On Wednesday, September 15 at 8:02 p.m. EDT, 00:02 UTC on September 16, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched the Inspiration4 mission – the world’s first all-civilian human spaceflight to orbit – from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Approximately three days after liftoff, Dragon and the crew of Inspiration4 will splash down at one of several possible landing sites off the Florida coast. Follow Dragon’s journey in the tracker above as the Inspiration4 crew orbits Earth approximately every 90 minutes.
Inspiration4 is commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Joining him are Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur, and trained pilot.
Inspiration4 is commanded by Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments and an accomplished pilot and adventurer. Joining him are Medical Officer Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® and pediatric cancer survivor; Mission Specialist Chris Sembroski, an Air Force veteran and aerospace data engineer; and Mission Pilot Dr. Sian Proctor, a geoscientist, entrepreneur, and trained pilot.
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Amazing New Photos Give a Stunning Glimpse Into The Hidden World of Tiny Things
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Amazing New Photos Give a Stunning Glimpse Into The Hidden World of Tiny Things
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Amazing New Photos Give a Stunning Glimpse Into The Hidden World of Tiny Things
The natural world holds beauty even at a microscopic scale, and each year, Nikon's Small World photo competition opens our eyes to a whole new realm of diminutive detail.
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SpaceX Just Marked Another Huge Milestone in The History of Crewed Spaceflight
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SpaceX Just Marked Another Huge Milestone in The History of Crewed Spaceflight
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SpaceX Just Marked Another Huge Milestone in The History of Crewed Spaceflight
Four SpaceX tourists returned to Earth safely on Saturday after spending three days in space, successfully concluding the first orbital mission in history with no professional astronauts on board.
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We May Finally Know What Caused That Huge Ozone Hole in The Arctic Last Year
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We May Finally Know What Caused That Huge Ozone Hole in The Arctic Last Year
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We May Finally Know What Caused That Huge Ozone Hole in The Arctic Last Year
The unusually large hole that opened up in the ozone layer over the Arctic last year seems to have been triggered by record-breaking winter temperatures in the North Pacific ocean, according to new analysis.
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This Microchip With Wings Is The Smallest Flying Structure Humans Have Ever Built
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This Microchip With Wings Is The Smallest Flying Structure Humans Have Ever Built
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This Microchip With Wings Is The Smallest Flying Structure Humans Have Ever Built
Now, perhaps more than ever, engineers and scientists have been taking inspiration from nature when developing new technologies. This is also true for the smallest flying structure humans have built to date.
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This Insane New Image of The Moon's Tycho Carter Is So Detailed It Barely Looks Real
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This Insane New Image of The Moon's Tycho Carter Is So Detailed It Barely Looks Real
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This Insane New Image of The Moon's Tycho Crater Is So Detailed It Barely Looks Real
A new telescope system has managed to capture the highest resolution image of the Moon ever taken from Earth using radar technology.
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Astronaut Captures Jaw-Dropping Photo of Aurora Blazing Gloriously Above Earth
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Astronaut Captures Jaw-Dropping Photo of Aurora Blazing Gloriously Above Earth
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Astronaut Captures Jaw-Dropping Photo of Aurora Blazing Gloriously Above Earth
Astronauts on the International Space Station see remarkable views of Earth every day, but one phenomenon never fails to awe them: the aurora.
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A team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches.
Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.
Video about this project: https://youtu.be/kS6h1TKuOrw
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he was three years removed from the completion of his Ninth Symphony, a work heralded by many as his magnum opus. He had started work on his 10th Symphony but, due to deteriorating health, wasn’t able to make much headway: All he left behind were some musical sketches.
Now, thanks to the work of a team of music historians, musicologists, composers and computer scientists, Beethoven’s vision will come to life.
Video about this project: https://youtu.be/kS6h1TKuOrw
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Engineers at Google's DeepMind Have Made a Major Advance in Weather 'Nowcasting'
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Engineers at Google's DeepMind Have Made a Major Advance in Weather 'Nowcasting'
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Engineers at Google's DeepMind Have Made a Major Advance in Weather 'Nowcasting'
When it comes to the weather report, it's not just tomorrow's weather that meteorologists try to discern.
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Perseverance - just a tiny speck in the South Séítah region of the Jezero Crater.
Image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Soon NASA and CNSA will stop commanding Mars mission for two weeks - Sun will got in the way.
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Image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
Soon NASA and CNSA will stop commanding Mars mission for two weeks - Sun will got in the way.
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We Might Be Wrong About How Children Understand The Minds of Others at a Young Age
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We Might Be Wrong About How Children Understand The Minds of Others at a Young Age
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We Might Be Wrong About How Children Understand The Minds of Others at a Young Age
There's a chance we're overestimating how much children understand about the minds of others – in fact, we might be expecting too much of kids at too young an age.
