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Commander of First Boeing Astronaut Launch Issues Warning

  NASA's Commercial Crew program was designed to provide a safe, reliable, and cost-effective way to get astronauts to and from the International Space Station from US soil. While SpaceX has made considerable progress with its Crew Dragon spacecraft under the program, with two test flights and eight crewed operational flights to the ISS over […]
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In Terrifying Audio, Police Desperately Try to Clear Bridge Before Impact

Just before 1:30 am, a massive 95,000 ton cargo ship issued an urgent "mayday" signal, warning first responders to clear the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Moments later, the vessel smashed into a piling, sending several sections of the massive structure to snap and crash into the river below. Terrifying audio, collected and uploaded by the […]
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Netherlands Builds Quarter-Mile Hyperloop Tube for Testing

Tubes and Windmills While companies have encountered major headwinds in turning the Hyperloop, an entirely new and unproven form of transportation, into a reality, the European Hyperloop Center is still hoping to open the first functional track by the end of the decade. The non-profit foundation has opened a new quarter-mile test tube made out […]
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Elon Musk Unfollows Grimes After She Debuts New Boyfriend

Exes and Unfollows That was fast! It appears that billionaire Elon Musk has once again unfollowed his ex-girlfriend Claire "Grime" Boucher on X-formerly-Twitter, as caught by the ever-on-top-of-things bot account @BigTechAlert. Per @BigTechAlert, the latest unfollowing seems to have occurred on either March 23 or March 24. That's pretty striking timing, given that Boucher soft-launched […]
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Astronaut Tried to Photograph Mt. Fuji, Snapped Picture of Space Junk Instead

Laugh It Off Spending six months in space can provide a lot of good and a lot of bad experiences for the astronauts who live aboard the International Space Station — and it apparently provides some laughs, too. As Space.com reports, the international crew that hitched a ride back to Earth on a SpaceX Crew […]
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