South Korea's Nuri rocket deploys satellites and Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics as NASA announces new contracts.
how this picture was made
Painted by @cf/leonardo/lucid-origin on workers-ai.cloudflare.com, 2026-10-09 00:22Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A nighttime scene at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, with the Nuri rocket illuminated on the launch pad, while a group of astronomers and engineers in the foreground gaze up at the stars, with a faint image of the supernova remnant Pa 30 visible in the sky.
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 nighttime scene at the Naro Space Center in Goheung, South Korea, with the Nuri rocket illuminated on the launch pad, while a group of astronomers and engineers in the foreground gaze up at the stars, with a faint image of the supernova remnant Pa 30 visible in the sky. 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)
5ef486fb68c92cac075fd4319085f9ea61840119adba784b24d3ef68570380fc
Crew-12 astronauts return to Earth after eight month ISS mission
The SpaceX crew splashed down off California on 8 October 2026, concluding an emergency replacement flight.
By Luisa Marconi · 52mFour astronauts returned safely to Earth on 8 October 2026 after eight months aboard the International Space Station.
The Crew-12 mission splashed down on schedule in the Pacific Ocean off California at 11:34 local time. The crew had been deployed in February on an emergency mission to replace an ISS crew member who fell ill. This marked NASA's first medical evacuation in 65 years of human spaceflight.
French astronaut Sophie Adenot was among the returning crew. During the mission she completed three spacewalks totalling 19 hours 42 minutes.
NASA announced that the next Cargo Dragon spacecraft will launch to the station no earlier than 13 October.
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