 Hello everyone and welcome to tomorrow news. So glad to have you citizens of Earth on board with us here today in my delightful, wonderful garage. Now this week we've got Ryan talking about SpaceX's DM2 mission, which is underway right now. I'll also be talking about traditions and test flights in the American space program and in addition to that we've got Dr. Tammeth-Ascove with this week's Space Weather. You're really going to want to watch it because the sun is kicking it up a notch and she's also going to talk a little bit about house space weather effects rocket launches which is something you'll need to know a little bit later down the line when we're starting to launch people a little more often. 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You can see on your screen Falcon 9 has landed this is the first Falcon 9 to carry humans to orbit. Humans are back in space from the USA it's the first human launch for SpaceX ever for a private company ever and the first man launched to space in almost nine years from the US. Arriving at launch complex 39A for the second time this week in their stylish Tesla Model X's NASA astronauts Bob Benkin and Doug Hurley boarded the Crew Dragon capsule, closed their visors and launched off into the sky. Of course it was actually a bit more complicated than that but the story doesn't end there. After a textbook lift off from the historic launch pad which launched all of the missions for the moon and 82 space shuttle missions the Dragon capsule and its crew was quickly whisked away up into orbit where it slowly started to raise its orbit to meet the ISS. During the start of this period the Falcon 9 booster B1058 made its way down to the droneship of course I still love you for another flawless landing. However on the way to the ISS the astronauts aboard performed a so called media event where Doug Hurley told us that the capsule was to be named Endeavour partly because both him and Bob were performing an Endeavour to test this new vehicle and the future of human spaceflight and also because both of their first flights to space were on the space shuttle Endeavour. I'd also strongly recommend that if you haven't done so already that you watch the broadcast NASA has clipped up and put on their YouTube channel. Roughly 17 hours after launch, Dragon ship Endeavour as Elon Musk dubbed it arrived at the ISS specifically waypoint zero which is just 400 metres away from the station and performed the two hour procedure to dock at the International Space Station. Exactly 8 years, 10 months, 12 days, 7 hours and 48 minutes after the crew of STS-135 including Doug Hurley departed our home in low earth orbit the next American rocket and American crew arrived. The past few days have been very big for SpaceX as well as NASA and the entire space community as a whole and we have finally gotten a reliable launch service from the USA that is capable of safely taking humans to orbit. Although the actual official certification of the Crew Dragon spacecraft cannot be completed until it has returned back to earth which should hopefully be happening in under four months the proof that this spacecraft has gotten humans safely to space is still a huge accomplishment. A huge success for Falcon 9 and the Crew Dragon spacecraft came after a not so successful day for Starship SN4. When Elon Musk was leaving the KSC press site where he was at the time in the lead-up to DM2 he said that unfortunately what we thought was going to be a minor test of a quick disconnect ended up being a big problem. What happened with SN4 is disappointing however SpaceX are working on several vehicles in unison so SN5 is up next to do what we all want to see a Starship do which is hop 150 metres. For the time being I hope that Bob and Doug have a fantastic time on orbit but Jared it's back over to you. Thanks for that doozy of an update Ryan. Now everybody sort of has their traditions that they do for launch day. During the shuttle program I had two. One was that I would wake up in the morning with Led Zeppelin's immigrant song being blasted as loud as possible. I suggest you do that anyhow it gets you out of bed pre-pumped and ready to go but on launch day it's excellent. Also I'd have to have a doughnut for breakfast on launch day as well. Don't know why I just started doing it and they seem to fly every time I had a doughnut so doughnut on it. I did those two things for DM2 and I added on wearing my favorite pair of Nike Air Force 1's. Do you have any traditions that you have for launch day if you do? Let us know in the comments below I really want to actually see what your traditions are or if you want to come up with some you know tell me what you're going to come up with in the comments below as well. Now Doug and Bob they did come up with a couple new traditions for the astronauts to do when launching from Pad 39A. Doug and Bob both signed the walls of the white room and I figured that's going to be a new tradition that's going to happen there and hey that's a pretty cool tradition if you ask me but there was a fantastic article on nasaspaceflight.com by Thomas Berghardt that I really want to highlight and I'm going to put a link in the description so that you can go give it a read yourself. I'm going to be giving a shortened version but it's an absolutely incredible tradition