NASA's Crew-13 mission nears launch and Starcloud agrees to AI computing payload deal while astronomers set upper limit on planets in 70 Oph AB binary system.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-03 00:10Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A crowded launchpad at dawn with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket standing tall, surrounded by astronauts in suits, technicians, and engineers, under a sky with a thin crescent moon and a few stars, with a subtle glow of sunrise on the horizon.
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 launchpad at dawn with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket standing tall, surrounded by astronauts in suits, technicians, and engineers, under a sky with a thin crescent moon and a few stars, with a subtle glow of sunrise on the horizon. 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.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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SpaceX Crew-13 sets US speed record with eight-hour flight
Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on October 1, 2026, after a flight lasting only eight hours, which is the fastest US mission ever recorded.
By Luisa Marconi · 1hSpaceX launched the Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station on Thursday, setting a new US speed record for the journey.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 1, 2026.
Four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on October 1, 2026, after a flight lasting only eight hours, which is the fastest US mission ever recorded.
The NROL-97 mission will mark the quickest turnaround between Falcon Heavy missions, following the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for NASA on August 30.
SpaceX is setting up for a rocket launch from Florida's Space Coast on Thursday.
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