SpaceX Notches Longest Starship Flight Before Losing Rocket. Third test mission of massive craft reached near Orbit.
Prior flights ended with explosions minutes after launch. 
SpaceX launched its Starship rocket into space in a critical test, sending the colossal craft farther and faster than it had ever flown, before it was lost while returning to Earth.
The mission, which featured several key demonstrations of the craft’s capabilities, lasted much longer than the past two attempts, which each ended quickly in explosions. The achievement brings the company a step closer to using Starship to launch satellites and eventually reaching Chief Executive Officer.
NASA Hubble Telescope Snaps ‘Sparkling Candy Floss’ Region Of Space.
Hubble Space Telescope’s latest image releases might make you long for the cotton candy booth at the local fair. The venerable telescope captured an ethereal image of a cluster of nebulae called N11. That’s a humdrum name for what NASA described as “a bubbling region of stars” in a statement on August 19. The image gives space fans a glimpse into a neighboring galaxy and the cosmic processes at work there.
Hubble’s N11 image looks like a billowing red fog littered with glitter. “About 1,000 light-years across, N11’s sprawling filaments weave stellar matter in and out of each other like sparkling candy floss,” said NASA. “These cotton-spun clouds of gas are ionized by a burgeoning host of young and massive stars, giving the complex a cherry-pink appearance.” It’s tough to wrap your head around the concept of 1,000 light-years, but it helps to know Proxima Centauri—the next-closest star to our sun—is about 4.2 light-years away. In short, N11 is huge.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandakoose...-of-space/
Spacesuits of Boeing-launched astronauts stranded on space station are incompatible with SpaceX craft. NASA told Fox News Digital their Boeing spacesuits are made to work with the company’s spacecraft, while SpaceX’s spacesuits are made to work with its own Dragon vessel, which NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams may ride in on their descent back to Earth.
The two astronauts arrived in the Starliner vehicle June 5 and were only supposed to stay until the middle of the month. Both astronauts are "very familiar" with the International Space Station, said Russ DeLoach, NASA’s chief of safety and mission assurance. The Starliner test flight marked the third mission to the ISS for each of them.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/spacesuits-bo...acex-craft
The nearest stars to Earth are three stars that lie about 4.37 light-years away in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system. The closest of these stars, Proxima Centauri, is just about 4.24 light-years away
NASA Confronts 72% Asteroid Impact. Probability: A Planetary Defense Test. Asteroid Impact
Preparedness
A large asteroid impacting Earth is highly unlikely for the foreseeable future. But because the damage from such an event could be great, NASA leads hypothetical asteroid impact “tabletop” exercises every two years with experts and decision-makers from federal and international agencies to address the many uncertainties of an impact scenario. The most recent exercise took place this past April, with a preliminary report being issued on June 20.
https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-confronts-...ense-test/
SpaceX set a launch turnaround record with back-to-back, coast-to-coast Falcon. launches. Following its second return to flight mission in as many months with a Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX proceeded to set a new turnaround record. These two launches of 21 Starlink satellites come just days after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) temporarily grounded the Falcon fleet amid an investigation into a failed booster landing attempt on Wednesday.
Liftoff of the Starlink 9-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) happened at 1:48 a.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT, 0848 UTC). This was the second of two back-to-back overnight launches.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/08/31/li...ce-base-2/
The world’s most frequently launched rocket — the SpaceX Falcon 9 — is cleared to fly again, federal regulators announced Friday evening, putting the vehicle back on track for two high-profile human spaceflight missions. Federal Aviation Admin, which licenses commercial rocket launches, grounded SpaceX’s rocket on August 28, after part of a Falcon 9 rocket booster exploded while attempting to land. Just two days later, the agency said it has cleared the rocket to return to flight. SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during (Wednesday’s) mission remains open, provided all other license requirements are met,” the agency said in an emailed statement. “SpaceX made the return to flight request on Aug. 29 and the FAA gave approval on Aug. 30.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/30/science/s...index.html
Nothing in our universe stands still: Earth orbits the sun, the sun circles the galaxy, and even galaxies are constantly on the move. So why is everything in space in motion?
It all comes down to how the universe and the objects within it were made, Edward Gomez, an astrophysicist and the education director at Las Cumbres Observatory, told Live Science. Scientists think the universe began with the Big Bang, a superfast expansion from an infinitely dense single point that eventually led to the formation of everything we see today.
"From the very beginning of the universe, it started expanding outwards because the force of the Big Bang caused everything to move apart," Gomez said.
NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore reports 'strange noise' coming from Boeing's Starliner spacecraft.
On Saturday (Aug. 31) NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore noticed something weird inside the Starliner spacecraft. Wilmore radioed down to Mission Control to ask about the bizarre noises heard emanating from Starliner's speakers while the spacecraft is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS).
