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Jul 1, 2020

1st Intergrated flight test of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System(SLS) rocket launching

Posted by in category: space travel

(from rollout to recovery) for deep space exploration.

#NASA #SpaceExploration

Jul 1, 2020

After Tuesday’s launch, SpaceX expands its fleet of used rockets [Updated]

Posted by in category: space travel

SpaceX has gotten good enough at reuse that it’s building fewer rockets.

Jul 1, 2020

Welcome to Cloud City: The case for going to Venus, not Mars

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

https://vimeo.com/401171025

I know Elon Musk believes Mars is the promised land that we should try to move humans to but what about Venus?


A growing group of scientists want to float above our sister planet before we conquer the red one.

Jun 30, 2020

NASA Team Claims ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Works—Get the Facts

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, space travel

face_with_colon_three circa 2016.


Scientists just published a paper saying that the controversial EmDrive produces thrust, even though that defies known laws of physics.

Jun 30, 2020

SpaceX’s reusable Falcon rockets have Europe thinking two steps ahead

Posted by in category: space travel

In a rare instance of some connection to reality, a European Union commissioner overseeing the space industry has acknowledged the elephant in the room, admitting that SpaceX has changed the game for commercial rockets and that the upcoming Ariane 6 rocket may already be outdated.

While slight, European Commissioner Thierry Breton expressed some level of urgency, stating that “SpaceX has redefined the standards for launchers.” “Ariane 6 is a necessary step, but not the ultimate aim: we must start thinking now about Ariane 7.” Ariane 6 is a new European Space Agency (ESA) rocket designed to replace the existing Ariane 5 workhorse and do some while cutting costs. However, the vehicle’s design and the strategy behind it were fixed in place before SpaceX began to routinely demonstrate Falcon 9 reusability, effectively creating a rocket optimized for a market that ceased to exist soon after.

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Jun 29, 2020

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule looked ‘pretty awesome’ in spacewalk, astronaut says

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA astronauts got a “pretty awesome” view of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon vehicle docked with the International Space Station during a spacewalk on Friday (June 29).

Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken got the view of a lifetime when they stepped outside the space station to replace the outpost’s old solar array batteries. The star of that view was Endeavour, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft that delivered Behnken and his fellow NASA astronaut Doug Hurley to the station May 30 on their Demo-2 mission.

Jun 28, 2020

Canadarm3 to support Lunar Gateway space station

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

Canada is marching forward with its international partners to establish a permanent research installation near the Moon, the Lunar Gateway.

As it did for the Shuttle and Station programs before, the Canadian Space Agency, via a partnership with MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates, Inc., will build the next-generation robotic system: Canadarm3.

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Jun 28, 2020

Check out this Crew Dragon Photo Snapped During a Spacewalk

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Saturday tweeted a cool shot showing SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule, seen to the right of the picture, looks tiny alongside the enormous space station, but its interior is actually large enough for a human to perform something close to a somersault.

Cassidy captured the image during Friday’s spacewalk with fellow astronaut Bob Behnken. The outing involved ongoing work to upgrade power systems on the space station, swapping old nickel-hydrogen batteries for new lithium-ion batteries. The batteries store power gathered from the station’s main solar arrays and the new ones will provide an improved and more efficient power capacity for the orbiting outpost.

Cassidy later tweeted a couple of other shots from the spacewalk, one a “space selfie” and another taken shortly after the pair returned to the inside of the ISS.

Jun 28, 2020

Faces of Technology — Women of NASA 2020

Posted by in categories: engineering, space travel

On this Women in Engineering Day, meet some of the NASA — National Aeronautics and Space Administration women who are making contributions to the technologies that make space exploration, including NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon, possible. WATCH https://go.nasa.gov/319sH4X #INWED20

Jun 28, 2020

SpaceX Starship — Anywhere on Earth in under an hour(60 minutes)

Posted by in category: space travel

Click on photo to start video.

#MustWatch

#SpaceX

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