Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Launch of Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cargo Mission to the Space Station (Official NASA Broadcast) - Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

It is the first time the Northrop Grumman Cargo Cygnus spacecraft has flown on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.This Cygnus is named SS Patty Hilliard Robertson to commemorate the late NASA Astronaut Dr.Patty Hilliard Robertson,who perished in a plane crash in 2001.Among the experiments onboard Cygnus are a demonstration of robotic surgery in space,3D printing of small metal parts in space,and a test of heat shield materials.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Time Lapse by Lee Groves and Peter George Marett (P) 2018 UPPM Records

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Hubble’s Inside The Image: Antennae Galaxies - NASA Goddard

Credit:NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Production and Post:Origin Films Hubble Space Telescope Animation: ESA/Hubble - M.Kornmesser and L.L. Christensen

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Airplane-size asteroid 2024 BJ flies closer than the moon in orbit animation - planetary science

t Asteroid 2024 BJ's closest approach to Earth on 27 January 2024 will be about 220,000 mi/354,00 km.It is about 68 ft/21 m wide. Credit:Space.com animation:NASA/JPL-Caltech edited by [Steve Spaleta] https://twitter.com/stevespaleta