The Better In The Bluegrass culinary stage and the Kentucky Gold bourbon workshop stage also had their share of special moments. And John Fogerty celebrated the 50th anniversary of his appearance at the original Woodstock with a mini-documentary before his set, while ZZ Top marked their 50th year as a touring band. Nathaniel Rateliff was also joined by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for a rousing performance. On Saturday, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl sat in on drums with Squeeze for their classic hit “Black Coffee In Bed.” Legendary vocalist Robert Plant ended Saturday night with a mesmerizing performance of songs from the Led Zeppelin songbook as well as his solo material while Zac Brown Band wowed with a number of original hits and covers. Revel Ian performing with Foo Fighters | Photo credit: Steve Thrasherįoo Fighters welcomed special guest Revel Ian on guitar for their final song “Everlong.” The young son of Pearl Aday and Anthrax’s Scott Ian closed out the first night after Pearl opened the festival with her band on Friday. Foo Fighters, Robert Plant And The Sensational Space Shifters, Zac Brown Band, Daryl Hall & John Oates, John Fogerty, ZZ Top and nearly 50 artists in total across Bourbon & Beyond’s three stages captivated the audience, including several surprise moments. It’s called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite), and it’ll look for planets orbiting bright stars close to our Solar System.35 Shares Image courtesy Bourbon & Beyondīourbon & Beyond wrapped up its third year September 20-22, 2019 with 91,000 fans at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center in Louisville, KY. It will return to Earth with this sample in 2023.Ī new planet-hunting mission from ESA will launch between October 15 and November 14. NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft will swoop down to the surface of the asteroid Bennu in September and try to collect a sample.

This is called USCV-1, and it’ll be taking astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover to the International Space Station (ISS).

We could see the first contracted crew flight of SpaceX’s Dragon 2 in August, providing the test flight sticks to schedule. A total solar eclipse will be visible from Chile and Argentina in South America on July 2.Īnd set your calendars for July 20 because that will be the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first mission to land humans on the Moon. We’re also expecting a possible first crewed flight from Blue Origin at some point in the first half of 2019.Īnd following their first flight to “space” on December 13, Virgin Galactic could very well take its first paying customers to space in the first half of 2019 after further testing. SpaceX recently showed off its crewed Dragon 2 spacecraft SpaceX On board will be NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Douglas Hurley, both on their third spaceflight. This will be the first launch of astronauts from US soil since the final Space Shuttle flight on July 8, 2011. In June, we are expecting to see the first crewed launch of SpaceX’s Dragon 2 vehicle from Cape Canaveral in Florida. After that, the next closest approaches are on September 1 and December 26.īy April, Elon Musk says that SpaceX will perform a test flight of its Starship vehicle, intended to one day take humans to Mars.īy early 2019, Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit company plans to send its first rocket to space.Īlso in early 2019, we’re expecting a third Falcon Heavy launch, this time taking a variety of military and scientific satellites into orbit, including some from NASA. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its next close approach to the Sun on April 4. SpaceX is scheduled to launch its second Falcon Heavy rocket in March, the launch of the Arabsat-6A spacecraft for Saudi Arabia.

Rovers on the Hayabusa-2 mission returned images in September 2018 JAXAīoeing will conduct an uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner vehicle at some point in March, with plans for a first crewed test in August.

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