BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- A thousand people may have a thousand answers as to why we explore space. For 64-year-old Chinese scientist Wu Ji, exploring space has a more self-reflective meaning.
"When one enters space, one will realize that human beings are an indivisible whole. Regardless of skin color, they have far more in common than they have differences," said Wu, chairman of the Chinese Society of Space Research.
NASA gets Voyager 1 talking again — and discovers a new mystery
NASA's Voyager 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyager 2, are the furthest human-made objects from our planet, having made it beyond the edges of the Solar System and out into the interstellar medium.
But that's not how NASA works . Instead, they started working on a remote diagnosis and fix for the record-breaking spacecraft. Now, some four months later, they are triumphant. Voyager 1 is back online and communicating perfectly with ground control as if it never happened.
Watch Blue Origin launch New Shepard rocket Sept. 1 after delay | Space
Update: Blue Origin is now targeting Sept. 1 at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT) for the launch of its NS-23 suborbital mission.
Blue Origin originally hoped to launch the mission — called NS-23, because it will be the 23rd New Shepard flight — on Wednesday (Aug. 31), but bad weather conditions prevented the liftoff. The company is hoping for better weather on Thursday at the same launch time.
Watch | Chinese astronauts grow rice in space - SCIENCE News
As China's under-construction space station inches closer to completion, more and more science experiments are beginning to take shape in the modules. Taikonauts have now successfully cultivated rice plants from seeds in the zero-gravity lab.
While the Thales cress has produced four leaves, the long-stem rice seeds have grown up to 30 centimeters tall. The Thale cress, according to CGTN, is a representative sample of many green-leaf vegetables such as rapeseed, cabbage and brussels sprouts.
Iconic James Webb Space Telescope images turned into music | Space
The breathtaking images of distant nebulas captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope that mesmerized the world in July have been turned into music through a technique called data sonification.
Three sonifications of images from the first James Webb Space Telescope data release have now been made available to the public.
Sending Barley Seeds to Space a Successful Venture for U of G Researchers - U of G News
What goes up must come down. That rings true for physics and for a batch of barley seeds University of Guelph scientists sent to space last year. The seeds were provided by The Glenlivet. Having now returned to Earth, Dr.
After exposure to the extreme temperatures on the MISSE platform outside the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) , the seeds' ability to germinate is the successful step Dixon did not initially foresee but had hoped for.
10,000 Items Are Flying To The Moon On Artemis I And Some Of Them Are… Curious | IFLScience
Hope is not lost that Artemis I, NASA's historic mission to kick off the next stage of going back to the Moon, will fly this week . Although it is an uncrewed mission, there are some very eager passengers on board, including Snoopy, Shaun the Sheep, and some very NSFW-looking manikins.
NASA selects STAR-X for $3M mission concept study | Penn State University
Artist's impression of STAR-X after its launch in 2027-28. The aperture for the X‑ray telescope is the large circular shape toward the left with thermal-baffle "ribbing" structure apparent. The ultraviolet telescope is the "outrigger" tube attached to the observatory's underside.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — STAR-X , a proposed space mission that includes Penn State astronomer Niel Brandt, is one of two proposed missions selected by the NASA Explorers Program to receive $3 million for a nine-month detailed study of mission requirements.
Global Space Tourism Market to Reach $8.67 Billion by 2030
DUBLIN , Aug. 31, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Space Tourism Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report by Type (Orbital, Sub-orbital), by End Use (Government, Commercial), by Region, and Segment Forecasts, 2022-2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
They're expecting a signal from space. USA researchers just have to be ready to receive it. - al.com
Professor Edmund Spencer, right, describes the antenna that will receive signals from the University of South Alabama's JagSat-1 as graduate student Salman Kabir troubleshoots a signal amplifier. Lawrence Specker | LSpecker@AL.com
With their satellite due to be kicked out the door of the International Space Station in the near future, researchers at the University of South Alabama spent Tuesday getting ready to receive the signals they hope JagSat-1 will soon be beaming their way.
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