One hour ago for the first time in history a film crew flew to the ISS to film a movie.
Soyuz MS-19
Crew:
- cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Hero of the Russian Federation, Soyuz MS-19 crewed spacecraft commander, ISS-66 commander, Roscosmos (Russia);
- movie director Klim Shipenko, spaceflight participant, Russia;
- actress Yulia Peresild, spaceflight participant, Russia
The film crew will only spend 12 days on ISS and will return to Earth with Soyuz MS-18.
Currently everything is going well. The flight to ISS will only take 3 hours with only two orbits around the Earth. (Usually it takes a few days.) This two-orbit method was first tested with cargo and then about a year ago with a crew of Soyuz MS-17.
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Soyuz MS-19
Crew:
- cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Hero of the Russian Federation, Soyuz MS-19 crewed spacecraft commander, ISS-66 commander, Roscosmos (Russia);
- movie director Klim Shipenko, spaceflight participant, Russia;
- actress Yulia Peresild, spaceflight participant, Russia
The film crew will only spend 12 days on ISS and will return to Earth with Soyuz MS-18.
Currently everything is going well. The flight to ISS will only take 3 hours with only two orbits around the Earth. (Usually it takes a few days.) This two-orbit method was first tested with cargo and then about a year ago with a crew of Soyuz MS-17.
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Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy posted photos of the latest launch (Soyuz MS 19) from ISS.
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Adorable, bloodsucking sea parasite looks just like sushi!
This is an isopod from the genus Rocinela. While many isopods eat dead or decaying animals, Rocinela isopods tend to be parasites that carve out cozy homes on the backs or among the internal organs of other sea creatures. This one may have taken the colour of its latest victim.
Fishers caught this peculiar 3-cm isopod near the coast of Japan at a depth of 800 to 1,200 meters.
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This is an isopod from the genus Rocinela. While many isopods eat dead or decaying animals, Rocinela isopods tend to be parasites that carve out cozy homes on the backs or among the internal organs of other sea creatures. This one may have taken the colour of its latest victim.
Fishers caught this peculiar 3-cm isopod near the coast of Japan at a depth of 800 to 1,200 meters.
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The BepiColombo spacecraft – a joint project by the European and Japanese space agencies – swung by its destination planet Mercury in the early hours of October 2 2021. Passing within just 200km of the surface of Mercury, it sent back some spectacular pictures.
For those of us who have worked for a decade or more on this mission, there could hardly be a way better to celebrate what would have been the 101st birthday of the mission’s namesake, Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe Colombo. His groundbreaking work in this area earned him the title of the grandfather of the planetary fly-by technique, now more often termed a “swing-by”.
For those of us who have worked for a decade or more on this mission, there could hardly be a way better to celebrate what would have been the 101st birthday of the mission’s namesake, Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe Colombo. His groundbreaking work in this area earned him the title of the grandfather of the planetary fly-by technique, now more often termed a “swing-by”.
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Radical Chemistry Discovery That Reinvented Catalysts Wins Nobel Prize
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Radical Chemistry Discovery That Reinvented Catalysts Wins Nobel Prize
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Radical Chemistry Discovery That Reinvented Catalysts Wins Nobel Prize
Germany's Benjamin List and Scottish-American David MacMillan on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing a tool to build molecules that has spurred new drug research, scaled up production and made chemistry more environmentally frien
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This Unusual Plant From The Amazon Rainforest Has Baffled Scientists For 50 Years
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This Unusual Plant From The Amazon Rainforest Has Baffled Scientists For 50 Years
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This Unusual Plant From The Amazon Rainforest Has Baffled Scientists For 50 Years
Within one of the lushest places on our planet, an unobtrusive green plant grows amongst many other... green plants. Although long used by the Indigenous Machiguenga people, the plant's strange mish-mash of characteristics had scientists mystified
#earth New satellite images have revealed a stunning pattern of concentric cloud rings, resembling a bull's-eye, that was formed by the continued eruption of the volcano on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
Normally, a volcano's eruption plume rises straight up into the stratosphere forming a towering column.
But here hot air of Saharan Air Layer forced the plume to move horizontally. The concentric rings formed because of the natural ebbs and flows in the intensity of volcanic activity.
On the next gif you can see the timelapse of their formation from the ground.
The official name for this type of concentric cloud formation is a gravity wave. However, the formation has nothing to do with gravity.
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Normally, a volcano's eruption plume rises straight up into the stratosphere forming a towering column.
But here hot air of Saharan Air Layer forced the plume to move horizontally. The concentric rings formed because of the natural ebbs and flows in the intensity of volcanic activity.
On the next gif you can see the timelapse of their formation from the ground.
The official name for this type of concentric cloud formation is a gravity wave. However, the formation has nothing to do with gravity.
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#earth Time-lapse of the concentric cloud formation above the erupting volcano on La Palma from the ground.
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