April 2014
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft blasted off for its CRS-3 mission for NASA
A few hours ago the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft blasted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in its CRS-3 (Cargo Resupply Service 3) mission, also known as SPX-3. This is the third of 12 missions that include the sending of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with various cargos and then return to Earth, again with various cargos.
The NBA playoffs 2014 are starting
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 19, 2014 the NBA playoffs 2014 are starting. The end of the regular season is always a little complicated because there are teams who are looking to rest their stars, others that need to win their playoffs berth and still others just waiting for the end of the season to think about the next one. For the first time in the NBA history the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics and the New York Knicks have all failed to reach the playoffs. This year the injury situation was quite complicated for some of the likely protagonists of the post-season with consequent ups and downs.
The planet Kepler-186f has a size similar to Earth and is in the habitable zone of its solar system
NASA has announced the discovery of Kepler-186f, a planet that is about 10% larger than the Earth and is in the habitable zone of its solar system. It is very likely a rocky planet, which means that it’s the most similar to Earth found so far. With those characteristics, it could host liquid water and have the conditions for the emergence of life forms.
The Cassini space probe discovered a possible new Saturn’s moon
The Cassini space probe has detected an object at the edge of the planet Saturn’s outermost ring, the one called ring A, that could be a new moon. Informally called Peggy, it may be just forming, a small block of ice with a diameter of less than one kilometer (about half a mile) detectable only by the slight gravitational disturbance that caused on the ring.
