** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

Re. The linked story posted above about microgravity pressure effects causing buildup of CSF (cerebro-spinal fluid) leading to worse astronaut eyesight:

Vagus nerve stimulation has been shown to be useful for brain washing (CSF flushing / nutrient penetration). Presumably they will try that and see if it helps a bit.

Article: "Is Vagus Nerve Stimulation Brain Washing?"

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/733410v1
 
VNS could be useful, as long as the battery in the device lasts long enough, there’s certainly cause for some decent testing.
 
Today's Space X launch scrubbed.

10:25am CT Update: Monday morning's launch attempt of the Starlink-12 mission was scrubbed in the last moments of the countdown due to thick clouds over the launch site at Kennedy Space Center. SpaceX does not have a back-up launch window for this mission because there are two launches scheduled over the next two days.
 
With the last 24 hours filling the space news with Mars findings in that NASA has found 3 more large bodies of water near the single body found in 2018 new interest has been sparked as there's still debate as to the heat source for such large quantities of water. Either way, this is great news as it seems we may well have at least 3 planets in our solar system with forms of life, and then there's Titan/Ceres that may harbour life too.

If this all turns out to be accurate then the likelihood of life outside the solar system is even greater and the odds for it are in favour, even considering the great filter, paradox and panspermia. Maybe none of these things matter a huge deal, maybe life just finds a way if the conditions are right...

Anyway, relevant!

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...announcement-when-watch-mission-b1209506.html

Nasa to make major announcement of ‘exciting news’ about the moon
Flying observatory that made new discovery is able to ‘pick up phenomenon impossible to see with visible light’, space agency notes
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transient lunar phenomena?
Ice/Water below the surface?

For the latter some tectonics/tidal heating would have to be involved and both may well be related as many earth based observers have reported for many generations seeing glows of light on the moon that last seconds randomly. If TLP is a by-product of this observation by the 747 telescope then that's pretty amazing.

A full-time moon base is way more viable if it is ice/water.
 
Nose cone finally mated. I think no matter what happens during the planned hop, belly flop, and landing, this is going to be quite the spectacle.

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