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| 2 | 3Space-Edge Accelerator Set to Launch Biomedical Track Space-Edge Accelerator Set to Launch Biomedical TrackIn the fall of 2024, Arizona State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, Space Foundation, and Vanderbilt University are joining forces to offer the inaugural Space-Edge program, tailored to the biomedical sector. Space-Edge Accelerator's first biomedical track this fall. This 12-week program Eligibility requirements for each university can be found at https://www.space-edge.org/overview. This is an opportunity to join a high impact program at no cost to selected participants.
Arizona State University, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, Space Foundation, and Vanderbilt University
| 4U.S., Germany double down on space exploration U.S., Germany double down on space explorationFuture collaborations include gravity studies, information sharing on Earth-surface changes and national threat assessments regarding possible hostile uses of space.U.S. and German officials this week met in Berlin to discuss ongoing and future collaborations in space exploration and Earth science. Leaders at the inaugural U.S.-Germany Space Dialogue highlighted a shared commitment to continue ongoing cooperation in space exploration and research, including through NASA's Artemis campaign. Picture of the propulsion modules for the Orion t, which will carry the first crewed mission in NASA's Artemis Program in late 2024. spacecrafthttps://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/06/07/germany-space-dialogue-research-data-sharing/3901717781231/ & https://www.state.gov/joint-statement-from-the-governments-of-the-united-states-of-america-and-germany-at-the-inaugural-u-s-germany-space-dialogue/ Berlin, Germany | 5Boeing's Starliner launches astronauts 2:52 pm - 12:00 am  Boeing's Starliner launches astronautsTime: 2:52 pm - 12:00 amBoeing's Starliner's first-ever astronaut mission is underway.
Starliner, Boeing's new astronaut taxi for NASA, soared into space today (June 5) from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, notching a huge milestone after nearly two decades of commercial crew planning.
Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
| 6'Splashdown confirmed!' SpaceX Starship successful 'Splashdown confirmed!' SpaceX Starship successfulSpaceX's jumbo 400-foot-long Starship rocket took off from the Texas Starbase site Thursday morning for its fourth test flight, resulting in its most successful run yet.
The unmanned craft is classified as a super heavy-lift launch vehicle and is lauded as the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. Working toward an ultimate goal of delivering astronauts back and forth between the Earth, moon and even Mars, SpaceX has called each previous test flight an improvement on the last.
SpaceX’s private Starbase site in Boca Chica, Texas at 8:50 a.m. E.T. on Thursday.
| 7William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut shot ‘Earthrise', dies William Anders, Apollo 8 astronaut shot ‘Earthrise', diesAmerican astronaut William Anders — who was a member of the Apollo 8 crew — was killed while piloting a plane that crashed off the Washington coast Friday, according to a report. He was 90. May He rest in peace.
The plane crash-landed around 11:45 a.m. between Orcas Island and Jones Island, according to the United States Coast Guard Pacific Northwest.
| 8Virgin Galactic launching final commercial spaceflight on VS Virgin Galactic launching final commercial spaceflight on VShe excitement is building for the liftoff of Virgin Galactic's seventh commercial spaceflight.
The launch window for the mission, known as Galactic 07, opens at 8:30am MT (10:30 a.m. EDT or 1430 GMT) on Saturday (June 8) and will depart from Spaceport America in southwestern New Mexico.
The Galactic 07 crew will include Axiom Space Mission 3 (Ax-3) backup astronaut Tuva Atasever of the Turkish Space Agency and three private astronauts. Virgin Galactic typically does not disclose the identities of the private astronauts leading up to its launches, but shared in a statement that one is from California, one is from New York, and one is from Italy.
Spaceport America in southwestern New Mexico.
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| 9 | 10 | 11Tesla Optimus Bots Have Started Working Autonomously Tesla Optimus Bots Have Started Working AutonomouslyThe list of 2024 Tesla achievements:– FSD Supervised using end-to-end neural networks rolls out to customers who have purchased or are subscribed to FSD in the US & Canada – Upgraded Model 3 deliveries start in North America – Hit 600k Powerwalls installed globally – Model Y achieves highest possible safety rating by IIHS – Produced our 6 millionth vehicle – Hit >1 billion miles driven on FSD – Cybertruck production hits 1k/week builds – 4680 ramp continues successfully – Developed 3 major design revisions of Optimus & 4 revisions of the hand in the last two years, with Optimus autonomously navigating daily in our office & labs – Deployed two Optimus bots performing tasks in the factory autonomously (and it’s only June…) ? Brian Wang Not mentioned | 12Scientists testing microbots to deliver meds to lung tumors Scientists testing microbots to deliver meds to lung tumors"This is a platform technology that can actively and efficiently deliver therapeutics throughout the entire lung tissue to combat different types of deadly diseases in the lungs," said researcher Liangfang Zhang, a professor of chemical and nano engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Image: Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells. Photo by kalhh/Pixabay
University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
| 13Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULAAfter years of lobbying, protests, and bidding, Jeff Bezos's space company is now a military launch contractor.
