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October Sky is a 1999 American biographical drama film directed by Joe Johnston, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.The screenplay by Lewis Colick, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Homer H. Hickam Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually ...
The space treaties cover many major issues such as arms control, non-appropriation of space, freedom of exploration, liability for damages, safety and rescue of astronauts and spacecraft, prevention of harmful interference with space activities and the environment, notification and registration of space activities, and the settlement of disputes.
AstroForge's ultimate goal in the field of asteroid mining is the extraction, refinement, and sale of platinum-group metals (PGMs) located within M-type asteroids near to Earth. These asteroids are expected to be quite small in comparison to main belt asteroids, being anywhere from around 20 to 300 meters in diameter.
Wilmore and Williams would stay at the space station before returning to Earth on the Crew Dragon in February 2025. The capsule was built by SpaceX, Boeing’s competitor. “We could take either ...
"The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback," NASA said on X. NASA added that the ...
In 2023, Halloween fell on a Tuesday, so you're probably wondering why it's on a Thursday this year. The reason the spooky holiday isn't on Wednesday is that 2024 is a leap year , so Halloween was ...
Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets, is a 1997 book by University of Arizona Planetary Sciences professor emeritus John S. Lewis that describes possible routes for accessing extraterrestrial resources, either for use on Earth or for enabling space colonization. [1]
NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will wait until 2025 to return to Earth on their newly assigned spacecraft, SpaceX’s Crew-9. Here’s what they’re doing in space.