“The Super Bowl is a strange place to start a story about space, but it was here that many people first heard about Inspiration4 through a commercial that was released a few days after the mission was officially announced in 2021.”
This is the opening line of a brilliant new story put together by Inverse Card Story Editor Bryan Lawver about the first civilian voyage into space.
Four regular – well, one is a billionaire – flew into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday night. They splashed into the Atlantic in their triangular capsule off the coast of Florida on Saturday.
Unlike NASA missions, the goal of this mission was less data driven and more focused on inspiring a new generation of people who could one day fly into space if they wanted.
The biggest ripple effect of this mission, Inspiration4, may go unnoticed for years, if not decades, as the exploits of its crew may not yet have reached the people who will inspire them most. Although the mission is over, quantifying its inspirational effects is far from complete.
Today the journey is the basis of our new feature. Here are twenty pictures that unpack this historic trip.
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First All-Civil Space Mission in History – Bryan Lawver is putting together a gallery of SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission, making history the first all-civil space mission. Check out the steps to take off and the historic flight for yourself:
The Super Bowl is a strange place to start a story about space, but it was here that many people first heard about Inspiration4 via a commercial that came out a few days after the mission was officially announced in 2021.
Read the full story and see the pictures.
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Scientists Play a Role as Neanderthals – Sarah Wells speaks to Spanish researchers who have recreated Neanderthals’ hunting techniques to better understand how they hunted prey at night and what effect this had on their diet:
It was in the middle of the night when a team of Spanish scientists sneaked into a pitch-black cave on the Iberian Peninsula in Spain.
Adorned with headlights, this research team secretly moved under the clatter of jackdaws – a pitch-black bird with fiery red legs and beak. In a burst of activity, the sudden light blinded and confused the jackdaws, and the hunt began to “catch” and tag the raven-like birds.
But while the jackdaw’s nesting habits were of interest to the researchers, predators from their past – whose hunting style they mimicked – interested the team most: the Neanderthals.
Read the full story.
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Male Infertility Increasing? – Katie MacBride writes that while male infertility is widespread, there is a lack of research into what can cause fertility problems and treatments. Here’s what men need to know about male infertility:
Research into male infertility is painful.
This is worrying, especially given the reports of rising male infertility rates. For cisgender, straight couples who have trouble conceiving, about a third of the time the problem is with the man – and those problems are complicated. If you are male, it is important to understand the nuances of your reproductive system, whether you will become a parent or not.
Technically, male infertility is defined simply as the inability to fertilize a female egg. Still, a man diagnosed could have a number of problems, Jeff Foster, a doctor specializing in men’s health, told Inverse. Foster is also the author of Man Alive: The Health Problems of Men and How to Fix Them and spoke to Inverse about this extremely common diagnosis.
Read the full story.
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Images like this one that have been released have led the US Congress to consider the idea of an office to investigate unidentified phenomena like this one.
Congress quietly wants to set up a UFO office – Jon Kelvey is considering two bills in Congress that could expand the UAP task force or set up a permanent office to investigate the locations of these unknown objects:
Congress could take steps to step up investigations into UFOs – UAPs, in the new terminology – following a Department of Defense report to Congress that summer recognizing the reality of these “unidentified aerial phenomena” but showing no evidence of extraterrestrial involvement were found.
Sections of two bills on the provision of intelligence information, HR 4350 (Law Approving National Defense in the House of Representatives for Fiscal Year 2022) and S.2610 (Law Approving Intelligence Services for Fiscal Year 22 in the Senate), take different approaches to the work of the The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.
However, those hoping for a full Congress hunt for technologically advanced aliens of UFO lore may be disappointed. The bills seem to be driven more by mere earthly national safety and security concerns than by little green men in hypersonic diamond-shaped vessels.
Read the full story.
The truth is out there:
Bill Murray sings on Saturday Night Live in this undated photo. Murray turns 71 today. Owen Franken – Corbis / Corbis Historical / Getty Images
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