In case you missed the news, India has become the fourth country to land a craft on the moon, and the first to successfully manage a landing at the lunar south pole…
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Artemis 2 has its crew….
…and they should be heading around the moon in November of 2024. The first crew to go further than low-earth orbit since 1972 includes…
Science Round-up, 2023
The James Webb Telescope continues to bring the universe closer to us, but there have been other and even bigger science stories this year. Click below for a few of these. They’re more hopeful than much of the rest of the news.
Artemis 1 is on its way to the moon!
The unmanned mission launched early this morning an is enroute to the moon.
Artemis Launch, Take Two– SCRUBBED!
NASA’s second attempt to launch the Artemis I Moon Mission takes place at 2:17 p.m. EDT on Saturday, September 3. Although the capsule contains no humans, it represents a step to returning astronauts to the moon and beyond. Details on the Artemis missions may be found here.
The James Webb Telescope launches into space
A little Christmas present for the astronomically-inclined, the James Webb telescope successfully launched into space from Korou Spaceport in Guiana. The ten-billion dollar instrument will see further into the universe– and back in time– than has been previously possible.
Xenobots: The living robots can now self-replicate
The same team from University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University who created xenobots in 2020 from repurposed frog embryo cells have now made self-replicating xenobots that can reproduce in a manner entirely different from their amphibian progenitors.
These programmable and reproducing organisms might be developed to serve a range of beneficial purposes, from medicine to environmental clean-up. But technology, to be frank, sometimes contains a stein full of potential risks, too.
Drop by in another decade or so to see how this is playing out.
William Shatner makes it to the Final Frontier
Assuming he makes it to next week and nothing goes wrong with Bezos’s ship, William Shatner will become the oldest person to slip the bonds of earth, if only for a short time.
“It’s never too late to experience new things,” says the 90-year-old actor.
These are the voyages….
Fusion Power Just Around the Corner– Again
Skepticism over the more hyperbolic articles remains warranted, but the latest news out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is certainly interesting.
The New York Times calls it an “energetic burst of optimism”
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Doctors remix ‘Hamilton’ song to celebrate COVID vaccine
A group of doctors in California adapted the hit musical’s song “My Shot” into an anthem on COVID-19 vaccines. The group calls themselves Vax’n 8, and they spent months working on the remix.