HOUSTON (AP) — Boeing's troubled capsule leaves astronauts behind as it departs the International Space Station and aims for a landing.
Under Pressure NASA announced yesterday that its forthcoming Gateway lunar space station — the in-construction outpost that the agency hopes to install in orbit around the Moon's South Pole — just achieved a critical milestone. According to the agency, Gateway's Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) successfully passed a full round of "static load testing," defined […]
Sweet Home Fungus When humans finally start establishing space colonies on the Moon and beyond, the first houses could literally be home grown... from mushrooms. NASA is seriously contemplating growing future habitable structures out of fungus — also called mycotecture — for space colonies on the lunar surface and then Mars, according to Al Jazeera. […]
Keep Roving In preparation for the first crewed lunar mission in half a century, NASA is prototyping a new Moon rover — and it looks like some pretty distinctly Earth-bound vehicles. Announced in a NASA press release, the new Ground Test Unit (GTU) is currently in development at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket can return to flight for a mission planned for Monday to launch the European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft from Florida, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Sunday. Elon Musk's company, which has engaged in a public quarrel with the FAA in recent weeks, said on Sunday it is planning the liftoff for 10:52 a.m. ET (1452 GMT) from Cape Canaveral. "The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle is authorized to return to flight only for the planned Hera mission scheduled to launch on Oct. 7 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida," the FAA said on Sunday.
Caroline Giuliani, who is the daughter of the former New York City mayor and ardent Trump supporter Rudy Giuliani, has revealed how her father responded to her endorsement of Kamala Harris.Giuliani said she has been forced to have “open conversations” with her father since she penned a column in Vanity Fair about her decision to support Harris.“He knows how I feel about all these things,” she said Sunday on MSNBC’s Alex Witt Reports. “I don’t think any of this came as a surprise. I think one thi
Tim Walz deftly handled Fox News’ Shannon Bream’s grilling on abortion rights during his appearance Sunday, calling her attempts to steer the conversation to whether there would be limits to how late the procedure would be allowed a “distraction.”In what was his first solo interview since becoming the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Walz keep his cool and deflect tricky questions.“I have been clear. The restoration of Roe versus Wade is what we're asking,” Walz said when Bream asked him
CNN’s Dana Bash and Lara Trump sparred over misinformation Donald Trump has spread about funding for disaster relief in North Carolina, with the anchor refusing to let the former president’s daughter-in-law get away with ducking her questions.Bash laid into the Republican National Committee co-chair as she tried to change the direction from her father-in-law's dubious claims that FEMA is only offering a few hundred dollars to Americans who have had their homes destroyed in Hurricane Helene. “I w
The social media star's death was "sudden and unexpected," her husband said in an Instagram post on Oct. 5
The former president is letting down every Texan and every American by not showing the courage to do the right and principled thing. | Opinion
The tech CEO literally jumped for joy while stumping for the former president in Pennsylvania over the weekend.
CNN’s Michael Smerconish asked presidential historian Allan Lichtman about the October surprise and if it ever impacts his prediction for who will win the race for the White House.
An increasingly incoherent and profane former president Donald Trump, 78, is rambling at his rallies at previously unheard-of lengths and showing signs of confusion that could indicate mental decline, according to a New York Times analysis.An average rally speech by the elderly Republican nominee for president—who has promised to release his medical records and cognitive tests and then refused to do so—lasts 82 minutes this election cycle, nearly double the 45 minutes he averaged in 2016, a comp
During the middle of yet another rambling rant about how the 2020 election had been stolen from him, Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that one path to a victory over Kamala Harris is to establish a voting mandate in battleground states.“The only way to avoid this miserable thing for America is if Wisconsin and the entire Midwest turn and, I mean, turn out in record numbers,” the former president told rally goers in Juneau, Wisconsin.“We need a mandate in the vote,” he said. At one point during the
The passenger wrote on Reddit that it "felt good to put [the] seat stealer in her place" after complaining about "all the things people try to pull on flights these days"
King Charles’ cancer means he now eats lunchKing Charles has long averred the absurd middle class custom of stopping in the middle of the day to consume food, a habit known to the rest of us as “lunch,” preferring to nibble on nuts and seeds he carries in his pockets and reportedly even shares with red squirrels on occasions.Now, however, in yet another sign of the changes the king is being forced to make in wake of his cancer diagnosis, he has started to eat lunch for the first time, and The Ma
Here’s what the latest polls say about the 2024 presidential election, from The Independent’s data correspondent
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Abby Phillip appeared to be in complete disbelief after a Republican guest on CNN NewsNight defended Donald Trump’s claims that the Biden administration “stole” funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and spent money on housing immigrants.“The former president has an election to win in just about a month. With 31 days until America votes, it’s pretty clear that he is willing to break the rules—and the truth—to do it,” Phillip said.“The latest episode: his plainly false insistence that
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Melania Trump has opened up about a surprising aspect of her marriage in her book: her husband’s “thoughtful” habit of checking on her health with her doctor.The former first lady offers only fleeting glimpses of life at home with Donald Trump in her new memoir, Melania. The Daily Beast has seen a copy of the 184-page book, which will be published on Tuesday.In the book, Melania describes her courtship with the 24-years-older billionaire, writes at length about their wedding, talks about their “
