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Please have your boarding pass ready. Destination: the International Space Station.
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski received a symbolic boarding pass to orbit during a rehearsal ahead of liftoff at the historic Pad 39A in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.
On launch day, he and the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) crew will ride the lift that will take them to the boarding bridge leading to a brand-new Dragon spacecraft atop the Falcon 9 rocket. The latest in SpaceX’s fleet of crewed vehicles has improved storage and propulsion systems.
Suited up for the occasion, Sławosz will board the Dragon about an hour before launch. This time allows for final checks, communication tests and seat adjustments.
Flying as mission specialist for Ax-4, the Polish astronaut will have a window seat next to US commander Peggy Whitson. They will share the ride with pilot Shubhanshu Shukla from India and fellow mission specialist Tibor Kapu from Hungary.
Slawosz is the second ESA crew member on a commercial spaceflight with Axiom Space, after Marcus Wandt’s Muninn mission in 2024. The journey to the International Space Station will take around 30 hours. The European mission, called Ignis, will officially begin as soon as Sławosz passes through the hatch and enters the International Space Station.
The ESA astronaut is ready to board. Stay tuned with the latest updates on our X and BlueSky accounts. Watch Sławosz begin his first space travel live on ESA YouTube.
Sponsored by the Polish government and supported by ESA, the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology (MRiT) and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), the mission features an ambitious programme of technological and scientific research.
Check the Ignis launch kit to learn more about Sławosz and the 13 experiments proposed by Polish companies and institutions that he will carry out in space.
Credits: SpaceX
This is my build for the rebellug telephone game! My prompt was given by jastabrick and was “Sci-fi exploration of a volcanic eruption using ski pods”
The build before mine was by legohobbitfan
The build after mine was by jaqbricks
ben_brickson had the first build if you want to follow it from the start!
Jupiter map rendered from images taken over the first few weeks of October 2022, generated in WinJupos
SpaceX launched this Falcon 9 mission from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base tonight, carrying a collection of 10 satellites into low-Earth orbit. The payload is destined for a constellation of communications satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
These three images are of the central region of the magnificent spiral galaxy M100, taken with three generations of the Hubble Space Telescope cameras that were sequentially swapped out aboard the telescope, and document the consistently improving capability of the observatory.
The image on the left was taken with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw (called spherical aberration) in Hubble's primary mirror. Celestial images could not be brought into a single focus. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
The middle image was taken in late 1993 with Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 that was installed during the Dec. 2-13 space shuttle servicing mission (SM1, STS-61). The camera contained corrective optics to compensate for the mirror flaw, and so the galaxy snapped into sharp focus when photographed. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)]
The image on the right was taken with a newer instrument, Wide Field Camera 3, that was installed on Hubble during the space shuttle Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to Hubble, these comparison photos of one of the telescope's first targets are being released today.
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Dale Chihuly "Sun" sculpture at Garden and Glass Museum next door to the iconic Seattle Space Needle.
ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski about to take a bite of the first-ever batch of pierogi prepared in space during the Ignis mission. The traditional Polish dumpling floats in the International Space Station's window to the world, the European-built Cupola.
In a first for space cuisine, Sławosz brought a taste of home to orbit. Pierogi have been part of Polish cuisine since the 13th century and remain a staple of Polish home cooking.
The space pierogi were filled with mushrooms and sour cabbage, seasoned with bay leaf, marjoram and pepper. The dumplings underwent freeze-drying on Earth – a lengthy process that completely removes any water from the food while maintaining its properties and structure for years. Sławosz could enjoy the pierogi by adding hot water from the dispensers in the Space Station’s dining area.
All food delivered to the International Space Station must be crumb-free, lightweight, and keep for at least 24 months. Most of the space menu consists of canned or freeze-dried meals in plastic packages. Fresh fruits and vegetables are a luxury, only available when spacecraft arrive with new supplies.
Pierogi were considered bonus food, which is catered to specific crew members and makes up around 10 percent of their menu. Astronauts say bonus food adds variety to their meals, boosts mental wellbeing and helps them bond with crewmates in orbit.
Check out the whole Ignis menu, created in collaboration with a celebrity chef and a family-owned company in Poland, and learn more about the dos and don’ts for space food in the article Pierogi in space.
Credits: ESA-S. Uznański-Wiśniewski
No place, not even the furthest reaches of space, is safe from Elvis impersonators.
Built for the Mixels series 4 competition on Brickset from the Orbitrons: 41527 Rokit, 41528 Niksput, and 41529 Nurp-Naut.
Rocket launch of the Space X Thuraya 4-NGS from launch pad 40 at Cape Canaveral SFS. FL. This a launch of a communications satellite built by Airbus Defense and Space for the UAEbased Yahsat. This was taken from the boat launch in Sebastian, FL.🚀
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[UPDATE 10/23/11
Thank you to everyone who has looked at our project! The response has been completely overwhelming. We were itching to launch another one but after seeing the feedback, it makes us that much more excited to get it done. The next launch will be about 2 weeks from now, and that payload will have a video camera along for the ride as well! We've sorted out all the issues we had on this run, so all the images should be usable. Thank you again for all of the support and stay tuned for more images in the future!]
This is what space looks like from a weather balloon. We're working on determining exactly what altitude we got to, but I'd put it somewhere near 100,000 feet.
You can see about half of the city of Lubbock along the bottom of the photo just right of center.
We launched our little spacecraft (Cygnus) at 9:02am from 33° 49' 28"N 102° 53' 56"W, and it touched back down to Earth at 11:56am at 33° 19' 21"N 101° 59' 42"W. 62 miles from where it was released. This image was taken 1 hour and 55 minutes into the flight.
