NASA to attempt first Mars helicopter flight Monday morning

Written by Marco Island Mortgage Syndicated User on April 19, 2021. Posted in Marco Island Mortgage, Mortgage Marco Island.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter could take flight for the first time on Monday, April 19. The flight will be autonomous and was scheduled to begin around 3:30 a.m. Information from the flight will return to earth a few hours after it is completed. A livestream of the flight information will begin at 6:15 a.m. CLICK HERE to watch. If you have any questions for NASA officials during the livestream, you can use the hashtag #MarsHelicopter on social media. The helicopter was scheduled to take its first flight on April 11, but engineers found a command sequence issue that needed to be fixed. The...

SpaceX secures $2.89 billion NASA contract for lunar spacecraft

Written by Marco Island Mortgage Syndicated User on April 17, 2021. Posted in Marco Island Mortgage, Mortgage Marco Island.

SpaceX secured a $2.89 billion NASA contract to build spacecraft that will land astronauts on the moon for the first time in five decades. The fixed-price contract is a major vote of confidence for Elon Musk’s rocket company, as the space agency is placing a large amount of responsibility for its cornerstone human spaceflight program, known as Artemis, on SpaceX. Friday’s announcement is a blow to Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos, which had proposed working as a “National Team” alongside corporate behemoths such as Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin...

NASA astronaut & Russian cosmonauts to return to Earth

Written by Marco Island Mortgage Syndicated User on April 16, 2021. Posted in Marco Island Mortgage, Mortgage Marco Island.

Just days after the International Space Station’s crew reached 10 people, three are ready to return to Earth, reported CNN. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins will be ending their 185-day mission on the space station on Friday. Their return to Earth will air live on NASA’s TV channel and website. The hatch on the Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft will close at 6:10 p.m. ET after the crew has said goodbye to the others on the station. They’re expected to undock from the station’s Poisk port at 9:34 p.m. ET and they will land...

Crab Nebula responsible for giant radio pulses & X-ray surges

Written by Marco Island Mortgage Syndicated User on April 16, 2021. Posted in Marco Island Mortgage, Mortgage Marco Island.

CNN — The hauntingly spectacular Crab Nebula, nearly 6,000 light-years away, is releasing an incredible amount of energy. (One light year is six trillion miles.) The nebula is six light-years wide, and it’s a growing cloud of debris formed from a supernova explosion, which is what happens when a star blows up. The light produced by the supernova first reached Earth in July 1054 and was witnessed by astronomers in Japan and China. When the star exploded, it formed a neutron star, which is the dense core of a star that is about the size of a city like Chicago. This started to spin...

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NASA to attempt first Mars helicopter flight Monday morning

SpaceX secures $2.89 billion NASA contract for lunar spacecraft

NASA astronaut & Russian cosmonauts to return to Earth

Crab Nebula responsible for giant radio pulses & X-ray surges