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  • ISS On Ham, Still Giving Her All She’s Got, and James Webb in Search of Space Farts
    Dec 30 2020
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    Living in space can get lonely. What helps? Talking to random people over ham radio
    Link: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-23/ham-radio-and-astronauts

    ‘Star Trek’ actor James Doohan's ashes are hidden somewhere on the International Space Station
    Link: https://www.radio.com/jackontheweb/latest/james-doohans-ashes-are-on-the-international-space-station

    If a Planet Has a Lot of Methane in its Atmosphere, Life is the Most Likely Cause
    Link: https://www.universetoday.com/149351/if-a-planet-has-a-lot-of-methane-in-its-atmosphere-life-is-the-most-likely-cause/


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  • Aliens on Earth, Rendlesham Forrest, and The TTSA Boy Band Breaks Up
    Dec 29 2020
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    Alien life bombshell: Extremophile now discovered buried beneath glaciers
    Link: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1375772/alien-life-hydrogen-supported-extremophile-discovery-beneath-glaciers-evg

    Rendlesham Forest UFO: Are we any closer to the truth 40 years on?
    Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-54649675

    Lue Elizondo announces he’s leaving TTSA
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    47 mins
  • UFO Buster Radio News – 445: Incredible Alien Findings 2020, John Brennan on UFOs, Milky Way Full of Dead Aliens.
    Dec 26 2020
    The Tempest Universe: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-tempest-universeJoin the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPExtraterrestrial evidence: 10 incredible findings about aliens from 2020Link: https://www.livescience.com/alien-discoveries-2020.htmlIs E.T. phoning us from Proxima Centauri?The answer to weird signals happening in the universe is never aliens, until maybe it is. Earlier this month, researchers announced that they had captured a very mysterious beam of energy in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum at 980 megahertz, coming from the closest star to our own. Proxima Centauri, which is just 4.2 light-years away, hosts one gas giant and one rocky world 17% larger than Earth that happens to be in its star's habitable zone, meaning liquid water could exist thereAlien bacteria might live in the clouds of VenusAstrobiologists were a-twitter with anticipation and skepticism in September when news broke of potential evidence of life in the upper clouds of Venus. The announcement pointed to the presence of phosphine, a rare and often poisonous gas that, on Earth at least, is almost always associated with living organisms. With its hellish surface temperature, outlandish pressure and sulfuric-acid clouds, Venus has long played second fiddle to the seemingly more potentially habitable Mars.'Oumuamua could still be an alien artifactTwo years ago, scientists spotted a cigar-shaped object hurtling through the solar system. Dubbed 'Oumuamua, the entity is considered by most to be an interstellar comet flung out from around another star. But close observations showed that 'Oumuamua was accelerating, as if something were propelling it, and scientists still aren't sure why. Avi Loeb, a Harvard University astrophysicist has proposed that, instead of a comet, the interstellar visitor could have been an alien probe pushed by a lightsail — a wide, millimeter-thin piece of material that accelerates as it's pushed by solar radiation.Earth bugs breathe hydrogen, maybe aliens do tooMost Earthlings require oxygen to survive. But oxygen isn't common in the cosmos, making up about 0.1% of the ordinary mass of the universe. There's far more hydrogen (92%) and helium (7%), and many planets, including gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, are made mostly from these light elements. In May, scientists took E. coli (a bacteria found in the guts of many animals, including humans) and ordinary yeast (a fungus used to bake bread and make beer) and tried to see if they could live in different environments. Such microbes are already known to survive without oxygen and, when placed in a flask filled with either pure hydrogen or pure helium, they managed to grow, albeit at slower rates than usual. The findings suggest that when searching for organisms elsewhere in the universe, we might want to consider places that don't look exactly like Earth.Overachieving aliens likely annihilated themselves, study suggestsLink: https://nypost.com/2020/12/22/over-achieving-aliens-likely-annihilated-themselves-study/Any aliens in our galaxy have already likely annihilated themselves — the victims of too much progress, a new scientific study says.Researchers with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have surmised that since past studies show a civilization’s technological advances “will inevitably lead to complete destruction and biological degeneration,’’ any intelligent life previously in the Milky Way has already likely killed itself off.“[I]f intelligent life is likely to destroy themselves, it is not surprising that there is little or no intelligent life elsewhere,” the researchers said in a paper posted online earlier this month.The scientists also theorized that humans are late to the party because peak conditions for life to develop likely occurred about 8 billion years after the galaxy formed — and we emerged around 13.5 billion years after the Milky Way came about, according to the website Live Science.FORMER CIA DIRECTOR BRENNAN SAYS WE SHOULD BE OPEN-MINDED ABOUT UFOSLink: https://thedebrief.org/former-cia-director-says-we-should-be-open-minded-about-ufos/Brennan was Director of the CIA between March 2013 and January 2017. He spent the beginning of his career within the CIA involved in the Directorate of Intelligence (DI)—the agency’s analytic branch—before running terrorism analysis at the Director of Central Intelligence’s Counterterrorist Center in the early 90s. He continued climbing the agency’s ranks, spearheading the effort that eventually led to the formation of the National Counterterrorism Center, and eventually became the interim director before retiring from the agency in 2005.Former President Barack Obama approached Brennan in 2008 concerning the possibility of becoming the Director of the CIA. Instead, Brennan aided Obama in homeland security and counterterrorism efforts for the next four years. It would be 2013 before...
