November
14
/ 2021
When the flight crew for the latest SpaceX mission took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, November 11, German-born astronaut Matthias Maurer was carrying a replica of one of Germany’s most well-known archaeological artifacts with him. You could say this historic flight was really the “Nebra Sky disk spaceflight.” A replica of the ancient Nebra Sky disk, the oldest portable map of the night sky ever to be found, was taken on the flight by Mr. Maurer. Moreover, the real artifact will figure in a major Stonehenge at the British Museum beginning in February 2022. Maurer, as a representative of the European Space Agency (ESA), was joined by three NASA astronauts on the Nebra Sky disk spaceflight, which
