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StellarSnap

📸 Savudrija Star Trails
Savudrija lighthouse glows on the Adriatic coast, while Polaris — the North Star — shines above. This stunning composite shows star trails around the North Celestial Pole, captured through 400 stacked 30-second exposures. A perfect blend of Earth and sky in motion.
📅 June 5, 2025
📷 Branko Nadj / NASA APOD

#APOD#Astronomy#StarTrails
Flipboard Science Desk

Four astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission have now traveled farther into outer space than any human has since NASA’s Apollo era ended more than 50 years ago. Two of the astronauts, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, share the distinction of traveling father from Earth than any woman has before. The crew, commanded by billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, is on day two of a five-day itinerary which includes a spacewalk. Read more from USA Today.

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USA TODAY · Polaris Dawn mission update: SpaceX Dragon takes crew to highest orbit in 50 yearsBy Eric Lagatta
#Space#SpaceX#Polaris
Chuck Darwin

Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalk

Four astronauts have blasted out of the atmosphere as part of a privately funded five-day mission that aims to carry out the first commercial spacewalk.

#Jared #Isaacman, the American billionaire founder of the electronic payment company #Shift4, is bankrolling the #Polaris #Dawn mission and acting as commander of the crew.

It is the second trip Isaacman has charted. In 2021, he flew on the #Inspiration4 mission, the first orbital spaceflight by an #all-#civilian crew, which included a cancer survivor as well as a data engineer who won his seat in a raffle draw.

Isaacman, who has thousands of hours in various aircraft, is joined this time by a retired military fighter pilot and two employees of SpaceX, the Elon Musk-owned company that is operating the mission.

SpaceX’s #Falcon9 rocket launched from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday morning after several delays.
A previous attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff after a small helium leak on the launchpad.
It was later pushed back further when the same make of rocket was temporarily grounded by US regulators for checks.

The trip will last about five days and take an oval-shaped orbit that travels as far as 870 miles (1,400km) from Earth’s surface

theguardian.com/science/articl

The Guardian · Polaris Dawn mission blasts off with plans for first commercial spacewalkBy Oliver Holmes
Flipboard Science Desk

"Over the weekend the crew of the upcoming Polaris Dawn mission shared a wealth of details about the intriguing private mission that will send humans farther than they have flown from Earth in half a century."

Here's an article by Eric Berger of @arstechnica: "Why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually matters."

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Ars Technica · Here’s why a rich guy going to space for a second time actually mattersPolaris Dawn will be the first time that SpaceX employees have actually gone to space.
#Polaris#SpaceX#Space
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Thomas

7/n #TesseracT #Metaljourney

I apologise in advance to the many TesseracT fans.

#Polaris is done and I need to take a break now. Midway through the album it started to annoy me and made me realize: I am just not a prog fan any longer.

Ratingwise... well I got bored this time so 2,5/5

Ranking:
1. Altered State 3
2. One 3
3. Polaris 2,5

The #GrowerOrBlower metre slightly deflects to the blower.

kscopemusic.bandcamp.com/album

KscopePolaris, by TesseracT9 track album
#TomsMusic
janggolan

#Polaris Spaceplanes wraps up MIRA-Light flight tests...
space.com/polaris-spaceplanes-
#MIRA-Light measures just 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long, and flies using four electric fans. For 10 of MIRA-Light’s 15 flights, the mini-spaceplane was equipped with a mock aerospike engine to simulate its impact on vehicle performance. In total, the prototype accumulated about 40 total minutes of flight time, according to a report from #European Spaceflight.

SpacePolaris Spaceplanes wraps up MIRA-Light prototype flight testsBy Josh Dinner
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