NASA and its industry partners continue to make progress toward Artemis III and beyond, the first crewed lunar landing missions under the agency’s Artemis campaign. SpaceX, the commercial Human Landing System (HLS) provider for Artemis III and Artemis IV, recently tested a 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket, or booster, in the transonic Unitary Plan Wind...
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Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination with other NASA telescopes, is helping astronomers delve deeper into this galactic factory where stars are vigorously being produced. This is the first data to be publicly released from a project called the Extended Westerlund 1 and 2...
Monday was a good day for celebrities. After seeing a pair of good movies, (SORRY, HATERS and Michael Haneke’s CACHE) I joined Chris for the splashy screening of Bart Freundlich’s TRUST THE MAN. This star-studded film was rather disappointing considering how much I enjoyed Freundlich’s first feature, THE MYTH OF FINGERPRINTS, but we did enjoy a good bit of celebrity...