The US Space Force announced Thursday that Blue Origin will compete with United Launch Alliance and SpaceX for at least 30 military launch contracts over the next five years. These launch contracts have a combined value of up to $5.6 billion. image: Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket on the launch pad for testing earlier this year.
The National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program
| 14THE WILD ROBOT THE WILD ROBOTDreamWorks Animation’s latest adventure is from the director of How to Train Your Dragon. Adapted from Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning bestseller, The Wild Robot, DreamWorks Animation’s latest adventure features an impressive voice cast, including Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara and Mark Hamill. The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—names ROZZUM unit 7134, or “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
Written and directed by Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch), the movie stars Lupita Nyong’o (The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us) as fox Fink; Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek) as opossum Pinktail; Bill Nighy (Living) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper) as gosling Brightbill and Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.
Watch more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube channel.The Wild Robot will be in cinemas on 20 September. | 15Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot in Researchers wonder what if you just put a robot inA team of roboticists at the University of Tokyo has taken a new approach to autonomous driving—instead of automating the entire car, simply put a robot in the driver's seat. The group built a robot capable of driving a car and tested it on a real-world track. They also published a paper describing their efforts on the arXiv preprint server. by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore JUNE 14, 2024
University of Tokyo
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16Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop Ad Astra Speculative Fiction Writing WorkshopThe Workshop is designed to serve writers at all levels - those who have just begun to publish, those who need the final bit of insight or skill to master the elements that create great stories editors want and readers love, and for published authors who want to grow their writing or refresh their skills through an intensive workshop experience.
We work with all flavors of speculative fiction including fantasy, hard SF, horror, magical realism, slipstream, speculative philosophy, and so on. Though the workshop is useful for writers of all lengths, for practical reasons we use short-form works to master the art and craft of creating great spec-fic.June 16-29, 2024 Stay and work in the brand-new Stouffer Place Apartments on the University of Kansas campus. 1835 Ousdahl Road, Lawrence, Kansas 66044 | 17New ‘Alien’ Mummies Found in Peru New ‘Alien’ Mummies Found in PeruMexican journalist and UFO researcher Jaime Maussan wants to ship the latest alien mummies unearthed in Peru for DNA tests.
Documentarians Serena DC and Michael Mazzola released pictures of the mummies in March.
The mummies supposedly have “30% ‘unknown’ DNA.”
During a press conference in April, Peru authorities seized one of the mummies, known as Montserrat.
Mausson filed a lawsuit against Peru’s government “for damages and for the right to ship these mummy specimens to university researchers and other scientists in the United States for more thorough, independent third-party testing.” Posted by Mary Chastain Sunday, June 16, 2024
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| 18 | 19 | 20NASA Predicts Rare Nova Explosion This Summer NASA Predicts Rare Nova Explosion This SummerNASA predicts a nova will occur sometime this summer, about 3,000 light-years from Earth, but it can be witnessed with the naked eye.
The nova reoccurs once every 80 years.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event that will create a lot of new astronomers out there, giving young people a cosmic event they can observe for themselves, ask their own questions, and collect their own data,” said Dr. Rebekah Hounsell, an assistant research scientist specializing in nova events at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’ll fuel the next generation of scientists.”
About 3,000 light-years from Earth
| 21A Huge Imbalance of Energy Has Been Detected on Saturn A Huge Imbalance of Energy Has Been Detected on SaturnWill the shenanigans of Saturn never end? Scientists have found that the ringed planet sports a massive, seasonal energy imbalance across its globe.
The discovery marks a turning point in our understanding of weather and climate on gas giant planets, their long-term evolution, and the ongoing changes. Illustration credit A graphic showing the energy imbalance of Saturn.( NASA/JPL )© Provided by ScienceAlert The planet Saturn | 22SpaceX conducts two launches SpaceX conducts two launchesSpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets carrying a combined 42 Starlink Internet satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The first rocket with its 22 orbitals launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1:15 p.m. ET Sunday.
