flight plan are set for launch. It also specifically provides the final confirmation that all aspects of the launch vehicle and spacecraft are fully compatible.
During launch, the spacecraft experiences a range of mechanical forces, vibrations, temperature changes, and electromagnetic radiation. All technical evaluations performed by Arianespace on the missionâs key aspects, including the launch trajectory and payload separation, have shown positive results.
On July 11, when billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson, along with a crew, travels to the edge of space on a Virgin Galactic test flight, astronaut Sirisha Bandla will be taking care of theresearcher experience on the Unity22 mission.
Warp drive patent.
The present invention relates to the use of technical drive systems, which operate by the modification of gravitational fields. These drive systems do not depend on the emission of matter to create thrust but create a change in the curvature of space-time, in accordance with general relativity. This allows travel by warping space-time to produce an independent warp drive system. Differential electron flow through a body in rotation is directed so as to simultaneously pass through a said body in its direction of rotation and contrary to its direction of rotation so as to release a directed flow of gravitons.
The most precise clock ever sent to space successfully operated in Earthâs orbit for over a year.
Wally Funk was one of 13 female aviators who lobbied for women to become astronauts in the early days of spaceflight.
Aviator Wally Funk wanted to be an astronaut in the earliest days of spaceflight. Sixty years later, on July 20, sheâll finally go to space with Blue Origin.
Funk was one of 13 female aviators later dubbed the Mercury 13 who, in 1961, passed all the exams necessary for admission to NASAâs astronaut corps and lobbied the federal government to send women into space. NASA and Congress demurred and women were excluded from becoming U.S. astronauts for more than a decade; Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space in 1983.
A bumper crop of applications for the ESAâs astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability.
WASHINGTON â A bumper crop of applications for the European Space Agencyâs astronaut corps is providing a boost to proposals for Europe to develop its own human spaceflight capability.
ESA announced June 23 that it received 22589 applications in a solicitation that ended June 18. Thatâs far more than the 8413 applications it received in the previous astronaut selection round in 2018.
âHaving more than 22000 applicants is quite a number,â Josef Aschbacher, ESA director general, said in a press conference about the application figures. âThis is, I would call it, almost a historic moment for us that we have so many applicants that want to become astronauts. From that point of view, Iâm more than satisfied. Iâm extremely thrilled by these numbers.â
âIâm at [email protected],â he tells CNBC Make It. He gives it out to everyone because he likes helping people and it keeps him on top of his game.
âI end up learning things that I never imagined Iâd want to know,â Draper says.
Draper is a legend in the world of venture capital. Since the mid-1980s, he has built a fortune making early investments in companies like Hotmail, Skype, Baidu, Tesla and SpaceX.