Last week, NASA officially announced SpaceX as their partner for the future Artemis mission, aiming to land humans on the Moon and in the future establish a colony there. NASA has funded the mission with $2.9 billion over a couple years, and will work alongside SpaceX to make lunar travel possible. SpaceX’s Starship is the spaceship of choice, which hopes to have the capability to bring humans to the Moon and perhaps later Mars. Although trials are still going on, and Starship hasn’t failed to explode durin
Until this Saturday 17th, the day of Prince Philip’s ceremonial funeral, the United Kingdom must remain in national mourning. National flags and union jacks, which represent the continuation of monarchy, will fly at half-mast on all government buildings and certain royal edifices. The Royal family, however, will continue to manifest their grief by wearing black mourning bands on specific occasions.
Preparations for the Duke’s private funeral ceremony are already in place. Instead of a state funeral, often carried out for monarchs, the defunct had previously requested a more private, ceremonial funeral. Following his askings, the duke of Edinburgh’s coffin was placed to rest in a private chapel inside Windsor Palace until the ceremonial day, rather than sited somewhere available to the public eye.