[ad_1] A shooting star during the Perseid meteor shower. Soon thousands of satellites will crowd the night sky. Image via Shutterstock / The conversation. By Samantha Lawler, University of Regina I walk out of my rural Saskatchewan home before dawn and look up, expecting to be breathless at the number …
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[ad_1] View EarthSky Community Photos. | Rich Richins in Las Cruces, NM, captured this photo of a Leonid on November 17, 2020. He wrote, “A Leonid fireball in Leo. The meteor shower was mostly disappointing. Maybe I saw one visually in an hour. But I set up the camera in …
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[ad_1] View EarthSky Community Photos. | Rich Richins in Las Cruces, NM, captured this photo of a Leonid on November 17, 2020. He wrote, “A Leonid fireball in Leo. The meteor shower was mostly disappointing. Maybe I saw one visually in an hour. But I set up the camera in …
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[ad_1] An artist’s rendering of the first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle – called Block 1 – with the Orion spacecraft on the platform before launch. The Orion spacecraft and megarocket SLS – and ground systems at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida – will be part of …
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[ad_1] Artist rendering of the first Space Launch System (SLS) vehicle with the Orion spacecraft on the platform prior to launch. The Orion probe and megarocket SLS – together called Block 1 – and the ground systems of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, will be part of …
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[ad_1] Jim Bridenstine, via his Facebook page as a NASA administrator (@AdminJimBridenstine). This was stated by current NASA chief Jim Bridenstine Aviation Week this week (November 8, 2020) he would broadcast as the head of the US space agency, under the new administration of Joe Biden. As reported by Irene …
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[ad_1] The International Space Station orbits the Earth approximately every 90 minutes. Image via NASA. It has been 20 years since this month that astronaut William “Bill” Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev became the first people to board the International Space Station (ISS). That first crew resided …
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[ad_1] ? Axiom Space is an aerospace manufacturing and services company headquartered in Houston, Texas. It aims, among other things, to host private missions on the International Space Station (ISS). In a video panel discussion posted on YouTube on September 30, 2020, Axiom Space asked four former space shuttle and …
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