Space

Image from the SpaceX video of the flight: This amazing vehicle has taken another step forward; it now flies and

This is amazing – they are getting so close to having this amazing vehicle working. Maybe SpaceX will be on

Final 50th anniversary celebration photo – the command module and service module on the way home after transearth orbit injection.

This model is 1/72 scale – I added things like the gold foil from sweetie wrappers!

Another excuse to display one of my old models. This is the command module and service module. docked to the

I didn’t expect to see this as the forecast earlier in the day predicted cloud. However it cleared allowing me

In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission – here’s my Saturn V model appropriately posed! Here’s

Yay! It will be fun to follow this even if I can’t actually go. See https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020

I noticed the new Radio Times in Margie’s this morning – had to buy it with a cover like that!

It was great today to see the SpaceX Crew Dragon arriving at the International Space Station today (complete with crew

Wonderful to see these superb images from the Chinese lander Chang’e-4 on the far side of the Moon. See more

image from https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1737/ Today I came across something on the web that’s actually interesting. It’s on the spaceweather.com website that I

Travelling back from Toronto this morning there were some lovely noctilucent clouds (the white swirly ones) visible through the aircraft window.

The final photo of Starman from Elon Musk / SpaceX. Sadly there won’t be comms at all in future close

Photos from the live video from the ragtop spacecraft put up by the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. I wonder if my

From SpaceX Twitter feed … the two boosters landing back at Cape Canaveral. Amazing! … and … both of those boosters