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Michelin-Starred Dining Experience In Space Announced; Eat While Watching Sunrise Over The Earth

17Mar

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Michelin-Starred Dining Experience In Space Announced; Eat While Watching Sunrise Over The Earth

[ad_1] Dining in space while overlooking the Earth was once only possible in cartoons and movies. However, luxury space tourism companies and chefs are now turning this idea into reality. In an Instagram collab post, two Michelin Stars-restaurant Alchemist and SpaceVIP company announced the "first stratospheric dining experience" aboard Spaceship Neptune, "the world's first carbon neutral space capsule." As per the announcement, explorers will "ascend 100,000 ft above sea level where they will dine as they watch the sunrise over the Earth's curvature."Take a look at the announcement below:Chef Rasmus Munk of Alchemist will be hosting this experience. "This is gonna be insane," the chef wrote on his Instagram handle, adding, "I'm so excited to get started and working with some of the lead...

Timelapse video of SpaceX Crew Dragon from International Space Station is simply mesmerising

18Feb

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Timelapse video of SpaceX Crew Dragon from International Space Station is simply mesmerising

[ad_1] ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has treated the world to a mesmerizing timelapse video of the journey from space back to Earth. In a stunning timelapse video shared recently, viewers can see the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft gracefully undocking from the International Space Station (ISS) before its splashdown near the coast of Florida.Mogensen, along with his crewmates NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos astronaut Konstantin Borisov, have been on an almost six-month-long expedition aboard the ISS. Now, as their time in space draws to a close, the crew is gearing up for their own return to Earth. Scheduled to depart on March 8, 2024, the crew's return depends on the successful launch of Crew 8 on March 1 and favorable weather conditions at...

Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?

26Aug

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Almost half of Moon missions fail. Why is space still so hard?

[ad_1] In 2019, India attempted to land a spacecraft on the Moon – and ended up painting a kilometres-long streak of debris on its barren surface. Now the Indian Space Research Organisation has returned in triumph, with the Chandrayaan-3 lander successfully touching down near the south pole of Earth's rocky neighbour.India's success came just days after a spectacular Russian failure, when the Luna 25 mission tried to land nearby and “ceased to exist as a result of a collision with the lunar surface”. These twin missions remind us that, close to 60 years after the first successful “soft landing” on the Moon, spaceflight is still difficult and dangerous. Moon missions in particular are still a coin flip, and we have seen several high-profile failures in recent years. Why were these missio...

Global Space Spending Is Projected to Grow 41% Over the Next Five Years

26Jul

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Global Space Spending Is Projected to Grow 41% Over the Next Five Years

[ad_1] The global space economy grew 8% to $546 billion in 2022 and is projected to climb another 41% over the next five years, according to a leading space nonprofit.The sector is expected to show resiliency in the coming years, despite uncertainty about the global economy and a recent slowdown in space investment. Companies are seeing continued revenue growth from commercial space assets and governments around the world boosting expenditures, according to a report from the Space Foundation, a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based space flight advocacy group. The analysis considered spending from 51 governments, as well as commercial revenue from companies in 11 space industry sub-sectors. “Commercial space is the vital growing sector of the overall space economy,” Lesley Conn, director of ...

Elon Musk should focus on Tesla as EV rivals pounce, Investors say

17Jul

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Elon Musk should focus on Tesla as EV rivals pounce, Investors say

[ad_1] Rival automakers pouncing on booming demand for electric vehicles pose the biggest challenge for Tesla over the next two years just as Elon Musk appears distracted by his high-profile ventures, from social media and space travel to artificial intelligence.So say respondents to the latest Markets Live Pulse survey. Out of 630 global MLIV Pulse contributors, 54% flagged the heightened risk of industry competition while 26% picked the behavior and decisions of its mercurial chief as a key concern for Tesla shareholders. “Musk is just such an unpredictable person, that I would count it among one of the top risks for Tesla,” Matthew Tuttle, chief executive officer of Tuttle Capital Management, said in an interview. As Tesla's profit margins shrink, some 67% of survey participants said...

NASA looks to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production

30May

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NASA looks to spice up astronaut menu with deep space food production

[ad_1] In the 2015 sci-fi film "The Martian," Matt Damon stars as an astronaut who survives on a diet of potatoes cultivated in human feces while marooned on the Red Planet.Now a New York company that makes carbon-negative aviation fuel is taking the menu for interplanetary cuisine in a very different direction. Its innovation has put it in the finals of a NASA-sponsored contest to encourage development of next-generation technologies for meeting the food needs of astronauts. Closely held Air Company of Brooklyn has pioneered a way of recycling carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts in flight to grow yeast-based nutrients for protein shakes designed to nourish crews on long-duration deep-space missions. "It's definitely more nutritious than Tang," said company co-founder and Chief Technol...