Elon Musk's SpaceX is scheduled to launch four astronauts into orbit Sunday evening, marking the start of regularly scheduled commercial flights intended to serve the International Space Station.
Carrying a full complement of crew members, the mission is poised to boost SpaceX's stature as the first company approved by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to ferry humans routinely into space. It also promises to be an important capstone for the agency's strategy of using public-private partnerships to accelerate human space exploration.
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'The Astronauts' Producers on Putting Kids in Peril in Space - Variety
“We are being presented — especially in 2020 with all that’s happened — with portraying a future as a hopeful thing. I think people are really hungry for that — ‘if we all set aside our differences and work together toward a common goal, then we have a very bright and hopeful future,'” “The Astronauts” showrunner Daniel Knauf tells Variety .
“The Astronauts,” which is the first series from Imagine Entertainment’s Kids & Family brand and premieres on Nickelodeon on Nov. 13, starts when five kids use their parents’ security clearances to sneak onto the spacecraft Odyssey, which is being prepared for a mission to retrieve a mysterious foreign object that might be able to save mankind.
EmDrive: Is It Possible? Can It Work for Space Travel?
It sounds simple, but the concept rips apart our existing understanding of physics. No energy is going in or coming out, so how are the waves initialized, how do they continue to move, and where is their momentum coming from?
Spontaneous, created momentum without an explicable “push” is not a thing. If the EmDrive works, that fact invalidates much of what physicists know about the universe. It’s like a logic problem where one clue lets you cross off every answer but one, with ramifications that ripple through the rest of the grid.
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Local company an intricate player in mapping safe space travel | 96.1 Renfrew Today
A local company is celebrating a milestone and an achievement connected with space exploration. Bubble Technology Industries has been working with members of the International Space Station in regards to neutron radiation. Astronauts just wrapped up 11 years of measuring this radiation using bubble detectors. Manager of Research and Development, Dr. Martin Smith says there’s important significance to these measurements.
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He adds this research could help them put together a clearer picture of any health implications of neutron radiation exposure, including cataracts, and bone marrow damage. Bubble Technology Industries is located in Chalk River.
NASA and SpaceX set to make history, again | PBS NewsHour Weekend
NASA and SpaceX are set to make history—again–when they launch their first operational commercial voyage to the international space station from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dave Mosher, Senior Space Correspondent for Business Insider, speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the anticipated historic flight.
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Nasa and SpaceX are set to make history again when they launch their first operational commercial voyage to the International Space Station. The initial launch was scheduled for yesterday evening but delayed due to weather. The next window for the launch, with four astronauts aboard, is scheduled for 7:27 Eastern time tonight.
Do NASA's Lunar Exploration Rules Violate Space Law? - Scientific American
When they were first publicized by NASA earlier this year, the agency’s Artemis Accords seemed harmless and trivial, almost self-evident. These tenets state, among other things, that emergency assistance will be rendered to foreign astronauts if they are endangered or in distress, that planning for space travel will take place transparently and that research findings will be published in a timely fashion—with these steps taken, of course, for the benefit of all humankind.
Lufkin students' experiment being tested on the International Space Station
LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Two East Texas students are having their work sent on Mission 14 to the International Space Station this winter.
Shariah Jackson and Abdeel McGrew are eighth-graders at Lufkin Middle School who's flight experiment is scheduled to be sent for testing on the International Space Station in December. The opportunity is part of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program and they began preparing last year.
"We have two experiments, one is going into space and one down here on Earth," Jackson said. "Because there will be no gravity at all whatsoever, and there will be little to no light in space and we're kind of going to manipulate that down here, but with gravity."
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