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  • UFO Buster Radio News – 444: Uranus Has H2O, Solar System Superhighway, Alien Probes, and 57 Days of Perseverance
    Dec 23 2020
    The Tempest Universe: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-tempest-universeJoin the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPAre secret oceans hiding on the moons of Uranus?By Chelsea Gohd Link: https://www.space.com/uranus-moons-hiding-secret-oceansWhere might subsurface oceans lie in our solar system beyond moons like Europa and Enceladus?Icy worlds speckle our solar system — from Jupiter's moon Europa to Saturn's moon Enceladus, scientists have been investigating these alien worlds, discovering subsurface oceans hidden under their icy crusts. Now, researchers have turned their gaze to the moons orbiting Uranus, searching for secret oceans. In a new study not yet published, presented at the Dec. 15 AGU's Fall Meeting 2020, researchers led by Benjamin Weiss, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a method for future missions to confirm the existence of subsurface oceans on worlds like the moons of Uranus. With this work, the team also hopes to further our understanding and knowledge of potentially habitable worlds. "The big question here is, Where are habitable environments in the solar system?" Weiss said in a statement. Discovering subsurface oceans on Europa and Enceladus makes "a lot of us wonder whether there are many moons out there that, although they're small, may still be warm."Uranus has 27 moons total, but the planet has five especially large moons — Titania, Oberon, Umbriel, Ariel and Miranda. When Voyager 2 swooped by the Uranus system back in 1986, it captured images that showed that these five big moons are made up of equal parts rock and ice and are heavily cratered. These images also showed physical signs of liquid water erupting through a world and freezing on its surface, called cryovolcanism. The phenomenon could be caused by a subsurface ocean similar to what we see on Enceladus, which expels plumes from its ocean out into space.SCIENTISTS DISCOVER SUPERHIGHWAY NETWORK WHICH CAN BE USED TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE SOLAR SYSTEMLink: https://www.firstpost.com/tech/science/scientists-discover-superhigh-network-to-travel-through-solar-system-much-faster-9116251.htmlScientists have now discovered a superhigh network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was earlier thought possible. As per study authors, such routes can drive comets and asteroids near Jupiter to Neptune in under a decade and to 100 astronomical units in less than a century. Study authors say that they could be used to send spacecraft to the extreme ends of the planetary system relatively fast and also monitor near-Earth objects.As per a statement by UC San Diego News Centre, in a paper, published on 25 November, researchers observed dynamical structure of these routes, forming connected series of arches inside space manifolds that range all the way from Uranus and beyond.The newly discovered "celestial autobahn," or celestial highway acts over several decades unlike the millions of years that usually characterize Solar System dynamicAccording to researchers, the most star arch structures are linked to Jupiter and its gravitational force. The structures were resolved by gathering numerical data about millions of orbits in the Solar System and computing how they fit within already-known space manifolds.While the results need to be further studied, researchers say both determine how they can be used by spacecraft and how such manifolds behave in the vicinity of Earth, controlling asteroid and meteorite encounters.Let's Search for Alien Probes, Not Just Alien SignalsLink: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-search-for-alien-probes-not-just-alien-signals/While developing our own radio and laser communication over the past seven decades, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) focused on radio or laser signals from outer space—two kinds of electromagnetic “messenger” that astronomers use to study the cosmos.Over the same period, we have been also launching probes, like Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 10 and 11 and the New Horizons spacecraft, towards interstellar space. These could eventually reach alien civilizations, passively announcing our existence.This sort of exploration obviously could work both ways. Thanks to data collected by the Kepler space telescope, we now know that about half of all sunlike stars host a rocky Earth-size planet in their habitable zone. Within this zone, the planet’s surface temperature can support liquid water and the chemistry of life.Oumuamua showed no carbon-based molecules along its trail, nor jitter or change in its spin period—as expected from cometary jets. The excess force could be explained if `Oumuamua was pushed by the pressure of sunlight; that is, if it is an artificially-made lightsail—a thin relic of the promising technology for space exploration that was proposed as early as 1924 by Friedrich Zander and is currently being developed by our civilization. This possibility would ...
