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Mar 9, 2019

Physicist Brian Cox on how space travel can save the human race – and why there should be a Mars mission

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

Professor says a joint mission to Mars would be a ‘unifying force’. He believes commercial space flight by entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson can help colonise other planets and ensure human race survives.

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Mar 8, 2019

SpaceX Crew Dragon Splashes Down after Historic Test Flight

Posted by in category: space travel

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 am Eastern time about 230 miles off the Florida coast.

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Mar 7, 2019

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Homecoming Friday May Be Toughest Part of Its Mission

Posted by in category: space travel

Splashdown is Friday at 8:45 a.m. EST.

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Mar 5, 2019

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship shown off in first high-res orbital portraits

Posted by in category: space travel

Taken by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, the first high-resolution photos of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft have begun to trickle in, offering the best views yet of the advanced human-rated spacecraft in its natural habit: Earth orbit.

Filling in for a distinct and uncharacteristic lack of official photos from NASA, the spacecraft’s inaugural spaceflight had thus far only been documented through NASA’s own live coverage of its International Space Station (ISS) rendezvous, limited to a relatively low-quality stream. With Oleg’s extremely high-resolution captures, we can begin to see SpaceX’s Crew Dragon with a level of detail previously only seen (if ever) on the ground.

Stunning photos of Dragon 2 docking from Oleg Kononenko! https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/03/crew-dragon-first-docking-iss-dm1/

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Mar 5, 2019

The cosmic vision of Jeff Bezos

Posted by in categories: futurism, space travel

Blue Origin’s founder explains how New Shepard and New Glenn enable humanity’s future in the solar system.

This article originally appeared in the Feb. 25, 2019 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

Jeff Bezos is not a man of little dreams. The world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of more than $130 billion, is spending some of his wealth on his space startup, Blue Origin. Much of the attention that the company has received has focused on the billions he’s invested into the company, its plans to fly tourists on its suborbital New Shepard vehicle and its entry into the orbital launch market with its New Glenn rocket.

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Mar 5, 2019

Israel’s first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

An Israeli spacecraft on its maiden mission to the moon has sent its first selfie back to Earth, mission chiefs said on Tuesday.

The image showing part of the Beresheet spacecraft with Earth in the background was beamed to mission control in Yehud, Israel – 23,360 miles (37,600km) away, the project’s lead partners said.

The partners, NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries, launched the unmanned Beresheet – Hebrew for Genesis – from Cape Canaveral in Florida on 22 February.

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Mar 3, 2019

Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Dock Autonomously With the ISS

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space travel

It’s yet another historic moment for the Crew Dragon mission as the docking procedure is quite different this time when compared to previous Dragon missions: “Dragon was basically hovering under the ISS,” said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance at SpaceX during a pre-launch briefing on Thursday. “You can see how it moves back and forth and then the [Canadarm] takes it to a berthing bay.”

In contrast, the Crew Dragon’s docking system is active, he said: “it will plant itself in front of the station and use a docking port on its own, no docking arm required.”

Five days from now, Crew Dragon will undock and makes its long way back to Earth. This time around, it will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean — previous (cargo) Dragon missions have touched down in the Pacific.

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Mar 3, 2019

China opens its first Mars simulation base in Qinghai Province

Posted by in categories: climatology, space travel

China has opened its first Mars simulation base to the public to encourage young people to get involved in space exploration.

The Mars simulation base, which opened on Friday, is located in Mangya city, in Northwest China’s Qinghai Province.

The red rock area in the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai has been called the most “Martian” place on Earth, with its natural features, landscape and climate all similar to those on the red planet, said Gao Junling, the project founder.

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Mar 3, 2019

SpaceX Crew Dragon hatch opening at the International Space Station

Posted by in category: space travel

Mock manned mission underway…👽.

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Mar 3, 2019

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule successfully docks to the ISS for the first time

Posted by in category: space travel

No berthing required.

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