SpaceX launches Ax-1, the 1st fully private astronaut mission to the space station | Axiom-1 mission all-private crew to make and carry history on space station | Don't call them 'space tourists,' says former NASA astronaut commanding private Ax-1 mission
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With the picture-perfect liftoff, the crew officially began a 10-day journey that will include eight days aboard the International Space Station. Ax-1's SpaceX Dragon capsule is set to dock with the orbiting lab around 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT) tomorrow (April 9).
Artifacts from the first heavier-than-air powered flying machine, the first spacecraft to carry humans to land on the moon and the first Israeli to fly in space are headed into orbit with the first private crew to visit the International Space Station.
Former NASA astronaut Michael Lรณpez-Alegrรญa is about to fly to orbit with three paying passengers -- but the trio aren't "space tourists," the veteran spaceflyer stresses.
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First came the "Maggots." Then the less specific "Bugs." Now, the latest infestation to take over NASA's Astronaut Office has been identified. Welcome "The Flies."
The observatory's MIRI instrument needs to cool down almost to absolute zero, the temperature where the motion of atoms stops, before it can start observing the universe.
Since astronomers began finding exoplanets in the 1990s, they've uncovered a lot of hot Jupiters, and now NASA's most venerable telescope is playing meteorologist.
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