»Chinese scientists are working on a giant electromagnetic launch track to launch a massive 50-ton spaceplane — longer than a Boeing 737 — into orbit. [...] the "giant rail gun" system is designed to accelerate a hypersonic aircraft to speeds of up to Mach 1.6.«
Launched on the 18th May 1991 to the Mir space station, her mission name was Project Juno.
A chemist and astronaut, she became the first British person, the first Western European woman and the first privately funded woman in space, as well as the first woman to visit the Mir space station.
I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.
A spacecraft and spacesuit 2-in-1 concept with furry micro-macro-shenanigans. Furries sharing a spacesuit with micros is something I want to explore more in the future. Seems like such a funny concept, I wonder why it hasn’t been done before? Or is it I just haven’t seen it be done?
The suit is loosely based on something called the “Command/Control Pressure Suit”.
This is Alyssa Carson, a 19-year-old astronaut who has become the youngest person in history to pass all NASA's aerial tests and is preparing to become the first human to travel to Mars.
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Heute feierte die ESA den Abschluss ihrer Astronautenanwärterinnen der Klasse 2022. Die Zeremonie, die im Europäischen Astronautenzentrum in Köln stattfand, bedeutete den .. Abschluss der Grundausbildung für die fünf europäischen Astronautenabsolventinnen und die erste Astronautin der Australischen Weltraumorganisation, die jetzt alle für Raumfahrtaufgaben in Frage kommen. .. Pressemitteilung ..ESA.
" https://www.raumfahrer.net/die-esa-astronautenklasse-2022-graduiert/
"Former #NASA#astronaut#ThomasStafford, who flew to the moon before leading the first international space mission carried out by the United States and Russia, has died at the age of 93."
On IWD I share this photo of my astronaut friend Samantha Cristoforetti.
I took it 10 years ago on 14 Jun 2014 at the aeroclub in Cremona, Italy, at an event of her WeFly! Team friends. They're a 3 member aerobatic team two of whom have physical disabilities. They presented Samantha with their flag she flew to space a few months later on her first space mission.
It's a poor quality photo in harsh sunlight (I processed it a bit) but it tells a lot about Samantha.
Indien will einen festen Platz in der Riege der Raumfahrtnationen einnehmen. Nach den Sonden zum Mond und in Richtung Sonne soll nun ein bemannter Weltraumflug folgen. Die vier Astronauten für die Mission stehen bereits fest. Von Peter Hornung.
An extraordinary American astronaut and science communicator for #BlackHistoryMonth: Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is a physician who became the first Black woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour for NASA, on September 12, 1992. She also has a B.S. in chemical engineering, served in the Peace Corps, is a dancer and choreographer, 🧵1/
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Kalpana Chawla in her short life span of only 40 years taught children especially girls to dream, to believe, to have faith & to toil to make one's dream come alive. She made true the adage that "Nothing is Impossible" to achieve if you strive towards it with complete sincerity, compassion & discipline. Kalpana Chawla and her fellow crew members finally became one with the stars shining brightly in the vastness up above.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli took the opportunity to bring a beloved Hanukkah game to new heights last week when she shared a video of a dreidel spinning in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. In place of lighting a real menorah, which cannot be done aboard the space station, Moghebli marked the holiday by sticking a felt cutout of a menorah onto a window in the Space Station and “lighting” it each night with stick-on flames. Moghebli shared the video of the zero-gravity dreidel spinning in front of the felt menorah on X, formerly Twitter, with the caption: “Happy Hanukkah from the @Space_Station!! Real candles not allowed! The video shows the dreidel spinning at a consistent pace in midair for close to a minute before it eventually bumps into the camera and slows down, tilting onto its side. Moghbeli is a flight engineer and mission commander for SpaceX’s Crew-7 which departed for the Space Station in August of this year. During a press conference in July, she said that her family had made the felt menorah for her so that she could be included in their Hanukkah celebrations from afar. https://www.timesofisrael.com/astronaut-celebrates-hanukkah-with-zero-gravity-dreidel-spin/