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Archive for January 29th, 2021

NASA to conduct 2nd ‘hot fire’ test with SLS megarocket in February

January 29th, 2021 by

NASA will conduct a second green run hot fire test with its Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket after the first test ended early unexpectedly.

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SpaceX has two Starship prototypes on the pad at the same time

January 29th, 2021 by

SpaceX has two Starship vehicles, SN9 and SN10, on the test pad at the same time at its South Texas facility, a first for the company.

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‘Apollo 11: Quarantine’ short documentary lands in IMAX theaters

January 29th, 2021 by

“Apollo 11: Quarantine,” which opens in select IMAX theaters Jan. 29, tells the story of what the Apollo 11 astronauts went through in their first 21 days back on Earth.

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‘Galaxy Quest 2’ is ‘a fabulous script’ according to Tim Allen

January 29th, 2021 by

The window of opportunity for “Galaxy Quest 2” is fast passing by; a “Picard”-like nostalgia fest would not honor the original.

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SpaceX now targeting Monday for Starship SN9 test flight

January 29th, 2021 by

SpaceX is now targeting Monday (Feb. 1) for a highly anticipated test flight that will send its Starship SN9 vehicle about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) into the South Texas skies.

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High schoolers help discover 4 new alien planets

January 29th, 2021 by

Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright helped find four exoplanets circling the sunlike star HD 108236.

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Doomsday Clock stands at 100 seconds to midnight

January 29th, 2021 by

The Doomsday Clock — a hypothetical clock that measures our nearness to utter annihilation, represented by the midnight hour — maintains last year’s time.

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Scientists solve a major climate mystery, confirming Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 120 centuries

January 29th, 2021 by

Scientists have resolved a controversial but key climate change mystery, bolstering climate models and confirming that Earth is hotter than it’s been in at least 12,000 years, and perhaps even the last 128,000 years.

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