Space Exploration

1989 (Gateway’s version) 📸

Astronaut Nicole Mann (right) tours Gateway with virtual reality, technology NASA has used since the late 80s (left) to advance exploration of the cosmos 🌌

The Apollo 9 crew received the Distinguished Service Medal from Vice President Spiro Agnew, a quarantine simulation for Apollo 11 was underway at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at what is now NASA's Johnson Space Center, and the two stages of the Apollo 12 Lunar Module had just arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

A trio of Falcon 9 Starlink launches, a Falcon 9 non-Starlink launch involving an Eutelsat communications satellite, a Chinese launch, and a Russian Soyuz launch with a Resurs Earth observation satellite are scheduled for this week. However, the launch that will likely get the most attention is the final launch ever of a Delta family rocket, a family that dates back to near the beginning of the space age.

NASA RS-25 Engine booster firing test is set to be targeted.

Total Solar Eclipse going to happen on April 8, 2024.

Sun Comparison with Stephenson 218

March 20th - on this day in 2000, Starsem launched flight ST-08, a qualification mission for the newly developed Fregat upper stage, carrying the 2,382 kg DUMSAT payload mockup.

The flight was operated from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Soyuz U rocket and paved the way for the successful launches of two batches of Cluster II magnetospheric research spacecraft for ESA - European Space Agency later that year.

To understand how far we've come, it helps to see how we started and where we've been. This is the first image of a planetary disk of dust and gas around the star Beta Pictoris (1984).

Located 10 million light-years away, this galaxy is home to a firestorm of star birth, seen in clusters along the edge-on view of a dust disk encircling Centaurus A.

40th successful Martian drill hole 👑

Analyzing the sample from the target (named after a silver mining district in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks).

Centre of Pacific Ocean, where also located Point Nemo 👉