Polaris will be farthest human spaceflight since Apollo | This Week In Space: Episode 127 - Space Stations Inc. | An annular solar eclipse will occur above Easter Island
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After weather delays, SpaceX is about to launch four private astronauts farther than any human has flown since the end of the Apollo era, on a mission to perform history's first commercial spacewalk. Polaris Dawn, will liftoff early Tuesday (Sept. 10) during a four-hour launch window that opens at at 3:38 a.m. ET (0738 GMT).
On Episode 127 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Max Haot of VAST about his company's first space station. We all know the ISS is living its last days and will be deorbited sometime around 2030... but what's coming up next? Max Haot of VAST joins us to discuss his company's first space station, called Haven-1, set to launch in 2025.
Coming off the excitement of last April's Great North American Eclipse of the sun, many have asked when the next solar eclipse will take place. The answer to that question is Tuesday, Oct. 2, when an annular eclipse takes place.
Boeing's Starliner capsule returned to Earth without astronauts, marking the beginning of a new set of investigations by NASA. Starliner left the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening (Sept. 6), then aced a landing in New Mexico just after midnight on Saturday (Sept. 7). The touchdown brought an end to Crew Flight Test (CFT), Starliner's first-ever astronaut mission. But no astronauts came down with the capsule on Saturday.
Astrophotographer Mark Johnston got a front row seat to an epic fireworks show. Johnston, a NASA solar system ambassador and vice president of the Phoenix Astronomical Society, was observing the sun in late August with a custom telescope when he captured images of incredible arcs of plasma (super heated gases) known as solar prominences rising to incredible heights above the surface of our star.
SpaceX's Starship megarocket will start flying Mars missions just two years from now, if all goes according to plan. "These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be in 4 years," SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via X on Saturday evening (Sept. 7), in a post that announced the bold new target timelines. (Earth and Mars align properly for interplanetary missions once every 26 months.)
The brilliance of a Lego "Star Wars" show where the order of the galaxy far, far away has been tossed into a cosmic blender and reorganized in ways never imagined outside of online memes or backyard brick-building sessions cannot be overstated. Created by writers, showrunners, and executive producers Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, "Lego Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy" takes flight as a four-issue miniseries starting on Sept. 13, 2024 exclusively on the Disney+ streaming platform and we've got a fresh new clip to share that's sure to get your midichlorians motoring.
