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Space.com

Boeing manager Mark Nappi has a spacecraft checklist with nearly 90 items on it. Nappi is working alongside NASA to smooth the way for Crew Flight Test (CFT) of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, the first mission with astronauts on board, …

Space.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA — May the rocket’s Force be with you! An Atlas V rocket rolled out to its launch pad on Saturday (May 4), also Star Wars Day, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station days before its historic first mission with astronauts.

Space.com

A white and blue Boeing Starliner capsule is hoisted atop its rocket in a huge hangar. Boeing’s Crew Flight Test Starliner spacecraft is mated to its Atlas V rocket ahead of its first astronaut …

Space.com

When Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams lift off for the International Space Station on Monday (May 6), they will become the first astronauts to fly aboard Boeing’s commercial spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner. But that’s not their only new ride.

CNN

The meteors appear to be coming from the northeastern part of the Aquarius constellation, which contributes to the name of the shower. The rate of visible meteors per hour this year is “expected to be enhanced …

The Washington Post

As winters warm, white-tailed deer push ever northward in North America. A recent study in Global Change Biology suggests that climate change is driving these habitat shifts — changes that may further threaten woodland caribou in northern Canada.

Phys.Org

The study led by the Reef Authority in collaboration with research and delivery partners demonstrated up to a six-fold reduction in starfish numbers and a 44% increase in coral cover across regions that received timely and sufficient control effort. The …

ABC News

Boeing is finally poised to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA after years of delays and stumbles. ByMARCIA DUNN AP aerospace writer. May 4, 2024, 5:57 AM. 1:11. National headlines from ABC News. Catch up on the developing …

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ABC News

The Parker Solar Probe measures the particles and the magnetic field in the Sun’s corona and in the solar wind. NASA and ESA combined their missions of using the EUI instrument on the Solar Orbiter and the Parker …