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Space Force or Star Fleet?
It's fun to talk about Space Force uniforms and blasting troops into orbit, but the first priority for the new service branch is getting capabilities to warfighters, a top Space Force enlisted leader said.
Chief Master Sgt. John Bentivegna, senior noncommissioned officer for Combined Force Space Component Command and Space Operations Command at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., spoke to U.S. and Japanese service members Tuesday during a "Space Symposium" at Yokota, home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo.
Sustainability in Space Travel: How Does Space Exploration Impact the Environment?
The world is abuzz with talks of space exploration. Now, for probably the first time since Apollo 11's historic moon landing, space travel is once again at a fever pitch.
Virgin Galactic, one of the many companies planning on offering commercial space flights , is set to launch as early as next year. Furthermore, in March, Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to return to the moon by 2024 with a long-term vision of Mars exploration.
SpaceX's inflight abort test paves way to commercial human spaceflight | TheHill
It is not every day that a successful test of a rocket involves destroying the launch vehicle in midflight. SpaceX managed the feat during the inflight abort test it conducted Sunday morning. The test was an important milestone in the development of commercial human spaceflight.
The commercial spaceflight company launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a crewed Dragon on top. About 90 seconds into the flight, the Falcon 9's engines switched off. Detecting that an anomaly had taken place, the Crewed Dragon fired its Draco rocket engines, separating it from the Falcon 9. As the Falcon 9 broke apart in midflight, the crewed Dragon soared away in safety. The spacecraft eventually splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean using parachutes.
Quite a lot has been going on:
SpaceX Crew Dragon: how the next six months could democratize space travel
After a shaky year for the Crew Dragon, SpaceX's human-carrying capsule finally appears to be firing on all cylinders. The capsule is designed to ferry NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station, which could end the agency's current dependence on Russia's Roscosmos facilities. For SpaceX, which has future plans to build a city on Mars and beyond, the capsule could be the first time the company sends a human into space.
For the space industry as a whole, the Crew Dragon's success could commercialize low-Earth orbit and enable more firms to invest. This could open up space further to bold new ideas.
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Lego celebrates 20 years of the International Space Station with an out-of-this-world new model
An out-of-this-world building experience is coming! ????⭐️ The LEGO International Space Station is available February 1st! https://t.co/DZwnyE12EN pic.twitter.com/rcNGTeqC2H
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