Retirement date set for space shuttle fleet, but nothing firm for return to flight
Airspace Closures on account of Aero India show 2025 (IMPORTANT INFORMATION) On account of the upcoming Aero India Show 2025, there will be airspace closures for a few hours each day from February 5th to 14th, 2025. Owing to this, commercial flight operations will be impacted at KIAB / B...
China aims to launch its second crewed flight on 13 October from its Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, according to a report from the independent news agency China News Service. The flight, scheduled to last just under five days, will carry a crew of two “taikonauts”. X...
1933: 'PROHIBITION ENDS AT LAST!' On Dec. 6, 1933, The New York Times summed up the national sentiment when it reported on the end of Prohibition. The failed experiment, which started in 1920, gave rise to a black market that spawned the most sophisticated and violent gangster culture in...
Gears of War, the first-ever Gears game, takes place 14 years after E-Day. Marcus Fenix has been imprisoned for roughly four years, and the COG forces are trying to assemble a last-ditch offensive to destroy the Locust Horde with a lightmass bomb to be deployed into their tunnels. Marcus...
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It’s not clear if Bezos will be aboard Blue Origin’s maiden tourism flight. “I want to go into space, but I want to do it in Blue Origin vehicles,” the CEO said, adding that while such a trip is a personal ambition, his main aim is to bring down the cost of space access ...
Following the shuttles' retirement in 2011, NASA had to rely on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from the space station — until the first SpaceX crew flight last year. “Despite the differences of the political governments, we’ve always had that space cooperation,” Nels...
Our Lady of the Open RoadbySarah PinskerTime: 54m (16K words)Issue:Asimov's 06|15 One of the last live bands struggles to do performances in a mostly-online world. Other ReviewsRSR Mini-Review[5]Recommended By:RSR:5SFRevu:4SFEP
I was thankful for the A/C in the taxi, and while we rode, I held Cecille close as I gazed at the world outside of the window. Traffic moved in some kind of barely controlled chaos, which can basically be described as everyone goes at once, with yielding done only at the last ...