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6 wild things we spotted during SpaceX's 1st astronaut launch attempt

We spotted some wild and wacky details leading up to SpaceX's now-delayed Demo-2 test flight today (May 27). Today's mission scrubbed and was delayed for this Saturday at 4:22 p.m. EDT (2022 GMT). However, today's events, which served as a sort of ...

SpaceX's historic astronaut launch try draws huge crowds despite NASA warnings

Despite warnings from NASA officials and the risks implied by the current pandemic, which has so far claimed over 100,000 lives in the U.S., approximately 150,000 people gathered on Florida's space coast to watch SpaceX's first attempt at launching ...

Weather is less than ideal for Saturday's SpaceX launch

(CNN) Weather again threatens the launch window for a SpaceX rocket to carry NASA astronauts on the first crewed spaceflight to take off from US soil in nearly a decade. "Saturday and Sunday could turn out to have very similar weather as Wednesday did," ...

SpaceX fires up Starship SN4 prototype yet again (video)

But don't expect the craft to take flight until SpaceX's Demo-2 mission to the space station has launched. Shares. Comments (0). Click here for more Space.com videos... SpaceX can walk and chew gum at the same time. Elon Musk's company is gearing up to ...

Antarctic ice sheets capable of much faster melting than we thought

(CNN) Antarctic ice sheets retreated at speeds of up to 50 meters (164 feet) a day at the end of the last Ice Age -- about ten times quicker than the fastest retreating sheets of today -- researchers have found. Studying patterns of wave-like ridges on the Antarctic ...

How to watch SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch live Saturday

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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were strapped into Crew Dragon and ready to go prior to the launch scrub on May 27. SpaceX. In July 2011, NASA launched the space shuttle Atlantis from Florida to the International Space Station, marking ...

SpaceX crowds came in droves despite downpours, tornado warning, pandemic

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USA TODAY

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The crowd launched early, even though the SpaceX Crew Dragon didn't rise from Pad 39A as scheduled. Space Coast locals and visitors from hundreds of miles away stayed through the drizzle and the downpours — even a ...

Small-scale mining for gold has produced long-lasting toxic pollution, from 1860s California to modern Peru

Panning for gold in California, 1850. Credit: Unknown/Wikipedia. Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones. The global electronics industry alone uses 280 tons annually. And that demand keeps growing. But most people ...

ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest star

The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE). The results, published in ...

New technology enables fast protein synthesis

Many proteins are useful as drugs for disorders such as diabetes, cancer, and arthritis. Synthesizing artificial versions of these proteins is a time-consuming process that requires genetically engineering microbes or other cells to produce the desired protein.