Space: For the 1st time ever, 8 spacecraft are docked to the International Space Station
This is one of those, ‘We really are living in the future’ milestones that it’s easy to miss because it’s getting routine.
The International Space Station has eight docking ports, and all of them are in use.
Nasa plans first crewed Moon mission in 50 years for February 2026
Maybe there is too much going on or it’s the fracturing of news media, but there are big things happening that people aren’t talking about.
In four months, humans are going back to the Moon. The Artemis 2 mission is to perform a lunar orbit, no landing, similar to Apollo 9 in 1968. Apollo 9 is the mission that yielded the moving “Earth Rise” photograph.
Brave or reckless astronauts to take second EVA wearing spacesuits made in China. I won’t even buy batteries or saw blades from Harbor Freight. There is no way I’d go into a near absolute vacuum at 3 degrees above absolute zero in a Chinese spacesuit, unless I had no other choice. Communist China may not have given them any other choice.
Side Note: I always liked that the Russians are called cosmonauts and are from Star City. Kind of poetic. In Mandarin, what are astronauts called and did they invent a new character to represent “astronaut”? Or is it a sequence of characters, like “man turtle bubble”
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