Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with the New Yorker's Raffi Khatchadourian about the growing risks associated with orbital space debris and how likely a successful clean-up effort is.
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This past week, the International Space Station almost came into contact with space junk. That's the third time a near-collision has happened this year, and it's something scientists say will get worse if nothing is done to clean up space debris. The trash that circles our planet is from the last 63 years of space travel - broken bits of satellite and other items flying up to 18,000 miles per hour, often colliding and breaking apart into smaller pieces that themselves zoom and collide.
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Space Travel Reality Show Set To Send Contestant To ISS In 2023 – Deadline
EXCLUSIVE : Following the success of SpaceX ’s Crew Dragon mission, which marked the return of the U.S.’ capability for manned flights and the first private company to get people into orbit, a reality series wants to send a civilian into space.
The trip of the Space Hero winner is expected be on a SpaceX Dragon rocket though a launch provider is yet to be officially selected. Space Hero, billed as the first space media company, is working with Axiom Space, manufacturer of the world’s first privately funded commercial space station — a module for the ISS where the private astronauts can stay — and full-service human spaceflight mission provider.
The Economic Impact of a Rebounded and Revitalized Space Program on Florida's Space Coast -
On August 2nd, a SpaceX capsule carrying two NASA astronauts successfully splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, officially concluding a historic mission to return astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). For the first time in nearly a decade, NASA astronauts destined for the ISS launched off from American soil, and for the first time in over four decades, an American space capsule splashed down in the ocean, reminiscent of the bygone Apollo era that first sent humans to the moon.
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Songs about sewage and space travel? It's prog-folk band Hen Ogledd | Music | The Guardian
Dawson formed Hen Ogledd with Davies as a cathartically noisy improvisation duo in 2012, around the time that his own solo work was starting to reach a rapidly growing audience, leading to a string of acclaimed albums including last year's opus, 2020. Meanwhile, Hen Ogledd expanded to include Bothwell for 2016's Bronze, before Pilkington cemented the current lineup with 2018's Mogic, their first on Domino Records.
The group have managed to balance a freeform approach to music-making with an increasing range of pop melodies and song structures, but make it clear that their vision of the genre is "multifarious". "There is a definite level of wonkiness," says Pilkington, "and fun is a big factor in the kind of pop that I like to make." Influences on the album range from Abba and Billie Eilish to 12th-century composer Hildegard von Bingen, while the lyrics keep pace with such weirdness.
Weekly Space Hangout: September 23, 2020, Col. Terry Virts (USAF ret.
Terry Virts, one of only four astronauts in history to have piloted a Space Shuttle, flown a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, performed space walks, and commanded the ISS. He's written HOW TO ASTRONAUT: An Insider's Guide to Leaving Planet Earth, the book for everyone who wants to know what space travel is really like.
Fun fact: Terry took enough photos while in space to create a book and feature IMAX film View from Above , all while doing spacewalks to maintain the ISS and conducting science experiments for NASA scientists on Earth.
Reach for the stars: Pola Orbis teams up with Ana Holdings to design cosmetics for space travel -
THE WHAT? Bringing a new meaning to travel retail, Japan's Pola Orbis has teamed up with Ana Holdings to design a beauty range that will be billed as the world's first space-friendly cosmetics line, according to a report published by the Japan Times.
THE DETAILS The two companies are aiming to produce a collection of cosmetics that is comfortable to wear at zero gravity and in dry conditions by 2023, with Ana providing the aircraft needed to test performance and Pola Orbis the beauty know-how.
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