The reusable first-stage booster returned to the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after launch. This was the 11th flight of the booster rocket and the 75th time this droneship has been used to recover a first stage booster.
Between weather and technical issues, SpaceX has been facing challenges in deploying this mission since June 14. Photo credit 1 of 3 | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 22 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., on Sunday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1:15 p.m. ET Sunday.
NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts f NASA delays return of Starliner astronauts fStarliner's return to Earth is now delayed to June 22 or later, NASA announced Friday.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who embarked on the long-awaited Boeing. The return mission originally was pushed forward to give ISS astronauts more time to perform a space walk originally planned for Thursday 13, but that mission was scrubbed an hour before it started because of what astronauts said was "spacesuit discomfort." Image: Since arriving at the International Space Station on June 6, Boeing Starliner astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have contributed to the upkeep of the station and assisted with space walks and scientific research. NASA Screengrab/UPI | License Photo Starliner mission June 5 and docked at the International Space Station the following day, will have to spend a little more time in orbit than originally planned.
The primary and backup landing sites for the capsule's return in the southwestern United States are yet to be determined.
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23Chang’e-6 heads for Earth Chang’e-6 heads for EarthHELSINKI — China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft is on its way to Earth to deliver samples collected from the far side of the moon.
The Chang’e-6 service module likely fired its engines for a trans-Earth injection around June 21. The spacecraft is now on the final leg of its complex, 53-day voyage involving a lunar landing, sampling, ascent and docking. A reentry capsule containing the unique samples will be released from the service module shortly before arrival at Earth early June 25. Illustration credi The Chang'e-6 lander, topped with an ascent vehicle, imaged by a small rover in Apollo crater on the lunar far side. Credit: CNSA/CLEP
On the way to Earth from the far side of the Moon
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ WorkshopEstablished in 1968, the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for as Application Period December 1, 2023 – March 1, 2024 (11:59pm Pacific)
Notification of AcceptanceMarch – April Tuition and Housing Fees Due Two weeks after acceptance Scholarships Awarded March – April (read more) University of California, San Diego | 24NASA Pushes Back Starliner Return Date to [SHRUG EMOJI] NASA Pushes Back Starliner Return Date to [SHRUG EMOJI]It seems like just three or four days ago [It was just three or four days ago, Steve —Editor] when I asked if Boeing's cursed Starliner space capsule was going to be marooned up there at the International Space Station. Well, NASA has taken another step toward marooning Boeing's cursed Starliner space capsule up there.
When last we heard, Starliner's crewed flight test to the ISS was supposed to last about one week. The original return flight was delayed until June 18 due to a scheduled spacewalk, which was later called off after someone reported some kind of "spacesuit discomfort." (Image by WikiImages from Pixabay.)
International Space Station (ISS)
| 25China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returns to Earth China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returns to EarthSPACEChina's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returns to Earth with first-ever samples from far side of the moon June 25, 2024 / 4:49 AM EDT / CBS/AP Beijing - China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returned to Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in northern China on Tuesday afternoon in the Inner Mongolian region. "I now declare that the Chang'e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success," Zhang Kejian, Director of the China National Space Administration said shortly in a televised news conference after the landing. Chinese scientists anticipate the returned samples will include 2.5 million-year-old volcanic rock and other material that they hope will answer questions about geographic differences on the moon's two sides. Image credit An image taken from a video animation aired on June 4, 2024 by China's state television network CCTV shows an artist's depiction of the Chang'e 6 lunar probe's ascender module, carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon, leaving the lunar surface to head back to Earth. An image taken from a video animation aired on June 4, 2024 by China's state television network CCTV shows an artist's depiction of the Chang'e 6 lunar probe's ascender module, carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon, leaving the lunar surface to head back to Earth. REUTERS/CCTV China | 26 | 27SUPACELL: NEW TRAILER FOR RAPMAN SCI-FI SERIES FOR NETFLIX SUPACELL: NEW TRAILER FOR RAPMAN SCI-FI SERIES FOR NETFLIXSupacell is about a group of five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.
The series stars Tosin Cole (Doctor Who), Nadine Mills (Sliced and The Weekend), Eric Kofi Abrefa (Blue Story), Calvin Demba (The Rig), Josh Tedeku (Moonhaven), Adelayo Adedayo (Timewasters) as Dionne, Rayxia Ojo (Harry Potter and The Cursed Child – West End Production), Giacomo Mancini (Top Boy) and Eddie Marsan (Deadpool 2).
Netflix June 27, 2024
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