An actress, an internet billionaire, and Tom Cruise walk into a space station … not necessarily at the same time
Internet clothing mogul Yusaku Maezawa on Thursday said he and an assistant will take a 12-day trip to the International Space Station in December.
And Russia’s space agency said actress Yulia Peresild and film director Klim Shipenko will blast off to the orbiting platform in early October.
Incredibly, Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman are expected to head to the ISS that same month to film a Hollywood space movie with NASA. No date has been set for that journey. It appears Russia and America are in a space race to get the first movie stars into orbit. Or as the Russians put it, to make “the first feature film to be filmed in space.”
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They say the early bird gets the worm, so why does Orion have NASA’s old-school logo?
NASA has slapped its worm logo on the side of the Crew Module Adaptor (CMA) for the Orion spacecraft as the first Artemis mission to the Moon inches closer.
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James Webb Space Telescope runs one last dress rehearsal for its massive golden mirrors before heading to launchpad
ESA, CSA and NASA’s James Webb Telescope opened its giant primary mirror one last time on Earth ahead of being packed up for long awaited launch later this year.
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Google Cloud and SpaceX buddy up to fling edgy data and cloud services via Starlink
Google has linked arms with SpaceX to hawk data and cloud services through the Starlink constellation.
The deal will result in Starlink ground stations being located within (or probably on top of) Google’s data centres and blasting the Chocolate Factory’s cloud services out to the edge via Elon Musk’s sky-scratching mega constellation.
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Are we sure that’s not just a cover story for an epic 1-on-1 battle against Xenu?
scheduled for launch October 31 2021. And it will take a month to reach orbit.
From what I’ve seen it’s pretty much on par with the Spirit/Opportunity rovers. Pretty dang ambitious for their very first time landing something on that planet. They’re definitely catching up to NASA capabilities.
Pics or it didn’t happen: First images from China’s Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander set to ride a SpaceX Falcon 9 to the Moon
SpaceX has notched up another order for a mission to the Moon, this time from Firefly Aerospace for a 2023 launch for its lunar lander, Blue Ghost.
Firefly Aerospace was awarded a cool $93.3m last February to deliver a suit of payloads to the Moon in 2023 under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS). The payloads, both government and commercial, will be operable during transit, lunar orbit, and on the Moon’s surface.
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