SPACE HOURS

A space ship is a special kind of vehicle designed to travel beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space. It's like a futuristic flying machine that carries astronauts and equipment for exploration. These advanced vessels use powerful engines to break free from Earth's gravity, allowing them to journey to other planets and celestial bodies. Space ships come in various shapes and sizes, from sleek capsules to massive shuttles. They play a vital role in scientific research, satellite deployment, and space missions, expanding our understanding of the universe. These incredible machines symbolize humanity's quest to explore the vastness of the cosmos.

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NASA now has the ability to recycle 98% of the water collected from the US segment on the space station – meeting the threshold necessary for water recovery on long-duration space exploration missions.

This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on a Hubble image of the Andromeda galaxy — otherwise known as M31. The new Hubble image of the galaxy is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40 000 light-years. Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger (Skysurvey.org), J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, USA), B. F. Williams (University of Washington, USA), L. C. Johnson (University of Washington, USA), the PHAT team, and R. Gendler.