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Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction film produced, co-written, and directed by James Gray.Starring Brad Pitt (who also produced), Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland, it follows an astronaut who ventures into space in search of his lost father, whose obsessive quest to discover intelligent alien life at all costs threatens the Solar System and all life on Earth.
In July 2021, Ad Astra announced the completion of a record-breaking test for the engine, running it for 28 hours at a power level of 82.5 kW. [29] A second test, conducted from July 12 to 16, successfully ran the engine for 88 hours at a power level of 80 kW. [30] Ad Astra anticipates conducting 100 kW power level tests in 2023. [31]
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Liquid rocket engines have tankage and pipes to store and transfer propellant, an injector system and one or more combustion chambers with associated nozzles.. Typical liquid propellants have densities roughly similar to water, approximately 0.7 to 1.4 g/cm 3 (0.025 to 0.051 lb/cu in).
Ad Astra (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2019 psychological science fiction film Ad Astra directed by James Gray and starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler and Donald Sutherland.
With J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot as the production studio, it was set to be released under Paramount's Insurge Pictures label, limiting the film's budget to $5–10 million. [6] At this stage, the film was established to take place on a space station in Earth's orbit and a resulting incident that causes the crew to find Earth has gone missing. [6]
The "Ad Astra per aspera" plaque for "the crew of Apollo 1" is seen in the 1998 film Armageddon. [74] The "Dedicated to the living memory of the crew of the Apollo 1" plaque is quoted at the end of Wayne Hale 's Requiem for the NASA Space Shuttle program . [ 75 ]
Adastra (from Latin ad astra, "to the stars") may refer to: Adastra Films, a French film production company; Adastra Minerals, a British mining company; Johnson RHJ-6 Adastra, an American glider design; Adastra, the ship in "Proxima Centauri", a 1935 short story by Murray Leinster