SpaceX– Elon Musk’s aerospace company, just launched two NASA astronauts into space. SpaceX is a privately owned American aeronautic manufacturing and space exploration technologies corporation, founded sometime in 2002 with the primary intention of revolutionizing space technology and promoting the emigration to mars through reduced space transportation cost. SpaceX group, an enterprise spearheaded by one of the most innovative minds of our times, has introduced a new age of human spaceflight in the United States. The project codenamed ‘Crew Dragon Mission’ was the second attempt by the company to launch spacemen into the orbit, over the last two decades – as the first attempt from three days ago was canceled a few minutes before take-off due to stormy weather.

This most recent development is part of NASA’s Artemis program. It comes as a relish to NASA and SpaceX since the automated spacecraft manufacturer was sanctioned by NASA barely two weeks ago to develop a lunar optimized Starship that would transport its crew between the lunar orbit and the surface of the moon. The two astronauts involved in this record-breaking venture are; Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – both of whom are NASA veteran space travelers.

NASA astronauts Doug and Bob lifted off circa 15:22 UTC on Saturday, 30 May 2020, from Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida – which happens to be the same launch pad used to send the Apollo astronauts to the moon fifty years ago. Notably, the launch of the SpaceX aero flights – Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon crew capsule, from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station (ISS) marks the first time in 9 years since a spacecraft has been launched from American soil and also the first time a private company has done it.

The NASA astronauts have successfully arrived at the International Space Station. In attendance to witness the event in Florida was President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and the SLOTUS – Karen Pence of the United States of America.

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Kuiper Belt has recently been the location for NASA’s New Horizons mission, and they have been slightly looking around that area a while now. On the 1st of January this year, the Kuiper Bolt object 2014 MU69 as it was formally known was captured by a flyby spacecraft. New Horizons was said to be about 4,200 miles away at the time the image was taken.

Captured image by the spacecraft was yet the perfect shot of the object which is now called Ultima Thule. According to NASA, the image was taken by the use of a wide-angled Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera or MVIC component of the Ralph Instrument on the spacecraft. Taking a look at the official time stamp shows that the image of the Ultima was shot at 12:26 a.m. EST on the said date, which was just about seven minutes before the nearest approach to the Ultima was achieved. The team made use of a method called deconvolution to hone the image and to enhance fine details. The original image taken according to NASA had a resolution of 440-feet per pixel. The object has a huge circular feature on its smaller part which is about 4-miles across. That feature is said to give a smart idea of the size and dimension of the object Ultima Thule.

The hook turns out that, the process inclines the graininess of images that are taken at a high contrast level. Close to the top of the image, one may see the terminator, not necessarily a cyborg, rather the line where the day/night border exists. Also, when you take a closer look, you can see small pits in the surface of the object that is about 0.4-miles in the distance across.

Furthermore, NASA has included that, the series of light and dark patterns on the Ultima are of anonymous origin. Scientists are uncertain if the pits on the surface of the object are from impacts or the venting of unstable materials in the easy stages or life of the object. However, further research is being carried on the Ultima Thule by scientists.

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