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⋅ August 25, 2024
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Space.com

How SpaceX’s historic Polaris Dawn private spacewalk will work
Space.com
Polaris Dawn is poised to make history. The SpaceX mission, which is scheduled to launch early Tuesday morning (Aug. 27), will send four people to orbit for five days aboard a Crew Dragon capsule. That quartet will get farther from Earth than any human …
Space.com

NASA challenged the public to make ‘deep space food’ — here are the winners
Space.com
Interstellar Lab in Merritt Island, Florida, took home the grand prize of $750,000. Barbara Belvisi and her team developed a small business that uses a combo of artificial intelligence, advanced equipment and bioscience to create ingredients that are plant …
Space.com

Boeing Starliner astronauts will return home on a SpaceX Dragon in 2025, NASA confirms
Space.com
Boeing’s Starliner capsule will return to Earth empty sometime in September; its two astronauts are now scheduled return in February 2025. Comments (9). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Spaceflight Now

Live coverage: SpaceX to static fire test its Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for the Polaris Dawn astronaut mission
Spaceflight Now
The SpaceX and Polaris Dawn teams are working towards some of the final big tests before they are ready to launch the historic commercial mission. A little less than a week after arriving at Florida’s Space Coast, the four astronauts will step through …
PBS NewsHour

A nova explosion may soon be visible in the night sky. Here’s where and when to look
PBS NewsHour
In lower mass stars, including our Sun, once the hydrogen in the core is exhausted, the star expands into what astronomers call a red giant. The red giant is hundreds of times its original size and more unstable. Eventually, all that is left is a white …
Florida Today

‘A risky adventure’: All 4 Polaris Dawn astronauts will be in vacuum during spacewalk
Florida Today
Talk about a daring privately funded space mission. All four Polaris Dawn crew members will put on newly designed spacesuits 435 miles above Earth, then open the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule — which doesn’t have an airlock, making them all …
Gainesville Sun

UF space biologist to conduct experiment Thursday on Blue Origin New Shepard rocket
Gainesville Sun
That’s the question the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) hopes to answer with a novel space-based experiment happening Thursday morning when a UF/IFAS horticultural sciences researcher launches with his experiment …
ABC News

NASA decides to keep 2 astronauts in space until February, nixes return on troubled Boeing capsule
ABC News
NASA has decided it’s too risky to bring two astronauts back to Earth in Boeing’s troubled new capsule. ByMARCIA DUNN AP aerospace writer. August 24, 2024, 10:16 AM. 1:10. National headlines from ABC News. Catch up on the developing stories making …
KING5.com

Dangers of orbiting debris: Former NASA engineer to speak at Seattle’s Museum of Flight
KING5.com
SEATTLE — Millions of pieces of “space junk” or debris is orbiting in Earth’s atmosphere as more satellites and rockets are launched. Former NASA engineer and two-time author Linda Dawson stopped by the KING 5 studios to discuss the topic and preview a …
The Guardian

Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr review – our planet: a living, breathing, mutating miracle
The Guardian
The US-based journalist has fashioned a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of how everything from microbes to mammoths transformed our world into a living organism. Gavin Francis. Sun 25 Aug 2024 11.30 EDT. Share. 0. 0. Why read popular science?