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                                2024 March 7
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                              The Crew-8 Nebula
               Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Michael Seeley

   Explanation: Not the [5]James Webb Space Telescope's latest view of a
   distant galactic nebula, this cloud of gas and dust dazzled spacecoast
   skygazers on March 3. The telephoto snapshot was taken minutes after
   the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on [6]the SpaceX Crew-8 mission, to the
   International Space Station. It captures plumes and exhaust from the
   separated first and second stage, a drifting [7]Rorschach pattern in
   dark evening skies. The bright spot near bottom center within the
   stunning terrestrial nebulosity is the second stage engine firing to
   carry 4 [8]humans to space in the Crew Dragon [9]spacecraft Endeavour.
   In sharp silhouette just above it is the Falcon 9 first stage booster
   orienting itself for return to a landing zone [10]at Cape Canaveral,
   planet Earth. This reuseable first stage booster was making its first
   flight. But the [11]Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule has flown humans to
   low Earth orbit and back again 4 times before. [12]Endeavour, as a name
   for a spacecraft, has also seen reuse, christening retired [13]Space
   Shuttle Endeavour and the [14]Apollo 15 command module.

                 Tomorrow's picture: distant galactic nebula
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   4. http://www.mseeley.net/
   5. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230713.html
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   7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211030.html
   8. https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/astronauts/
   9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMSzxmsXXwY
  10. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230803.html
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_Dragon_Endeavour
  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour
  13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140831.html
  14. https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/197685/apollo-15-command-module/
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