Blitz - Day 2 | FIDE World Rapid & Blitz 2023 - Final Day of the Tournament - 30 December 2023

A New Name and New Journey for an Asteroid Mission on This Week @NASA – December 29,2023

Justice and the Law - Maine official who removed Trump from ballot responds to fierce criticism - CNN

Erica Hill interviews the Maine Secretary of State,Shenna Bellows.

Blitz - Day 1 | FIDE World Rapid & Blitz 2023

Rapid - Day 3 | FIDE World Rapid & Blitz 2023 - revised

This day will conclude the Rapid Championship.The next day will begin the Blitz Championship.The Woman Rapid Championship was led by Anastasia Bodnaruk of Russia after Day 2.She will play Humpy Koneru of India.Magnus Carlson of Norway was in a tie with two others atop the Men Rapid Championship.He will play Vladimir Fedeev of Slovenia,formerly of Russia.Many Russian players have changed their country since the Ukraine war.

Justice and the Law - BREAKING: Maine secretary of state says Trump ineligible to appear on 2024 ballot

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows has the authority to decide who appears on the state's ballots.She also,however,allowed for an appeal to be filed by placing her decision on hold.

Why This Blog Covers Chess

It is a major pastime for many people,and also a profession for the elite players.Many countries are well-represented by a professional contingent at the major FIDE events.FIDE is the governing body of world chess.So we have a major event now that interests many intellectuals.

Daniil Dubov and Nodirbek Abdusattorov chat with Charlize van Zyl | FIDE World Rapid Championship - Samarkand,Uzbekistan Central Asis

Rapid - Day 2 | FIDE World Rapid & Blitz 2023 - Samarkand,Uzbekistan,Central Asia

Rapid - Day 1 | FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2023 - 26 December 2023 - starts at 5:53 - initially some audio problems - Samarkand,Uzbekistan,Central Asia

Nurgyul Salimova: "I really enjoy rapid lately because of the World Cup." - Samarkand,Uzbekistan,Central Asia

Nurgyul Salimova is a Bulgarian of Turkish descent.In 2019,FIDE,the governing body of world chess,awarded her the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster.The World Rapid and Blitz Championships opened in Samarkand,Uzbekistan on 26 December 2023.

Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging President Putin in election | BBC News

A former TV journalist,Yekaterina Duntsova,seeks to end the Ukraine war and release political prisoners,bringing democracy to Russia.

Going Home for Christmas by Home for the Holidays - courtesy Epidemic Sound

Hubble Space Telescope captures 'festive' galaxy for the holidays - 4K

Music:Going Home for Christmas by Home for the Holidays courtesy Epidemic Sound

Artemis 1 spacecraft re-enters Earth atmosphere in fiery 1-minute time-lapse

Ultra-High-Definition Video Beamed From Deep Space on This Week @NASA – ...December 22,2023

NG-19 S.S. Laurel Clark Cygnus departure - 22 December 2023

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was unberthed from the Earth-facing unity module by the Canadarm2 robotic arm.The operation was monitored by NASA Flight Engineer Loral O'Hara onboard the ISS.The spacecraft is named for the late NASA Astronaut Laurel Clark.*Northrop Grumman (NOC)

Artemis II Crew Training Resource Reel - Orion Program Update

The mission is slated for a launch no soooner than November 2024.Astronaut Sunni Williams was getting some flying hours in a NASA T-38 Talon trainer,and is not an Artemis II crew member.She is training for the first crewed flight of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.*Boeing (BA)

Expanding Shell - (P) 2020 Lars Leonhard

Narrated Tour of Fermi's 14-Year Gamma-Ray Time-Lapse,NASA Goddard

Gamma-rays are the highest energy form of light (photons).

Justice and the Law - Maddow: Trump getting kicked off Colorado ballot 'a real surprise' - MSNBC

The former President was excluded from Colorado's Primary Election ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Ammendment of the Constitution,which excludes those who have committed insurrection from holding public office ever again.

Hubble’s Inside The Image: RS Puppis - NASA Goddard - astrophysics

Soyuz-2.1b launches Arktika-M No.2

Arktika-M No.2 is the second of two Arctic Region meteorological and environmental monitoring satellites.

Our Webb Space Telescope’s New Look at an Exploded Star on This Week @NASA

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Currents and Crime Scenes - Scored By Investigate (P) 2023 UPPM Records

Composer,writers:Tom Tideway,Harry Gregson Williams and Dylan Matthew Love

Space Museum - Scored By Impulse (P) 2022 UPPM Records

Composer,Writers:Ho Ling Tan and Harry Gregson Williams

The Day the Solar Wind Disappeared from Mars - NASA Goddard - heliophysics/planetary science

The Martian atmosphere and magnetosphere expanded by thousands of kilometers in response. Music:Space Museum - Scored By Impulse,Currents and Crime Scenes-Scored By Investigate

