by APOD Robot » Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:06 am
The Crew-8 Nebula
Explanation: Not the
James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a distant galactic nebula, this cloud of gas and dust dazzled spacecoast skygazers on March 3. The telephoto snapshot was taken minutes after the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on
the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, to the International Space Station. It captures plumes and exhaust from the separated first and second stage, a drifting
Rorschach pattern in dark evening skies. The bright spot near bottom center within the stunning terrestrial nebulosity is the second stage engine firing to carry 4
humans to space in the Crew Dragon
spacecraft Endeavour. In sharp silhouette just above it is the Falcon 9 first stage booster orienting itself for return to a landing zone
at Cape Canaveral, planet Earth. This reuseable first stage booster was making its first flight. But the
Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule has flown humans to low Earth orbit and back again 4 times before.
Endeavour, as a name for a spacecraft, has also seen reuse, christening retired
Space Shuttle Endeavour and the
Apollo 15 command module.
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