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May 31, 2020 Commercial Space Companies, Commercial Space Flight, Human Space Flight, International Space Station, nasa, NASA TV, Space, Space Exploration, space missions, space travel, SpaceX

What a great accomplishment! The first commercial human space launch using the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and the first manned launch from US soil in 9 years, since the retiring of the Space Shuttle program. “The trampoline is working!” – Elon Musk. Congratulations to all the people involved! #nasa #SpaceX #iss #CrewDragon #Falcon9 #elonmusk NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine

This should be an inspiration to the whole world. Look what we can accomplish when we work together, every human being no matter what race, gender, sexual orientation or nationality. We have lost the conversation about our common goals and need to start talking about them again, get the media to start talking about them again, get the politicians to start talking about them again, GET ALL OF HUMANITY to start talking about them again! Never in the history of mankind has division and hate lead to anything positive. Civilizations throughout history were built on cooperation and fell with division, not only division, but complacency. We must be forever vigilant in the fight for unity and peace. #peace #unity #human #humanity #cooperation #commongoals #overvieweffect

The crew from the SpaceX CrewDragon capsule is welcomed to the ISS.

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Dawn of Private Space Science Symposium 2018 | #DPSS18

June 2, 2018 Commercial Space Flight, Dr. Mark Jackson, Entrepreneurs, Human Space Flight, International Space Station, ISS, Science, Scientists, Space, Space Exploration, space missions, space travel, Startups, STEM, technology

Bringing scientists, foundations, corporations, policy makers & private spacelines under one roof to chart the future of space science @ Columbia University

Also live streaming at: https://bit.ly/2J5WJi4

Dawn of Private Space Science Symposium 2018 | #DPSS18

Dawn of Private Space Science Symposium 2017 | #DPSS17

June 3, 2017 astronomy, Astrophysics, biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Commercial Space Flight, Cosmology, crowdfunding, Dark Matter, Dr. Mark Jackson, Education, Exoplanets, fiat physica, funding, Human Space Flight, Inventors, Mars, nasa, Persevering in Science, physics, Planetary Science, planets, Quantum Mechanics, R&D, Red Planet, research, Research & Development, Rocketry, Science, Science Careers, Scientists, Space, Space Exploration, space missions, space travel, STEM, tech news, technology, telescope

Bringing scientists, foundations, corporations, policy makers & private spacelines under one roof to chart the future of space science @ Columbia University
Source: Dawn of Private Space Science Symposium 2017 | #DPSS17

NASA Discusses Discovery of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets

March 29, 2017 Exoplanets, nasa, NASA TV, Planetary Science, Science, Space

Original air date: Feb. 22, 2017 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET, 1800 UTC) NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water. The discovery sets a new record for greatest number of habitable-zone planets found around a single star outside our solar system. All of these seven planets could have liquid water — key to life as we know it — under the right atmospheric conditions, but the chances are highest with the three in the habitable zone. The briefing participants were: Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington Michael Gillon, astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium Sean Carey, manager of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at Caltech/IPAC, Pasadena, California Nikole Lewis, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge For more information on exoplanets, visit: http://exoplanets.nasa.gov

Source: NASA TRAPPIST-1 News

Series of New Posts: Lectures, talks, podcasts, etc…

March 27, 2017 Cosmology, physics, Science, Space

I will be starting a regular series of posts of lectures, talks, podcasts, etc. If you have requests for topics, please feel free to comment on this post or send me a message via the contact links. The first of these posts is below:

On Oct. 7, 2015, Perimeter Institute Director Neil Turok opened the 2015/16 season of the PI Public Lecture Series with a talk about the remarkably simplicity that underlies nature. Turok discussed how this simplicity at the largest and tiniest scales of the universe is pointing toward new avenues of physics research and could lead to revolutionary advances in technology.

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Why a NASA spacecraft could bounce, crunch or sink on icy Europa

March 21, 2017 astronomy, Europa, Jovian System, Life, moons, nasa, Science, Space, Space Exploration, space missions, space travel

Sometime in the early 2030s, NASA hopes to attempt a landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa. A four-legged spacecraft would descend towards the icy surface, ready to hunt for signs of alien life in a buried ocean.

Landing on Jupiter’s moon in search of alien life won’t be easy.

Source: Why a NASA spacecraft could bounce, crunch or sink on icy Europa

Vera Rubin, who did pioneering work on dark matter, dies

December 27, 2016 Astronomers, astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Dark Matter, Exotic Particles, obituary, physicists, physics, Science, Scientists, Space

Vera Rubin, a pioneering astronomer who helped find powerful evidence of dark matter, has died, her son said Monday.

Source: Vera Rubin, who did pioneering work on dark matter, dies

John Glenn, First American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95

December 8, 2016 Astronauts, Human Space Flight, nasa, obituary, Science, Space, space missions, space travel

The last of NASA’s original seven astronauts to die, Glenn circled the planet three times in 1962

Source: John Glenn, First American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95 – Scientific American

NASASunEarth on Twitter: “Coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 25: the 10th anniversary of the launch of STEREO, a key piece of our sun-watching fleet. https://t.co/xMTwA3Bdh6 https://t.co/bLP0fjhLGQ”

October 21, 2016 Astronomers, astronomy, Astrophysics, nasa, Science, solar, Space, sun

Coming up on Tuesday, Oct. 25: the 10th anniversary of the launch of STEREO, a key piece of our sun-watching fleet. https://t.co/xMTwA3Bdh6 pic.twitter.com/bLP0fjhLGQ

— NASASunEarth (@NASASunEarth) October 21, 2016

NewSpace NYC and NY Society of Security Analysts – A New Space Age Race: Interplanetary Investments

September 15, 2016 Astronauts, Commercial Space Flight, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, nasa, R&D, Research & Development, Space, space missions, space travel, Startups, tech news

Three observations from tonight:
1) EVERYONE wants to be a leader but most are not visionaries.
2) A few are visionaries but lack the leadership, business skills and/or chutzpah to make it happen.
3) Then there are the very few with both vision and chutzpah to make it happen. But, they are not just the Musks or Bezoses, they are the smaller pioneers, some of whom I met tonight, and they are the key for getting to and crossing the tipping point to a vibrant commercial space industry/economy.