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  • UFO Buster Radio News – 443: Proxima Signal, SETI Says Settle Down, Guardians, and Fargo UFO 1948
    Dec 22 2020
    The Tempest Universe : https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-tempest-universeJoin the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPResearchers looking for aliens discover strange radio signal from nearest star system to the sunLink: https://www.foxnews.com/science/researchers-looking-for-aliens-discover-radio-signal-nearest-star-systemProxima Centauri is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years away from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Its Latin name means the "nearest [star] of Centaurus". This object was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes and is the nearest-known star to the Sun.In the search for alien life, researchers have discovered an "intriguing" radio signal emanating from the star system closest to the sun, according to a media report.The Guardian reports that researchers at the Breakthrough Listen project, which is "the largest ever scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth," have discovered a 980 MHz signal that appears to emanate from the Proxima Centauri star system, slightly more than four light-years from Earth.One of the researchers behind the project, Andrew Siemion from the University of California, Berkeley, was hard-pressed to describe the source of the signal."It has some particular properties that caused it to pass many of our checks, and we cannot yet explain it," Siemion told Scientific American of the 980 MHz signal.Fox News has reached out to NASA with a request for comment."We don’t know of any natural way to compress electromagnetic energy into a single bin in frequency" Siemion added, noting there could be some natural explanations behind it. But "for the moment, the only source that we know of is technological."Proxima Centauri b is the closest confirmed exoplanet to Earth, at 4.2 light-years away. In January, researchers discovered the presence of a possible second exoplanet, a "Super-Earth," also orbiting Proxima Centauri.This new signal has been given the name BLC1, for Breakthrough Listen. It was initially discovered in April 2019 by the Parkes 210-foot radio telescope in Sydney, Australia.The Breakthrough Listen project, which collaborates with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), detects radio signals in space constantly.Did Proxima Centauri Just Call to Say Hello? Not Really!Link: https://www.seti.org/did-proxima-centauri-just-call-say-hello-not-reallyYou’ve probably heard about the story, published in The Guardian, a respectable newspaper in the UK, about the potential discovery of an alien signal from the Proxima Centauri system, the star closest to us.This article, and a companion piece in Scientific American, noted that in April and May 2019, the Parkes telescope in Australia was listening to Proxima b, a red dwarf. This star is known to be active, and this listening was part of a stellar-flare survey.Shane Smith, a student at Breakthrough Listen, a program privately funded by Yuri Milner to search and find so-called technosignatures, or signals that indicate the existence of a civilization like ours, checked out the data. He found an exceedingly curious narrowband emission, needle-sharp at 982.002 megahertz.The team inspected the data, confirmed its veracity, and named it BLC1, for “Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1.”The name clearly identifies what it is. It’s a candidate, not a confirmed signal. Everyone at Breakthrough Listen emphasized this, including executive director Pete Worden.Because of its profile, it’s very unlikely that the signal was produced by a natural but unknown cosmic source, but who knows…Nature often surprises us.One simple explanation is that Parkes picked up a signal that originated on Earth. We use radio to communicate, and this could be terrestrial interference. And that’s probably the most likely explanation.Space Force troops now called GuardiansLink: https://www.krqe.com/new-mexico-cw-my50tv/mystery-wire/space-force-troops-now-called-guardians/MYSTERY WIRE — The Trump administration celebrated the first birthday of the U.S. Space Force on Friday by announcing that its members will be known as “guardians.”Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at a celebratory event tracing the development of the newest branch of the military over the past year.“It is my honor, on behalf of the president of the United States, to announce that henceforth the men and women of the United States Space Force will be known as guardians,” Pence said. “Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians will be defending our nation for generations to come.”President-elect Joe Biden has yet to reveal his plans for the Space Force in the next administration.Fargo's most famous UFO sighting was in the skies above a 1948 Bison-Augustana football gameLink: https://www.grandforksherald.com/community/history/6807883-Fargos-most-famous-UFO-sighting-was-in-the-skies-above-a-1948-...
