Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its third crewed rocket for NASA, sending a further four astronauts into orbit and marking the first time the company achieved the takeoff with both a pre-used capsule and rocket.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 5:49 a.m. ET—with a low rumble and leaving behind a trail of fire and smoke in the predawn darkness—from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. It is set to autonomously dock with the International Space Station roughly 24 hours later, joining an earlier group of four astronauts who traveled there on SpaceX's first operational mission in November and three others also on board.
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This story is part of an Opinions series called “One Planet, One Home.” In honor of Earth Day this year, we are taking a moment to draw attention to and discuss different environmental issues facing our local communities and our planet.
Space travel has always seemed like a mere dream to the general public. Only 550 people have gone to space, but that number may grow rapidly within the next 10 years. Plans for commercial space travel have been in the works for years, with space companies and organizations like NASA, SpaceX and Axiom leading the way. Now, those ideas are becoming a reality as a vacation to space could soon be available for some.
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When people think of Florida, three things usually come to mind: beaches, theme parks and space. All are incredibly important to the state economy, but only one will send the first woman and next man to the moon and beyond.
Florida's own Cape Canaveral is iconic in the aerospace industry. Since the 1950s, missions like Atlas to current-day Artemis have led the way in space exploration and scientific research. The work done there by our fellow Floridians is groundbreaking and will lead our nation into the next generation of space travel. Back on Earth, this incredibly important industry creates and sustains jobs and businesses while boosting the state economy.
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I'll be honest, I've never understood the hype around space. While everyone in kindergarten ran around saying that they wanted to be the president or an astronaut, I sat quietly, ashamed that I aspired to be a teacher. Our dreams have inevitably changed since then, and as a third-year Business student, I — like many of my peers — don't really know what I want to be. What I do know is that I still don't want to be an astronaut; my sensitive stomach can barely handle a midnight Taco Bell run.
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W hen it comes to movies set in space , the line between meditative and boring is a slender one. Unless the plot involves slimy alien Gigercritters bursting out of chest cavities, movie astronauts seem to spend a lot of time opening and closing one airlock door after another, while occasionally gazing out the window and marveling at the glory of creation.
That’s a roundabout way of saying that Joe Penna’s Stowaway —set aboard a ship that was designed for three people and, it turns out, must accommodate four—is a little boring. But it has a mournful, searching quality, similar to what some of the more soulful space movies—like Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity or Brian De Palma’s Mission to Mars —tease out.
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IMAGE: Mitchell Walker and his research team in the High-Power Electric Propulsion Laboratory (HPEPL) at Georgia Tech. view more
Every few years, NASA creates Space Technology Research Institutes (STRI) in areas it believes are going to be strategic for future technology and space missions. Today, that area is electric propulsion - the use of electrical energy to accelerate propellant to create thrust. The technology yields extremely efficient thrusters to power space flight for gateway launches to the moon or even shuttling massive loads of cargo to Mars.
ISS sets its research scope on longer space missions
"We're trying out technologies for exploration," said Remi Canton, director of Cadmos, the division of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) undertaking 12 new experiments.
Whether it is humans revisiting the Moon for the first time since 1972 or eventually travelling as far as the Red Planet, the challenges are overwhelming.
Firstly, how can engineers ensure that astronauts and their equipment are protected from the flow of particles thrown out by solar storms and cosmic rays?
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Malachi Goertzen is a Grade 9 student here in Steinbach. He says he got up in the wee hours of Monday morning to witness a big moment for Nasa.
A photo of Ingenuity on Mars. Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. "In February NASA's Perseverance mars rover for Mars 2020 landed on Mars and along with it was ingenuity, a helicopter. This was going to be the first powered flight on another planet so I got up at about 5 AM to watch."
Being a super fan of all things space, Goertzen says it was pretty exciting to see this monumental moment unfold.
Kansas elementary students take part in ISS plant growing experiment
Basehor-Linwood elementary schools are taking advantage of Linwood Elementary School teacher Lisa Turney's role as an Astro_moji mission specialist working with a science experiment currently taking place at the International Space Station.
Turney was selected from more than 550,000 participants to virtually teach about a science experiment involving red clover being grown 250 miles above Earth on the ISS.
Those seeds were sent via the NG-15 Cargo Resupply Mission which launched Feb. 20 and will return in May. The purpose of the experiment is to achieve effective plant growth in space for long-term space travel, including a potential colonization of Mars.
Happening on Twitter
Watch Falcon 9 launch Dragon with four astronauts on board to the @space_station → https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK https://t.co/706eQCSzoK SpaceX (from Hawthorne, CA) Fri Apr 23 05:30:43 +0000 2021
All systems and weather are looking good for Falcon 9's launch of Dragon with four astronauts on board. Webcast wil… https://t.co/ugR53MTAIi SpaceX (from Hawthorne, CA) Thu Apr 22 18:34:13 +0000 2021
Crew-2 astronauts aboard Dragon check in from orbit. Watch live → https://t.co/bJFjLCzWdK https://t.co/BqrbPZCCw5 SpaceX (from Hawthorne, CA) Fri Apr 23 12:01:08 +0000 2021
On @Instagram? Check this out. ⬇️ Put on your virtual spacesuit and board the Crew Dragon with this new @SpaceX fi… https://t.co/6MAmJ2WdEK NASA (from Pale Blue Dot) Thu Apr 22 01:25:16 +0000 2021
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