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Portion of I-80 closed after crash amid regional snow squalls

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) issued a warning to motorists at 11:41 a.m. EST on Feb. 29, that I-80 eastbound was closed between Penfield and Clearfield exit around mile marker 111. The closure came after an incident with at least one jackknifed tractor trailer.> UPDATE: Multi vehicle crash on I-80 eastbound between Exit 111 - PA 153 and Exit 120 - PA 879. All lanes...

Boeing didn't conduct end-to-end tests on Starliner before its failed flight

Boeing Starliner's first unmanned flight failed in December, because the aerospace giant divided its tests in small chunks instead of conducting longer tests that simulate the whole process from launch to docking. Starliner program manager John Mulholland has revealed at a teleconference that the company thought it would be "more logical to break the mission phases into chunks and do a...

Cold storm to bring unsettled weather to California, southwestern US into Monday

Following a record dry February, a storm will send rain and mountain snow to California and the balance of the Southwestern states into Monday.San Francisco will end the month with no measurable rainfall (0.01 of an inch or greater), which has not happened in February since the 1860s.Redding, Sacramento and Ukiah, California, will also end this month with no measurable rainfall in February for the...

Photo from 30,000 feet shows a unique snow phenomenon over Kansas

While traveling by plane on Feb. 26, Leigh Marts noticed a unique weather phenomenon covering the ground in Kansas, created by a storm one day prior.In a photo he shared to Twitter on Wednesday, a narrow band of snow can be seen over parts of Kansas after a storm system came through on Tuesday. A snow storm track in Kansas captured from an airplane (Leigh Marts/@ltmarts) "I had never...

Boeing acknowledges shortcomings in Starliner spaceship testing and vows to fill the gaps

The program manager for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner space taxi acknowledges that more rigorous testing might have turned up the software glitch that spoiled plans to rendezvous with the International Space Station during an uncrewed test flight in December. John Mulholland, vice president and program manager for Starliner, said during today's teleconference with reporters that his team...


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Watch Seattle students chat with orbiting NASA astronaut Jessica Meir about socks in space

Hundreds of middle-school and high-school students will gather at Seattle's Museum of Flight on Monday to chat with NASA astronaut Jessica Meir on the International Space Station while the world watches on the Web. The Earth-to-space video call is due to start at 9:55 a.m. PT and last 20 minutes. You can tune in via NASA TV or the Microsoft Education Downlink Website, or watch the downlink on...

Why we have Leap Years

Saturday is the first Feb. 29, or Leap Day, since 2016. So, why do we have Leap Years, anyway?It's all because of the Earth's rotation and the fact that a day isn't actually an exact 24 hours. Slooh astronomer Bob Berman explained to AccuWeather, that each rotation of Earth takes 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds, to be precise. The orbit around the sun is also imprecise: Earth...

Relativity Space is moving its HQ to a huge robotic rocket factory in Long Beach, Calif.

Relativity Space, the rocket company that was born in Seattle and headed south to Los Angeles, says it's moving into a new 120,000-square-foot headquarters and factory in Long Beach, Calif., that will use giant robotic 3-D printers to make launch vehicles. The new facility will house Stargate 3-D printers capable of producing one-piece structures up to 40 feet in height for its two-stage,...