@spaceflightpedia.comSpaceflight may affect how blood flows and clots. A new study aboard the International Space Station will examine this during NASA's SpaceX Crew-13 mission. Crew will also test manual piloting; other studies target vision and brain changes.
@spaceflightpedia.comSix seconds before their booster exploded, Soyuz's launch escape system pulled Vladimir Titov and Gennadi Strekalov away from the pad. The capsule hit fourteen to seventeen g and landed about 4 km away. Both men survived with bruises.
@spaceflightpedia.comOnly 350 Titan images reached Earth when Huygens was built to send 700. A missed command meant Cassini never listened to channel A. Half the planned photos lost, even as Huygens made the farthest landing from Earth ever. Landed on Titan 14 January 2005. #Spaceflightpedia #Huygens #Titan #Cassini
@spaceflightpedia.comFifty-five million light-years away, a serene-looking spiral galaxy hides a chaotic secret. NGC 4698 lies in the constellation Virgo, one of more than a thousand galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. New image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
@spaceflightpedia.comScience rides along on SpaceX's 35th NASA resupply mission, delivering investigations plus supplies and equipment to the International Space Station. A Falcon 9 launches no earlier than October. Media accreditation is open.
@spaceflightpedia.comA pulsar has been seen gathering the wind from a giant companion star.
XRISM directly observed the stellar outflow being captured by the compact object. That captured material powers strong X-ray flares.
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@spaceflightpedia.comChandra spots new galaxy object class: unusually low-energy X-rays plus intense UV, unlike anything seen before. Could help two long-standing astrophysics questions—still open, not solved.
@spaceflightpedia.comAnak Krakatau erupts again, spewing ash that disrupts thousands of flights and degrades air quality. Ash particles damage aircraft engines. Weather satellites track ash spread, helping aviation authorities and airlines respond.
@spaceflightpedia.comCuriosity hits 5,000 Martian sols, climbs over 1km elevation from landing site. Milestone covered in sols 4995–5001 blog by William Farrand, Space Science Institute. #Spaceflightpedia #Curiosity #Mars
@spaceflightpedia.comFor the first time, scientists combined NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study trans-Neptunian objects orbiting beyond Neptune. They found fewer small TNOs than expected, a clue to how the outer solar system evolved. #Spaceflightpedia #Hubble #JamesWebb
@spaceflightpedia.comOn August 12, NASA's WB-57F research aircraft flew off Iceland at 50,000 feet to observe a total solar eclipse, following the path of totality above clouds and water vapor.
Venus, Jupiter and Mercury were visible around the eclipsed Sun.