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SpaceX Aims for March 1 Dragon Launch

Like the company’s two previous flights, the rocket will carry a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with food, supplies and science experiments for the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research laboratory that flies about 250 miles above Earth. Read more…

SpaceX is getting stuff DONE!

In their paper, the Keck team proposes using an Atlas V rocket to launch a craft that once in space would be slow moving, powered by solar heated ions. Once the target is reached, a bag would be opened that would engulf the asteroid – which would likely be no bigger than 7 meters wide – then drag it back and place it into orbit around the moon. Such a mission, the researchers suggest, would likely take six to ten years depending on the distance to the asteroid and cost in the neighborhood of $2.6 billion, which isn’t much more than the Mars Curiosity rover mission. (via NASA considering capturing and placing asteroid into moon orbit)

metaconscious:

Time-Lapse Video Shows Star Trails and City Lights Streaking From Space

Photographer Christoph Malin from Austria created the stunning film by stacking image sequences taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The results show off incredible patterns of light as the ISS zooms by. Along with the man-made metropolises, viewers can catch a glimpse of lightning corridors flashing within clouds, green auroras, satellite tracks, meteors, and even a quick appearance by the famous sun-diving comet Lovejoy (at about 1:42).

(via WIRED)

(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

metaconscious:

septuple-entendre:

pizzzatime:

capnskull: infinity-imagined:

The orbits of the moons and planets form a fractal 4-dimensional helix in spacetime

sheer proof that we’re more insignificant than dust.

Ashes to ashes. We are all made of stardust.

There is one incredible concept: We could place the asteroid in an orbit between the Earth and Mars to allow astronauts who want to get there to hop on and off it like a bus. Think about that. You could make a spacecraft out of the asteroid. (via Asteroid mining by Planetary Resources: Google billionaires are backing an outlandish venture. – Slate Magazine)