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Blue Origin, a space firm established by Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, is set to make history as they launch their mission. all-female crew On its upcoming space flight, the U.S.-based spacecraft firm announced that their 11th crewed mission will feature Jeff Bezos’ fiancée and ex-journalist Lauren Sánchez, renowned CBS anchor Gayle King, and popular music icon Katy Perry. Joining them aboard the NS-31 mission will also be NASA engineer Aisha Bowe, biotechnology researcher Amanda Nguyen, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn. The mission is part of Blue Origin's New Shepard program, which has sent 52 individuals beyond the Kármán line—the globally acknowledged edge of space located approximately 62 miles above Earth. As per the Blue Origin website , the astronauts will rocket towards space at over triple the speed of sound. After crossing this threshold, the crew may release their harnesses and experience weightlessness, prior to heading back to Earth. Read more: All Key ...

Only two human-made spacecraft are currently traveling through interstellar space, and their fuel supplies are running low. Voyager 1 — initiated in 1977 and currently more than 15.6 billion miles away Earth — began with 10 scientific instruments, yet currently only three are operational after NASA switched off another device to preserve its limited atomic energy source. Later this month, the space The agency's engineers plan to deactivate one more instrument on its exploratory counterpart, Voyager 2. Suzanne Dodd, who manages the Voyager program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, stated that 'The Voyagers have been deep-space celebrities since their launch, and our aim is to maintain this status for as long as feasible,' she remarked. The electrical energy is becoming insufficient. If we don't switch off one of the instruments on each Voyager spacecraft right away, they might only have a few additional months of power left before we'd need to...

In the realm of science fiction, spacecraft capable of reaching or surpassing the speed of light allow for vast interstellar expeditions. However, within our earthly confines, hurtling through space at the velocity of light—equivalent to 299,792,458 meters per second or approximately 670,616,629 miles per hour in a vacuum—is physically unattainable with current technology. "Light-speed is exclusively where objects without mass can move," explains Gerd... In science fiction narratives, spacecraft capable of reaching or surpassing the speed of light open up possibilities for exploring every corner of the universe. However, within our earthly confines, propelling even a cumbersome rocket to travel at such velocity—299,792,458 meters per second or approximately 670,616,629 miles per hour—in the vacuity of space remains an unattainable dream. physical impossibility “It’s how fast massless objects move,” he explains. Gerd Kortemeyer , an associate professor emeritus o...