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Astroid Hitting Moon Animation Demonstration

A Commercial Resupply Mission Heads to the Space Station on This Week @NASA - August 4, 2023 1

2019-05-14-CSA astronaut David Saint-Jacques takes advantage of microgravity in space to play with honey. #Honey #Space #asmr #Astronaut Credits: Canadian Space Agency, NASA

The Suborbital Imaging Spectrograph for Transition region Irradiance from Nearby Exoplanet host stars, or SISTINE, mission launched aboard a NASA sounding rocket from the Arnhem Space Center in Northern Australia on July 6, 2022, at 9:47 a.m. EDT (11:17 p.m. ACST). The mission helped astronomers understand how starlight influences a planet's atmosphere, possibly making or breaking its ability to support life as we know it.

Russia's first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft smashed into moon on Aug 20. Roskosmos, Russia's space corporation, said it had lost contact with the craft shortly after a problem occurred. This development came soon after the craft was shunted into pre-landing orbit on Aug 19. An incident occurred, while the spacecraft was trying to enter a pre-landing orbit according to Roscosmos. Interestingly, Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976. Luna-25 was supposed to execute a soft landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug 21, as per Russian space officials. Luna-25 took off from the Vostochny launch facility in Russia's Far East, the Russia-based TASS news agency reported. Meanwhile, India's third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 is on track. Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon on August 23, 2023 (Wednesday). The spacecraft is now just three-day away from its final destination, the moon's south pole. #Russia #Luna25 #Moscow