🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 4B | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 4B
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's paradox explained
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-aliens-fermi-paradox.html
Summary: Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet.
Latest Space News: Moon-orbiting Gateway space station's habitat module arrives in the US (photos)
Summary: NASA released a set of photos highlighting the newly arrived HALO module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027.
🚀 **Mars Fact**
Mars has the largest dust storms in the Solar System, lasting for weeks! 🌪️
#Mars #SpaceFacts #MarsTrivia
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-74
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-25T01:32:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: A batch of satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-21T08:15:34Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-145
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-19T10:41:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 4B | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 4B
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Curiosity rover finds large carbon deposits on Mars
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-curiosity-rover-large-carbon-deposits.html
Summary: Research from NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a carbon cycle on ancient Mars, bringing scientists closer to an answer on whether the red planet was ever capable of supporting life.
Latest Space News: Possible signs of alien life found on nearby exoplanet, study reports
Summary: Scientists have found further evidence of possible biosignature gases on the planet K2-18b, strengthening its case as an abode for alien life. But the case is far from closed.
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:48:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-32
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-21T08:15:34Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: 32nd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA.
Cargo Dragon 2 brings supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support science and research investigations that occur onboard the orbiting laboratory.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | NROL-145
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-19T10:41:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Tenth batch of satellites for a reconnaissance satellite constellation built by SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for the National Reconnaissance Office to provide imaging and other reconnaissance capabilities.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Long March 4B | Unknown Payload
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-18T22:55:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Long March 4B
📖 **Details**: Details TBD.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Minotaur IV | NROL-174
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-16T19:33:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Minotaur IV
📖 **Details**: Classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience
Latest Space Breaking News: Where are all the aliens?: Fermi's paradox explained
Link: https://phys.org/news/2025-04-aliens-fermi-paradox.html
Summary: Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the most promising hints yet of life on a distant planet.
Latest Space News: 'Murderbot': Release date, plot, cast, and everything we know about Apple's upcoming dark sci-fi comedy
Summary: Alexander Skarsgård plays a security android with a penchant for soap operas in Apple TV+'s latest sci-fi show.
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Claude Nicollier
🏷️ **Status**: Retired
📖 **Bio**: Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
🚀 **Upcoming Space Launch** 🚀
🌌 **Mission Name**: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Bandwagon 3 (Dedicated Mid-Inclination Rideshare)
🗓️ **Launch Date**: 2025-04-22T00:43:00Z
🚀 **Rocket**: Falcon 9
📖 **Details**: Dedicated rideshare flight to a mid-inclination orbit with dozens of small microsatellites and nanosatellites for commercial and government customers.
#SpaceLaunch #RocketScience