(Nasa via AP)
(Picture: AP)It’s a historic moment for Nasa’s Orion mission after its capsule splash-landed in the Pacific Ocean following completion of a 26-day, nearly 1.5million-mile flight testing systems for a future human mission to the moon.
Divers locked winches onto the probe, which was pulled onto a specially designed cradle on the USS Portland, and the capsule’s expected to arrive ashore later this week.
The probe has successfully orbited the moon and broken the record for the furthest distance travelled by any such spacecraft.
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered across the universe to spot the youngest galaxy ever found.
It’s picked out what’s known as JADES-GS-z13-0, a celestial entity that appeared a mere 325 million years following the Big Bang.
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic escape odyssey by rowing boat is to be repeated by adventurer Jamie Douglas-Hamilton, who hopes to raise more than £100,000 for the British Heart Foundation on the 950-mile route - after recently having open heart surgery himself.
Douglas-Hamilton’s also calling for Shackleton’s ship’s carpenter, Harry McNish, to be awarded the Polar Medal for his work making a lifeboat seaworthy before the Endurance was sunk by pack ice in October 1915.
Plus. it’s the big re-re launch for Twitter’s Blue subscription, early reviews “generally favourable” ahead of the release of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion. A British teenager is reported to be ‘free of leukaemia’ after undergoing a breakthrough new treatment, walrus alert of English beach and sky-watchers prepare for Geminid meteor shower.
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