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  • UFO Buster Radio News – 442: SpaceX SN9 Damaged, Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample, SpaceShipTwo launch Abort, and 'Luxury Space Hotel' to Launch in
    Dec 16 2020
    Join the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPSpaceX almost drops finished Starship prototype – but it might be salvageableLink: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-prototype-sn9-damaged/Something on or around a metal stand holding up SpaceX’s next completed Starship collapsed, causing the rocket to rapidly tilt sidewise and smash into the assembly building containing it.Put simply, launch vehicles very rarely designed or expected to survive the kind of structural loads the fall and impact put Starship SN9 through and the early prognosis – prior to any up-close observation – was not not great. Weighing at least 50-70 metric tons (110,000-155,000 lb), any other rocket – and possibly even Starship itself – should have been damaged beyond repair from anything less than a minor bump.Instead, Starship SN9 – fully assembled and perhaps just a few days away from a scheduled transport to the launch pad – shifted some 10 degrees (~10 m/30 ft) in a few seconds, seemingly coming to rest against scaffolding and the interior wall of SpaceX’s “high bay” assembly building.Starship SN9 – as photos would soon show – appeared to be almost entirely unscathed, baring no obvious hull damage. The rocket’s fore and aft starboard flaps, however, were clearly crumpled.Japanese scientists get first peek inside Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return capsuleLink: https://www.space.com/inside-hayabusa2-asteroid-sample-capsule-first-imageOn Dec. 5, that capsule landed in the Woomera Prohibited Area in Australia; scientists with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), which runs the mission, then flew the capsule to Japan.On Monday (Dec. 14), mission personnel got their first look inside the capsule. "We confirmed black grains thought to be from Ryugu were inside," mission representatives wrote on Twitter. "This is outside the main chambers, and likely particles attached to the sample catcher entrance."Scientists later opened one of the three sample chambers and confirmed that it contained a fair amount of asteroid dust.During one of those sampling attempts, the spacecraft grabbed rocks from the asteroid's surface; during the second, it shot a copper bullet into the asteroid to uncover subsurface material. The combination should allow scientists to understand how the harsh environment of space has affected the surface of Ryugu.JAXA has not yet announced when scientists will begin analyzing the asteroid bitsJAXA Tweet: A large number of particles are confirmed to be in “sample chamber A” inside the collected capsule (~11:10 JST on 12/15). This is thought to be the sample from the first touchdown on Ryugu. The photo looks brown, but our team says “black”! The sample return is a great success!Virgin Galactic traces SpaceShipTwo launch abort to bad computer connectionLink: https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-launch-abort-causeApril 05, 2018A bad computer connection foiled Virgin Galactic's attempt to reach space over the weekend, company officials said.VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's newest SpaceShipTwo vehicle, lifted off Saturday morning (Dec. 12) from New Mexico's Spaceport America beneath the wings of its carrier airplane, VMS Eve.Unity's destination was suborbital space, but it didn't get there. Eve dropped Unity at an altitude of about 50,000 feet (15,000 meters) as planned, but the space plane's onboard rocket motor didn't light up properly.Virgin Galactic quickly diagnosed the issue. Post-flight analyses have revealed "that the onboard computer which monitors the propulsion system lost connection, triggering a fail-safe scenario that intentionally halted ignition of the rocket motor," Virgin Galactic representatives wrote in a blog post published Saturday. "This system, like others on the spaceship, is designed such that it defaults to a safe state whenever power or communication with sensors is lost."'Luxury Space Hotel' to Launch in 2021Link: https://www.space.com/40207-space-hotel-launch-2021-aurora-station.htmlWell-heeled space tourists will have a new orbital destination four years from now, if one company's plans come to fruition.That startup, called Orion Span, aims to loft its "Aurora Station" in late 2021 and begin accommodating guests in 2022. "We are launching the first-ever affordable luxury space hotel," said Orion Span founder and CEO Frank Bunger, who unveiled the Aurora Station idea today (April 5) at the Space 2.0 Summit in San Jose, California. [Aurora Station: A Luxury Space Hotel in Pictures]"Affordable" is a relative term: A 12-day stay aboard Aurora Station will start at $9.5 million. Still, that's quite a bit less than orbital tourists have paid in the past. From 2001 through 2009, seven private citizens took a total of eight trips to the International Space Station (ISS), paying an estimated $20 million to $40 million each time.Aurora Station will accommodate four paying guests and two crewmembers; these latter personnel will...
