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Space fans will be glued to their screens for the historic liftoff, which will send NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station (ISS) atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. But there will be other events to take in, both in the leadup to launch and in its aftermath. Here's a guide to the upcoming webcasts that will highlight the Starliner mission, which is known as Crew Flight Test (CFT). You'll be able to watch all of them here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA.
On Episode 109 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Chris Carberry, CEO of Explore Mars, about the long history of music influencing how we think about spaceflight.
An annular solar eclipse will occur on Oct. 2, 2024, when the moon's central shadow will not quite reach Earth. The result will be a 'ring of fire' visible to those within a broad path across the Pacific Ocean and southern South America. At the point of greatest eclipse in the Pacific, the moon will cover 93% of the sun's center, and that 'ring of fire' will be visible for 7 minutes and 25 seconds.
"This is important strategically," Canadian Space Agency astronaut Josh Kutryk added, noting the approximately 10-day-long CFT aims to certify a second commercial spacecraft to bring NASA astronauts regularly to the International Space Station (ISS). "This is the second big piece of America's overall strategy for access to low Earth orbit after implementing [SpaceX's] Dragon."
There is no denying the awesome predictive power of Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, general relativity - yet, the theory still has inconsistencies when it comes to calculating its effect on vast distances. And new research suggests these inconsistencies could be the result of a "cosmic glitch" in gravity itself.
To go from their crew quarters in NASA's Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building to Complex 41, the launch pad where their Starliner-topped United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will be waiting, Wilmore and Williams will board the "Astrovan II," a modified Airstream Atlas Touring Coach built in partnership with Boeing.
Recent reports of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detecting signs of life of a distant planet outside the solar system are, unfortunately, somewhat premature. That's the conclusion of research conducted by scientists from the University of California Riverside (UCR).
One of the core pillars of Star Wars is the Jedi and their mysterious connection to the Force, but we've only seen fragments of their illustrious order's history on the big screen. Watching the Star Wars movies in chronological order, we see them at the height of their power, fall into near extinction, and rise once again. Now, with the new live-action series The Acolyte on Disney Plus, we're about to learn how the Sith plotted in the shadows against the Jedi prior to the events of The Phantom Menace. Before the series arrives, here's the complete history of the Jedi Order.
