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2023-06-04 14:00:11 What happens to the corpse of an astronaut on the ISS?

In case of death of any crew member, his body should be taken home: immediately or after the end of the mission, it depends on the situation.

That's a hypothetical answer - such situations, fortunately, have never happened yet. The fact is that the health of astronauts is closely monitored. Several times a week astronauts have direct contact with their doctors, to discuss any health problems they may have.

In addition, astronauts undergo a critical medical examination before their flight, and if there is the slightest suspicion, they are excused from the mission. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-06-03 21:00:08 Boeing CST-100 Starliner docked with the ISS for the first time

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner manned spacecraft without a crew on board docked with the ISS for the first time. During the previous flight in 2019, the ship failed to reach the station due to malfunctioning engines. The Starliner will spend four days on the station.

The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is a new American manned spacecraft. Like SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the Starliner was commissioned by NASA.

If the Starliner returns safely to Earth and the problem with the engines can be quickly fixed, the ship could fly for the first time with people on board this year. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-06-03 14:00:09 Voyager 1 is a bit off

The system of orientation of the spacecraft started giving out frankly garbage telemetry, not corresponding to reality. Currently, it is uncertain what is causing the problem and whether it can be corrected.

By the way, Voyager-1 is now at a distance of 23.4 billion kilometers from the Sun in interstellar space, being the most distant man-made object from Earth. Its signal takes over 21.5 hours to reach our planet.

The probe was launched back in 1977. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-06-02 21:00:08 Fire in Space.

On July 18, 2014, astronaut Reid Wiseman managed to produce a jellyfish-like fire sphere in an experiment. The results of his experiments could lead to better engines on Earth. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-06-02 14:00:09 Test-driving a lunar rover during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.

Oh yeah, not only were there people on the Moon, but also a real lunomobile! Открыть/Комментировать

2023-05-21 21:00:11 HD 140283 is a subgiant star 190 light years from Earth.

It belongs to the second generation of stars with low metal content.

Subgiant HD 140283 belongs to a group of highly ancient stars, born several hundred million years after the Big Bang. It was born in a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way absorbed more than 12 billion years ago.

Below, I’ve attached a comparison of the size of HD 140283 with other stars that can be seen in the starry sky. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-05-21 14:00:12 For the first time in 50 years: the U.S. Defense Department will hold hearings on UFOs

Previously, U.S. intelligence published a preliminary assessment of 144 reports of "unidentified airborne phenomena" since 2004.

On May 17, a closed secret hearing on a Pentagon program, known as the Aerial Object Identification and Control Group, will be held. It was created in 2021 after U.S. intelligence released an estimate of 144 reports of "unidentified airborne phenomena" and could explain only one. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-05-20 21:00:06 Some planets may be more habitable than Earth

Earth doesn't have to be the best planet in the universe. Two dozen planets outside our Solar System are already known to have conditions more suited for life.

Potential "super habitable" planets could be much older, slightly larger, slightly warmer, and possibly wetter than Earth. All 24 of the top "superhabitable" contenders are more than 100 light-years away.

But habitability doesn't mean these planets definitely have life on them, they're just conditions conducive to life. Открыть/Комментировать

2023-05-20 14:00:07 How old are Saturn's rings?

If you ask Google this question, it will give an unambiguous and straightforward answer: 100,100,000 years. So it turns out that they were formed at a time when dinosaurs walked on Earth?

Funny Открыть/Комментировать

2023-05-19 21:00:35 Time for important laws

Canada has introduced a new criminal code for crimes on the Moon. From now on, astronauts who committed misconduct can be officially prosecuted.

Everyone willing to rob aliens will now answer to the law in Canada Открыть/Комментировать