Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2023 August 3
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                         The Falcon and the Redstone
                  Image Credit & [3]Copyright: Matt Haskell

   Explanation: In a photo from the early hours of July 29 (UTC), a
   Redstone rocket and Mercury capsule are on display at Cape Canaveral
   [4]Launch Complex 5. Beyond the Redstone, the 8 minute long exposure
   has captured the arcing launch streak of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
   [5]The Falcon's heavy communications satellite payload, at a record
   setting 9 metric tons, is bound for [6]geosynchronous orbit some 22,000
   miles above planet Earth. [7]The historic launch of a Redstone rocket
   carried astronaut [8]Alan Shepard on a suborbital spaceflight in May
   1961 to an altitude of about 116 miles. Near the top of the frame, this
   Falcon rocket's two reusable side boosters separate and execute brief
   entry burns. They [9]returned to land side by side at Canaveral's
   Landing Zone 1 and 2 in the distance.

                        Tomorrow's picture: moonrays
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   6. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/chapter5-1/
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