May 7, 2015 04:33 AM
SpaceX tests astronaut eject button on Dragon spacecraft
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX...t_999.html
EXCERPT: SpaceX on Wednesday launched the first flight test of the emergency astronaut escape feature on its Dragon spaceship, which aims to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit as early as 2017. No astronauts were on board for the brief launch pad abort test, which blasted off at 9 am (1300 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Eerie 'X-Files' Sounds Recorded From the Edge of Space: http://news.discovery.com/space/erie-x-f...gn=rssnws1
Astronomers Measure Distance to Farthest Galaxy Yet
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/science/astronomers-measure-distance-to-farthest-galaxy-yet.html
EXCERPT: Leapfrogging backward in time to when the universe was apparently feeling its oats, a group of astronomers reported Tuesday that they had measured a bona fide distance to one of the farthest and thus earliest galaxies known. The galaxy, more than a few billion light-years on the other side of the northern constellation Boötes, is one of the most massive and brightest in the early universe and goes by the name of EGS-zs8-1. It flowered into stardom only 670 million years after the Big Bang. The light from that galaxy has taken 13 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth. By now, however, since the universe has continued to expand during that time, the galaxy is about 30 billion light-years away, according to standard cosmological calculations....
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SpaceX...t_999.html
EXCERPT: SpaceX on Wednesday launched the first flight test of the emergency astronaut escape feature on its Dragon spaceship, which aims to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit as early as 2017. No astronauts were on board for the brief launch pad abort test, which blasted off at 9 am (1300 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Eerie 'X-Files' Sounds Recorded From the Edge of Space: http://news.discovery.com/space/erie-x-f...gn=rssnws1
Astronomers Measure Distance to Farthest Galaxy Yet
www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/science/astronomers-measure-distance-to-farthest-galaxy-yet.html
EXCERPT: Leapfrogging backward in time to when the universe was apparently feeling its oats, a group of astronomers reported Tuesday that they had measured a bona fide distance to one of the farthest and thus earliest galaxies known. The galaxy, more than a few billion light-years on the other side of the northern constellation Boötes, is one of the most massive and brightest in the early universe and goes by the name of EGS-zs8-1. It flowered into stardom only 670 million years after the Big Bang. The light from that galaxy has taken 13 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth. By now, however, since the universe has continued to expand during that time, the galaxy is about 30 billion light-years away, according to standard cosmological calculations....