and I'm so glad that I now know about it. I want to give a big shout out to Alex Physics in our Discord server for showing us this amazing story. As an astronaut you have some duties before you fly into space that help you familiarize yourself with what you're going to be experiencing and one of those is being a member of the Astronaut Support Personnel. These are the folks who helped the astronauts get into the vehicle. In 2003 Doug was the head of the Astronaut Support Personnel for the 28th mission of Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107. As close out of the crew cabin was occurring Commander Rick Husband grabbed Doug Hurley's name patch off of his white jumpsuit and placed it onto the panel above his seat. This is a tradition of shuttle commanders. Now several photos taken on orbit showed that Doug's name patch was still there in the cockpit and 16 days after launch Columbia broke apart on re-entry. Now 17 years later in 2020 Doug has his first spacecraft command and he's getting buckled into his seat. Now watch what his hands do. It's been nearly four decades since the last American spacecraft performed a test flight with a crew on board. So what were those missions that did so before this one? With the Mercury program there's really no official crew test flight because of the suborbital then orbital nature of it. If you've got an opinion about which Mercury flight should be viewed as the official test flight drop that idea in the comments. For now I'll just do what I do and declare my own reality and make that official test flight Mercury Redstone 2. Congrats Ham you did a great job. March 23rd 1965 saw two space flight legends Gus Grissom and John Young teaming up for the first flight of the Gemini capsule a new two crew member spacecraft. The Gemini 3 mission lasted for four orbits becoming the first spacecraft to change its orbit and included a corned beef sandwich smuggled aboard. The only real problem Gemini's lift generated on re-entry didn't quite match the models. It was lower than expected and this caused Gemini 3 to land about 84 kilometers short of its intended target but it was a successful test flight and this was Gus Grissom's last space flight. Gus Grissom dubbed his Gemini 3 capsule the Molly Brown. This is sort of tongue in cheek because his Mercury capsule had sunk into the Atlantic Ocean and Molly Brown you might know her a little bit better as the unsinkable Molly Brown who was an American socialite on the Titanic and tried to convince her lifeboat to head back out to pick up survivors. Now NASA management was not very pleased to hear about this and they suggested that Grissom pick a different name so he came back to them and said well hey what about Titanic and after that NASA management decided to allow him to keep Molly Brown. October 11th 1968 saw the first Apollo flight with crew Apollo 7. Commander Wally Sharaw command module pilot Don Isley and lunar module pilot Walter R. Cunningham the largest American crew yet. Now they were flying on a Saturn 1B with only the Apollo command and service module. They had a mission link that was dependent upon how well the systems did and the spacecraft performed excellent going the full 11 days. However the astronauts well Sharaw developed a head cold which was promptly shared with Isley and Cunningham and everybody got a bit cranky. At one point Sharaw told NASA flight director Chris Kraft that he could go to hell and even though they were rather testy it wasn't a mutiny you stupid as you clickbait writers. Now the mission was a success but Isley and Cunningham never flew again because of their attitudes and Sharaw had announced his retirement before the flight. Then we go to April 12th 1981 STS-1 the first flight of a space shuttle with Columbia taking the first trip. John Young gets his second command and participates in his second test flight while Robert Crippen flies as the pilot. Now this is something that's never happened before a first flight of a spacecraft with its crew aboard. It is simply put the gutsiest test flight anyone has ever done and will likely never see that level of blatant disregard for engineering humility again. But wow it was one hell of a test flight proving that a winged vehicle could work as a spacecraft. Now as to whether shuttle did what it was supposed to that's a debate that can go on longer than Columbia's rollout at Edwards Air Force Base. But with all eyes on Crew Dragon Endeavour it wasn't just a meet that was being sent up into space this week let's go ahead and jump right into our space traffic and we're going to be spending our entire time in China. We kick out the jam starting with a Long March 11th lifting off from the Zhixiang Satellite Launch Center on May 29th at 2013 Universal Time. The all solid propellant rocket carried and successfully deployed two satellites into low earth orbit with the only information released noting that they will be used for technology experiments. On May 31st at 0853 Universal a Long March 2D booster lifted off from the Zhiquan Space Center. It successfully deployed Galfen 902 a remote sensing satellite that uses an optical camera with a resolution of one meter. A secondary payload was delivered a small satellite to provide tracking of ships aircraft and environmental monitoring for a Beijing based company