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NASA Safety Panel Questions Boeing Starliner’s Readiness for Crewed Demo
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel dropped a bombshell yesterday by urging the space agency to set up an independent review of Boeing’s Starliner program — a mere 57 days before NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore are scheduled to ride aboard the spacecraft on a vital demonstration mission to the ISS.
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The Toxic Legacy of the Gold Rush
It’s a beautiful, 60-degree day, the sky a cloudless blue. Spunn Road is lined by stately houses looking down on the historic main street of Jackson, California, the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains visible in the distance. There’s a slight bend in the road — and there it is. A chain-link fence topped…
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This Week in Spaceflight: Spacewalks and Spacecraft Shuffling at the ISS
A Rocket Lab Electron rocket will kick off another busy week in spaceflight when it launches from the company’s New Zealand site on Tuesday.
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See a Newly Discovered ‘Pristine’ Deep-Sea Coral Reef in the Galápagos
There’s a new, ancient coral reef in town, and it’s magnificent. Scientists working to survey the deep ocean surrounding the Galápagos Islands discovered a never-before-observed reef complex, hundreds of meters below the sea surface. And, despite the current, sorry state of corals across the world’s marine ecosystems, this newly documented (but likely very old) reef…