The 2010's were an important decade for astronomy, NASA and the private industry. During this past decade, we discovered Pluto for the first time, the Space Shuttle launched for the final time and the long time Mars rovers went silent.
This is the decade when I became more and more interested in backyard astronomy, looking up through a telescope, checking out the planets, seeing my first rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center and Wallops Island Flight Facility , this is why I am creating astronomy videos, to share my love of astronomy! Before we get into why I think this decade was so important, let’s recap what we have seen happen in these past 10 years.
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Mars rovers and crew capsules: Your guide to 2020 in space travel | New Scientist
Space, climate change and indoor farming: the future of food is in this tomato | TheHill
Using the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR, scientists have created a new cherry tomato plant that bears its fruit in tight clusters on short vines. This new look isn't just for show — taking up less real estate will make these tomatoes more suitable for futuristic applications like indoor farming and even space travel, Popular Mechanics reports .
To achieve the grape-like bunches, researchers tweaked three genes in the cherry tomato's DNA. Two of the genes control how much the plant grows and when it flowers and fruits. When scientists altered these first two genes alone, the resulting plant produced just a few icky-tasting tomatoes on shortened stems. But once the researchers identified the third gene they were able to get the tasty red fruits in abundant bunches.
DH Changemakers | A Launch pad for space travel | Deccan Herald
For 26-year-old Rohan Ganapathy, the name of his fledgling space propulsion startup, Bellatrix — innocuously located above a jeweller's store in the heart of Malleswaram's busy market district — has special significance.
Harry Potter fans may know Bellatrix as a crazed practitioner of the dark arts. But the name also applies to a massive star in the constellation Orion, 250 light years away, which has become a sort of holy grail for scientists, space engineers and science-fiction writers.
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Travel trends for 2020: Space tourism, home-tel and poshtel - CBS News
Space predictions for 2020: SpaceX and Virgin Galactic towillrevolutionise space tourism |
SpaceX has spent the last five years developing reusable rocket technology, significantly reducing in the process the cost of launching payloads into orbit.
Dr Ashurbeyli said: “The first major breakthrough that we shall see is the normalisation of space tourism.
“Virgin Galactic are providing the most viable option for exploring space but only if you can afford the small fortune.
NASA TV to Air US Cargo Ship Departure from Space Station
Dragon will fire its thrusters to move a safe distance from the station, then execute a deorbit burn as it heads for a parachute-assisted splashdown around 3:04 a.m. Monday , Jan. 6, in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Long Beach, California . The splashdown will not air on NASA TV.
Dragon launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Dec. 5 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida and arrived at the space station two days later.
10 of the most memorable moments in astronomy, space exploration in the 2010s | News |
NASA astronauts Christina Koch, left, and Jessica Meir made history on Friday, October 18, 2019, by participating in the first all-female spacewalk. Source: NASA
Over the past decade, scientists around the globe have made mind-blowing discoveries to help mankind better understand the mysteries of the universe -- and space exploration was taken to new heights as probes penetrated farther into the depths of the solar system than ever before.