NASA 2023: Nothing is Beyond Our Reach

NASA's Massive IMAP Mission

On 30 November 2023,NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) successfully completed Key Decision Point D (KDP-D).This milestone allows the mission to move from development and design to assembly,testing and integration,NASA announced.As well,the launch date for the mission was moved from no sooner than February 2025,to a launch window of late April to late May 2025 to ensure the project team has adequate resources to address risks and technical complexities during system integration and testing.*IMAP is to fuction as a modern day cartographer and help us understand what happens when the solar wind,which is a constant stream of particles from the Sun,collides with materials from interstellar space.This will help researchers map the boundary of the heliosphere,the magnetic bubble created by the solar wind,and better understand how this bubble protects Earth from large amounts of harmful cosmic radiation (cosmic rays).Such radiation can threaten astronauts and technological systems.* The IMAP spacecraft is being built,and will be operated,by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel,Maryland.*The IMAP mission simaltaneously investigates two of the most important topics in Space Physics today-the acceleration of enrgetic particles and interaction of the solar wind with the interstellar medium.The mission is led by Principal Investigator Professor David McComas in the Space Physics at Princeton Group.The IMAP's 10 instruments provide the first comprehensive in-situ and remote global observations to discover the fundamental physical processes that control our solar system's evolving space environment.Among the Team's partners are NASA JPL-Caltech;Los Alamos National Laboratory;Imperial College London;Nagoya University,Japan;University of Central Lancashire;University of Bern,Switzerland;Massachussetts Institute of Technology;the Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Physics,University of Colorado Boulder; and The University of Chicago.*Space Physics is defined as the study of natural phenomena that occur in our solar system.Specifically,the Sun,the particles and the radiation it creates,and how these affect the planets;the solar wind and its interaction with the Earth and near-Earth space (space weather).Another definition is that Space Physics is the study of plasmas as they occur naturally in the Earth's upper atmosphere (areonomy) and within the solar system.

Far Far Far - An Impossible View by Bonnie Grace (P) Epidemic Sound

Fly through James Webb Space Telescope's view of 5000 galaxies in amazing 3D visualization - cosmology

Maisie's galaxy dates back to 390 million years after the Big Bang. Music:Far Far Far by Bonnie Grace courtesy Epidemic Sound Cosmology is the science of the origin and development of the universe.

Astronauts Talk with NASA Leadership for Space Station’s 25th Anniversary - 6 December 2023

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a, TH 35: VIII. Waltz of the Flowers (P) 1988 Naxos

Progress MS-25 manual docking

Music:Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

In orbit around Mars? This is what you could see - planetary science

A Rising Sun by Alan Ellis - (P) Epidemic Sound

James Webb Space Telescope captures amazing view of 'cosmic crib' - See in 4K - astrophysics

rr Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (protostars). Music "A Rising Sun" by Alan Ellis courtesy Epidemic Sound.

Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Quest for the Skies (Royalty Free Music) - Epidemic Sound

See Mars Helicopter fly from Perseverance and Ingenuity cams - 16 September 2023

Music "Quest for the Skies" by Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen courtesy Epidemic Sound

More About the SPHEREx Space Telescope - cosmology

According to NASA JPL/Caltech,the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe,Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey.The results will be publicly accessible.Over its planned two-year mission,the SPHEREx Space Observatory will gather data on more than 300 million galaxies and more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way to ascertain the origins of the universe.The spacecraft will survey the sky in both optical and near-infrared light.The data will be used to search for the building blocks of life,water and organic molecules,in the Milky Way's stellar nurseries where stars are born fron gas and dust,as well as disks around stars where planets form.*The mission will create a map of the entire sky in 96 color bands,far exceeding the color resolution of previous all-sky maps.It will also identify targets for more detailed study by the James Webb Space Telescope and the future Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.*The spacecraft is being manufactured by Ball Aerospace,a division of Ball Corporation.Besides JPL/Caltech and international scientists,the SPHEREx team includes scientists from UC Irvine;Ohio State U.;the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics;Arizona State U.;the University of Arizona;Rochester Institute of Technology;Argonne National Lab;and Johns Hopkins University.SPHEREx will gather enough data to keep scientists busy for years.* BALL Corp (BALL)

Artemis II Astronauts Check Out Some Flight Hardware on This Week @NASA - November 24,2023

Boeing Defense,Space and Security manufactures the Space Launch System and Core Stage.Boeing (BA)

Hubble’s Inside The Image: M87 Jet - NASA Goddard - astrophysics

2024 Moon Phases - Northern Hemisphere - 4K - NASA Goddard

This professional level information includes distance from Earth,Apollo landing sites and so on.The music is provided by Universal Production Music.It is "Go Win It" by Alexander Hitchens.Imagery is by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Meet the Canadian Space Agency's newest astronauts

Astronaut Jenni Gibbons has been selected to be Astronaut Jeremy Hansen's backup for the Artemis II mission,slated to fly Nno sooner than November 2024.This will ensure that a Canadian Astronaut will participate in the mission,in accord with an agreement with NASA.Astronaut Joshua Kutryk has been selected to fly on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner on its first regular ISS mission under NASA's Commercial Crew Program.This is to launch no sooner than early 2025.

About Ion Thruster Engines - physics

According to NASA,the most common propellant used in ion propulsion is the heavy neutral gas Xenon,which is easily ionized and has a high atomic mass,thus generating a desirable level of thrust when ions are accelerated.The thrusters work by using an electrical charge to accelerate ions from Xenon fuel to a speed 7-10 times the speed of chemical engines.An ion is defined as an atom or molecule that has gained or lost one of its valence eletrons,giving it a net positive or negative electrical charge.So it is a charged entity,as opposed to a neutral one.

This Thruster can Propel a Spacecraft Almost Indefinitely - Science Channel - physics

An ion thruster engine has been chosen to propel the NASA/ESA Gateway space station in lunar orbit.

Watch Moon Rocket for Crewed Artemis II Mission Come Together

The Artemis II mission is slated for a November 2024 launch.

About the Dream Chaser Spaceplane

Sierra Space has completed its first Dream Chaser Spaceplane named Tenacity,introducing it on 2 November 2023.It is to autnomously resupply the ISS pending testing by NASA.This mini-shuttle will be launched to the ISS on the new United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket.The company,a subsidiary of the privately held Sierra Nevada Corporation,is also working on a crewed version of the spaceplane.At the conclusion of its cargo missions,the Dream Chaser will land at the Space Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA Kennedy Space Center.*ULA is a joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.*Boeing (BA),Lockheed Martin (LMT)

Sierra Space Introduces Dream Chaser Spaceplane Tenacity