The CAPSTONE launch will take place at Rocket Lab’s new Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) facility at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Rocket Lab opened its launch pad there officially in December, and will launch its first missions using its Electron vehicle from the site starting later this year.
The launch is significant in a number of ways, including being the second lunar mission to launch from the Virginia flight facility. It’s also going to employ Rocket Lab’s Photon platform , which is an in-house designed and built satellite that can support a range of payloads.
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Modeling Moon by Holiday Mathis – Boston Herald
The witty conceptual artist John Baldessari had a popular piece called “Teaching a Plant the Alphabet,” in which he held up flashcards to unimpressed foliage. The master suggested: “When I think I’m teaching, I’m probably not. When I don’t think I’m teaching, I probably am.” Under the instructive Virgo moon, model the behavior you want to impart.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Settle yourself down and suddenly you’re headed toward a sort of wise passivity — a state of mind in which you will be able to observe what’s going on with very little interference from your own preferences or fears.
Asteroid 2020 BX12: Astronomers spy near-Earth asteroid - The Washington Post
"It was really exciting to find out it was a binary," meaning an asteroid-moon pair, said Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin , a doctoral student from Spain's University of Granada. In early February, Zambrano-Marin and her colleagues took radar images of the space rocks from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The radio telescope had only recently reopened after a wave of earthquakes shook Puerto Rico at the beginning of 2020.
The large asteroid is 540 feet in diameter, making it nearly as wide as the Washington Monument is tall. It spins on an axis, as does Earth, though it completes its swift twist in under three hours. Its moon is less than half its size, just 230 feet wide. The moon spins much slower, completing a rotation every 50 hours or so.
You must point your phone at the Moon to hear Pearl Jam's new song - The Verge
There is only one man who could get me to soberly climb onto my building's rooftop for a gimmicky artificial reality app in the middle of February, and his name is Eddie Vedder, the frontman of '90s Seattle grunge group Pearl Jam.
On Thursday, Pearl Jam rolled out a snippet of a new song entitled "Superblood Wolfmoon" that you can only listen to by pointing your phone at the Moon. If you go to moon.pearljam.com , you'll be greeted with a screen that asks you to align an on-screen circle with the Moon. Once you line everything up, animations hover around your real-world Moon that are timed to the music.
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The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News | Last Quarter Moon
The moon appears well after midnight tonight. The moon is last quarter and low in the southeastern sky. The moon is in the zodiacal constellation Scorpius.
Scorpius is a constellation we associate with summer. Near the moon you'll find the bright red star Antares, sometimes referred to as the heart of the scorpion.
The waning crescent moon occults the red planet Mars on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 18. It happens at 7:25 a.m. While it will be a real challenge to observe the moon and Mars in daylight, you can have a pleasant view of what precedes the daylight event if you look at about 4 a.m. The two will rise together in the East, well before sunrise. Even earlier in the morning, Mars is easier to spot, because it is far enough away from the moon.
NASA just gave $1m to these 8 strange Moon projects: Video - SlashGear
See you on 'The Dark Side of the Moon' at Lincoln Theatre - News - ThisWeek Community
"You'll have nine of the world's best musicians on stage tearing this album apart and putting it back together," he said.
The concert will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 29 in the Lincoln Theatre, 769 E. Long St. in Columbus' King-Lincoln neighborhood.
Tickets are $25 and $30 and may be purchased at the CBUSArts Ticket Center, 39 E. State St., at capa.com or by phone at 614-469-0939.
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"There's a lot of work and coming together to make this sound cut for cut, note for note, but after 17 years, we know how to do that," he said.
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The office views are amazing and the commute's a blast ... NASA is looking for a new generation of astronauts to travel to the ISS, the Moon and maybe even Mars as part of the Artemis mission program. So scrub up your CV, have you got what it takes?
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