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  • UFO Buster Radio News – 441: Spike in NYC UFOs, Roswell Secret Diary, Leaked UAP Balloon, and ET Will Respond
    Dec 15 2020
    Join the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPNYC UFO sightings in 2020 are up 283% from 2018Link: https://nypost.com/2020/12/12/nyc-ufo-sightings-in-2020-are-up-283-from-2018/This has been one far-out year!UFO sightings across the city are up 31% from last year — 46, compared with 35 — and an eye-popping 283% from 2018’s measly dozen, according to the National UFO Reporting Center.Brooklyn is tops in tin-foil hatters, with 12 close encounters. Not far behind are Manhattan with 11 and Queens with 10. Staten Islanders claim just eight — despite the borough’s rep for not social distancing. The Bronx is even more grounded, chalking up a mere five.Two of the more memorable intergalactic incidents happened in the summertime, on Staten Island and in the Bronx.In the wee hours of July 21, an Islander spotted — and stared at — at an “oval” aircraft that “looked and sounded like a helicopter. Then, the mysterious flying machine “sent a surge of heat/radiation through my body!”The Islander “honestly thought it was the government putting something into the air with everything going on during these times and I thought I would wake up and find it all over the news or on Instagram.”Late on June 8, a Bronxite watched 30 objects “flying in a perfect line, in perfect synchronicity” that “looked like a bunch of moving stars.”The observer insisted, “I don’t drink, or take any drugs whatsoever. I’m not a UFO conspiracy theorist.”An eerie episode can happen any time, anywhere.On the night of Sept. 15, a Brooklynite stuck his head “out the bathroom window of my 2nd floor home” and saw “orange/metallic” orbs “standing still over the Canarsie/Jamaica Bay area.”Army officer's secret journal could offer new clues about the UFO crash in Roswell in 1947Link: https://www.livescience.com/roswell-the-first-witness-history-channel.htmlRecently, Marcel's family revealed that he had kept a diary from that period that might contain clues about the crash, sparking a new investigation by the History Channel in "Roswell: The First Witness," part of the network's "History's Greatest Mysteries" series."The government claimed they had recovered a UFO — they had a press release about it," said Ben Smith, a former CIA operative and the show's lead investigator. "No other government in the world has said 'We have a spacecraft,' and then the next day there's another press release that says, 'Never mind, it was just a weather balloon'," Smith told Live Science.The show revisits the Roswell crash site, incorporating aerial surveys and mapping, and using multispectral imaging to detect micro-depressions in the ground that could indicate where debris landed, Smith said. But the central component of the new inquiry is a diary, which Marcel supposedly kept during the time of the Roswell crash, and which is now in the possession of his grandchildren. Decades after the event, Marcel told an interviewer that he believed the object that crashed in the New Mexico desert had extraterrestrial origins, Time reported in 1997. Analysis of the diary — and translation of its cryptic language — could reveal coded messages that Marcel wrote about the crash at the time that it happened, Smith said.Pics: Leaked government photos reveal bizarre UFO sightingLink: https://in.news.yahoo.com/leaked-government-photos-reveal-bizarre-ufo-sighting-132912231.htmlThe circulation of a leaked photo appearing to show a motionless unidentified flying object, or UFO, has sent military buffs and alien hunters into overdrive.The image had reportedly been shared around by US defence personnel before making its way into the media this month.The picture is said to date back to 2018 and was published by journalist Tim McMillian in The Debrief.It shows what the US government calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) appearing near a US fighter pilot while flying his jet off the country’s east coast.“The Department of Defense established the UAPTF (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force) to improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs,” the US government said in a press release at the time.Alien breakthrough as 'really good chance' extraterrestrials will 'respond' to signalsLink: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1370333/alien-science-news-nasa-extraterrestrial-alien-signals-meti-arecibo-telescope-bbc-sptScientists have in recent years ramped up efforts in the search for extraterrestrial life. Now, astrobiologists like Dr Douglas Vakoch use something called METI (messaging extraterrestrial intelligence) to send signals to outer space. It contrasts with the orthodox SETI (searching for extraterrestrial life) which scientists used to passively scour the universe for our distant galactic cousins.SETI now allows the scientific community to actively force its hand into space, calling for any number of potential intelligent life forms to respond.A thought that...
