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Pence announces pool of U.S. astronauts for planned moon mission
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday announced 18 astronauts chosen for possible participation in planned NASA missions to return to the moon's surface during...
Dec 09, 2020
SpaceX Starship rocket explodes on landing after test flight
(Reuters) - SpaceX's Mars rocket Starship exploded on return landing following a test flight on Wednesday. "Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high...
Dec 09, 2020
SpaceX’s Starship prototype explodes on landing attempt after test launch in Texas
(Reuters) - SpaceX's Starship rocket prototype exploded during a return-landing attempt on Wednesday, minutes after an apparently uneventful test liftoff from the company's launch facility in Boca Chi...
Dec 09, 2020
New vaccines may not be right for some cancer patients; solid sewage beats wastewater for tracking virus
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Dec 09, 2020
Scientists clarify origins of pterosaurs, the dinosaur era’s flying reptiles
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists may have solved one of paleontology's enduring mysteries - the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at th...
Dec 09, 2020
Israel plans 2024 moonshot after first unmanned lander crashed
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will try another unmanned lunar landing in early 2024 after its first attempt ended last year with the spacecraft crashing on the moon's surface, officials said on Wednesd...
Dec 09, 2020
Musk’s SpaceX to stage key high-altitude Starship test
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX was set to launch a prototype of its Mars rocket Starship in its highest-altitude "hop" test from the space company's Texas facilities on Tue...
Dec 08, 2020
Asteroid sample arrives in Japan after six-year space odyssey
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Samples of an asteroid 300 million miles from Earth arrived in Japan on Tuesday to applause and smiles, the climax of a six-year odyssey by a space probe pursuing the ...
Dec 08, 2020
Chuck Yeager, who broke sound barrier with ‘right stuff,’ dead at 97
(Reuters) - Chuck Yeager, the steely "Right Stuff" test pilot who took aviation to the doorstep of space by becoming the first person to break the sound barrier, died on Monday at the age of 97. "It i...
Dec 07, 2020
Phone camera may replace labs in novel testing approach; virus mutations linked to COVID-19 severity
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) - The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by ...
Dec 07, 2020
