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Official requests to send his ashes to the ISS were initially denied, which is why Garriot, along with the blessing of Doohan’s family, decided to do it himself. He hid the ashes, along with a laminated photo of Doohan, under the floor of the space station’s Columbus module. Since then, according to the Times , Doohan’s ashes have circled the Earth more 70,000 times. A recent view over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Chile from the International Space Station. NASA Publisher: Twin Cities Geek - MN Geek Culture Magazine Date: 2020-12-29T17:30:13-06:00 Author: Joe Praska Twitter: @@TwinCitiesGeeks Reference: (Read more) Visit Source In case you are keeping track: Two payloads orbited by SpaceX’s launch of NRO mission – Spaceflight Now Tracking information released by the U.S. military indicates two government payloads rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Dec. 19 on the NROL-108 mission, a dedicated...

Earlier this month, the European Space Agency (ESA) released observational data from the Gaia telescope (Gaia Early Data Release 3 or EDR3), in continuation to the DR1 and DR2 releases of the years 2016 and 2018. Gaia accrues accurate knowledge about, for example, the Milky Way stars, distant extragalactic quasars, and the asteroids of our Solar System. Quasars are bright, star-like objects that allow for the determination of planet Earth’s orientation in space. With the help of their precise positions measured by Gaia, a new high-precision reference system can be constructed for defining the positions of stars, Solar System objects, and also satellites. Publisher: SciTechDaily Date: 2020-12-29T20:14:47-08:00 Author: Mike O Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Check out this next: Travel / Ride the Solar System - Adventure Rider "Space is big," wrote Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. “You just won...

A blood moon, an evocative nickname for a total lunar eclipse, hangs over Mount Rainier in Washington State. * * * Despite a year filled with lockdowns and social isolation, the starry skies of 2020 gave us solace and enthralled us with a parade of eye-catching celestial events. The astronomical calendar this past year was packed full of memorable sights, including the surprise appearance of the bright comet NEOWISE , the decade's best views of Mars , a Halloween blue moon, and a much-anticipated historically close encounter between Jupiter and Saturn . Publisher: Science Date: 2020-12-29T06:00:00-0500 Twitter: @NatGeo Reference: (Read more) Visit Source This may worth something: Astronomical highlights of 2021: From lunar eclipses to meteor showers If you see a bright star next to the moon at night, chances are it is a planet. Just before sunrise on Jan. 11, face southeast and just above the horizon you will see a slim crescen...

"Microsoft, FireEye, and the U.S. Treasury department have been hacked in the SolarWinds attacks." * * * It's true because by most people's understanding, these organizations have been hacked. But it doesn't tell the whole story accurately because each of these organizations has had different impacts with different levels of severity from "the hack." The same is true now about being hacked. Some hacking is catastrophic, but some is survivable. We see this reality in the different reports coming out about "SolarWinds hacks." Some organizations are severely affected while others less so. But these crucial nuances are lost when we say they've all been "hacked." Publisher: GeekWire Date: 2020-12-28T15:00 00:00 Author: https www facebook com christopherbuddcommunications Twitter: @geekwire Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Check out this next: Hackers Amp Up COVID-19 IP The...

The Parkes radio telescope in New South Wales, Australia, run by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), recently detected an unexplained radio signal coming from the direction of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun. * * * Breakthrough Listen , a decade-long search for alien broadcasts from the nearest million stars, was using Australia's Parkes Observatory to study Proxima Centauri when the team detected the conspicuous signal, which they dubbed BLC-1. The radio waves were picked up in observations made between April and May 2019. Publisher: Science Date: 2020-12-18T18:34:30-0500 Twitter: @NatGeo Reference: (Read more) Visit Source This may worth something: UFO spotted over Hawaii likely spent rocket | University of Hawaiʻi System News Thousands were mesmerized by a mysterious flurry of lights that appeared to float across Hawaiʻi's evening sky on Saturday, October 24. Photos a...

These types of systems could allow parking garages to have a charging infrastructure without the need to place a charging station at individual parking stalls. Instead, the rolling battery packs can be charged at a single location and deployed as needed. There's no word on when the adorable robot car butler will become a reality. But in its release, Volkswagen stated, “The mobile charging robot has successfully reached prototype status and will now be comprehensively further developed.” Publisher: Car and Driver Date: 2020-12-28 09:04:00 Twitter: @CARandDRIVER Reference: (Read more) Visit Source And here's another article: Readers React: The state of gynecologic robotic surgery | Contemporary OB/GYN Elizebeth Harmon, MD, MBA, FACOG shares her thoughts on an article from Contemporary OB/GYN®'s November issue. I read the article about robotic surgery ( The state of gynecologic robotic surgery, Contemporary OB/GYN®...