This astronaut is paying his SpaceX launch delay cleaning up a Florida seashore
A German astronaut is exhibiting his like for Earth in the course of a handful of additional days on the planet’s surface area before his 1st space mission.
Matthias Maurer, who is waiting with the rest of Crew-3 team for a delayed journey to the International Room Station, has spent aspect of his quarantine choosing up trash on the Florida seashore, in assortment of his SpaceX launch web page at NASA’s Kennedy Area Centre in Cape Canaveral. The mission, which will start 4 astronauts to the station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket, will launch no before than Saturday (Nov. 6).
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“I have been soothing through my quarantine by amassing garbage on the beach 😳 ,” Maurer wrote on Twitter, showing a picture of himself holding a massive trash bag.
I have been calming for the duration of my quarantine by collecting garbage on the seashore 😳 Unfortunately, this is not the only bag I crammed. We truly want to assume about our environmental effect on Earth and in space. Clear oceans, clean up room! It is really up to all of us. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/yELcONkolANovember 1, 2021
“Regrettably, this is not the only bag I crammed,” he ongoing. “We seriously want to assume about our environmental affect on Earth and in place. Cleanse oceans, clean up place! It can be up to all of us.”
The crew was delayed first by temperature and then by an astronaut healthcare issue, which NASA did not disclose in element besides to say it was not COVID-19.
Maurer’s to start with place mission on behalf of the European Area Agency is properly known as “Cosmic Kiss”, which is intended to declare how a lot he loves space — a like that evidently also extends to the world Earth.
“It communicates the specific link the Station offers amongst Earth’s inhabitants and the cosmos,” Maurer said of his mission identify in a 2020 ESA weblog post. “It also conveys the value of partnership in exploring farther to the Moon and Mars, along with the need to respect, guard and preserve the nature of our household earth as we look for a sustainable upcoming on Earth.”
Maurer has been selected the 600th person in space and when he reaches orbit, he will be accompanied by a few NASA astronauts: mission commander Raja Chari, pilot Tom Marshburn and mission expert Kayla Barron. With the exception of Marshburn, the other a few astronauts are on their 1st spaceflights. Crew-3 is predicted to spend about six months in orbit.
Observe Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Stick to us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.
A German astronaut is exhibiting his like for Earth in the course of a handful of additional days on the planet’s surface area before his 1st space mission.
Matthias Maurer, who is waiting with the rest of Crew-3 team for a delayed journey to the International Room Station, has spent aspect of his quarantine choosing up trash on the Florida seashore, in assortment of his SpaceX launch web page at NASA’s Kennedy Area Centre in Cape Canaveral. The mission, which will start 4 astronauts to the station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 rocket, will launch no before than Saturday (Nov. 6).
Reside Updates: SpaceX’s Crew-3 astronaut mission
“I have been soothing through my quarantine by amassing garbage on the beach 😳 ,” Maurer wrote on Twitter, showing a picture of himself holding a massive trash bag.
I have been calming for the duration of my quarantine by collecting garbage on the seashore 😳 Unfortunately, this is not the only bag I crammed. We truly want to assume about our environmental effect on Earth and in space. Clear oceans, clean up room! It is really up to all of us. 🌍 pic.twitter.com/yELcONkolANovember 1, 2021
“Regrettably, this is not the only bag I crammed,” he ongoing. “We seriously want to assume about our environmental affect on Earth and in place. Cleanse oceans, clean up place! It can be up to all of us.”
The crew was delayed first by temperature and then by an astronaut healthcare issue, which NASA did not disclose in element besides to say it was not COVID-19.
Maurer’s to start with place mission on behalf of the European Area Agency is properly known as “Cosmic Kiss”, which is intended to declare how a lot he loves space — a like that evidently also extends to the world Earth.
“It communicates the specific link the Station offers amongst Earth’s inhabitants and the cosmos,” Maurer said of his mission identify in a 2020 ESA weblog post. “It also conveys the value of partnership in exploring farther to the Moon and Mars, along with the need to respect, guard and preserve the nature of our household earth as we look for a sustainable upcoming on Earth.”
Maurer has been selected the 600th person in space and when he reaches orbit, he will be accompanied by a few NASA astronauts: mission commander Raja Chari, pilot Tom Marshburn and mission expert Kayla Barron. With the exception of Marshburn, the other a few astronauts are on their 1st spaceflights. Crew-3 is predicted to spend about six months in orbit.
Observe Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Stick to us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.