From black holes to Mars missions 🔴, space research never stops evolving.
#AcadeMax celebrates #WorldSpaceWeek, honoring every scientist reaching for the stars!
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#ZJUP #Science #Spaceweek #Astronomy #Science #Research #SpaceSky #AcademicSky

#OTD #TDIH #October7, 1959 #USSR #MoonProbe #Luna3 transmits first-ever #photos of the #FarSideOfTheMoon. #SpaceflightFirsts #Moon #MoonExploration #Spaceflight #SpaceAge #Probes #OuterSpace #SpaceRace #ColdWar #MoonSky #SpaceSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #October4, 1957: The #SpaceAge begins as the #USSR launches #Sputnik1, the first man-made #satellite into orbit.
#Sputnik #Spaceflight #SovietSpaceProgram #SpaceflightFirsts #Satellites #SpaceRace #SpaceSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDRD...

I gave a dead fly's brain a Starship.

165,122 neurons from one male fruit fly. we chose what it sensed; every move is a real run of that brain. it dodged debris in 3.3 ms, and when the tower caught it, it sang.

the fly is live right now: drosophila.io

#SciArt #SciComm #SpaceSky

Space debris.
#SpaceSky #SpaceJunk

A good primer on the space junk phenomena and problem.

#SpaceSky and #SpaceJunk

#OTD #TDIH #October2, 1909: #ScientificAmerican, using the name #WangTu instead of #WanHu, first publishes a story about the #LegendaryEmperor's supposed #FlightToTheMoon. #MoonSky #SpaceSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Hu

the first animals in space were fruit flies: 20 feb 1947, a V-2 from White Sands, 109 km up, back alive. in 2017, 4,000 of us flew on the first Dragon to fly twice.

next: mars?

#SciComm #SpaceSky #drosophila

South Island spaceport for European rocket launches found to be feasible.
#spacesky #EuroSpace #KaitoreteSpit #Christchurch
www.rnz.co.nz/news/science...

#ScienceOverMorons

#SpaceSky 🧪

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #September21, 1968 #SpaceRace: #ZondProgram: #Zond5, 1st #Spacecraft launched to #TheMoon to return, 1st to bring terrestrial life to #Moon's vicinity, returns to Earth.
#SpaceflightFirsts #SpaceSky
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_5

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #September18, 1977: #Voyager1 takes #FirstPhotographOfTheEarthAndTheMoonTogether. #Earth #TheEarth #Moon #TheMoon #Voyager1 #SpaceflightFirsts #InterplanetaryExploration #Spaceflight #SpaceSKy
www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/...

Good read. Space is already pretty weaponised so the US announcement of a new weapon is being seen as political.

What weapon could the US have put into space?
#space #LowEarthOrbit #Spacesky #satellites
www.bbc.com/news/article...

#AdventuresInHistory!
#OTD #TDIH #September 14, 1968 #SpaceRace: #ZondProgram: #Zond5, 1st #Spacecraft launched to #TheMoon to return, 1st to bring terrestrial life to #Moon's vicinity, #launched. #SpaceSky
#SpaceflightFirsts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zond_5

#Antarctica #spacesky #Space #LivingInSpace

#OTD #TDIH #September9, 1959: #RocketLaunches: #ProjectMercury: #FirstFlights: #BigJoe1, #FirstFlight of #ProjectMercury, occurs atop an #AtlasMissile (#Atlas10D at #CapeCanaveral #LaunchComplex14 (#LC14).#Spaceflight #NASA #SpaceRace #SpaceProgram #SpaceSky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OObe...

#Europe seeking greater autonomy as the global order once championed by the United States is shifting under US President Donald Trump.
German rocket reaches #space in European launch first
#spacesky #satellites
www.rnz.co.nz/news/science...

1/8 Which way is up? I replicated the Apollo program's FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator) instrument to help users orient themselves while exploring in Stellata. An attitude indicator (the other type of AI) tells you…

🔭 #Astronomy #SpaceSky #BuildInPublic #AstroCoding