The camera was traveling in a styrofoam beer cooler from Wal Mart. The cooler was lifted into space using a 22 foot weather balloon filled with Helium. A parachute was attached to the cooler to slow and stabilize the fall of the cooler when the balloon eventually popped from lack of air pressure as it rose closer to the vacuum of space.
There were some issues with frost building up on the plexiglass shield and it actually ruined most of the images. Live and learn I suppose. We'll get it down next time. Most people we've seen do this online take 3-6 months of planning and preparation before they launch something. We did it in 13 days. I guess it's only fitting that we overlooked something. I'm just glad we found it and everything was still in one piece!
Because there was so much issue with frost, I did my best to remove it from this image. It made the curve of the Earth a little bumpy in the left half of the image, but you can see what it should look like toward the right edge.
Check out a video of the balloon being released here!
UPDATE 10/19/11
We made the local news! So awesome. Check out the story here. (I'll update this link if I get a higher quality video)
To celebrate World Space Week 4th-10th October!
An eclipse montage - on Friday March 20th this year and on Monday 28th September Simon and I were delighted to both observe and photograph the partial solar eclipse and total lunar eclipse!
On both occasions the conditions were challenging - in March we had cloud, in September we had dew and some cloud - but thrilled to witness such awesome events and share the science!
Canon 600D, Mak 127mm
I wanted to test out the idea of recording an entire build from start to finish. The full build took about an hour but I sped it up into a 15 minute video. I'd like to do this sort of thing more with smaller builds like this. If you'd be interested in seeing more videos like this, let me know.
Model was inspired by this artwork from fightpunch.
The rest of my modified space sets. Sorry for the many uploads today, but I didn't feel like waiting days to post these pictures. I have a lot of more interesting MOCs waiting for their turn ^^
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Two examples of space frame design. An electricity pylon and a Moulton TSR bicycle.
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This is my 6th photo to make Explore.
Many a time I've snapped off a frame acting on nothing more than pure impulse. It's usually kick-started by a momentary feeling of weirdness or oddness in the world around me. I think we've all experienced that at one time or another. You see something that causes a feeling of uncertainty, possibly anxiety, or just confusion (or any number of other emotions). There's usually no apparent basis for these moments, they just hit you and often pass just as suddenly. For me anyway, there's often no visual cue; sometimes it's more a matter of crossing into some space or unseen energy field. These can be fixed in a certain space or completely transitory. I might experience it in a certain place one day, then never again in that exact spot. Other places seem to harness the energy and tend to raise that mental awareness each and every time I pass there (like a Ley line). There's one place in a local cemetery that causes me that sensation. I discovered it quite by accident one day. It's a fairly strong current of energy; actually causes goosebumps to raise on my skin. And it's a very narrow corridor. I can move into it, and right back out again with just a couple of steps. What I've come to notice is the ability to channel this energy into the visual realm. It's simply a matter of responding the moment you feel something like taking photos. It's not a good time to question the why or where, or worry too much about composition. I rely more on instinct for all of that. I truly believe it's a case of the universe picking the moment to shoot a photo rather than you. This photo is a case in point. I was walking down the street, totally preoccupied in thought when I was gripped with that weird energy flow. I immediately raised the camera and this is the resulting image. It's just a neighborhood house but somehow I've captured a dark aura. It's like looking at the photo of a crime scene; the outward beauty and charm of the house and yard belied by a sense of grimness. I can't help but think that a few seconds delay in taking the photo would have resulted in the energy diminishing. I think the dark aura would have lifted and the house would appear normal again.
AI Creation with Deep Dream Text2Dream
In a vibrant sci-fi landscape, astronauts stand before a towering, futuristic spacecraft with intricate details, surrounded by rocky terrain and celestial bodies, hinting at an epic space adventure.
PROMPT:
A futuristic scene featuring a family in space suits, standing amidst towering mechanical structures and celestial bodies. the environment is a blend of steampunk and cosmic elements, creating a surreal atmosphere
DDG Model
DaVinci2
Lurking in the night.
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Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan
9/2011
This project started out with me seeing some concept art by Ivan Tantsiura. The engines in particular really caught my attention. More boxy than what you normally see. So I decided to run with the concept.
The idea behind the shuttle itself was less scientific like NASAs shuttles, and more commercial. Carrying corporate employees to stations in Earth orbit. So the interior is more luxurious than you might expect with plenty of leg room. Even the cockpit has some measure of luxury, despite a lot of that being overridden with function The seat would have neural ports for the pilots to control the aircraft, something I couldn't manage on the model itself but the idea lives on in my imagination. Now, on the other hand, you don't want to waste money on too much luxury, so the rear cargo bay is bare metal with industrial warnings and hardpoints for securing luggage. Really embracing that military cargo bay feel. All in all I am really happy with the interior. I even managed to make room for figs!
I had just as much fun with the exterior. I wanted a super clean look that was reminiscent of our real-world shuttles, but still carried on more sci-fi design cues. The engines are an obvious start to that concept. Those were taken wholesale from the concept art I mentioned earlier, then modified and adapted to suit what I had in mind. The rest of the shuttle took shape from an early sketch I did of the top profile. And I swear I was using that leading edge design before the UCS Batwing was announced, that's what I'm saying to make myself feel better at least.
Obviously, another important part of the exterior is the color blocking. The orange came pretty naturally. It contrasts well without being too bright. And the part availability meant I had access to enough parts to really clean up the lines. The orange section on the underside makes me especially happy.
And that's really a good note to end on, I'm just really happy with this build. It let me have some fun and I think the final pruduct reflects that. As always, instructions are available on Rebrickable. rebrickable.com/mocs/MOC-89840/AsgardianStudio/cyberpunk-...
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