“This critical flight test puts us on the cusp of returning the capability to launch astronauts in American spacecraft on American rockets from American soil,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine.
In the test, SpaceX will configure Crew Dragon to intentionally trigger a launch escape prior to one and a half minutes of flight to demonstrate the spacecraft's capability to safely separate from the Falcon 9 rocket
The vegetable patty itself is made of potatoes, peas, corn, carrot and onion and whilst a McDonald’s McVeggie sounds great for vegetarians, it’s not what you may think.
Scientists from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago discovered presolar grains in their sample from the Murchison meteorite and said that it was the oldest ever discovered. Some grains were believed to be more than 5.5 billion years old - before the Sun was created.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket delivered the payload of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit. Falcon 9’s first stage supported a Starlink mission in May 2019, the Iridium-8 mission in January 2019, and the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission in September 2018.
The total area burned in NSW has reached 3.41 million hectares, according to the NSW Rural Fire Service, and the outlook for the rest of summer remains hazardous.
Engineers picked the Nightingale site from four final candidate spots on Bennu, arguing it could be the best place to find organic material and water on the asteroid.
The polar ice is the most well-known because the orbiters have imaged it. Meteors even helped increase understanding of the polar ice because they impact it, allowing the orbiter to take pictures of the disturbed ice.
You may have your new years resolutions sorted but following through with your most ambitious fitness goals could be down to genetics.
It's the payload on the latest voyage from the Elon Musk-backed space company that makes things very interesting.