Chris Cassidy and two Russians blasted off Thursday and climbed aboard the space station, where they'll spend the next six months. It's the third mission into space for Cassidy, who attended York High School.
Already on board the space station was Jessica Meir, a Caribou native. She and two other crew member will return to Earth on April 17.
There was little fanfare when newest three crew members blasted off in Soyuz capsule from Kazakhstan. The number of workers was kept to a minimum because of the new coronavirus.
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"Awaiting Discovery" --150 or More Faint Galaxies Orbiting the Milky Way | The Daily
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Astrophysicists believe that dark matter is responsible for much of the structure of galaxies. Yet to this day, scientists have yet to crack it’s enduring mystery, with conjectures vary from suggesting that it may be older than the Big Bang to particles the size of galaxies to recent research that simulated the formation of galaxies in a universe without dark matter.
Coronavirus: How SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Orbit and ULA are helping
Known for the ingenuity and problem-solving skills, the engineers responsible for making rockets and spacecraft are now putting their brainpower and high-tech manufacturing methods to help combat COVID-19.
To help with the shortage of face shields for healthcare professionals, Blue Origin is using 25 of its 3D printers that normally make rocket parts to crank out hundreds of visors used for protective face shields.
The employees volunteering to work on the project spend their days developing Blue's powerful rocket engine known as BE4 and their free time making the shields at their headquarters in Kent, Washington.
Nusantara Dua satellite fails to reach orbit after launch from China - Business - The Jakarta Post
The Nusantara Dua satellite , which is owned by several Indonesian companies, has failed to reach orbit after taking off from China on Thursday.
The satellite was carried by the Long March 3B rocket at liftoff from the Xichiang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan province at 7:46 p.m. local time on Thursday.
“However, there was an anomaly during the third stage of rocket separation and the satellite could not reach its predetermined orbit,” satellite operator Palapa Satelit Nusa Sejahtera (PSNS) said in its official statement on Thursday evening.
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The Orange River As Viewed From Orbit - SpaceRef
The Orange River empties into the Atlantic Ocean and separates the nations of Namibia and South Africa.
The International Space Station was orbiting 265 miles above the African continent when this photograph was taken.
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 9 April 2020 - New Crew Arrives - SpaceRef
The new Expedition 63 crew joined the Expedition 62 crew today a board the International Space Station. (Front row from left) NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner. (Back row from left) NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir. Credit: NASA TV.
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, along with Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos joined Expedition 62 Commander Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos and NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir aboard the International Space Station when the hatches between the Soyuz spacecraft and the orbiting laboratory officially opened at 12:28 p.m. EDT.
Virgin Orbit's VOX Space wins $35 million U.S. Space Force launch contract - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — VOX Space, a subsidiary of Virgin Orbit that focuses on the national security launch market, was awarded a $35 million contract for three dedicated launches to deliver 44 small satellites to low Earth orbit, the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center announced April 10.
VOX Space, based in El Segundo, California, will use the LauncherOne rocket . The contract is for the STP-S28 mission to provide orbital launch services for the Department of Defense's Space Test Program. The STP-S28 experiments will be used by the Space Force to develop its future space architecture. The launch is tentatively planned for October 2021.
Earth Is Spiraling Away From The Sun For Now, But Will Eventually Crash Into It
The Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun and spinning on its axis, appears to make a closed, ... [+] unchanging, elliptical orbit. If we look to a high-enough precision, however, we'll find that our planet is actually spiraling away from the Sun.
If you could measure the average distance from the Earth to the Sun over the course of an entire year, you'd discover something unsettling. With each passing year that you made that measurement, you'd find the Earth was a little bit farther away from the Sun — about 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) more distant — than the year prior. For billions of years, Earth has been migrating outward in its orbit, a trend that should continue for billions of years to come.
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