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Crew 10 Delayed Until March 2025

Crew 10 Delayed Until March 2025

by | Dec 30, 2024 |

Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams in T-38 pre-flight activities at Ellington Field. Photo Date: August 16, 2022. Location: Ellington Field, Hangar 276/Flight Line. Photographer: Robert Markowitz In some late breaking news, NASA announced on December 17th that the Crew 10 flight of a SpaceX Crew Dragon was being delayed from February 2025 to the end of March 2025. The reason? Its crew dragon isn’t ready. Briefly; SpaceX made 6 Crew dragons. 1 blew up after Crew Demo 1, one was built for the Inflight Abort Test and retired immediately after, leaving 4....

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Ryugu Sample Supports Invading Life

Ryugu Sample Supports Invading Life

by | Dec 28, 2024 |

Ryugu samples showing signs of bacteria contamination. Trying to understand the evolution of planets and life is really a driving motivation for a lot of science and science fiction. Landing squarely in the “I think I read a horror story about this,” scientists found...

Io Doesn’t Actually Have a Gooey Center

Io Doesn’t Actually Have a Gooey Center

by | Dec 27, 2024 |

Collapsed volcanoes form large, dark spots on Io's surface, NASA/JPL/USGS One of our greatest frustrations as a science, is we astronomical and planetary scientists can’t do the same kind of experiments that other kinds of scientists get to do. We look at things from...

Dark Comet Numbers on the Rise

Dark Comet Numbers on the Rise

by | Dec 26, 2024 |

Oumuamua illustration by Stuart Rankin Humans like to label things. In general, this works out for us. If you go to a furniture store and ask for a sofa, they will show you things multiple people can sit on that are clearly sofas. Ask for a chair, and they will show...

The Monkeys Can’t Write Hamlet

The Monkeys Can’t Write Hamlet

by | Dec 3, 2024 |

By New York Zoological Society — Image derived from: Chimpanzee seated at a typewriter; Public Domain. I have bad news for one of statistics favorite sayings. As the story goes, given enough time and enough monkey’s randomly pressing keys on a keyboard, the complete...

Modern Melt

Modern Melt

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Our Earth is currently working its way toward being the exact opposite of a snowball Earth as we see glaciers and ice caps receding across the planet. This is fundamentally changing our landscape and how we as humans interact with that landscape.  These changes...

Between Fire and Ice is Slush

Between Fire and Ice is Slush

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Snowball Earth. Credit: NASA Our planet has been driven to environmental extremes at many times in its history, and many plants and animals - including humans - have demonstrated they can survive less than ideal conditions. The last major ice age hit its peak 20 to 26...

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice

Dinosaurs Thrived After Ice

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Archaeopteryx Credit: Peter Montgomery Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanic object in our solar system today, but our planet gave Io a run for its money more than 200 million years ago. At that point in our planet's history, our world was dominated by the Triassic...

Volcanic Moon Orbiting Distant World

Volcanic Moon Orbiting Distant World

by | Dec 1, 2024 |

Let’s look at a world 635 lightyears away that just might have a fiery moon of volcanic goodness. To be honest, every aspect of this system is hot. The star is similar our Sun, but the planet is on an 2.8 day orbit around that star, and this orbit makes Mercury look...