NASA is now accepting job applications for the position of Astronaut. I'm unclear if you can upload your resume from Indeed. https://earthsky.org/human-world/nasa-astronaut-apply-march2020
There are a lot of people on earth who are wishing they could be somewhere else. On Wasp76b it rains molten iron, hotel rates stink. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/astronomers-discover-scorching-hot-planet-rains-liquid-iron-2020-03-14/
NASA and covid19 https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/16/21181681/nasa-human-spaceflight-soyuz-rocket-launch-iss-spacex-coronavirus
more about NASA and Covid19 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/astronauts-already-in-quarantine-bubble-as-nasa-adapts-to-virus/ar-BB11nwyR
The US Space Force launches their first mission today https://www.space.com/first-space-force-launch-military-satellite-aehf-6-webcast.html
I'm looking forward to the next season! If you still have time to kill with Netflix, two good time travel related series are Continuum and Travelers.
Want something to look forward to next year? How about the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope one year from today https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/03/29/in-exactly-a-year-our-knowledge-of-the-cosmos-will-change-forever-this-is-the-10-billion-reason/#74945c92175c
You can read about NASA's Ion Thruster Engine and I'm going to going over there and look for those pesky dilithium crystals https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jygk/ok-wtf-is-nasas-humanity-saving-ion-engine?utm_source=digg
Moon Base Alpha - you knew it would happen https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/nasa-artemis-lunar-base/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/39000/Moonbase_Alpha/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074402/ https://www.goodreads.com/series/165626-moon-base-alpha
Jim Bridenstine has just officially announced that the manned DM-2 SpaceX Crew Dragon mission is set for 4:32 PM EDT May 27. This will be the first manned space launch in an American rocket from American territory for nine years, since the Space Shuttle was retired in 2011. Booster will be pristine new B1058. They will attempt to recover it on OCISLY (the ocean going landing barge). https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine/status/1251178705633841167 https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1251194637542440960 https://www.nasa.gov/specials/dm2/ https://www.spacex.com/news/2020/04/17/crew-demo-2-mission https://twitter.com/johnkrausphotos/status/1251231271671476224 SpaceX photos The astronauts training in a Crew Dragon The capsule slated to fly on May 27. NASA's very happy about finally flying astronauts from Cape Canaveral after nine years. [video=youtube] B1058 at Cape Canaveral, sporting NASA's old 1960's-1970's vintage worm logo, revived for this mission. The Worm is back!
If being in lockdown has you bored, SpaceX is doing a cryogenic liquid nitrogen pressure test on the tank section of their SN4 Starship prototype at Boca Chica as we speak. Sounds boring and routine, but the last three times they tried it with previous prototypes, each one spectacularly blew up. Elon said this morning that he thinks this one is "dicey" as well because he doesn't entirely trust the design of the thrust dome. Livestream here: [video=youtube][/video]