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April 11, 2019
The Israeli team SpaceIL will attempt to land the country's first moon lander, called Beresheet, on the Sea of Serenity on the moon and you can watch it live today, courtesy of a SpaceIL webcast. The webcast will begin at 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT), with Beresheet's landing expected for some time between 3 and 4 p.m. EDT (1900-2000 GMT).
Beresheet is a $100 million privately developed lander originally developed by SpaceIL to compete in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, an international contest that ended in 2018 with no winners. SpaceIL teamed up with Israel Aerospace Industries to continue the project, leading to today's landing attempt.
SpaceIL is controlling Beresheet from a control center in Yehud, Israel. The spaceraft launched in February on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and has been steadily raising its orbit to reach the moon.
Last week, Beresheet successfully entered orbit around the moon.
NASA Twins Study Teleconference
NASA will hold a live teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) to unveil the latest discoveries from its Twins Study, a project that followed the world's only identical twin astronauts - Scott and Mark Kelly - during the space agency's Year in Space mission. During that mission, Scott Kelly spent nearly a full year on the International Space Station while his brother remained on Earth. Scientists followed both astronauts to compare how Scott's body changed from his twin's during spaceflight.
https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html?jwsource=cl
From NASA:
ASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 11, to share the results of a study – embargoed by the journal Science until that time – evaluating identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly. A Reddit iAMA will follow the media teleconference at 4 p.m.
The briefing participants are:
Teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
The Twins Study is helping scientists better understand the impacts of spaceflight on the human body through the study of identical twins. The Twins Study research encompassed 10 separate investigators who coordinated and shared all data and analysis as one large, integrated research team. Retired astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 days in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station while retired astronaut Mark Kelly, his identical twin, remained on Earth. The twins’ genetic similarity provided scientists with a reduced number of variables and an ideal control group, both important to scientific investigation.
Much much more at link:
https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
The Israeli team SpaceIL will attempt to land the country's first moon lander, called Beresheet, on the Sea of Serenity on the moon and you can watch it live today, courtesy of a SpaceIL webcast. The webcast will begin at 2:45 p.m. EDT (1845 GMT), with Beresheet's landing expected for some time between 3 and 4 p.m. EDT (1900-2000 GMT).
Beresheet is a $100 million privately developed lander originally developed by SpaceIL to compete in the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, an international contest that ended in 2018 with no winners. SpaceIL teamed up with Israel Aerospace Industries to continue the project, leading to today's landing attempt.
SpaceIL is controlling Beresheet from a control center in Yehud, Israel. The spaceraft launched in February on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and has been steadily raising its orbit to reach the moon.
Last week, Beresheet successfully entered orbit around the moon.
NASA Twins Study Teleconference
NASA will hold a live teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) to unveil the latest discoveries from its Twins Study, a project that followed the world's only identical twin astronauts - Scott and Mark Kelly - during the space agency's Year in Space mission. During that mission, Scott Kelly spent nearly a full year on the International Space Station while his brother remained on Earth. Scientists followed both astronauts to compare how Scott's body changed from his twin's during spaceflight.
https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html?jwsource=cl
From NASA:
ASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, April 11, to share the results of a study – embargoed by the journal Science until that time – evaluating identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly. A Reddit iAMA will follow the media teleconference at 4 p.m.
The briefing participants are:
Teleconference audio will stream live at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
The Twins Study is helping scientists better understand the impacts of spaceflight on the human body through the study of identical twins. The Twins Study research encompassed 10 separate investigators who coordinated and shared all data and analysis as one large, integrated research team. Retired astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 days in low-Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station while retired astronaut Mark Kelly, his identical twin, remained on Earth. The twins’ genetic similarity provided scientists with a reduced number of variables and an ideal control group, both important to scientific investigation.
Much much more at link:
https://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html
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