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Rocket Roundup for September 22nd, 2021

Sep 23, 2021 | Crewed Space, Daily Space, Random Space Fact, Rockets, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft, SpaceX

This week’s Rocket Roundup includes Inspiration4, the first all-private citizen orbital spaceflight. Plus, a Chinese crew returns to Earth, and China sends up a resupply spacecraft to prepare for their next crewed expedition. And this week in rocket history looks back at the Surveyor 2 mission.

Dark Matter Delays Supernova Signal

Sep 20, 2021 | Asteroids, Climate Change, Comets, Cosmology, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Dark Matter, Earth, Galaxies, Review, Space China, Spacecraft, SpaceX, Supernovae

A supernova first observed in 2016 will be replayed in a few years because of the light’s journey through a galaxy cluster and how dark matter gravitationally warps space-time. Plus, inactive centaurs, a Scottish ice wall, and a review of “Countdown: Inspiration4 Mission to Space”.

Early Cambrian Formation Hides Multicellular Algae Fossils

Sep 15, 2021 | Climate Change, Crewed Space, Earth, Science

The discovery of multicellular algae specimens in an early Cambrian formation in China provides evidence of the change from cyanobacteria to more complex organisms with external membranes and cell walls. Plus, a new spacesuit is tested in Oregon, and we look at the real secrets of Stonehenge.

Rocket Roundup for August 18, 2021

Aug 19, 2021 | Crewed Space, Daily Space, ISRO, Random Space Fact, Rockets, Space History, Space Policy, Spacecraft, Vega

On this week’s Rocket Roundup, an ISRO rocket fails and Arianespace launches a big satellite. Plus, Boeing can’t seem to get their act together. And this week in rocket history, we look back at the first mission to explore all of the outer planets – Voyager 2.

New Research Says Clays Are What’s Beneath Mars’ South Pole

Aug 2, 2021 | Climate Change, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Earth, Exoplanets, Mars, Spacecraft

Continuing the ongoing saga of just what is under the Martian south polar ice caps, new research has once again analyzed radar data, and this time, scientists find that clays known as smectites are responsible for the bright reflections once thought to be subsurface lakes. Plus, drama with an ISS docking and some more oddball exoplanets to round out the week.

Rocket Roundup for July 21, 2021

Jul 22, 2021 | Blue Origin, Crewed Space, Daily Space, Random Space Fact, Rockets, ROSCOSMOS, Space China, Space History, Spacecraft

On this week’s Rocket Roundup, Russia launches a long-delayed ISS module with a new space toilet, New Shepard conducts its first crewed launch, and China launches some more secret satellites. Plus, this week in rocket history, we look back at Apollo 11.