called Head Aerospace. Now for this week's space weather along with how space weather can impact launches here is Dr. Tammathascov. I think the sun is celebrating the success of the SpaceX Dragon launch endeavor with the American astronauts on board just as much as we are because oh my gosh what a difference a few days make. We've had two big M class flares the first of the new solar cycle launched with radio bursts and solar storms it's been amazing. As we switch to our front side sun you can see the bad boy in the northeast limb here this is region 2764 and it is the reason why we've been getting a lot of these big flares. It has caused these two M class flares believe it or not right before the SpaceX launch and it got me a little nervous that we were going to start having radio communications issues but it has begun to kind of cool down just a little bit thank goodness but you can also see we had another region here that has also been firing off solar storms as a matter of fact we've had two solar storms very weak ones hit earth. Some have been bringing aurora clear down to mid latitudes we've seen aurora in the UK we've seen it in Canada and even down in the United States and up into New Zealand so wow welcome to the new cycle huh and then there's even more activity on the sun's far side but I'll get to that in just a second meanwhile we also have a small coronal hole that's rotating into the earth strike zone and yes we could be getting some more aurora here very shortly so aurora photographers have definitely something to look forward to and as we switch to our far-sided view of the sun this is stereo A and it's looking at the sun pretty much from the side you can see back in late May that region in the north that's bad boy region 2764 and watch it bam right there it fires off a big solar flare and solar storm and bam it fires off yet another one those are the two M class flares but hey look down here we have this region in the south and bam it's firing stuff off you got a region over here bam it's firing stuff off oh my goodness we are suddenly in the throes of solar cycle 25 we've got tons of radio bursts happening and possibility for big flares again especially as this region continues to rotate back into earth view now as we take a look at the radio burst data this is the radio burst data from stereo itself so it's looking at the sun and this is the view it sees look at all these black lines shoot shoot shoot these are all radio bursts that could be causing issues we are seeing some of them at earth and I've seen them gone up to almost about a hundred megahertz so amateur radio operators and emergency responders if you are hearing noise on the bands it's due to these regions here and expect that that noise to continue to get louder as these regions rotate more into earth view so that's going to be an issue but here is the really neat thing if we switch to our x-ray flux you can see back late on in may on the 28th is when you started seeing that that x-ray flux rise up a little bit and then wham wham you see those two big flares those are the m-class flares that occurred right there on the 30th but then luckily everything kind of quieted down and look how quiet it was for the launch of the SpaceX capsule so I was so grateful because during this period I was biting my nails worrying that we were going to have radio bursts and possibly radio communications errors and possibly even a scrub if these solar flares were larger and lasted longer than they did thank goodness that's been quiet but now as you see in the beginning of June that noise is beginning to ramp up again and that's because of the other region in the southern hemisphere that's probably going to be labeled region 2765 and we may be in yet for a show for more details on this week's space weather including how these new cycle active regions might affect radio communications, GPS reception and other kinds of space traffic come check out my channel or see me at spaceweatherwoman.com and to wrap up this week's news I want to thank all of you who help contribute to the shows of tomorrow we seriously cannot do these shows without you and each and every one of you who helps us out you are absolutely amazing and it is greatly appreciated and if you'd like to contribute to the shows of tomorrow head on over to youtube.com slash tmro slash join to do so and check out all the great rewards that we have available to you at the different levels of support of course watching our shows liking subscribing setting up notifications and sharing us everywhere that you can is an incredible help as well and that's it for this week's edition of tomorrow news thank you so much for joining us and until the next one stay healthy stay safe and keep exploring damn this better go i mean i look i put on my my worm today and i also put on my finest air force ones as well these take 10 minutes to put on this better go i really hope this goes although something isn't good it shouldn't 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 reports say all systems are go super sonic we've exceeded Mach 1 on the Falcon 9 it's from the second stage of the Falcon 9 after the upper stage gets a chance trajectory the dragon separating and there's that call out dragon is now officially making its way to the international space station today