Some incredible images coming through!
Rockets, space and planes
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Did anyone see the live animation as Perseverance landed on the planet????
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That is so cool!
Yeah I was watching along with the live stream, I think many people were actually watching the demo before the actual live data, and weren't actually interested after when it "landed"
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Did anyone see the live animation as Perseverance landed on the planet????
I was watching!!!!
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Somehow I don't think we were the first one there on Mars
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Also, over 2 million people were streaming the live broadcast on YouTube, years ago, that really wouldn't have been possible, even 100k viewers would've been a stretch
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And here is footage of the landing
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You might need a lot of curved monitors to see this 360° without touching the cursor
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Incredible and it almost brings Mars into your living room. I'm hoping for some actual video next.
Probably trying to find a Dollar General or Walmart store!!!!!
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Nope, they said they will start building it in 2025, it will take at least over 10 years, and I think the price will just continually rise as they always do
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They landed SN10 in one piece this time
Not the end of the story, it exploded 8 minutes later
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56274183
Boom goes the dynamite
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SpaceX wins NASA contract to build spacecraft to fly astronauts to the moon
The award surprised some in the space community, who expected NASA to pick two companies so it would have a backup. SpaceX beat out Blue Origin, the space venture founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Dynetics, a defense contractor based in Alabama. By going with a single provider, NASA won't have a backup if the company stumbles. -
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BREAKING NEWS
A machine named Ingenuity, sent to Mars by NASA, hovered in the thin air of the red planet. It is the first powered flight on another world.
Monday, April 19, 2021 8:04 AM EST
In NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, engineers cheered just before 7 a.m. Eastern time as an image was transmitted back to Earth by the helicopter showing its shadow looming over the Martian surface during its flight, which occurred around 3:30 a.m. on Mars.
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SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft docks with International Space Station, Crew-2 is greeted by Crew-1
Nearly 24 hours after its on-time liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station, the first goal of its journey.
In a delicate dance, the spacecraft aligned itself with one of the station’s docking ports and parked itself. The maneuvers were directed completely by the spacecraft’s computers. Controllers on the ground and the astronauts on board the capsule and the station monitored closely, but the computers were in control.
The two crafts were then locked together by a dozen hooks. The astronauts then ensured that the seal between spacecraft and station was tight and that the air pressure inside the spacecraft and the station was the same. Then they opened the hatch and crossed into the station.
Here’s what to know:
- For the third time in a year, SpaceX on Friday launched astronauts to the station.
- The astronauts were due to dock with the station at 5:10 a.m. but arrived two minutes early. The astronauts are expected to enter the station about two and a half hours later.
- The launch was initially postponed after high winds along the flight path.
- It took the Dragon spacecraft almost 24 hours to catch up to the space station, which is traveling 17,500 mph at an altitude of about 240 miles.
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