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 Recent Astronomical Discoveries 

4 rocky exoplanets found around Barnard’s Star, one of the sun’s nearest neighbors

https://www.reuters.com/resizer/v2/OBYQ52QP7RO6JJ6LAJZGZSABDI.jpg?auth=97f21d691a7c1ab5399186fea27382a964789860d54c9cde2fbaed2c8b345937&width=1200&quality=80

Discussion Topic of the Evening.

Why Some Physicists Think We Are Living Inside A Black Hole

https://assets.iflscience.com/assets/articleNo/74111/aImg/76056/astronaut-in-a-black-hole-m.webp

 Waz Up

Space Exploration and Space History 

Space Exploration News

3-14

Rocket Lab launches Japanese SAR satellite

https://synspective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/SARsatellite_StriX1.jpg

3-14

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 Launches to International Space Station

https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/crew10-liftoff1.jpeg?w=2000&quality=89&ssl=1

3-15

SpaceX launches Transporter-13 rideshare mission

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/T13-Stack-crop.jpg

Space-Related Birthdays

3-9 thru 3-15

Laurel Clark  10-Mar-1961 STS-107

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Laurel_Clark%2C_NASA_photo_portrait_in_blue_suit.jpg/220px-Laurel_Clark%2C_NASA_photo_portrait_in_blue_suit.jpg

Curtis Brown  11-Mar-1956 STS-47, STS-66, STS-77, STS-85, STS-95, STS-103

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Curtis_Brown.jpg/220px-Curtis_Brown.jpg

Patricia Robertson 12-Mar-1963 No flights (died in a plane crash)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Patricia_Robertson.jpg/220px-Patricia_Robertson.jpg

Wally Schirra 12-Mar-1923 Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Schirra_walter_3.jpg/220px-Schirra_walter_3.jpg

Gene Cernan 14-Mar-1934 Gemini 9A, Apollo 10, Apollo 17

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Astronaut_Eugene_A._Cernan.jpg/220px-Astronaut_Eugene_A._Cernan.jpg

Frank Borman 14-Mar-1928 Gemini 7, Apollo 8

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Astronaut_Frank_Borman.jpg/220px-Astronaut_Frank_Borman.jpg

Michael Fincke 14-Mar-1967 Soyuz TMA-4 (Expedition 9), Soyuz TMA-13 (Expedition 18), STS-134, Boeing Starliner-1

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Edward_Michael_Fincke.jpg/220px-Edward_Michael_Fincke.jpg

William B. Lenoir 14-Mar-1939 STS-5

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/WilliamBLenoir.jpg/220px-WilliamBLenoir.jpg

Alan Bean 15-Mar-1932 Apollo 12, Skylab 3

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Alan_Bean_NASA_portrait_%28S69-38859%29.jpg/220px-Alan_Bean_NASA_portrait_%28S69-38859%29.jpg

This Week in Space History

March 9:

2011:

Space shuttle Discovery completed her final mission

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8bCdodXayWkLHCmQEQD2ce-1200-80.jpg

March 10:

2006 

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) entered orbit around Mars. 

https://www.astronomy.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/02/mro_artwork_495.jpg

March 11:

1960: 

Pioneer 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to begin research on the space between Earth and Venus. 

https://i0.wp.com/www.drewexmachina.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Pioneer_V_feature.jpg?fit=890%2C501&ssl=1

March 12:

2015: 

NASA’s four identical Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral. 

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/mms_background_smaller.jpg

1969

March 13:

Apollo 9 splashed down 55 years ago after completing one of the program’s most underrated test mission.: 

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/429673232_713471767648247_8411837017273339523_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=i4GX-hivLJYAX-1utUd&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=00_AfBrjTihW2wOR5wO1N6Zp2yvz451bO3COc3uvAXc40KV0g&oe=65F69F60

1966

March 16:

1966 First successful space docking

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Gemini_8_docking.jpg/220px-Gemini_8_docking.jpg

1958

March 17:

Launch of Vanguard 1 Satellite

https://www.spaceline.org/spacelineorg/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/word-image-197.jpeg?x31292

1965 

March 18

Launch of Voskhod 2 

http://www.spacefacts.de/graph/voskhod_a-2.gif

2016 

Launch of Soyuz TMA-20M

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/nhq201603160016.jpg

March 19

2008

Death of Arthur C Clarke

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Arthur_C._Clarke_1965.jpg

Clarke died in Sri Lanka on 19 March 2008 after suffering from respiratory failure.

Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Week

Constellations “Lynx” and “Cancer”

Space Launches For This Week

Space Flight Now Launch Schedule

Launch Schedule

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

You can use the http://www.heavens-above.com website to find out what’s in orbit and

where to look during fly-overs

All times are “local” (Dallas) time.

ISS
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST

Mar 16

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=25544&mjd=60751.0594334814&type=V

Tiangong

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=48274&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST

Mar 18

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60752.4895676957&type=V

Mar 19

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60753.4481846208&type=V

Mar 20

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60754.4730289876&type=V

Mar 21

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60755.4984349657&type=V

Mar 22

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=48274&mjd=60756.4565902081&type=V