What's happening in space (that's interesting)

Technically, this is something that is not happening in space that is interesting.

Hah, you can say that again.

To the moon!

I didn’t realize Israel even had a space program.

I have a NatGeo from a few years back that covered all of these companies competing for the (then-active) Google X-Prize. These folks were one of the groups that were described. Nice to see they made it this far.

This is an amazing video that NASA put together about the recent Ultima Thule flyby on Jan 1. Take the time to enjoy this one if you’ve got a few hours to kill.

Heh, Ryu Hayabusa.

a spacex test of their crewed vehicle launches early tomorrow
: https://www.spacex.com/webcast

Puurty. Shame about the fake starfield added but its a nice shot all the same.

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/arer0k/i_took_nearly_50000_images_of_the_night_sky_to/

I watched the automatic docking sequence. It was way easier and just as fast (including safety holds) as takes me to dock in Kerbal. SpaceX is just a very impressive organization to have everything go virtually flawless on their first attempt.

That page doesn’t say when. Unless you meant yesterday morning.

Although the live NASA feed makes you question whether shitty techno is better than elevator muzak.

Alien stowaway!!!

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First we let them be superheroes and now we’re letting them out into space without a man present! What’s next?!

As long as there’s a man available to 'splain to them, they should be OK.

Crew Dragon reentry stream begins 7am ET tomorrow. It’s done great so far, but this is the big test.

Edit: Stream has started

https://www.spacex.com/webcast

Parachutes deployed!

dragon

So it all went OK? no rolling or failed chutes then? Cool! Too bad for Russia tho.

Looked a-ok on the livestream.