

The sighting, documented in this beautiful image that shows the arch of the Milky Way above a purple glowing horizon, may be the southernmost of the aurora spree delivered by a strong solar storm in the last two days of February. Wednesday, March 1, 2023: An American stargazer has caught an unexpected glimpse of aurora during an astrophotography trip to California's Death Valley. – Tereza Pultarova Auroral glow surprises astrophotographer in California's Death Valley ET (617 GMT).Īboard the capsule, called Endeavour after the namesake space shuttle mission, are NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and United Arab Emirates' (UAE) space traveler Sultan Al Neyadi, who will be the first UAE national to carry out a six-month mission on the International Space Station. ET (1234 GMT) today and is scheduled to dock with the station's Harmony module on Friday, March 3, at about 1:17 a.m. The mission, SpaceX's seventh taking astronauts to the orbital outpost (including the demonstration flight in May 2020), launched at 12:34 a.m.

Atop the rocket is a crewed Dragon capsule with four spacefarers of the Crew 6 mission heading to the International Space Station. Thursday, March 2, 2023: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket can be seen in this image shortly after its liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, March 2.
