Crew Safe After Soyuz Launch Abort
NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are in good condition following an aborted launch of their Soyuz spacecraft.
The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station at 4:40 a.m. EDT Thursday, October 11 (2:40 p.m. in Baikonur) carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Shortly after launch, there was an anomaly with the booster and the launch ascent was aborted, resulting in a ballistic landing of the spacecraft. Search and rescue teams were deployed to the landing site. Hague and Ovchinin are out of the capsule and are reported to be in good condition.
Note: This video is edited for length, but includes the launch, the initial report of the issue, and the confirmation that the crew landed safely.
Starry Greetings!
Seems like Planet X wanted to finish off Halloween with one… last…story…
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/vacuum-decay-ultimate-catastrophe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI
http://io9.gizmodo.com/we-might-be-destroying-the-universe-just-by-looking-at-1514652112
Sharpless 249 and the Jellyfish Nebula : Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic image. Centered in the scene it’s anchored right and left by two bright stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum, at the foot of the celestial twin. The Jellyfish Nebula is the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, the Jellyfish Nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. An emission nebula cataloged as Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper left. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. At that distance, this image would be about 300 light-years across. via NASA
I want to be taking notes.
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🎃👻☠️ Skull Seen In Small Asteroid… Spooky As It Gets! 🎃👻☠️
2015 TB145 - 2000 foot wide asteroid.
🎃 Part Of Spinning Blue Ball’s Five Days of Halloween!! 🎃
Hayabusa2: Wide-angle navigational images of asteroid Ryugu, taken today as the probe descended temporarily to just 5km from the asteroid’s surface. These were originally posted to the probe’s Twitter feed.
This is so important. I have two years left of my Bachelor degree, and it took me 16 years to get my associate. Never give up, even if you have to put those goals on hold (sometimes multiple times), because life happens. Make yours worth it.
just because someone’s accomplishing more than you are right now doesn’t mean you’re failing. success isn’t a race
I hope that someday, you find an amazing girl. The kind of girl who means everything to you and makes you want to spend every moment of your time with her. The kind of girl who keeps you up at night, just thinking about her beautiful smile, and when you finally fall asleep, she`s all you dream about. I hope she`s the first thing to cross your mind when you wake up in the morning. I hope she changes you in a way you could never understand, yet you know it`s for the better. I hope she`s the kind of girl you would die for. The kind of girl who could make you cry, even though you`d never admit it. The kind of girl who makes you want to go out and do something special, something that means everything to the both of you. The kind of girl you can have silly fights with, then kiss and make up and hold her in your arms like you`re falling in love all over again. I hope you make memories with her her you never forget. I hope she`s your world, and what you have with her is nothing less than perfection. and I hope that one day, you lose her. I hope you mess up and as hard as you try to keep her there with you, she slips through the cracks of your broken heart. I hope it destroys you, because you realized you`ve lost the person you once called your everything. I hope you see every moment you spent together spin away down the drain like it was waiting to happen. I hope you stay up at night because she`s on your mind and when you fall asleep, she haunts your dreams. I hope her beautiful smile stays pressed in your mind like a scar that won’t fade away. I hope you realize that you`re a new person because of her, I hope your new self feels incomplete without her and you miss the old you. The one that was okay with being alone, because you’d rather be the heartbreaker than the heartbroken.
Your best source of quotes for the broken hearted (via thelovewhisperer)
Remnants from a star that exploded thousands of years ago created a celestial abstract portrait, as captured in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Pencil Nebula.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Orion Bullets via NASA https://ift.tt/2VwwqDm
I’ve been seeing some of the studyblrs that I follow are doing the 100 days of productivity challenge, and I’m considering attempting this. As a non-traditional, upper level university student, I’m trying to keep my life together by finding balance with school and family.
My kids got sick the first week of school, which carried on into the second week and I’ve been trying to catch up on the assignments I’m behind in (which is now down to half of my classes).
Have any of you guys done this challenge? What are the pros and cons from your experience?