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Category: 2. Space
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Schedule F Implementation Is Underway
Keith’s note: According to the 18 April 2025 White House posting “The Trump administration on Friday will announce that it’s moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as “Schedule F,” that will make it easier to remove federal employees it…
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China launches 6 classified experimental satellites with Long March 6A
HELSINKI — China sent six experimental Shiyan series satellites into orbit late Friday Eastern, using its Long March 6A rocket launched from Taiyuan.
The Long March 6A rocket lifted off at 6:51 p.m. Eastern (2251 UTC) April 18 from…
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Watch Live: NASA Astronaut Don Pettit Returns to Earth on His 70th Birthday After 220 Days in Space
A space homecoming is coming soon as NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two Russian cosmonauts wrap up a 220-day orbital mission aboard the International Space Station. The trio will land in Kazakhstan on Pettit’s 70th birthday, after circling the…
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Space Station Commander Swap, SpaceX Dragon Launch, and Birthday Earth Return All in One Weekend
A new commander has taken charge aboard the ISS as three crew members prepare for their return to Earth—just in time for one astronaut’s 70th birthday. As the departing crew wraps up research and packs the Soyuz spacecraft, the remaining…
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How Tiny Martian Crystals Are Rewriting the Search for Life
NASA’s Perseverance rover, with help from QUT scientists, has uncovered layered evidence of ancient water activity beneath the Martian surface, using a groundbreaking crystal-mapping technique. This new approach reveals not one, but two…
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Dark, Pitted, and Possibly Alien: The Skull Hill Rock That Has Scientists Stumped
NASA’s Mars rover is on the trail of a geological mystery in the Jezero crater. While exploring an area known as Witch Hazel Hill, the rover encountered an intriguing dark rock named “Skull Hill” at a boundary between two different rock…
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