SpaceX Crew-13 launches while NASA's OSIRIS-REx returns asteroid samples and new studies reveal Mars-Earth formation differences.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/bytedance/stable-diffusion-xl-lightning on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-02 00:13Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded space launchpad at dawn, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vertical on the pad, surrounded by astronauts in suits, and technicians in hard hats, under a sky with a hint of sunrise, and a massive moon hanging low in the distance.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A crowded space launchpad at dawn, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket vertical on the pad, surrounded by astronauts in suits, and technicians in hard hats, under a sky with a hint of sunrise, and a massive moon hanging low in the distance. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
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SpaceX launches Crew-13 to the International Space Station
Four astronauts departed Cape Canaveral aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on October 1, 2026.
By Theo Anand · 2hSpaceX launched the Crew-13 mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, 2026.
The mission utilized a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft to reach orbit from Florida, USA. This deployment follows a separate announcement in August that a rescue mission for the Swift Observatory was aborted because the Link spacecraft could not reach the observatory.
On the same day, October 1, 2026, SpaceX also planned to launch the Transporter 18 rideshare mission aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:18 AM PDT. Meanwhile, the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute announced the Chuseok full moon would rise at 17:34 Seoul time on the 25th. In other deep-space activity, the SVOM mission detected the blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the ECLAIRs telescope on September 18, 2026, between 14:26:39.898 and 17:12:50.386 UTC. A lunar probe also detected a massive impact crater on the Moon's surface caused by a violent collision with a comet or asteroid.
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