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  • UFO Buster Radio News – 440: SN8 Auto-Abort, Chang'e 5 Has Got the Scoop, Farewell Chuck, and Ryugu Sample At Australian Lab
    Dec 9 2020
    New Podcast Locations starting 01/01/2021The NEW Dark Horde - https://thedarkhorde.podbean.com/The Tempest Universe - https://thetempestuniverse.podbean.com/Join the Episode after party on Discord!Link: https://discord.gg/ZzJSrGPSpaceX aborts Starship SN8 prototype test launch at last secondLink: https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-sn8-launch-abortWe'll have to wait a little longer to see SpaceX's latest Starship prototype make its highly anticipated big hop. The vehicle, known as Starship SN8 ("Serial No. 8"), was scheduled to launch on an 8-mile-high (12.5 kilometers) test flight today (Dec. 8) from SpaceX's South Texas facility, near the Gulf Coast village of Boca Chica. And it nearly happened. But less than 2 seconds before liftoff, just after 5:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT and 4:30 p.m. local Texas time), SN8 detected something abnormal with one or more of its three Raptor engines and automatically aborted the flight.It's unclear at the moment when SN8 will get its next chance to fly; that depends on what caused the abort and how difficult it will be to fix. But there are launch windows available on both Wednesday and Thursday (Dec. 9 and Dec. 10), SpaceX representatives said.NASA's spacecraft spots China's Chang'e 5 lander on the moonLink: https://www.space.com/change-5-moon-lander-photo-lunar-reconnaissance-orbiterNASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of China's Chang'e 5 lander on the moon just hours after its historic landing.The Chang'e 5 lander set down on the lunar surface last Tuesday, Dec. 1. Thanks to China's prompt release of the stunning Chang'e 5 landing video, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) team were able to locate the roughly 4-ton spacecraft in Oceanus Procellarum, the "Ocean of Storms," and prepare for when LRO would pass overhead the next day.The image shows the Chang'e 5 lander in the center of three craters. Automated systems had helped the spacecraft avoid these hazards to land safely.The image was taken before the Chang'e 5 ascent vehicle blasted off from the surface with the collected samples. The ascent vehicle has since performed a spectacular rendezvous and docking with the Chang'e 5 orbiter and handed over the samples. Chang'e 5 will begin its journey to Earth later this week.Chuck Yeager, 1st pilot to break the sound barrier, is dead at 97Link: https://www.space.com/chuck-yeager-first-pilot-to-break-sound-barrier-deadChuck Yeager, the U.S. Air Force Pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier, died Monday (Dec. 7) at the age of 97.Yeager's wife, Victoria, shared the news on Twitter, writing: "It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET. An incredible life well lived, America's greatest Pilot, & a legacy of strength, adventure, & patriotism will be remembered forever."Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier on Oct. 14, 1947, while flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane 45,000 feet (13,700 meters) over the Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. During the flight, Yeager reached Mach 1.05, or 1.05 times the speed of sound. The aircraft, which he dubbed Glamorous Glennis after his first wife Glennis Yeager, who died in 1990. The Bell X-1 now hangs on display in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington. Yeager would go on to fly even faster aircraft, including the Lockheed XF-104, which flew more than twice the speed of sound. His daring test flights were featured in Tom Wolfe's 1979 book "The Right Stuff" as well as the film adaptation and new Disney Plus series by the same name.EXPLAINER: What has Japanese space mission accomplished?Link: https://apnews.com/article/japan-space-mission-accomplish-explained-88e9a90bca3971bfe864aa94c01de7d4A small capsule containing asteroid soil samples that was dropped from 136,700 miles (220,000 kilometers) in space by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed as planned in the Australian Outback on Sunday. After a preliminary inspection, it will be flown to Japan for research. The extremely high precision required to carry out the mission thrilled many in Japan, who said they took pride in its success. The project’s manager, Yuichi Tsuda of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, called the capsule a “treasure box.”Launched on Dec. 3, 2014, the unmanned Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down twice on the asteroid Ryugu, more than 300 million kilometers (190 million miles) away from Earth. The asteroid’s extremely rocky surface forced the mission’s team to revise landing plans, but the spacecraft successfully collected data and soil samples during the 1½ years it spent near Ryugu after arriving there in June 2018.The pan-shaped capsule, about 40 centimeters (15 inches) in diameter, contains soil samples taken from two different sites on the asteroid. Some gases might also be embedded in the samples. The preliminary inspection at a lab in Australia was to extract and analyze the gas. The capsule is due to return ...
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