The unmanned but not unsheeped Artemis I mission carried Shaun to within around 80 miles (130 kilometers) of the lunar surface as it gained a gravity boost taking him 267,000 miles (430,000 km) from Earth, farther than any sheep (or human) has traveled before. The sheep and the spacecraft have a special bond, as it was Orion that carried Shaun to space as part of the Artemis I mission.ĭuring his visit, the wooliest astronaut ever to journey to space met with engineers who had monitored Orion during its 25-day mission to the moon and back. The first lunar "lamb-bassador" of Europe, and probably of anywhere else, was at the ESA center on Thursday, May 19, to check up on the Orion spacecraft. Monday, May 22, 2023: An image taken at the Mission Evaluation Room of the European Space Agency (ESA) technical center ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands shows it receiving a very distinguished visitor, Shaun the Sheep. – Tereza Pultarova Shaun the Sheep to the moon and baa-ck on Baa-Temis I Although the Hubble Space Telescope can't see the black hole directly, the motion of stars inside the cluster tells astronomers that some invisible heavy object must be present. The new suspected black hole, which appears to reside in the globular cluster Messier 4, may have a mass of about 800 masses, according to the European Space Agency. The problem is that until now, scientists have not seen many medium-sized black holes, which should represent the natural step in the evolution of black holes from stellar to supermassive. By gradually devouring matter and by merging with other black holes, the black hole grows. These cosmic monsters have masses equivalent to millions or billions of solar masses.Ī stellar black hole is born when a massive star collapses at the end of its life. The latter category are the supermassive black holes at the center of most galaxies. Most known black holes are either quite small, the so-called stellar black holes, most of which are only a few times as massive as our sun, or extremely large. The black hole may be lurking at the heart of a globular cluster in our Milky Way Galaxy some 6,000 light-years away from Earth. Tuesday, May 23, 2023: The Hubble Space Telescope may have found a rare medium-sized black hole. – Tereza Pultarova Hubble may have found a rare medium-sized black hole The LEGO astronauts will now be put up as a prize in a draw in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for those who buys and register a new LEGO set. Two cameras filmed the experiment throughout the ride, one monitoring the crew compartment, the other, attached to a boom, filming a view of the entire platform. According to space architect Tomas Rousek, the team had to make sure that none of the astronauts fell off the roof-less shuttle during the early stages of the platform's descent. The landing platform then returned to Earth under a parachute. The balloon took the mini-spacefarers to the altitude of 21 miles (34 kilometers) where it burst. The shuttle was designed by a team of space architects and engineers from Slovakia and the Czech Republic passionate about inspiring future generations to learn about space, according to the website Czech Crunch. The Legonauts took off from a small airport in Slovakia, seated on a 3D-printed space shuttle-like platform made of a sturdy but lightweight carbon composite material. Wednesday, May 24, 2023: One thousand LEGO astronauts traveled to the edge of space on a stratospheric balloon last weekend and returned safely to Earth on a specially designed landing platform. – Tereza Pultarova LEGO sends 1,000 astronauts to space and lands them safely in a mini space-shuttle The plane successfully landed at Spaceport America in New Mexico about 1 hour and 15 minutes after take off. After its release from the mothership, the spaceplane continued to the edge of space, to the altitude of 50 miles (80 kilometers), treating its eight passengers to about three minutes of weightlessness. The Thursday flight saw Virgin Galactic's twin-fuselage mothership Eve carry the VSS Unity spaceplane to an altitude of roughly 50,000 feet (15,000 meters). That flight, however, deviated from its approved path during its return to Earth, prompting an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration due to concerns the mishap may have put other aircraft at risk. The flight was the fifth suborbital sortie for Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity space plane and the first since July 11, 2021, when Virgin Group founder Richard Branson was one of the passengers. Thursday, May 25, 2023: Virgin Galactic has successfully completed a test flight that will pave the way for the company to commence commercial space tourism operations.
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