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    X-37B Landing


    Video posted by the Air Force from a runway camera showed the winged craft whiz overhead, touch down on wheels on the runway's north end and race down the three-mile, concrete strip before rolling to a stop in daylight. Official landing time: 7:47 a.m.

    Source: Air Force's X-37B space plane lands at KSC with a boom
    Longer version of video at above link:

    Close up of landing:
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    Busy week:
    • Aug. 14: SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Dragon CRS-12 cargo craft on the 12th cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:31 p.m. EDT (1631 GMT). Watch Live


    • Aug. 14: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NROL-42) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Launch window: 3:01-7:00 a.m. EDT (0701-1100 GMT).


    • Aug. 16: NASA TV will air live coverage of the rendezvous, grapple and installation of the SpaceX Dragon CRS-12 cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station starting at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT). Grappling is scheduled for 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT). Watch Live


    • Aug. 17: Expedition 52 cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Sergey Ryazanskiy will exit the International Space Station for a spacewalk beginning at 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT). The spacewalk is expected to last about 6 hours. Watch Live


    • Aug. 18: A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will launch NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-M) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

    Source: https://www.space.com/32286-space-calendar.html
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    A must have app I got via an email yesterday NASA’s Eyes

    It has some fantastic views and features and something I have been looking for a for a long time the app opens in half screen size just hit the max button for full screen
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    Venus and Mars Kiss at Dawn...


    On Thursday morning, October 5th, they'll almost touch, when Venus passes just ¼° north of Mars.That's a tight sight and worth setting the alarm to see. The pair rises about 5:15 a.m. and is well-placed for viewing from about 5:45–6:15 a.m. some 90 minutes to an hour before sunrise.
    http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser...-kiss-at-dawn/
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    Anak said:
    Longer version of video at above link:

    Close up of landing:

    0:43 looks like the shuttle is next in line for takeoff!
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    Physicists Will Be Announcing An "Unprecedented Discovery" On Monday - Here's How To Watch Live

    In the space of just a few weeks, the LIGO and VIRGO collaborations have announced the fourth detection of gravitational waves and three of their most prominent physicists received a Nobel Prize for their work.

    And on Monday they will announce something new. Everyone is being very tight-lipped on the nature of this big announcement but it is beyond doubt a huge affair.
    Physicists Will Be Announcing An s How To Watch Live | IFLScience

    NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System

    NASA will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Feb. 22, to present new findings on planets that orbit stars other than our sun, known as exoplanets. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website.


    Details of these findings are embargoed by the journal Nature until 1 p.m.
    NASA to Host News Conference on Discovery Beyond Our Solar System | NASA

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    December Solstice


    Winter arrives 11:27am EST - 4:27GMT

    https://London | www.timeanddate.com/calendar/seasons
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    hmm amazing when you think those booster units were down range ?? Technically just amazing.

    What was the car bit about though that is the only thing that has got me baffled
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    In an unusual twist, Musk has decided to load the rocket with a Tesla electric car blasting out David Bowie’s classic Space Oddity, explaining that normal test flights are too “boring”.

    He said: “Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks. That seemed extremely boring.

    “Of course, anything boring is terrible, especially companies, so we decided to send something unusual, something that made us feel.

    “The payload will be an original Tesla Roadster, playing Space Oddity, on a billion year elliptic Mars orbit.”
    https://Space X launch | www.express.co.uk Did you get to see they had a dummy astronaut in the drivers seat

    Hi John, I had posted over on 10F with a larger quote: post #223
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