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Aug 15, 2020

Pope: it is useless to go to the Moon if you are not brothers on Earth

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, space travel

No, dear Pope Francis. I 100% share the concept of the brotherhood of all humans. There can never be too many calls for brotherhood. What I do not share in the most absolute way is that it is “useless to go to the Moon, if we are not brothers on Earth”. Quite opposite: eight billion humans, closed on the surface of our mother planet, will not be able to be brothers unless they will achieve new resources, new spaces, a new horizon of development. Remaining confined to the ground we would find ourselves competing in a zero sum game, or worse, an increasingly negative sum game, considering how much the resources of planet Earth, especially the environmental ones, are already scarce. Once again, it is up to people of good will to refuse to remain and fight among brothers and sisters, and to resume the courageous path of exploration, the search for new resources, the opening of new frontiers and human settlement in space. Properly in order to nourish the many brothers and sisters in peace, harmony and freedom. Otherwise mafias, tyrannies, selfishness, fratricide and infanticide will prevail, as history unfortunately testifies, every time a world has become small and suffocating. Pandemics such as covid19 also teach us that we will be more and more forced into immobility in our homes, if we will insist on remaining in increasing numbers in a philosophically and physically closed world. Let alone “grow and multiply”. Now, from a Jesuit Pope I would have expected at least that he would not run into the most obvious clichés, like “before going into space we must solve problems on Earth”. Quite the contrary: if we will not urgently kick-off the civil expansion into space, not only will we not be able to solve Earth’s problems, but they will get worse and worse, bringing civilization to a very dangerous point of no return.

The Feast of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven coincides with August 15th. Bergoglio remembers those who do not have the opportunity to celebrate. And on the issue of the Nile between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan he calls for dialogue and brotherhood.

Aug 14, 2020

NASA, SpaceX Targeting October for Next Astronaut Launch

Posted by in category: space travel

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational flight with astronauts of the Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as a part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission will be the first of regular rotational missions to the space station following completion of NASA certification.

The mission will carry Crew Dragon commander Michael Hopkins, pilot Victor Glover, and mission specialist Shannon Walker, all of NASA, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission specialist Soichi Noguchi for a six-month science mission aboard the orbiting laboratory following launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Aug 14, 2020

YouTube is under attack

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk, space travel

First Twitter and now YouTube is under attack by hackers promoting Bitcoin scams through live broadcasts using old Elon Musk speeches and a fake broadcast of the launch that SpaceX and NASA made last week. The hackers appear to have compromised several high-profile YouTube channels and today the account of youtuber Jon Prosser was the object of this attack, his channel is broadcasting with 40 thousand viewers and the attackers have already received around 4 thousand dollars in Bitcoins.

It may also interest you: What are cryptocurrencies?

Last week there were several reports that people who wanted to see the launch of the SpaceX clicked on videos that looked official and that they were posted by seemingly legitimate YouTube channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and were found with messages from “Bitcoin giveaway” urging them to send Bitcoin for double cash back, a common scam tactic. Today Jon Prosser reports that something similar is happening on his channel.

Aug 13, 2020

The future of deep space travel could come down to tiny solar panels

Posted by in categories: solar power, space travel, sustainability

Researchers from Germany sent solar cells into low-Earth Orbit to see how well they might perform in longer, deep space missions.

Aug 13, 2020

WATCH: WKRG News 5 is covering the historical SpaceX Return in the Gulf Coast

Posted by in category: space travel

Crews are in position to capture this memorable event near Pensacola. The splashdown is scheduled around 1:40 PM.

More information: https://bit.ly/3glajLa

Aug 13, 2020

SpaceX Dragon Endeavour Departs the International Space Station

Posted by in category: space travel

In case you missed it, the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft with NASA Astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on board undocked from the International Space Station at 7:35 p.m. EDT.

Watch NASA TV for continuous coverage as the spacecraft proceeds toward splashdown off the coast of Florida, Sunday, Aug. 2 at 2:48 p.m. EDT: www.nasa.gov/live

Aug 13, 2020

Virgin Galactic Spaceship Cabin

Posted by in category: space travel

Virgin Galactic has unveiled the interior cabin of its future tourist spaceplane 😍.

Aug 12, 2020

A video from SpaceX shows the company’s Crew Dragon capsule plunging toward the Gulf of Mexico

Posted by in category: space travel

A video from SpaceX shows the company’s Crew Dragon capsule plunging toward the Gulf of Mexico, then unfurling a series of parachutes to slow the spaceship carrying two NASA astronauts from 350 mph to a relatively gentle 15 mph for splashdown Sunday.

Aug 12, 2020

Starship hop 150m flight

Posted by in category: space travel

#Starship #hop 150m #flight.

Aug 12, 2020

A full-scale prototype of the huge Starship rocket SpaceX says will fly people to the moon and Mars left the ground for the first time Tuesday in South Texas

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

A full-scale prototype of the huge Starship rocket SpaceX says will fly people to the moon and Mars left the ground for the first time Tuesday in South Texas, flying to an altitude of roughly 500 feet before settling on a nearby landing pad.

“Mars is looking real … Progress is accelerating,” says Elon Musk.

📷: @SpacePadreIsle