Written by Space-settling enthusiasts have long had an eye on Mars, and now they have the backing of the world’s richest man. Elon Musk recently claimed that humans could be on the planet by 2030 and be living there in a self-sustaining city within 20 years. But is it really that simple? Madeleine Finlay heads to Imperial […]
Following a successful launch of NASA’s SpaceX 31st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying more than 6,000 pounds of supplies to the orbiting laboratory, lifted off at 9:29 p.m. EST Monday, on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from […]
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Fu proprio lui, Neil Armstrong, «the first man», come lo chiamavano, a dire che l’impresa di andare sulla Luna avrebbe offerto a tutti una nuova dimensione di pensiero. Infatti siamo divenuti esseri spaziali e non più solo terrestri, benché in molti non se ne siano resi conto. E ciò non solo perché presto sul nostro […]
Four astronauts will relocate a SpaceX spacecraft at the space station on Sunday (Nov. 3), and you can watch the event live. The SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including two crew members formerly aboard Boeing Starliner, will move their Crew Dragon at the International Space Station. ISS procedures dictate that all astronauts assigned to a spacecraft climb […]
Plus d’une centaine de milliers de satellites tourneront bientôt autour de la Terre, pour offrir toujours plus de services de télécommunication. Les chercheurs dénoncent un «hold-up du ciel», car ces engins rendent leurs recherches de plus en plus compliquées. Source link
Elon Musk isn’t a politician by trade. But the business mogul and tech billionaire has become a growing force in the 2024 US elections, especially after endorsing Republican candidate Donald Trump. In a video podcast, reporters from Politico and Business Insider take a closer look at how he’s shaping politics through his enterprises, from Starlink […]
These questions, says immigration lawyer Ira Kurzban, are asked to see whether an applicant obtained their residence validly, a prerequisite for citizenship. US immigration authorities have, he says, become “very exacting” on this point over the past 10 years. The US Citizenship and Immigration Service didn’t respond to an inquiry about whether forms used by […]
A SpaceX Dragon capsule looks a little ghostly in a new image taken from the space station. NASA astronaut Don Pettit snapped a picture of the Crew Dragon Freedom after the Crew-9 mission, SpaceX‘s ninth operational astronaut effort for the agency, docked at the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 29. The black-and-white image shows […]
The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently in discussions with SpaceX about the possibility of the American aerospace giant joining an international initiative to tackle the ever-growing issue of space debris. ESA has been actively working to address the escalating risks posed by orbital junk, which threatens both operational satellites and future space missions. ESA […]