This Week in Space: Stargates, Stardates, and the Leidenfrost Effect

NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg by the crew access arm on the fixed service structure of Launch Complex 39A as fellow crewmates Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi exit the elevator the floor below before boarding SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket before the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission to the International Space Station, Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission is the sixth crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Bowen, Hoburg, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi launched at 12:34 a.m. EST from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center to begin a six month mission aboard the orbital outpost. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

There's much ado about the moon this week, and a ton of launches scheduled for March. But we'll start today with news from Washington State of a very cool new way to manage space dust.