Via #GlobalBC Viewer, A Jumping #orca Near #BellaBella, #BC.
Via #GlobalBC viewer, a jumping #orca near #BellaBella, #BC.
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The dark area is our Moon’s shadow on Earth during a solar eclipse. SpaceVine by NASA Astronaut Don Pettit.
April 2, 2015.
Credit: NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman’s Vine Account
Space Launch System
Our Space Launch System (SLS) is an advanced launch vehicle for exploration beyond Earth’s orbit into deep space. SLS, the world’s most powerful rocket, will launch astronauts in our Orion spacecraft on missions to an asteroid and eventually to Mars!
A launch system required to carry humans faster and farther than ever before will need a powerful engine, aka the RS-25 engine. This engine makes a modern race car or jet engine look like a wind-up toy. With the ability to produce 512,000 pounds of trust, the RS-25 engine will produce 10% more thrust than the Saturn V rockets that launched astronauts on journeys to the moon!
Another consideration for using these engines for future spaceflight was that 16 of them already existed from the shuttle program. Using a high-performance engine that already existed gave us a considerable boost in developing its next rocket for space exploration.
Once ready, four RS-25 engines will power the core stage of our SLS into deep space and Mars.
(25 Aug. 1965) — Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. inside the Gemini-5 spacecraft as it orbited Earth. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr. took this photograph.
Blog: Probing the Mystery of Charon's Red Pole (https://blogs.nasa.gov/pluto/2015/09/09/new-horizons-probes-the-mystery-of-charons-red-pole/)
making sure the spider I stomped out is really dead PART2
Making laundry day fun
NASA has announced that it has found flowing water on the surface of Mars, which may hint at the possibility of life on the planet.
#NSFfunded study finds marine animal colony is a multi-jet swimming machine: http://bit.ly/1EwkRCj #bioinspiration
