The final photo of Starman from Elon Musk / SpaceX. Sadly there won’t be comms at all in future close approaches to Earth (or anywhere). So … I’ll have to get cracking on my own project to receive signals from deep space craft.
Category: Space
Falcon Heavy test launch
Photos from the live video from the ragtop spacecraft put up by the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. I wonder if my brother Bill’s car will do this?
Falcon Heavy boosters return
From SpaceX Twitter feed … the two boosters landing back at Cape Canaveral. Amazing!
… and … both of those boosters have been used before in previous flights.
Trip to Mars anyone?
Soyuz docking with ISS
Great to see live coverage of the Soyuz launch on terrestrial TV this morning; I have just watched the docking to the International Space Station live on Nasa TV – here’s a screen grab of the Soyuz craft (three astronauts on board!) taken on the first automated approach which had to be abandoned – the Soyuz craft was then docked manually. When I was young I found space exploration inspired me so much to go into science; I hope this does the same for youngsters today, with Tim Peake visiting the ISS. If we want to continue to move forward with science and technology, we must keep exploring at the frontier. Without this, we wouldn’t have our mobile phones, computers, Facebook and so on today. More and better science education please!
The photo is a screen grab from NASA TV during the docking process.