NASA says it'll formulate a plan to assess the safety of suborbital spacecraft — such as Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket ship or Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane — so that astronauts, researchers and other space agency personnel can be cleared for takeoff. Today's announcement, and the release of an official request for information, follows through on hints about...
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The rise of the Roman Empire was due in part to a gigantic volcanic eruption 6,000 miles away in Alaska, an international team of scientists claims. The eruption of the Okmok volcano in the Aleutian islands of Alaska more than 2,000 years ago caused a severe cold spell in Europe that led to crop failures, food shortages and political and social unrest, they argue. That hastened the demise of the...
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Tukwila, Wash.-based LeoStella cast a spotlight today on the delivery of its first two built-from-scratch satellites for the BlackSky Earth-watching constellation — with their launch on a SpaceX rocket set for Thursday. In a news release, LeoStella said the two 110-pound satellites were delivered to Florida on June 1 in preparation for liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. They'll...