#Space fans seem excited about the emerging plans to launch and operate #AIDataCenters in orbit. Sincerely, does anybody realise how difficult that actually is? Did they genuinely have a massive breakthrough in #spacecraft design? Or is this yet another farce designed to siphon off even more taxpayers' money into the pockets of the #billionaires? [1/9]
Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed

The Guardian

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

The flight was just 10 minutes but the capsule still managed to soar 105 kilometres up, skimming into space.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-21/first-paraplegic-engineer-in-space/106167430

#Disabilities #Space #Spacecraft #AirTransportIndustry #SpaceExploration

Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space

The flight was just 10 minutes but the capsule still managed to soar 105 kilometres up, skimming into space.

ABC News
3I/ATLAS interstellar comet or alien spacecraft? See it yourself today as it makes closest approach to planet
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=3iatlas-interstellar-comet-or-alien-spacecraft-see-it-yourself-today-as-it-makes-closest-approach-to-planet
"3I/ATLAS: Comet or Spaceship? Witness the Cosmic Mystery Today!"
#space #astronomy #interstellar #comet #alien #spacecraft
3I/ATLAS interstellar comet or alien spacecraft? See it yourself today as it makes closest approach to planet

In a captivating celestial spectacle, the mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked curiosity and debate - is it simply a comet or possibly an alien spacecraft? NASA's latest imagery of this ...

The Fastest Space Machines

PeerTube

NASA’S PUNCH Releases Refined Images of Eruptions from the Sun

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/punch/2025/12/18/nasas-punch-releases-refined-images-of-eruptions-from-the-sun/

Video shows coronal mass ejections erupting from the Sun’s surface from Oct. 21 to Nov. 12, 2025. Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is seen at the top, Venus at the left, and Mercury to the right of center.

Credit: NASA/SwRI

#Heliophysics #Sun #PUNCH #Astrophysics #Astrodon #space #spacecraft #science #news #Comet #CometLemmon #Lemmon #Venus #Mercury #SolarEruptions

Dolphins swim past as support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, March 18. NASA/Keegan Barber

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This Week in Astronomy History, December 8 - 14

🔭 December 8, 1908: 60-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson sees first light
🚀 December 11, 1972: Apollo 17 lands on Moon
🛰️ December 14, 1962: Mariner 2 flies by Venus

https://lowell.edu/this-week-in-astronomy-history-december-8-14/

#Astrodon #Astronomy #MountWilson #obsevartory #telescope #Apollo #Apollo17 #Moon #Venus #Mariner2 #space #science #history #Historyofscience #spacecraft

This Week in Astronomy History | December 8 - 14 - Lowell Observatory

This Week in Astronomy History | December 8 – 14   December 8, 1908: 60-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson sees first light On December 8, 1908, the 60-inch Hale Telescope […]

Lowell Observatory