On Aug. 12, a total solar eclipse will cross Iceland and Spain. NASA will be there!
The U.S. won’t see totality this time, so we’re bringing the science to you. Follow along this week! ☀️
https://t.co/gWolno6fNN
Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.
The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members.
"The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says.
The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas.
The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more.
The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters.
Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years.
Insane.
NASA admin Jared Isaacman confirmed to Congress that Dragonfly will launch to Saturn's moon Titan in 2028
The nuclear-powered octocopter will hunt for signs of life in -290°F temperatures
can't believe that just happened: Trump got a NASA question and deferred to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman, saying "the best man to tell you that is the man sitting right over here. You heard that question with those beautiful ears of yours ... He's got super hearing"
Nuclear-powered shipping is so obviously the right solution, it pains me we didn’t go this direction decades ago:
- 10,000x fuel-density: less space for fuel, more cargo, more revenue.
- 5-10 yrs between refuels: less stops, longer or new routes, higher uptime.
- 7,600 U.S. military naval reactor-years: nuclear at sea is already proven.
- 440 civilian land reactors: no reason civilians can't do it at sea as well.
- Already proven with NS Savannah.
- No dirty exhaust.
Can't wait to see what Nick and his team do to push this forward.
With SpaceX #Falcon9 and Blue Origin #NewGlenn reusable launchers, Europe is totally out of the game and European mid and heavy launchers are extremely commercially compromised. #MIURANext will solve this huge distance in performance, price, cadence and reusability.
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Europe bought (again) huge volumes of Russian LNG in March, offsetting lower deliveries from the Persian Gulf. An important (bad) example: Spain more than doubled its imports of Russian LNG in March from a year earlier.