"There's a strange noise coming through the speaker," Wilmore tells Mission Control "I don't know what's making it." (
Got ghost 
Hantu)
https://www.space.com/strange-noise-boei...spacecraft
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission, a multiday orbital expedition set to feature the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens, is now scheduled to launch on Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. (
Got ghost Sick Hantu)
An op plan released by agency indicates a 4-hr launch window opening @3:33 (0733 GMT) on Friday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, backup opportunities on Saturday & Sunday. Elon Musk's sai. Organized by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, Polaris Dawn mission aims to reach a peak altitude of
870 miles (1,400 k/m) the highest for any crewed mission in over half a century, since NASA's Apollo program.
Highlight of mission, 1st spacewalk by a 4-member crew composed entirely of non-professional astronauts, wearing, newly developed SpaceX extravehicular activity (EVA) suits.
The launch was delayed twice last week, due to technical issue?, with launch tower and subsequently be'cos of weather constraints affecting the splashdown phase. Complicating matters further, a separate SpaceX Falcon 9 mission lost 1st stage booster, typically performs a precision upright landing on a drone ship.
This incident led to a temporary grounding, since lifted, of the prolific launch vehicle heavily relied upon by NASA and private companies for deploying astronauts and satellites into orbit.
https://phys.org/news/2024-09-spacex-pol...early.html
Boeing Starliner returns to Earth without a crew as NASA flags new issues. Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner made its long-awaited return to Earth on Saturday without the astronauts who rode it up to the International Space Station, after NASA ruled the trip back too risky.
A after years of delays, Starliner launched in June for what was meant to be a roughly weeklong test mission — a final shakedown before it could be certified to rotate crew to and from the orbital laboratory.
But unexpected thruster malfunctions and helium leaks en route to the ISS derailed those plans, and NASA ultimately decided it was safer to bring crewmates Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back on a rival SpaceX Crew Dragon — though they’ll have to wait until February 2025.
The gumdrop-shaped Boeing capsule touched down softly at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico 0401 GMT Saturday, its descent slowed by parachutes cushioned by airbags, departed ISS around 6-hours earlier.As it streaked red-hot across night sky, ground teams reported hearing sonic booms. Spacecraft endured temperatures of 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,650 degrees Celsius) during atmospheric reentry.
https://fortune.com/2024/09/07/boeing-st...-musk-iss/
The coelacanth is an example of a “Lazarus taxon,” an animal that seemingly disappears from the fossil record only to be rediscovered in its same form millions of years later. This can happen for a number of reasons. More often than not, it highlights how sporadic and incomplete the fossil record is, especially when the number of individuals in a given taxon is low.
In the case of the coelacanth, the zoological community was upended in 1938 when a 32-year old museum employee, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, working in the small South African town of East London, was presented with a fish that could not be identified. It was caught by a local fisherman while fishing just outside of the mouth of the Chalumna River on the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
Courtenay-Latimer couldn’t identify the fish either, so she had it taxidermied and sought out the opinion of an expert–Professor James Leonard Brierley Smith, a university lecturer and an expert in marine life. When Brierley Smith received Latimer’s sketch and notes on the unidentified fish by mail, he responded via telegram with a now famous message: “MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED.”
Coelacanth Fish Skull on The Black Background
The ancient coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish, is a [+]“living fossil” in every sense of the term. Biologists believe this supreme survivor has undergone little change in 400 million years.
Prior to 1938, if you had asked a zoologist to name some of the oldest fish known to science, you’d probably hear about an oddly named lobe-fish, known as the coelacanth. The name itself sounds ancient. Coelacanths first evolved into existence during the early Devonian period, a little over 400 million years ago.
What zoologist not have told you is that ancient fish could still be found in ocean today, fact, they have chuckled at the idea. Scholars, prior to the coelacanth’s rediscovery in 1938, presumed that coelacanth had gone extinct during the late Cretaceous period, 65-70 million years ago.
Museum employee a rediscoverer of coelacanth, [+]Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, once described as "most beautiful fish I had ever seen. "Coelacanth is an example of a “Lazarus taxon,” an animal that seemingly disappears from fossil record only to be rediscovered in its same form millions of years later. This can happen for a number of reasons. More often not, it highlights how sporadic & incomplete fossil record is, especially when the number of individuals in a given taxon is low.
When Brierley Smith arrived in East London, he confirmed his hunch–the fish was indeed an ancient coelacanth. It was a discovery that sent shockwaves through the zoological community, earning both Brierley Smith and Courtenay-Latimer international recognition.
Interestingly, a second specimen wasn’t discovered for another 15 years. The second coelacanth was found in 1952 by two fishermen of the Comoro Islands–a small island chain nestled in between Madagascar and mainland Africa.
On October 27, 1954, a match between Fiorentina and Pistoiese came to a sudden halt when unidentified flying objects were spotted in the sky.
More than 10,000 fans, players, and officials were left in awe as strange, egg-shaped objects hovered above the stadium, shimmering in the autumn sky. The crowd erupted in excitement, pointing upwards as play came to a standstill.
While some spectators, like Fiorentina fan Gigi Boni, described the objects as “Cuban cigars,” the mysterious incident was not confined to Florence.
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...it adds a little different perspective." She said very peaceful in space. "It's really difficult for me to imagine people on Earth not getting along...it's one planet we have should all really be happy that we are there together...," she added.