May 31, 2020 0 US Astronauts Blast Into Space Aboard SpaceX Rocket Two American astronauts lifted off into space Saturday afternoon, for the first time on a private rocket, nearly a decade after ...
May 30, 2020 0 US Astronauts Set to Blast Into Space Aboard SpaceX Rocket The U.S. is set to resume launching astronauts into space Saturday, for the first time on a private rocket, nearly a decade after ...
May 30, 2020 0 ‘No Decision’ on Next Launch Attempt for SpaceX-NASA Mission A final decision on a launch attempt for SpaceX’s milestone mission to the International Space Station on Saturday ...
May 29, 2020 0 Mitch McConnell Stresses Need to Wear Face Masks in Public Wading into a politically charged issue, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday preached the importance of wearing ...
May 29, 2020 0 WHO Tells Tobacco Industry to Stop Marketing Deadly Nicotine Products to Children The World Health Organization accuses the tobacco industry of devious tactics to get children and young people hooked on their ...
May 29, 2020 0 Travel Disruptions Challenge Global Transplant Deliveries Over the past two months, as air travel ground to a halt, Mishel Zrian has crisscrossed the Atlantic and the United States dozens ...
May 29, 2020 0 Nearly 6 Million Worldwide Infected with Coronavirus There are more than 5.8 million infections of COVID-19 around the world, with more than 360,000 deaths. Some countries are ...
May 29, 2020 0 Report Warns of Dangers From Deep-Sea Mining Scientists and environmentalists are urging an international moratorium on deep-sea mining after releasing a report indicating ...
May 29, 2020 0 This Week’s Space News The United States almost sent two astronauts into orbit from American soil for the first time in nearly a decade. ...
May 29, 2020 0 UN warns of Latin America Hunger Crisis Amid COVID-19 Pandemic The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is warning that at least 14 million people could go hungry in Latin America, with the COVID-19 ...
May 28, 2020 0 Larry Kramer Focused World’s Attention on AIDS Through Protests, Writing Larry Kramer, the grandfather of fierce protests demanding action to fight the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and ’90s, died ...
May 28, 2020 0 NASA Postpones 1st Commercial Space Flight NASA postponed Wednesday’s scheduled launch of a Space X rocket ship, the first manned commercial space flight in ...
May 28, 2020 0 This Shared Fear Unites Us During Pandemic The United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, recently called for mental health treatment to be given to millions of ...
May 28, 2020 0 Historic SpaceX Launch Postponed Because of Stormy Weather The launch of a SpaceX rocket ship with two NASA astronauts on a history-making flight into orbit was called off with 16 minutes ...
May 27, 2020 0 Hypocrisy Gone Viral? Officials Set Bad COVID-19 Examples “Do as I say, but not as I do” was the message many British saw in the behavior of Prime Minister Boris ...
May 27, 2020 0 France’s Virus Tracing App Ready to Go, Parliament to Vote French lawmakers were set to vote Wednesday on whether to endorse a contact-tracing app designed to contain the spread of the ...
May 27, 2020 0 NASA Launch Marks New Era in Space Travel When NASA’s Space Shuttle program ended in 2011, few thought it would take more than eight years for U.S. ...
May 27, 2020 0 NASA, SpaceX Set to Launch First Crewed Mission NASA and SpaceX are set to launch a crewed mission Wednesday to the International Space Station from U.S. soil for ...
May 26, 2020 0 SpaceX Launch Marks New Era in Space Travel Even by using the tools at his disposal at the Adler Planetarium situated along the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Director ...
May 26, 2020 0 Judge Strikes Down US Energy Leasing Rules in Bird Habitat A U.S. judge has dealt another blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to increase domestic oil and gas output from ...
May 26, 2020 0 Merck Leaps Into COVID-19 Development Fray with Vaccine, Drug Deals Merck & Co Inc, which has largely kept to the sidelines of the race for COVID-19 treatments, said it was buying Austrian ...
May 25, 2020 0 Branson’s Virgin Orbit Fails on First Rocket Launch Attempt Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit failed Monday on its first attempt to launch a test satellite into space aboard a rocket ...
May 25, 2020 0 Could a Space Congestion Charge Clear Up Junk-ridden Skies? Countries should levy an “orbit congestion charge” on satellite operators to tackle the growing concentration of ...
May 25, 2020 0 AP Fact Check: Faulty Trump Claims on Virus Drug, Vote Fraud When President Donald Trump doesn’t like the message, he shoots the messenger. So it was this past week when he took very ...