5/7/21 OT: United States of Space By Senor Beef on May 7, 2021, 6:54am CDT 1108
NATIONAL SPACE DAY
National Space Day dedicates the first Friday in May to the extraordinary achievements, benefits, and opportunities in the exploration and use of space. The goal of the observance is to promote math, science, technology, and engineering education in young people, The hope is to inspire them to pursue a career in science, especially a career in space-related jobs.
Careers in space involve a wide range of specialties. Going to space requires many working parts, and that’s not just the parts that go into space. All kinds of engineers build the equipment, computers and make the computations.
CGTN: Tianhe lifts off China s space station ambition
BEIJING, April 29. /PRNewswire/ The construction of China s own space station is underway, with the core module Tianhe, which means heavenly harmony, sent into space Thursday, kicking off a series of key launch missions that aim to complete the construction of the station by the end of 2022.
Tianhe was carried into space by a Long March-5B Y2 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of south China s Hainan Province. It is the first of 11 missions to build and supply the space station.
Tianhe will act as the foundational module for China s first space station in low-Earth orbit named Tiangong, which means heavenly palace in Chinese.
Daily Times
April 29, 2021
China first observed its Space Day on April 24, 2016, to commemorate the anniversary of the country’s first-ever satellite launch, Dongfanghong-1, back in 1970. This year, festivities kicked off in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, under the theme: Voyaging into space, pursuing dreams. This was particularly apt given that the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and its Russian counterpart used the occasion to announce collaboration on establishing the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS). This has been welcomed by both scientists and space enthusiasts around the world, not least because the project is open to international cooperation.
There is much for Beijing to celebrate, including the upcoming landing of its first independent Mars probe. The Tianwen-1 and the craft reached Mars’ orbit this February and is expected to ‘touch base’ at the Utopia Planitia in mid- or late May. This is not to forget the construction of the Ch
Beijing: China on Thursday launched the core module for its first permanent space station that will host astronauts long-term, the latest success for a programme that has realised a number of its growing ambitions in recent years.
The Tianhe, or ‘Heavenly Harmony’, module blasted into space atop a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island province of Hainan, marking another major advance for the country s space exploration program that has chalked up a series of accomplishments in recent months.
The launch begins the first of 11 missions necessary to construct and provision the station and send up a three-person crew by the end of next year.