Friday, April 19, 2024

Kennedy family brushes off RFK Jr.’s campaign as they endorse Biden - YouTube - CNN

Starliner rolled out to launch pad ahead of first crewed mission - WESH 2 News

The first crewed Starliner spacecraft mission is scheduled for early May.*Boeing (BA)

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

First-of-its-kind SLS Payload Adapter Finishes Assembly at NASA Marshall - YouTube - Orion Program Update

Teams at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville,Alabama completed a new payload adapter and readied it for structural testing,set to begin later this spring.This marks a critical milestone on the journey to the hardware's debut on the upgraded Block 1B configuration of the NASA SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with Artemis IV.The composite payload adapter is an evolution from the Orion stage adapter used in the Block 1 configuration of the first three Artemis missions.*Boeing (BA)

Monday, April 15, 2024

NASA's building a solar sail to propel space exploration - YouTube - Space.com

It's the early days of solar sail technology,which has been mentioned as a way to reach another star within a human lifetime.NASA's vision is to send solar sails to destinations within our solar system.

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Gravitational Waves: Ripples In Space-Time - NASA Goddard - astrophysics

Notes by NASA Goddard:Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of spacetime.They are caused by some of the most violent and energetic events in the universe,including colliding black holes;merging neutron stars or white dwarf stars;the wobble of neutron stars that are not perfect spheres;and possibly even the remnants of gravitational radiation create by the birth of the universe.*Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity,but weren't confirmed until 2017.The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was able to photograph the galactic source of the waves.This opens up a new era of multi-messenger astronomy.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Scientists discover cause of brightest-ever burst of light | BBC News - YouTube - cosmology

According to US scientists,it was caused by a small star supernova 2.4 billion light years away,with gamma ray emissions 100 times brighter than anything ever seen before.The blast lasted seven minutes.It doesn't make sense based on our current model.It's estimated that such an event occurs only once every 10,000 years. Cosmology is the study of the origin and structures of the universe.What would Einstein have thought about this strange event?If there's a black hole involved,the answer could be there.