Posted by on May 1, 2022 in From the editors
Per aspera ad astra!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Amazing!
Space is my sedative in life, especially right now.
Raptor 2 rocket engines at Starbase, each producing over half a million pounds (230 tons) of force pic.twitter.com/9ixxXXceG3
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 26, 2022
Simon Druker: NASA’s moon rocket, spacecraft return for repair after scrubbed test
NASA’s SLS booster (R) rolls by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft Tuesday, as the agency said repairs to the SLS will prevent it from being launched until at least August after multiple failed wet rehearsal tests. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
Mike Howard: A Dawn of Democratized Space Travel: SpaceX has completed a mission with private astronauts.
Robert Zimmerman: NASA extends eight planetary missions, including sending OSIRIS-REx to the asteroid Apophis
SciTech Daily: Models of Landscape Formation on Saturn’s Moon Titan Reveal an Earth-Like Alien World
Elizabeth Howell: Watch a bus-sized asteroid safely zoom past Earth within the moon’s orbit
Robert Zimmerman: Ingenuity photographs Perseverance’s abandoned parachute on 26th flight
In the past week the Mars helicopter Ingenuity successfully completed its 26th and 27th flights, with the first specifically planned to fly over the parachute that had been used by Perseverance when it landed on Mars on February 18, 2021…
Elizabeth Howell: Sharp pictures! James Webb Space Telescope completes alignment in huge milestone: The Webb team can now proceed with science instrument commissioning.
Andrew Jones: China to build a lunar communications and navigation constellation
VIDEO: Astronomers Tease ‘Groundbreaking’ Discovery with Regards to the Milky Way Galaxy
VIDEO: Blue Sunsets Are Very Common on Mars! Science Explains Why
Godly Dice-Roll or “I’m not saying it’s aliens, but it’s aliens” LEGO and chemistry sets…
Shivali Best: Building blocks of life on Earth DID come from meteorites, study says
It’s a question that has baffled scientists for centuries – where did the building blocks of life on Earth come from?
Now, scientists have produced new evidence to back up the long-standing theory that they came from meteorites.
The team, from Hokkaido University in Japan, discovered the compounds needed to form DNA and RNA on three separate meteorites that crashed to Earth in 1950, 1969 and 2000.
‘[The compounds’] delivery to Earth by meteorites may have subsequently played a role in the emergence of genetic functions for early life,’ the researchers said…
Jennifer Leman: Aliens Created Our Universe in a Lab, Scientist Suggests – If true, we started out as a “baby universe.” Cute.
Jeff Parsons: Harvard professor says alien technology may have crashed into the Pacific Ocean
Ashley Nickel: UFO is spotted hurtling across the Outback sky in eerie dashcam video
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~~Many thanks to Maggie and The Universal Spectator for reprint permission.