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Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster in space with the entertainment system displaying "DON'T PANIC" In the series, Don't Panic is a phrase on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. [4] The novel explains that this was partly because the device "looked insanely complicated" to operate, and partly to keep interstellar travellers from panicking ...
The Space Shuttle and International Space Station projects never captured the public imagination the way the Apollo Project did, and NASA struggled to realize its visions with inadequate resources. Ambitious visions of space exploration were proposed by Presidents George H. W. Bush in 1989 ( Space Exploration Initiative ) and George W. Bush in ...
Outer space is the closest known approximation to a perfect vacuum. It has effectively no friction, allowing stars, planets, and moons to move freely along their ideal orbits, following the initial formation stage. The deep vacuum of intergalactic space is not devoid of matter, as it contains a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. [29]
Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights (deep-space astronautics) and by robotic spacecraft. At present the farthest space probe humankind has constructed and launched from Earth is Voyager 1 , which was announced on December 5, 2011, [ 2 ] to have reached the outer edge of the Solar System , [ 3 ] and entered ...
The East-German alternative rock band Down Below samples the recording at the beginning of their song "How To Die In Space", from the 2004 album Silent Wings: Eternity. Michael Jackson used the ending part of the Apollo 8 Genesis on his song "HIStory" from his album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995).
NASA responded to news that Boeing aims to lay off up to 400 workers from its Space Launch System program. The SLS rocket plays a key role in the Artemis moon program, the agency said..
"Deep Space Homer" is the fifteenth episode [5] of the fifth season of American animated television series The Simpsons, which was first broadcast on Fox in the United States on February 24, 1994. In the episode, NASA selects Homer Simpson to participate in a spaceflight to spark public interest in space exploration and boost low ratings of the ...
21. "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths." — Etty Hillesum. 22. "At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos.