Space Travel Could Happen This Year, Despite Coronavirus – BRINK – News and Insights on Global
A view of Earth and a satellite, taken by NASA. The notion of space tourism might seem "frivolous" at a time when humanity is battling a global pandemic, but the days of suborbital travel are edging closer.
Commercial space flights could happen as soon as late this year, despite the global recession fueled by the novel coronavirus. That's the prediction of Jeffrey Manber, CEO of Nanoracks , a private space company working on the commercial utilization of space.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Video: Astronaut teaches Dundee kids about space travel with virtual visits - Evening Telegraph
Jim Reilly is a geoscientist and explorer who has completed three space shuttle missions and five spacewalks during his 13-year career, logging almost 900 hours in space.
He has sent a video from his home in Virginia to Dundee Science Centre for its home learning programme to give youngsters an insight into his career in space travel.
It forms part of the science centre's Space Week, which includes free, themed activities for children to do from the safety of their own home.
Dynetics designing Human Landing System for NASA's Artemis program
The company was awarded a contract to design a Human Landing System for NASA’s Artemis program. It released this statement on Thursday:
Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), has been awarded a contract under NASA’s Artemis program to design a Human Landing System (HLS) and compete to build a system to take the first woman and next man to the lunar surface by 2024.
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The Dynetics approach enables near-term reusability and sustainability and provides a robust, commercially supported lander capability, while boasting flight-proven technologies for habitat, power, thermal and other subsystems. The system’s crew module is designed to accommodate two crew members for nominal missions from lunar orbit to the lunar surface and back, including surface habitation for about a week.
How Hollywood's Portrayal Of Deep Space Compares To the Real Thing on Cheddar
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The Mavericks' 'Blame It on Your Heart' Video: Watch - Rolling Stone
The Mavericks find a unique, eye-popping way to appear together in a music video during quarantine — the animated clip for “Blame It on Your Heart” casts the band members as interstellar explorers traveling through space, time, and under the sea.
The band covered the Harlan Howard and Kostas composition, made famous by Patty Loveless in 1993, for their latest album Play the Hits , a collection of cover songs like John Anderson’s “Swingin’,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Hungry Heart,” and Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel.” In the video, Mavericks singer Raul Malo is a space cowboy “out to regain the love of his damsel,” as a Star Wars title crawl informs us.
Meet the People Behind NASA's Perseverance Rover – NASA's Mars Exploration Program
From left to right: Moo Stricker, Al Chen, Diana Trujillo, Eric Aguilar and Michelle Tomey Colizzi as they appear in a new "Behind the Spacecraft" video series about the NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. Credit: NASA 360
These are the scientists and engineers who built NASA's next Mars rover and who will guide it to a safe landing in Jezero Crater.
Behind every spacecraft there are stories of hope, passion and creativity from the people who design and build these complex machines. In the case of NASA's next Mars rover, there has also been no shortage of perseverance.
ISRO invites proposals for tech relating to human space travel- Edexlive
The space agency has sought technological proposals in areas like radiation hazard characterisation and mitigation, space food and human robotic interfaces
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The Indian space agency which plans to send Indians has called for proposals from national research and academic institutions for developing affordable indigenous technologies for human survival in low earth orbit.
'Handmaid's Tale' in space: Laura Lam reads from her new book, 'Goldlocks'
Laura Lam is the author of several sci-fi novels in addition to the fantastical YA Micah Grey trilogy . She joins Inverse Happy Hour to give us a sneak preview into her latest literary world, but this time it's set in space. Goldilocks , out May 5, is a dystopian thriller centered around five women who take it upon themselves to save the human race by stealing a spaceship and heading to the Goldilocks zone, which Lam describes as "not too hot, not too cold."
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In addition to an exclusive reading of her new book and a dive into the extensive space travel research that went into writing it — several NASA scientists were consulted — Lam also took the opportunity to recommend Alex Garland's Devs for a Silicon Valley thriller that knows how to keep you on your toes: "It's really unpredictable. Usually, you at least have a sense of where the story is going, and I just got to the end of Episode 4, and I'm like, Wait what?! "
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