Credit & Copyright: Eric Holland
Explanation:
What's happening in the sky?
The pre-dawn sky first seemed relatively serene yesterday morning over
Indian Harbor Beach in
Florida,
USA.
But then it lit up with a
rocket launch.
Just to the north,
NASA's
SpaceX Crew-2 Mission blasted into space aboard a powerful
Falcon 9 rocket.
The featured time-lapse video
--
compressing 12-minutes into 8-seconds --
shows the bright launch plume starting on the far left.
The rocket rises into an increasingly
thin
atmosphere,
causing its plume to spread out just as it is lit by the
rising Sun.
As the
Crew-2
capsule disappears over the horizon, the landing plume of the
returning first stage of the Falcon 9 descending toward
the SpaceX
barge
in the
Atlantic Ocean can be
seen.
Up in space, the
Endeavour crew capsule
is expected to dock with the International Space Station
(ISS) this morning, delivering four astronauts.
The Crew-2 astronauts join
Expedition 65 to help conduct, among other tasks,
drug
tests using
tissue chips -- small
microfluidic chips that simulate human
organs --
that run rapidly in ISS's
microgravity.
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 |
Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr' |
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
|
Publikacii s klyuchevymi slovami:
rocket - launch - zapusk
Publikacii so slovami: rocket - launch - zapusk | |
Sm. takzhe:
Vse publikacii na tu zhe temu >> | |
