All things Space
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SLS Could Launch A Titan Balloon Mission
https://www.universetoday.com/170351/sls-could-launch-a-titan-balloon-
mission/
Can We Live on Mars? A Thought Experiment
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/live-mars-thought-experiment-130000573.html
China Astronauts Beat US Spacewalk Record with 9-Hour Mission
https://greekreporter.com/2024/12/18/china-austronaut-spacewalk-record/
China's Tianwen-3 Mars Sample Return Mission Targets 2031 Ahead of NASA, ESA
https://www.gadgets360.com/science/news/chinas-tianwen-3-mars-sample-r
eturn-mission-targets-2031-ahead-of-nasa-esa-7246222
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Mercury looks stunning in images from BepiColombo spacecraft's 6th and final flyby
https://www.space.com/Mercury-top-three-images-BepiColombo-sixth-flyby
Quantum computing advances with silicon-based donor spin qubits
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Quantum_computing_advances_with_sil
icon_based_donor_spin_qubits_999.html
China plans to build ‘Three Gorges dam in space’ to harness solar power
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3294091/china-plans-bu
ild-three-gorges-dam-space-harness-solar-power
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NOAA has posted satellite imagery from the areas affected by the Eaton, Hurst, and Palisades wildfires.
https://x.com/noaaocean/status/1878480081016009114
Never seen anything like this in 30+ years of firefighting experience
https://x.com/Firefergy6/status/1878221687025762443
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looks like JPL is finished, some say 200 might be effected others say 150 linked to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory its in California and so the Mars Rovers will be on shut-down and auto stand-by mode
Lay-Offs were already expected with new Private Space like Space-X taking over
Fires in LA impact exploration on Mars
in Europe another end of an era
GAIA spacecraft shutting down after over 11 years of operations
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/end-of-observations
The Trump administration should leverage private space stations to counter China
https://spacenews.com/the-trump-administration-should-leverage-private
-space-stations-to-counter-china/
US prepares to deorbit International Space Station amid China competition
https://www.aol.com/news/us-prepares-deorbit-international-space-00261
0180.html
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Devastation of raging Los Angeles fires visible from space in satellite images
https://www.space.com/the-universe/climate-change/images-from-space-sh
ow-devastation-of-raging-los-angeles-fires
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Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising
https://spacenews.com/astronomers-seek-global-ban-on-space-advertising/
Could Ocean Worlds Support Life?
https://www.universetoday.com/170574/could-ocean-worlds-support-life/
3 years of James Webb Space Telescope data on alien worlds now available online
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-3-years-exoplanet
China's Hainan Commercial Launch Center expands with two new launch pads
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Chinas_Hainan_Commercial_Launch_Sit
e_Expands_with_Two_New_Launch_Pads_999.html
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Boeing has notified employees working on the Space Launch System program that up to 400 of them could lose their jobs as the new administration considers canceling the program
https://spacenews.com/boeing-warns-sls-employees-of-potential-layoffs/
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the game of dart-throwing is a competitive sport where players bare-handedly throw small sharp-pointed projectiles known as darts at a round target known as a dartboard
During the Lunar New Year, astronauts on the Tiangong space station entertain themselves with the game of darts
https://x.com/CNSAWatcher/status/1888911118397034733
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Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen: The particle, a type of neutrino, arrived at Earth at nearly the speed of light and with 30 times the energy of the previous most energetic neutrino
https://www.space.com/highest-energy-ghost-particle-neutrino-12-suspec
t-blazars
Himalayas from the ISS
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/54354693909/in/album-721777
20312887519
the UFO guys still go crazy about UAP news
USAF soldier 'recovered egg-shaped UFO' for government as bizarre video emerges
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/usaf-soldier-recovered-egg-sh
aped-34512399.amp
and some Russian vid
Physic's next paradigm shift IN FULL
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Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?
In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.
By Dhruv Khullar | February 10, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/17/can-the-human-body-endur
e-a-voyage-to-mars
On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, atmospheric friction warmed up its heat shield so much that molten debris flew off. Rapid deceleration imposed more than six times the force of gravity on Kelly and his crewmates, the cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov. The Soyuz’s descent module, a black sphere measuring about seven feet in diameter, deployed a red-and-white parachute and floated to the surface of the planet, landing in the desert.
A search-and-rescue team, wearing furry ushanka hats and shouting in Russian, rushed to the capsule, twisted open its circular lid, and hoisted Kelly out. He gave a thumbs-up, then grimaced as they lowered him gently into a recliner that sat conspicuously on the barren plain. Someone covered him with a thick blanket and fitted his bald head with a knit hat. Then he lifted a satellite phone to his ear and made his first call back on Earth.
Kelly had spent more time in space than almost any other person—four missions, each longer than the last, totalling five hundred and twenty days. On this trip, he had taken the longest spaceflight of any American: nearly a year on the International Space Station. He was, in a sense, as accustomed to space as anyone alive. And yet, he told me, “as I flew longer, the symptoms of returning to Earth were worse.” After he got back to his home, in Houston, he felt nauseated and dizzy. His joints ached under the force of gravity, and the pressure of simply sitting in a chair felt uncomfortable. A ponderous fatigue set in.
Some medical effects of space travel are well understood. For decades, scientists have known that near-weightlessness lengthens the spine and causes the wasting of muscle and bone, which is why astronauts have to exercise frequently. Kelly returned to Earth two inches taller than when he left; his body mass declined by seven per cent, in part because his appetite for packaged and freeze-dried fare was lower than NASA planners had anticipated. Some of his other symptoms, however, were strange and unfamiliar. When he stood, his blood seemed to rush downward, causing a painful swelling in his legs. “That was probably most disturbing,” he told me. An angry rash spread across his neck, back, and legs.
Kelly has an identical twin brother, the Arizona senator and retired astronaut Mark Kelly. Before the mission, both men had agreed to participate in a comparative study of their bodies—Mark from Earth, Scott from space and Earth. Because they have the same DNA, the study was a rare opportunity to isolate the physiological effects of long-term missions. And so, before, during, and after Scott’s stay on the I.S.S., a team of more than eighty researchers from twelve universities studied him more closely than perhaps any other human in history. “I wish every person was a twin,” Christopher Mason, a principal investigator of the NASA Twins Study, has said. Mason and his colleagues were troubled by some of their findings. Cognitive testing, for example, showed declines in Scott’s mental speed and accuracy. Markers of inflammation in his blood spiked to levels that laboratory tests had difficulty measuring—thousands of per cent above normal, which suggested an extreme stress response. “Are these the highest levels ever seen in a human body?” Mason remembers one of his colleagues asking. “How did he survive?”
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In the months after Kelly told scientists about his mysterious medical issues, Mason and his colleagues retested biological samples from during and after the astronaut’s yearlong flight. They recorded numerous worrying data points. Kelly
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